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I know I have asked similar questions before as I have this idea and would really like to go through with it. But need some opinions again.

I know you probably all have seen "Birthday in a Box" or "Party Express"

I wanted to start my own business selling party packages but with more to it then the normal paper goods.

I wanted to do themes such as Fairy, Princess or Tea Party

I would include (Party for 8 would be standard with optional add on)
-Cups
-Plates
-Napkins
-Forks/Spoons
-Table Cover
-Balloons
-Streamers
-Candels
-Theme Dress up Items (Wings, Tiaras, Necklaces, Boas (Choice of a Few)
-Themed Favors
-Craft
-Game
-Also Includes a suggestion booklet

Would you use something like this? If yes why if no why? How much would you pay for something like this? How much would you pay for shipping on something like this or should I include it in the overall price? Any other suggestions?

I found something similar but didn’t include everything I would but included other items on birthday in a box and they wanted 2.99 and shipping would be about .00 for ground shipping.

Here the Link to it

http://www.birthdayinabox.com/party-supplies/productdetail.asp-BTID-2-tab_cat_id-8-prodsku-12024-prodtype_id-105-subcat-0-acat_id-20

I know there are some parents out there that love to shop around and pick thing out for their kids parties themselves, but I also think there are parents that want a quick easy way to have a great party without much effort but for a good price.

So please let me know what you think.
Thanks for the advice so far as for the pricing I would like to set it lower or around 0 but will need to price everything out and make a profit

Anyone else want to comment?

I have a group job interview for a kids day camp, and need something to teach the other people in the interview that I could teach to children. Would kids like a game, or learn how to do a song in sign language more? What games would be good. Something that can be done indoors, and not require props.

My son is turning 1 and I am celebrating his birthday on Saturday October 18th. I have a theme in mind that I found online and it is so cute. The link is below. Let me know what you think. Not too cheesy?

http://www.birthdaydirect.com/1st-birthday-party-supplies-fun-at-one-boy-c-33_57.html

It is going to be an indoor/outdoor birthday. What I mean by that is, my son has TONS of cousins that will be coming so we will be having activities and food inside and outside we will be renting a huge inflatable bouncer. Im just worried about the weather. I live in Jersey. Do you think it will be tooooo cold for the kids to be jumping outside. (The older kids, because the smaller ones will be inside playing game)

Thank you so much in advance for your advice.

Do you think the game will reduce the amount of kids actually playing instruments?

i’m having a joined birthday party with 1 or 2 of my friends. our guest list consists of mostly teens- ages 12 to 14/15. i need good party themes and lots of activities to keep people occupied at all times. so far, we have a movie and waterballoon fight planned. i also need help with music/decorations. NOT too all-out and big please; this party is being planned by a 13 (and soon to be 14!) year old me and 2 other 11 year olds. nothing innaproppriate or little kid-ish please (by innaproppriate i mean spin the bottle, and by little kid-ish i mean duck duck goose. although hide and seek is always a fun "be a little kid again" game). i’d like to keep the rating at about pg to pg-13. we have a very limited and small budget, and about a week to plan/make invites. thanks for your suggestions!
oh yeah, sleepovers are an absolute NO. we aren’t allowed to have one, because of the boy/girl guest list, and because there are too many people. we have the list set and finalized also. and…a danceoff migh not work out, since the guests are a bit timid. but thank you for the suggestions!

We have a 4 year old and our son is about to turn 2. We have done ponies, bounce house, Spongbob came, and I am out of ideas for this one.

Last year we did a "Water" themed party with a cake that had Spongbob splashing into the cake, waterballons, waterguns, and a cool blow up pool that had differnant sections (a plam tree, a slide, a ring toss, ect…it was at Walmart….didnt last long though)

There will be about 10 kids here aged 0-6 and I want something FUN to do! we will obviously have cake, presants, some type of food and snacks, and I was thinking either musical chairs/pin the tale on the donkey/pinata as a "Game" themed party with small rpizes for the games.

At Target they have for an Animal-ballon making kit for the kids to do…I guess they decorate them and it comes with the helium to blow them up for each kid to have one. My son is a little young for it, he might not sit still, but I think it would be cute, he is just about the youngest person at the party anyways.

Any ideas from party’s you guys have had would be GREAT! Anything cheaper then what we have been doing will also be GREAT!
(1 hour for 2 ponies 0)
(Bouncehouse for 1 day 0)
(Water Party supplies about )
(Adult size Spongbob costume )

Happy 2nd birthday to Jayden on saturday May 2nd!!!
(His real birthday-day this time!!)

I am doing a research paper on how video games affect learning

Do you feel violent video games make kids violent?

Do you think that video games can be used in the classroom?

Do you think that kids views of games are changed if they know that the game is educational (regarless of how fun it is)?

any other thoughts or comments would be greatly appreciated

thank you again

we’ve tried GO BOOM,GO FISH,and OLD MAID but they are getting old fast,I need a game that I can teach him that does not require him to hold too many cards in his hand.THANX

well thanks, but I was hoping to go with as little violence as possible… with 4 year olds this type of game can get out of hand quickly

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