Parents try their best to throw an amusing birthday party for their kids. However, they sometimes forget to plan in advance, creating some common mistakes and delays during the event. Every parent is aware of his/her kid’s birth dates, and they always intend to make it special for them. In order to create nostalgic memories, parents must consider and avoid these five most common birthday party mistakes.
- Delay in venue selection
- Lack of venue or vendors information
- Insufficient amount of fun activities
- Hiring half-hearted photographers
- Focusing too much on sweets
- Delay in venue selection:
Venue is the most integral part of the entire planning process. Birthday venues must be decided in advance, approximately two months before the exact date. Venue selection can be done through online research or relying on word of mouth. If someone in the group or the society has ever booked a hall, park or ground for their kid’s birthdays then it should be considered as a priority. Selecting a new place for the kid’s birthday party can be risky, to avoid the risk factor, rely on word of mouth. Therefore, venues must be booked in advance with easy cooperation with the vendors. It also avoids any time constraints or booking errors. Advanced planning, with proper research has always been a strength for all event managers. Hence, venue bookings must not be left for the last moment.
- Lack of venue or vendors information:
Often, parents decide venue at the last moment, without prior knowledge about the place, society and operating vendors, this is inappropriate. It increases the risks for theft, kidnapping and other unpleasant mishaps. So, updating oneself regarding the selected place booked for your kid’s birthday party is essential for safety purposes. Sometimes, the place seems safe and good but the vendors and the service staff are not well-equipped or trained for serving large gatherings. This unpleasant experience should be avoided by reviewing the vendor and venue details in advance.
- Insufficient amount of fun activities:
Remember it is a kid’s birthday party! Kids love games, music, surprises, gifts and sweets. Planning fun games and interesting activities are vital to maintain a kid’s interest in the birthday party. Parents should plan different games such as hide and seek, burst the balloon, stick the horse tail and musical chairs along with scavenger hunts. Who does not love finding treasures based on clues? Kids are the best minimal investigators. They love to play in groups, compete and win exciting prizes. Every game must end with some sort of surprise for them, otherwise they will be discouraged. Parents omit to plan these games, while planning for invites, décor and menus. This is a must to create funny nostalgic memories of your kids.
- Hiring half-hearted photographers:
Selecting the venue, reviewing the vendors, planning games are all part of a successful birthday party but capturing those lively moments of your kids requires a passionate photographer. An invested photographer, who is determined to create the best out of those rush hours and hyper activities is a must. You must hire a photographer who captures each family moment without the order of the parents. Some parents forget to hire a devoted photographer and they assume that taking mobile or personal camera pictures is equivalent to hiring a professional photographer. Some consider it as an additional cost. Yes, it is, but a good investment for your creative memories. One must remember that birthdays are special occasions when people have a chance to interact with all family members and friends, this time must be devoted to them rather than capturing images of your kids to save additional expenses. This common mistake must be avoided at all cost!
- Focusing too much on sweets:
It is a birthday party, a chocolaty day for your lovely kid! It must be filled with sweets and other spices to lit the taste buds and make kids super-active. Some parents fail by focusing too much on sweets, cakes, pastries, donuts and lollipops. It is a sweet day and kids need some spice in it as well. Therefore, a healthy, nutritious menu must be decided by the parents in order to serve the best diets on this special day. Kids get hungry after playing games, running and dancing, they need drinks, so lemonade, orange juice, margaritas along with fruit salad, vegetable salad, BBQ is a good option, with an extra cheese topping over a spicy pizza. Kids get hungry easily, they will eat whatever is being served, after that cake and ice-cream can be distributed among all. Conclusively, focusing too much on a sweet menu should be replaced with healthy options. Sweets and cake can be served at the end, for a happy and sweet birthday ending.
