AboutWendy Legendre Expertise I can help you get your party off to a fun start with creative ideas, games, activities, decorations, and invitations that are perfect for girls' parties, baby and bridal showers, girls' night events, and get-togethers with friends. My Diva Girl Parties and Stuff website hosts a huge collection of my ideas and printables at diva-girl-parties-and-stuff.com and my Scavenger Hunt Fun website at http://www.scavenger-hunt-fun.com has scavenger hunts for numerous events and locations.
Experience I have hosted hundreds of community events, showers, parties, and camps over the last 25 years. I am the owner and creator of a successful girls' party site as well as a scavenger hunt site.
Education/Credentials Various classes in creative arts, sociology, decorating, and drama.
Expert: Wendy Legendre Date: 6/20/2008 Subject: 9 year old girls birthday party
Question QUESTION: My daughter's birthday is on a Saturday in July. One of her close friends decided to host her swimming party on that day from 11 - 2. The same children will be invited to both parties so I need help to decide what I can do for our party. Host on Friday night, Saturday night? Only problem is the kids will be tired from swimming on Saturday. What kind of ideas do you have for a fun time at this age?
ANSWER: Hi Phoebe!
Do you live close to the friend who is hosting the pool party?
Also, are your two family's friends or just the girls?
It would be optimal to plan a joint party, which I imagine would then have to be held at the home where the pool is.
If that is not an option, knowing how close that two of you live would make it easier to offer my ideas.
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QUESTION: The other child has allot of different family members that would join her party and is being held at a community pool so my child chose not to combine the two parties. Any suggestions? Thanks so much for the quick response.
Answer I would probably opt for Friday night since the children will be able to get a good rest before having to arrive at the Saturday party and you won't have to deal with any potential disagreements, etc. that may arise during the course of the other party.
From my experience, 9 year olds have a lot of energy and should be able to more than handle two parties, though I wouldn't load them with candy before sending them off to another party the next day.
I'm guessing you are having a mixed party, so that it would require a theme that would appeal to both boys and girls. Is that right?
Is there anything your daughter really loves or an activity she really enjoys participating in? When I plan a party for a child I usually get them to tell me what they love and build a party off of one of those things (eg. my one nieces loves Polly Pocket so I hosted a "Find Polly's Missing Stuff" scavenger hunt birthday party for her. They had to complete all sorts of challenges till they retrieved all of Polly's missing stuff. My nephew loves racing so that was our theme for him. We even got old gear rings from a transmission shop to use for a game just to fit the theme and made a racetrack on the cake with sports cars on the track and race flag candles. The boys loved it.)
Thanks for getting back to me about some things your daughter loves.
