Congratulations! Your boy has another fun year! Now it is the challenge to organize another fun birthday party. For young schoolers, mostly between 6 to 10 years, they started to show what kind of activities they would like for their own party and have a certain number of friends. Here are the tips and ideas to help parents and young schoolers to select their birthday activities from the least energy cost to the most exhaust ones, but still fun!
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The Ultimate Tip: Decide Together with your kids!
At this age, your young schoolers can really surprise you with their mature thoughts. Start from how many kids he wants to invite and what can be the budget and gift ideas. You can started with his idea and and list several options, then discuss the dates and time. It matters to get your child involving in the decision process. Here are the list (follow the 5W1H method) that you can discuss together.
- Who: List the number of guests and their age
- When: Shall you organize in the weekends or a working day? Morning or after school?
- Where: Is that somewhere walking distance or we need to drive there?
- What: What is the most popular birthday activities for young schoolers? The kind of theme and activities we are going to do?
- How: How are we going to the location? How is the schedule looks like?
1. Easiest Birthday Party for Parents – Indoor Playground
Many cities have the indoor playground like this, mainly separated in the playing area and parents area. In the meanwhile, they offer food and drink, sometimes even birthday cake and laser game etc. It is easy for your boys stay inside for at least 3 hours. It is safe, not impact by the weather, no kids number limitation, and more importantly, you do not have to worry about the noise they made!
You may not get some free time as parents, but at least you can sit down and drink a coffee.
2. Most Economical Birthday Party – Arrange at Home
a. Organize Scavenger Hunt at Home or Around
If it’s comfortable for you, plan a simple treasure or scavenger hunt for your birthday. Also, if you have a birthday party theme, it’s a good idea to have the scavenger hunt go with it. For instance, it could be a marauders Map theme for a Harry Potter party.
b. Movie Night
Setting up a movie night is also a cool idea, this can include sleepovers or under-night (when the party guests get picked up before bedtime). You might want to suit their movie taste, so keep an eye out for kid-friendly movies at the theatre or new to stream or download.
Then you can take in a movie in that way. The movie night can get more special even if you plan to host it at Home. Have everyone lay out their sleeping bags or blankets to make the movie night more memorable. Since it’s a movie night, you can turn out all the lights and make the event more special with a little treat such as popcorn, gummy candy bears, and other movie snacks.
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c. Nerf Gun or Water Gun
It would be much easier for you to organize a Nerf War if you have a bunch of Nerf or water guns laying around, or if your Child’s Friends have their own to bring. If you are ready for the adventure, rent a Party Room for a Venue and make a day out of it.
3. Most Adventure Birthday Party – Play in Amusement Park
Visiting an Amusement Park definitely fun and cool to visit with friends for young schoolers as a birthday party. Some amusement parks have friends ticket and birthday packages as well. However, not all the boys are stay in the queue easily, therefore, you might just spend lots of time in entertaining kids during waiting and try to find them after the activities and counting every now and then the number of kids!
Moreover, the amusement park normally cannot reach by walking or cycling easily, you need to be the driver as well! Hopefully they still can fit in your car instead of a bus!
d. Zoo or Museum Visiting
Similar to amusement park, zoo or museum visiting is also fun with many exciting things. For parents, they can definitely enjoy as well. With one tip only, do not invite too many friends for the activities, it can also cost a lot if kids do not have the year card.
4. Most Active Birthday Party – Sports
If your boy and his friends is training in sports as extracurricular activities, you can take them out to a ballgame.
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e. Flag football
Regardless of the age group, a flag football game is an enjoyable activity that can be planned for your boy’s birthday. Get some flags around each party guest’s waist and start the flag football game using your backyard. If your party falls during football season and your kids are fans, having a football watch party before or after your game might be interesting with refreshments like wings, chips, soda, and dip.
f. Bowling / Carting / Ski
Depends on the kids preference, they can go for other activities like bowling, carting or ski for their birthday as well. Time to book it and prepare some extra glove and winter clothes.
5. Take a Day Trip
You can try something different by taking a trip to a neighboring city or town. Visit the children’s museum or go to the bouncy house park. Making a trip out of your boy’s birthday would make Him feel special because the family-friend day trip is all about Him. You can also allow Him to navigate the route or select between two neighboring cities for a feeling of ownership.
Final Thoughts from Pragmatic Lifestyle
Here are our selected birthday activities for young schoolers, hope it brings you some new idea and enjoy the birthday party preparation process!
About Me
Hi, there. I am Lin. Together with my husband and two kids, we live in the beautiful Netherlands in Europe. I am dedicated to self-development, creating quality time for the whole family, and fully supporting kids with their potentials with all I have learned from engineering, MBA, and 10+ years of working experience in the energy sector.
