Bday is turning into a kids party & I'm not prepared!

Ecy · April 2013

I have a very small family. All of us, including cousins, aunts/uncles, etc. amount to less than 20 people. We are doing a typical Sunday lunch with family for my DD's 2nd bday. That's really all I was going to do because I don't think bdays are a huge deal yet.

However, I went and made the decision to invite a few of my close friends who have kids in the same age group and now I don't know what to do with them. If they all show up, there will be 7 toddlers!

The party will be at my mom's house, which is in the country on some great land with a huge pond. It's not exactly a place where I can rent a bouncy house or something. Should I think of activities for the kiddos or will they be fine with just running around and playing? Any tips are apprecitated. The party is on the 28th.

sucredee · April 2013

For DD's birthday the last 2 years it was combined with her little boyfriend who is 4 days older than she is. For her second birthday there were 6-7 kids. They were totally content just playing with her house and swing and eating and running around. We pl

JulesDiane · April 2013

Bubbles! Kids LOVE bubbles.. get a bunch of bubble blowers and wands and stuff. That stuff fairly inexpensive too. I like the sand water table idea too.

Ecy · April 2013

Perfect ideas! Thank y'all so much. My mom's place is surrounded by sand so I'm going to pick up sand toys and definitely some bubbles. It will be great :-)

JenniCollins · April 2013

We will have about 6 toddlers total this Saturday for DD's 2nd birthday. It is Doc McStuffin's themed. Here is our "schedule" I use that term loosely since toddlers are crazy. This is just a generalized list of things to do and time's

Leap08 · April 2013

I wouldn't really plan any activities. I might have some outdoor things they could do if interested (bubbles, sidewalk chalk, maybe some balls they could play with or balloons). In general, my 3 year old and our friends' kids (ages ranging from 2.5-6) jus