Ds had his first birthday party when he turned 3. we might heave waited longer till 4 or 5 but dd was both a couple of months before his 3rd bday so we thought a party would be nice. We were going to playgroup at that time so we had it at the playgroup (mbership gave us free use on a weekend for parties). We had about 17 children which is way more than I would have invited but our playgroup session was made up of two consecutive mother's groups so we just invited everyone.

We had a dinosaur theme and I bought some decorations online and balloons. Pretty simple but because there was an outside play area they were all pretty happy to just play outside even though it was the start of july.

We took all the food and it was pretty easy. The best bit about not being at home was that it didn't matter how much mess we made getting organised at home lol. It took us a little while to tidy up at the end but people helped which was really nice.