To celebrate Kai's birthday we are taking him and seven of his pals to the cinema tomorrow: Cloudy with a chance of meatballs. This will be quite an intersting experiment and the first time we've dared offer an outing rather than a party.
Kai has certainly had a few interesting theme parties in previous years:the Thomas the Tank Engine party, the Pokemon Party and last year, together with his friend Frida, the Star Wars Disco Party. A bit of a misnomer that one. There was very little dancing and an awful lot of combat. All the boys and girls arrived tooled up with light sabres and other weapons of intergalactic destruction and just went for it. The dance floor looked like a combat scene from Clone Wars. Mercifully no one was hurt and a good time was had by all.
Doing the preparations for these dos, I found some amazing websites about preparing kids parties. Most of these were written by mums in the USA and the amount of work and preparation they would put into parties for their offspring left me gobsmacked. Kids parties over there are clearly a highly competitive activity. Mums spend weeks making costumes and preparing astonishingly elaborate activites. It's whole thriving subculture.
We would just buy a large tub of ice cream and some plates and let them get on with it!
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