Ever wonder what to do for your child’s birthday party? Do you feel pressured to keep up with the latest party trend? Maybe your children expect bigger and better parties each year while you’re struggling to cope? Here are some children’s birthday party ideas that will save your sanity and won’t blow your budget.
My girls are quite creative, I guess they take after their mum in that respect. They both love to colour, but my youngest has recently taken a real liking to freehand painting as well as collage. My older daughter is starting to show her creative side in food. She loves to cook for us and it’s a great way for her to experiment with new ingredients and flavours too. They’ve both been fortunate enough to take part in an art extension class at school which has taught them lots of fantastic skills. Continue reading »
My daughter Sophie turns 11 next week. She’s also in her last year of primary school. I am struggling with all of this to be honest. My girls seem to be growing up so fast, everything is changing so quickly and I’m just not sure I’m ready for it. I’d love to be able to turn the clock back a couple of years to slow it all down. Continue reading »
I didn’t have a baby shower with either of my pregnancies. It just wasn’t really something that was done back then. But boy things have really changed in the past 8 to 10 years. Baby showers nowadays are much more common place and are often just as elaborate as any other special celebration. Continue reading »
I will always remember being invited to a party when I was probably 8 or 9 and to my horror they served up only healthy food. I probably went to loads of parties at that age but that is the only one I remember, probably because of the food. Continue reading »
As the first day of February dawned, I realised with horror that my youngest daughter Emily turned 9 in less than a month and I had done absolutely nothing to organise a celebration for her. You’d think given that I design party stationery for a living that I’d be more organised than that – well you’re wrong. I’m very good at organising everyone else. Me … not so much. Continue reading »
