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pickles16
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Kids entertainment for 1st birthday?
Any recs? I just saw that Gymboree was offering their services for an hour at birthday parties, THEY will come to YOU But wanted to see if anyone had any other recommendations!
Yes, she's only 6.5 months, but I am an anal planner
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Posted 7/8/09 6:01 PM  |
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Re: Kids entertainment for 1st birthday?
OMG, I think about this constantly. Especially having a baby born on 12/30 I am like "*** can I plan???!!!". In any event, I went to a 1st b-day party for a girl a couple months ago and my friend had the girl raggedy-ann type clowns that sing songs and make sand art with the rest of the older kids. It was cute, and they weren't scary like regular clowns LOL.
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| Posted 7/8/09 6:13 PM |
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EmmaNick
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Re: Kids entertainment for 1st birthday?
I used smallworldentertainment.com and had a sesame street puppet show, balloon animals and tattoos. I thought it was cute and reasonable.
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| Posted 7/8/09 6:40 PM |
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MrsRivera
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Re: Kids entertainment for 1st birthday?
I've been thinking about it, too. I found a lady in Charlotte that does the most AWESOME cakes, and I've already consulted with her for DD's 1st birthday cake  
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| Posted 7/8/09 6:42 PM |
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Goldi0218
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Re: Kids entertainment for 1st birthday?
Abby's first birthday is in less than 2 months and we are not doing characters or special entertainment. We will have fun things for the kids to play with/on/etc, but after a while, it gets out of hand and after consulting with many mothers, DH and I decided it wasn't necessary to have a hired character considering the ages of her friends.
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| Posted 7/8/09 7:27 PM |
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pickles16
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Re: Kids entertainment for 1st birthday?
Posted by Goldi0218
Abby's first birthday is in less than 2 months and we are not doing characters or special entertainment. We will have fun things for the kids to play with/on/etc, but after a while, it gets out of hand and after consulting with many mothers, DH and I decided it wasn't necessary to have a hired character considering the ages of her friends.
See I believe this as well, as most of her "friends" are her age or younger, we have a few friends with "older" kids, older meaning 2....but considering her birthday is in December and the birthday would be indoors I would need something to occupy them, thats why I was thinking of a gymboree type thing or some sort of "entertainment"
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| Posted 7/8/09 7:45 PM |
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Akajt98
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Re: Kids entertainment for 1st birthday?
We are also looking into a variety of ideas for our DD's first birthday in October.
I have attended a couple of first birthdays with entertainment. Some of the better ones included either a puppet show or a music together session.
I would love to hear of some other ideas 
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| Posted 7/8/09 8:57 PM |
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MommyAgain
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Re: Kids entertainment for 1st birthday?
i LOVE the gymboree idea jen, pass on the info, that sounds great for Mila too!!
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| Posted 7/8/09 9:10 PM |
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Tine73
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Re: Kids entertainment for 1st birthday?
I used Nick the Balloonatic and he was amazing!! He entertained both the adults and the kids so it was a great combination! I highly recommend him.
http://www.nicktheballoonatic.com/
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| Posted 7/8/09 9:22 PM |
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patti08
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Re: Kids entertainment for 1st birthday?
We hired DD's music together teacher. She performed for almost an hour with the kids in a circle. She engaged kids from a few months through 10 years. I got so many compliments about her from parents, grandparents and even from guests that were there without kids.
What I liked is that it was someone DD was familiar with and likes so she was very comfortable with it and opened right up and had fun. I think if I had hired a character or something like that she would have been shy or even scared.
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| Posted 7/8/09 9:40 PM |
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organichic
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Re: Kids entertainment for 1st birthday?
Ive only been to a few 1st b-day parties, but the face painting and balloon art seem to be favorites.
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