Having a character at a birthday party

[Anonymous]

6 foot tall Elmo makes no sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had SpiderMan come for DS’s 5th birthday and my 3YO DS (who also loves SpiderMan) wouldn’t come out of the basement he was so terrified. 5YO loved it, as did most of the other kids, 2 and 3YO’s included. He did “superhero training”, sang HBD, and interacted with the kids. I will say, though, don’t get more than 30 min-1 hr, we did 1.5 hours and the kids were over it so I told Spidey he could leave early.

I would guess Elmo could do things like dance, play parachute, lead Simon Says, stuff like that?

Me again. Has your kid ever been exposed to other characters? Like Chuck-e-cheese, Mickey, Easter Bunny? That should give you a good idea if she’s ready for it.

OP here. My DD has been exposed a lot and wants Elmo to come. We went to Disney World a few times and she loves the characters and hugging them. She really thinks they're real.

I'm the PP who asked this question. I say for for it! I disagree with the other poster saying "she's 3, she doesn't get a say" - it's her birthday and if she'd enjoy it then when else is she going to get Elmo to come to her house? My DS still talks about SpiderMan coming to his birthday.

[Anonymous]

Uncle Bob. Now he was a character. Smoking, drinking, ranting about nonsense. What a character.

[Anonymous]

We had Ariel come for a 4th birthday and it was a huge hit. She did a story circle, sang, played some kind of tag game with them, posed for pictures. My daughter was in heaven and the other kids all loved it too. (None of them thought to question why Ariel didn't have something better to do at that time than attend an unknown child's birthday party. )

[Anonymous]

Elmo doesn't know how to read.

[Anonymous]

At that age human looking princesses and superheroes are less likely to be scary to party guests than characters in big furry suits.