birthdays

hi

its my nieces 5th birthday in january next year and she turns 5,its a pretty big thing in my family,she is the spoilt one and i have been given the stressfull job of planning a nice birthday party..
doe's anyone have any ideas on anything that would be good for a 5yr old girls b'day party?

also my 21st is next year any ideas on making it a memorable day?

cmaine

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Why are you planning your nices birthday?

As for yours, it depends what you are into. Choc fondue at home with girlfriends? Movies/coffee and dessert evening?

For the 5th birthday, it really depends, have a talk with her about what she would like, little girls love planning stuff and my girls always love being involved and picking their "theme" Fairy dress up partys go down well and are relatively cheap. Pink plates, pink cups, pink spoons, fairy table cloth (all $2 shop stuff, nice and cheap!) sprinkle a little packet of star confetti on the table and you're done. easy food too, just chuck some pizzas in for hot food, have some chippies and then cupcakes, wafer bickies, (think pink and girly and you can't go wrong!) greens puts out a fairy cupcake mix which is soo good, strawberry milk, and jelly and icecream.    You can just say on the invites to come dressed as a fairy, then just get a couple of pairs of fairy wings from $2 as a back up for anyone who forgets.

Fairly cheap, and simple. And from there, you can do as big or as little as you want.    Most hire places hire out tables and chairs in kid sizes, something like $10 for a long trestle table at kid height, and $1.50 per chair.   

From what i know now, our best parties have been the ones where i went for small numbers, low stress, and didn't plan too much, just a couple of games and let the kids play in between times... either outside, or we were lucky to have the girls cubby house and kitchen out for our last party which kept em al entertained for ages.   The other way you can go is look at places around your area, most will have people who hire the jumpy castles or hire out the little tikes slides or playgrounds.. which there is one that would be all good for 5 yr olds too, usually fairly cheap (ours was $40 for a weeks hire!)

ok, so i love parties.

Not so sure about the 21st, depends on what you want to do. we invited our families and close friends to steak out, they paid their own way, we had a nice family dinner, pressies etc then we went out on the town afterwards.. (although i was about 5 months preggers at the time..so not too late)