How Old Is Too Old For a Kids Birthday Party?

How Old Is Too Old For A Kids Birthday Party?

November 11th, 2009

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How old is too old for a kids birthday party? That is the question I have been thinking about in the last few weeks. My son turned 11 last week and has always enjoyed the birthday parties I have planned for him. Although it was harder to come up with a creative party theme for 11 year old boys, I thought I had some good ones.

One of my 101 kids birthday party tips is to involve your child in planning the party and picking the theme, so I ran the themes I came up with by him. My choices were Percy Jackson and the Olympians/ Camp Halfblood or a James Bond/Spy Academy party. My son is an avid reader of the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordon and made me read the books as well. With the movie coming out in February, I thought it would be a fun party.

Strangely enough, he thought the James Bond party would be ok, but he wasn’t overly enthusiastic about it. Now I love planning birthday parties, but I am not crazy enough to plan a party for my son without his full cooperation. I started thinking that he might feel to old for a party.

Since my son is not one to share his feelings readily, I had to do much prodding to find out what he really wanted. With only a few days to spare before his birthday and many suggestions later, I hit upon a solution: Take a few of his friends to the movies. Another one of the series he is reading, “Cirque du Freak, the Vampire’s Assistant” has a movie out, and that was where he wanted to take his friends. 10 and 11 year old boys pretty well can entertain themselves, so it was the easiest party I had ever done.

Cirque du Freak Party

To keep in with the vampire theme, I put together some vampire inspired goody bags, complete with vampire teeth and Madam Octa gummy spiders. The boys came over for pizza and Make Your Own Ice Cream Sundays. To get them in the vampire mood, I had an informal taste test of what kind of blood they liked better, vampire or human. I served them their “blood” from glass pitchers containing tomato juice and V-8 and the boys were suitably grossed out.

I am kind of sad it is the end of the kids birthday party era for my son. Thankfully I still have a 4 year old daughter that loves her birthday parties and I get to plan lots of birthday parties for my clients. By the way, if you have a child that would like to have a Spy Academy or Percy Jackson birthday party, please hire me. I have lots of great ideas just waiting to be implemented…

Daphne Bousquet, CMP is a birthday party entrepreneur whose Oh What Fun Events brings fun themed kids birthday parties to homes in the Metro Atlanta area. As Certified Meeting Professional she has extensive experience in planning events, from large festivals to small intimate gatherings. A Mom of 2, she takes the stress out of planning birthday parties for busy moms.

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