The Witchlings are both due birthdays in the next couple of months. Witchling 10 is going to be 11 and Witchling 12 is soon to become Witchling 13. They both want parties.

In the halcien days of Witchling 3 and Witchling 5 this was as easy as falling off a log. Plenty of pink icing, jelly, icecream and oodles of pretty pink things all topped off with a liberal sprinkling of glitter was enough to satisfy all their party needs. And if there happened to be a Bratz or a Barbie emblazoned across everything then so much the better.  My friends were equally blessed with small boys who were in a state of heavenly exstacy when offered parties themed with Spider Man, Hulk and Pirates. It was all so easy!

Kids party supplies for a 13th Birthday party are considerably more challenging, I feel. Anything pink will be sneered at, and does one provide balloons or not? Barbie and Winnie the Pooh have an appropriateness until around age 9 or so, then become ironic in later life, but for a 13 year old girl they spell mortification.

Then there is the question of the food! Do we have cake and sausages on sticks, or are we on canapes and low calorie dip? Fizzy cola or alcohol free Martinis?

She doesn’t know it yet, but my recipe for Witchling 12’s party is as follows.

Mix 5 or 6 pre-teen/teen friends together with 1or 2 large Pizzas and a selection of suitably daft/girly movies. Add alcohol free cocktails and a giant chocolate chip cookie birthday ‘cake’. Throw in hair straighteners, tongs, false nails and liberal amounts of makeup, and retire to a safe distance. Deliver knackered party goers to parents on the following day complete with photographs and small goody bags of hair grips, earrings and lip glosses.

Check back on the 16th of May and I’ll tell you how I fared!

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