9 year old birthday party ideas?

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Jim_The_Fr

Do you no of any party ideas for a 9 yr old boy. they cant be at our house and if possible near stevenage in hertfordshire?

If you don't no about the location just list your ideas

If you read this question then can you just put 'i red this' if u don't know, just so i no its been red :)

Oh and i don't really want a themed party, an adventurous one would be Good

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Since I am not familiar with your area I can only give you in general ideas. Since you don't want it at your house you have a few options.

Local parks are always fun. You can make it a sports event...relay races obstacle courses. These are inexpensive ideas without really being a hard core theme. A scavenger hunt at a local park would work to. You could go out ahead of time and scout the park to see what types of things are out there and do up a Scavenger list the kids can carry with them and brown bags to collect things in.

If there is a hotel near by with an indoor pool these are fun too. Some managers are willing to work with parents wanting to do parties. You rent a room and they let you invite guests to enjoy the pool and often have an area you can use for cake and gifts. After the party the family can enjoy an outing at the hotel or your son could even have one or two friends stay overnight.

9 yr old at a one-year birthday party - okay to read books, if bored?

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We are invited with family to a 1st birthday party. The host is a collegue from work, but my family and I don't know him very well. But got to go. It is at an upscale restaurant, but no entertainment planned for the kids. More like lots of their family from around the country gathering plus some other guests invited too.

My 9 yr does not know any of the kids, and they are likely to be mostly under 5, or boys. Would it be ok if she reads a book for part of the time? I mean at times other than eating, little bit of introduction to others, cake cutting? I so don't want to see a looong face or visual "I am bored" signals sent my way the whole time? Its weird, but the hosts would feel bad if we just didn't take her...or only stopped by for a short while, so those options are ruled out.

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I think it would be okay to have as a back up (the host would probably rather see a reader than a child who is huffing and rolling their eyes and doing the fake yawn), but when you get there, try and get your child involved.

Have her try some of these:
*Offer to help watch the smaller children, so that the adults can socialize without being too preoccupied with their own kids (who knows, she may even get a 'tip').
*If there is no entertainment planned, the younger kids will get bored too and would probably love a few games, like duck-duck-goose or Simon Says. Encourage her to have a few ideas ready to engage the younger crowd. Maybe even pack some coloring pages and crayons to share.
*Ask if she can be the gift recorder; write down the gifts and who they are from as the birthday child opens them.
*Ask if she can be the one that hands the gifts to the child to be opened or takes the wrappings away when he's done.
*Ask if she can help with anything else, such as bringing cake slices to guests. Or even the napkins or forks.
*Borrow a digital camera and be an extra photographer. You can send a disk of the pictures to the host later. Most 9 year olds can take decent pictures and love to use a camera.

I think a book would be okay, but I would really only suggest she uses it as a last resort. If the host would feel bad that the child didn't attend, my guess is that the host will feel bad for 'making' the child bored.

~Kyanna

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