How to have fun celebrating a child’s birthday at home

For any person, Birthday is one of their favorite holidays, what can we say about a child? Any kid is looking forward to this day and is preparing for it. On this day, he receives gifts and attention, his guests come to him, and most importantly, this day passes with fun, games and interesting and exciting events. At least, this is the concern of parents to make the holiday memorable. How to organize a children's birthday at home so that it is fun, interesting, tasty and exciting?

Preparation for the holiday

Birthday is ahead and you need to think through all the details of this holiday. First, decide on the guests. It is unlikely that the baby will like to sit on his holiday surrounded by serious adults. It is best to call for friends, cousins, classmates and neighbors - the same age as the birthday man - for his birthday. Call those whom your child loves and with whom he is friends.

Talk with your baby, maybe you forgot about someone whom the birthday person would like to see at his holiday. When the guest list is approved, you can prepare invitations. Let your daughter or son draw small cards on which you can write funny invitations in the form of a rhyme. For example:

• As you guys remember
• It's my birthday
• So all the seventh of March
• I am waiting at 6:30 am at a party.
• Be sure to come
• I will look forward to
• You bring smiles
• To give them to each other!

Invitations can be handed personally or omitted in the mailbox - this will be even more interesting. However, if you put the invitation card in a drawer, do not forget to make sure that the letter reaches the addressee.

If the birthday is small children, then consider the time of their sleep. It is better to spend a holiday after a day's sleep, the children will be asleep and happy - you will not be whims.

Room decoration

Well, what a children's holiday can do without balloons and holiday caps. Take care of this in advance. On X day, inflate the balls and decorate the room with them. You can hang on the wall posters with the words "Happy Birthday!". As you gather guests, invite everyone to wear holiday caps. You can buy or make them yourself. You can also buy crackers with confetti or ribbons, but only if there are no kids. Young children may be afraid of a loud and harsh sound.

Children's birthday menu

How to feed young children at home is another important issue. Because most children are picky about food. If the child’s first birthday is three to four years old, you need to cook something useful that young children eat. Soup with noodles and meatballs, mashed potatoes with cutlets, potato zrazy, pancakes. If there will be at least one baby among the guests, take care of him, because food from the general table is not yet available to him.

For older children (from five years old) the menu may be similar to an adult, but not always children need mayonnaise salads and veal chops. To please children and teenagers, you can make homemade hamburgers and hot dogs, cook a whole mountain of french fries, cook or buy pizza. Mandatory drinks - soda or compote. You can cook nuggets - they fly away to "Hurray." Also on the children's table is preferably assorted fruits. Such a set of products will really please your little guests.

A dessert is required as a dessert. Children prefer fruit and chocolate cakes, but the main choice for this day is for the birthday person.You can prepare an additional dessert - ice cream. Take regular ice cream and arrange it in balls on the vases. Add fruits and nuts to it, pour over jam syrup. It turns out very tasty, interesting and inexpensive.

Children's birthday contests

Between main meals, children need to be taken so that they do not get bored. Actually, having a children's birthday is not an easy task. Here you will not get off with interesting conversations, as with adults. Children require constant attention, they need to be occupied with something all the time, otherwise they may begin to play pranks or simply get bored. Therefore, after a tasty feast, you can hold several interesting contests.

To do this, you need one adult presenter who can quickly steer the situation if everything went wrong. The host necessarily encourages daredevils who do not refuse to participate in competitions first, as well as encourage an overly shy little guest.

Competitions should not go in a row. It is better to mix contests with a feast, games, dances and other entertainments. As prizes for the winners, you can prepare small gifts - chocolates, toys, pencils, crayons, etc. Here is an example of several children's contests that will easily entertain children at a children's birthday.

1. "The sea is worried once!". For this contest, everyone goes to an open area for dancing. The music turns on. The host says, “The sea worries once, the sea worries two!” Children at this time dance and grimace. When he says, “The sea worries three!”, The children should freeze in their poses. Then the leader carefully watches them and makes them laugh. Who first stirred - lost and out of the game. The next round is one less person. The one who lasts the longest wins.
2. "Chairs". This is a classic and battered contest, which, nevertheless, is very popular with children. There should be an open space for the competition so that children have a place to run. Chairs are put in a circle, one less than the children participating in the competition. When the music turns on, everyone starts running around the chairs. And when it turns off, you need to quickly take a free chair. The one who is left without a chair leaves. In the next round, one chair is also cleaned.
3. "Portrait of a birthday man." This competition will take children at least 15-20 minutes. They need to hand out small sheets of paper and pencils and ask them to draw a portrait of the birthday man. Your baby will like it, because today all the attention is only for him. The winner is determined by the birthday man himself.
4. "Ball Fight." To conduct this competition, you will need the help of two adults and 5-8 balloons. Adults pull the bedspread vertically, improvising a volleyball net. Children are divided into two teams and stand on different sides of the bedspread. The children are given balls, and the children throw them on the neighboring side. The purpose of the competition is to ensure that no balloon remains on its side.
5. "A rope with chairs." Two chairs are placed next to the backs to each other. A rope is stretched under the legs of the chairs - one end near the feet of one participant sitting on a chair, and the other about the other. At the command of the leader, you need to quickly exchange chairs with a friend and pull the rope by the end. Whoever pulls the rope faster is the winner.
6. "Questions about the birthday." The host prepares several questions in advance about the birthday man, his life, and hobbies. The one who gives the most correct answers wins.
7. "Chamomile". In advance, you need to make a camomile out of paper, and write tasks for children on the back. Each child selects a petal and performs a task for him to the music. It is very fun and interesting. Tasks can be different - to sing a song, to tell a verse, to go in a geese, to crow, to tell a tongue twister or to jump on one leg.
8. "Competition for the birthday man." The birthday boy sits on a chair, his back to his friends. Children take turns meowing, barking, croaking and mooing, and the main hero of the occasion is trying to guess who made this or that sound.

Other activities for children's party

In addition to competitions, there are a huge number of other entertainments that will amuse your little guests.

1. In office supplies there are large drawing papers that are very fun to color with a large company.
2. Recently, such entertainment as face painting is gaining popularity. This is when the child is painted with special safe paints. His face is turned into the face of a fox, cat or teddy bear. You can master the technique yourself or invite a special artist.
3. Karaoke. Children love to sing no less than adults, so organize for them this entertainment. In parallel, you can arrange a disco for the guys.
4. As additional performances, you can arrange a soap bubble show, a puppet theater, invite actors in colorful costumes or become them yourself. Costumes for children's cartoon characters can be rented at the acting studio.
5. At the end of the holiday, you can organize a salute or just launch balloons filled with gas into the sky. You can also launch into the air lanterns with wishes for the birthday.

The end of the holiday

Children's holiday is short because the guys get tired quickly. The most optimal is 3-4 hours. It is very important to tactfully end the holiday so that the children are happy to go home. Tell the guests that the holiday is coming to an end, but before they leave, let them write wishes for the birthday person on a large sheet of paper. And you can also record a video message for him, which will remain a memory for many years.

Before leaving the children, ask them how they will get home. Guide the guys if necessary. Be sure to phone the parents of the guests and make sure that they get home.

Children's holiday is largely dependent on adults. And the task of parents is to provide the child with an unforgettable Birthday, which the baby will remember for a year.

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