While riding yesterday, it occurred to me how expensive it is to run a kid's birthday party these days. Bouncy castles are $300 touch...add cake, ice cream, a clown and goody bags and you can easily run up a $500 bill.
Here's some freeky alternatives.
Let go the H2O...a sprinkler party! Throw down beach towels as a picnic place...everyone suits up to limbo and water balloon fight. Freezies and Beach Boys music! Google the instructions to make a pinata as a project to do with the birthday boy or girl before the party...try a three legged race!
Get 20-30 balloons at the dollar store...decorate! Get sidewalk chalk and have a picture party!
A photo scavenger hunt with an inkjet scrapbooking collage at the end (shoot a silly face, a picture of a thumb, something juicy, the dog)
Think about when you were a kid...Red Rover Red Rover...won't you come over?
