Ring Around the Rosy
Farmer in the Dell
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London Bridge
Hide an alarm clock to be hunted for
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Give each child a balloon to play with and have some replacements for those which burst.
Serve supper at five. Do let your child at least help with table decorations. Perhaps, between you, you might make a Jack Homer Pie out of a box, covered with paper to make it look like a birthday cake. A five-and-ten favor for each guest comes out when ribbons are pulled.
menu
Club Sandwiches Eggnog
Ambrosia (sliced oranges and bananas with shredded coconut) Angel Birthday Cake
six- and seven-year-olds
Ten or twelve guests are the outside limit at a party for children this age. By now the party child can word his own invitations quite well, though you may have to do the printing or writing. He might, for instance, cut and fold strips of paper to make big birthday candles complete with flame. He will then color them and inside you will write:
John Daly invites you to his sixth birthday party on Tuesday,
October fifth, from four to six-thirty.
We will have supper at five-thirty.
r.s.v.p. (or Please Answer)
Prizes for games can begin at this age. They should be simple, and you should try to see that no child wins more than one. These children will like to play:
Going to Jerusalem
Farmer in the Dell Peanut (or marbles, or chewing gum) Hunt
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rop the Handkerchief Hide and Seek Pin the
Tail on the Donkey (or the current equivalent!)
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Have a good supply of pipe cleaners on hand and turn everyone to making whatever his imagination dictates. You can give a prize for the best, but taking their own products home is usually reward enough.
This age will love a Jack Homer Pie for the centerpiece, but perhaps your child would rather have a little favor at each place and concoct some other decorations. Suppose, for instance, at a party for boys, the lavors were little airplanes. The host might make a centerpiece to resemble an airport with brown paper as the base and perhaps a hangar made from a box.
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