Archive for Birthdays
Baseball Season Gift Tip: Baseball Gloves for Kids
If you will remember, I talked about Sports Fanatics Parties and how a game watched over the television could excite and entertain several family members (and even neighbors) for the duration of the party. Now, I’m going to talk about what gift to bring when there’s a kiddie party at a neighbor’s house, and there just happened to be a baseball game on TV. Two wonderful reasons to throw a house party.
The best gift for a 12-year-old boy who is having his birthday during a baseball game is something that’s related to the game and will encourage dreams of being a baseball star someday, such as Baseball Gloves!
Specialty Kid Sports accessories stores such as this advertiser, Kid Sports Inc, offer ready-to-use kids’ baseball gloves that you can just purchase, wrap and give. However, regular leather gloves need proper breaking in before usage. You can spare the little leaguer the trouble of breaking in a tough leather glove by giving some extra gifts:
1. Glove oil - to be used sparingly, or applied in small amounts until the leather softens up.
2. Petroleum Jelly - to help maintain the look and feel of the glove
3. A Glove Care handbook - To create a sense of responsibility for a treasured possession
After the game and the party, friends and neighbors can play baseball and the celebrant can properly break in your gift further! Have fun!
Trivia Games for Birthdays and Bridal Showers
One particularly fun way to celebrate a birthday and a bridal shower is to be completely sentimental about the celebrant and the experiences she went through until she reached that age or that event in her life.
Besides speeches and last dances, birthday getting-to-know-you games bring out the mushiness in people, so that a party planner won’t even have to ask anyone for a speech or a short song for the celebrant, everyone will be jumping in to contribute their trips to memory lane.
Nostalgia works!
A simple sentence starting with “Do you remember the time…” will make the guests and the celebrants feel the occasion. A must-do during speech time is to choose the person in the group who knows the celebrant best. One way to do this is to survey the people using these questionnaires called It’s All About the Birthday Star. It asks the guests what they know about the birthday girl or bride-to-be and you and the celebrant can decide which guest should do the toast.
One can even do a trivia game based on the answers to the questionnaires.
Party Rentals: Party Games, Inflatables
How do you deal with theme parties that require you to provide a mechanical bull, like a Rodeo-style bachelor party; a water slide for a kid’s birthday party, water fun-themed?
Answer: you rent the equipment.
For the water-fun party, for example, you can avail of Water Slide Party Rentals and Inflatable Party Rentals. This will save a lot of time and energy, because you do not have to buy these bulky things yourself. You can come up with an arrangement and propose your deal to the rentals owner. They are some people in your neighborhood you should know of and be in touch with at all times.
Another benefit of Party Rentals is that you can add a whole section of ‘party games available’ in your company sales page.
That way, your clients will see that you have more to offer than the usual party themes.
Gift Suggestions for the Armchair Sports Fan
Happy Father’s Day!
“Sports is a man’s thing.” That’s what i thought at first when I got involved with someone who’s into it so much. Then later on I realized, that it’s not just a male preference, but female’s too. Getting into your man’s hobby and interests is important in growing with him within a marriage or a love relationship
Is your partner in love with sports? Gift giving for a sports fan is easier than I thought. He’ll like that you understand him and put some real thought into his gift. Try these gifts the next time your sports buff has a party. There are sports fanatics that watch all season long even if their team is losing. Only the best gifts are to be given for such passionate individuals.
Sports paraphernalia. A real sports fan is never without his accessories? Even an armchair sports fan needs a beer helmet. If he doesn’t drink alcohol, he can use soda, water or any other drink he enjoys. I wonder though if you can put coffee in a beer helmet. 
Also consider the “number one” rubber fingers in his favorite team colors. For the extreme fan, give them body paint to show their true colors in the living room or at a game.
Sports logos. A huge logo on the wall in his TV place will be the first thing they see when they enter. Life-sized posters of their favorite players or a cardboard cutout by Fathead would thrill him. Another great idea is a flag for the yard sporting his favorite team’s insignia.
Sports package on cable television. No sports fan can see every game on regular television. Surprise him with a subscription to satellite or cable television’s sports package. He can watch every game played by his favorite sports team all season long.
A scrapbook where he can put all of his ticket stubs, newspaper clippings, and other souvenirs that he’s picked up at the games during the season. Collect these and add dates and places so he will spend his time looking at these with his buddies and reminiscing each play.
A year’s subscription to Sports Illustrated or another favorite sporting magazine. Each month he can keep up with what’s new in his favorite sport or with his team.
