Archive for Kid's Parties
The Holidays are Coming: What’s Your Diet Plan?
Isn’t it ironic that women sometimes associate holidays with over eating? It seems that time flies and the “I’ll start my diet tomorrow” that we’ve been saying to ourselves during the rest of the year is catching up to us. Do family holidays always mean bine eating? The answer is, only when you let it.
Holidays mean parties, whether there’s a general occasion or not. People come over for thanksgiving, or for sports TV watching. If you are the one throwing the party, even with a party planner in tow, there are so many things that need to be done and these don’t require you to be holding a plate all the time. Fact is, it’s a lot easier to lose weight over the holidays if you concentrate on working during the holiday party than actually eating.
Here are some tips on how not to over-eat in your own party
1. Let others taste your cooking - Those small bites add up. Unknowingly, party planners and caterers eat several plates of food during parties — the first during cooking and several ones during the party itself.
2. Eat your fill before the guests arrive - Food is more delicious looking when you’re hungry. Eat a morsel each of the food you prepared and concentrate on serving the guests during the party itself.
3. Volunteer to man the Kids’ playpen rather than the buffet table - Dealing wih the kids’ activities during a big party means standing up, running around and spending a lot of your energy on keeping the toddlers behaved (and their parents sane).
4. Pack the leftover cake asap - Your family knows where to find it when they want to eat more, and keeping the cake on the kitchen table while you’re cleaning up means taking a small bite, then another… and then that one… last… bite. Resist temptation and give the cake away to those who want to eat more. Keeping it with you when you’re tired from all the activities could be anti-weight loss.
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!
Kids’ Theme Party: Classic Superhero Costumes
Kids reach the hero worship age when they start discovering comic books. One can almost predict which types of theme parties their parents will organize during that age. One significant quirk among kids that I noticed is: they prefer the ‘classic’ look of super heroes to the newer, more techie looks presented in modern superhero movies.
I think that the comic book influence is greater than that of the mainstream movies when it comes to kids’ costume preference. To them, these comic book characters come to life more while they are reading the comic books than when they are watching the newer films.
After all, these comic books can be collected and read whenever they want, while movies are seasonal and get old pretty fast. Also, the newer superhero costume versions are geared more towards adult viewers than kids: a lot of black components, gadget-ridden and tech savvy.
Batman is a good case study. The old batman costume has the big bat sign across the chest. The same one that is beamed to the heavens when there is a need for the Gotham City hero to save the day. This element in the classic Batman costume has been omitted in the newer versions. The new Batman look in the latest films have more specs for gadgets and technology peripherals.
While kids enjoy the special effects that are cleverly manifested in movies, when it comes to costume play during parties, the Batman-clothed kid will always have the bat sign across his chest. Comic book characters play a big role in planning for kids’ costume parties. Boys, in particular, will want Iron Man, Batman or Superman.
Kids’ costume parties happen all year long, but the peak is undeniably in October, during Halloween time. For more creative party theme ideas and kids’ party resources and costume options, visit this halloween costumes site.
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.
