Need ideas to keep small kids amused at 40th b'day party

[peanutter]

balloons
bubbles
those mats where you can "paint" them with water
chalk on pavement
crayons and paper
"decorate it yourself" cookies or cup cakes
twister

[TaRhLi.]

Great Thread...

I was thinking about my 40th early next year and the same things, but we live on 3/4 acre and have our kids outdoor play area (which after Xmas will contain chalk, playdough, paints) plus will also have a trampoline, plus we have an indoor playroom with lots of kids movies so I hope this would be enough to amuse all the kids..

I was thinking that we might do an afternoon/early evening thing till about 9pm max just so all the kids can be home and get to bed plus means I can have ann early night as well after planning so much

[bubno.3]

have a space where kids can sleep and maybe parent too then you have the best of both worlds!!

[AndiE]

Thanks gals for all the suggestions. Good idea about having somewhere for them to sleep, though I think most of them will just want to play, play, play. Albeit the babies will have port-a-cots as there's obviously no way they'll want to stay awake K-Mart had some craft boxes with oodles of craft stuff for $15, so I might pick up a couple of those as well, I imagine the girls might be interested in the craft while the boys just bash around (at least my boys don't do craft when at home).