Okay Sheila, we definitely need a Birthday Party forum to ask all of these questions!!

Emily is having a Bratz disco party for her 6th birthday. Due to the theme, I imagine it as a girls party. However she has been invited to several boys parties this year. I'm confused as to what to do about the guest list. My thinking is to just invite the whole class, that way there won't be any hurt feeling. But will the boys be bored at a Bratz disco party? My options are:

- invite the whole class. There are 28 kids in her class plus around 6 family friends to be invited. If we go that route, we'll have 37 kids (including my 3) and possibly more if anyone brings siblings. That number is daunting!

- invite only the 16 girls in the class, plus family friends. That would be a total of 25

- invite only the kids whose parties she's been too (girls and boys) plus family friends. Total of 26

Arghh what to do! :tearhair:

What does Emily want to do? I'd go with that. BTW, Cool theme!

That's the problem, she wants to invite everyone she's ever met :lol:

That is a difficult situation. What if you invite the whole class and have the party at a park. That way, the parents can all stay too and you don't have to watch over everyone.

The little social butterfly! I'd probably invite the whole class. Chances are they all won't come anyway. Are you having it at your house? If you don't want that many people at your place, i agree with Brandi,, that a park is a great place for a party.

We also have a social butterfly with a million and one friends. I invited them all figuring not everyone would come. We ended up with close to 30 though. Including a couple older sybllings that are friends with my boys. We had close to 50 with adults inlcuded.

The park is a great idea!!

We had a pool party and rented out the whole pool. That works too.

Invite them all. They're not all going to come.

Dennis

Invite them all. They're not all going to come.

Dennis

You know, our neighbor did this and YES, they ALL came - the whole class! But, most likely, they won't all come. You just never know!

Well if they do all come, then that's just more presents for Emily!

We've done the over-invite and expect some not to come before, but they all did! I think I will expect them all and it will be a bonus if some can't make it :devil:

It's a disco party so the park won't work. I did talk to DH yesterday about hiring a hall though. I was planning to move the furniture out of our living room to make it into the party room, but I think that will still be too small for 35+ kids.

I am leaning towards inviting the whole class, my only concern is that the boys will turn their nose up at the Bratz/disco theme :dunno:

What are all the other kids doing...I know you say she's been invited to a lot of parties, but are more of them starting to be girls only? How would you feel if you invited the whole class and then other kids (esp the boys) who have parties just invite the boys or a small group? Would you care?

Personally, I'd stick with just the girls for two reasons: the theme and crowd control. Everyone might have more fun with a smaller group because it might be less crazy.

If your little butterfly likes the idea of inviting lots of people, I'll go for the bigger event. The boys may not like the theme, but I wouldn't worry too much. As long as the activities include both sexes I think you'd be good to go.

If you don't/can't do a park party, you'd probably have to keep activities fairly low key unless you've got a hall. Your house might get awfully crazy. What about going roller skating or something like that?

Well we're going for the party of the century :lol: Emily has told everyone at school that they're all invited :lol: I'm going to look into halls today. And I think I'm going to do a mini-theme for the boys, maybe Spiderman or even Toy Story if I have anything left from Harry's party. The overall theme will still be Bratz, so that's what all the decorations etc will be, but I'll have more boyish prizes and goody bags for the boys.

:rahrah:

Go Clare!

:yippee:

I'm rethinking the evening party now. I called the council about hall hire, and the hourly rates are $13.20 before 6pm or $30.80 after 6pm! That's more then double to have it in the evening. When I factor in the cost of the entertainment as well, that's going to make it pretty expensive. So now I'm thinking about the Sunday afternoon. Do you think we could get away with a disco party during daylight? The majority of the crowd will be 5yr olds, I'm not sure that they'd mind so much :lol:

I don't think the kids would mind an afternoon disco party...in fact, I wonder if parents would mind having their 5 & 6 year olds invited to an evening party? Is that the norm?

I agree with Alyssa - I think an afternoon party would be better.

I don't think the kids would mind an afternoon disco party...in fact, I wonder if parents would mind having their 5 & 6 year olds invited to an evening party? Is that the norm?

We've been to a few after school parties lately, normally from 4.30-6.30pm. I had the same thought about the kids maybe being too young for an evening party :dunno: (when I say evening, we were planning on 5pm-7.30pm not keeping them out till midnight! :lol: )

I think the late afternoon time slot would be OK. Plus it might be nice for some parents not to have it on the weekend...

I think the late afternoon time slot would be OK. Plus it might be nice for some parents not to have it on the weekend...

It will still be the weekend, just Sunday afternoon as opposed to Friday or Saturday night. I've pretty much decided this is what we'll do but waiting on a call back from the "entertainment" (two teenage girls who are going to be disco divas).

Your parties are always awesome. You make me want to come over as well. Do you think Emily would invite me? LOL