5th birthday party - how do I not invite all of his kinder classmates?

[Chocaholic]

You are assuming all the children will attend. Do they usually all turn up at a party? Yes, it is a risk though.

I would only invite about 5 kids if I wanted it small and I would ask/give the invites to the parents, not the kids.

[~*Niadalla*~]

A park BBQ would be awesome if I lived in a town and we had a park, but we're very rural.
I could do a play centre thing, but honestly I'm not prepared to spend hundreds of dollars. July is generally freezing here aswell, so I have to have an indoor backup plan.

What do you think of only inviting boys? I HATE the idea personally(because I don't like to divide the genders and have DS thinking there is a massive difference between boys and girls at his age), but there are only 5 boys in the class. Obviously DD will be there (but she is pretty tom boyish anyway and will fit right in).
Argh. I'm most likely totally over analysing everything, but I would hate for anyone to feel badly (and I want my son to have an amazing party... we don't have parties for the kids every year).

[megs]

My son (also a July baby) had a birthday last year he was prep so didn't quite have the same issues as a kinder group. I had it at our local Leisure Complex (I live very rural so couldn't have it at my house) it was quite reasonable in price as I supplied my own food so I was only paying for the hostess and the room.

I ended up only inviting boys my son had 2 girls he wanted to invite but I felt they might have been uncomfortable amongst 10 boys. If it was more even in numbers I wouldn't have minded. That being said it worked well with the all boys, they had there laughs and boy jokes.

At my sons kinders there was several parties where only some kids were invited, like another post the invitations were placed in the pidgeon holes above the lockers so as a parent I didn't make a big deal of the invite in front of other children.