What are you doing for your kids’ birthdays?

[Anonymous]

Need to plan something for DD's 10th in September. She wants a sleepover with her BFF and a mani.

[Anonymous]

I have my kid's September birthday coming up - 4 years old. He has had a big party all previous years. I don't want to try any distanced party, and we won't have any extended family members available either, so it will be just us. I think he will not really be disappointed in this at 4yo. His previous parties were really just excessive on my part, like he won't even remember!

Anyway, I am interested in ideas to make it special. I liked earlier idea of doing lots of decorations as a surprise. I am thinking lots of helium balloons, special cake, favorite foods. Maybe short zoom appointments with friends and family members? I feel like short individual meetings would work better than a big group meeting.

For gifts, have been considering getting him some kind of game system, but not sure what is right for his age.

[Anonymous]

My teen chose which takeout place he wanted and I got an ice cream cake. We never did much more than that. We either had small parties at home or invited a friend or two to dinner or something else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid turned 8 in June. I didn’t she would want a drive by parade either. We decided to ask people to stop by and eat an ice cream with us in our front yard and driveway. I gave a 90 min window and said come whenever in that window. Most people stayed about 20-30 mins. I had 3 different ice creams/popsicles in a cooler outside and handed them out. Most people socially distanced. Some kids didn’t but I think they were all so happy to see each other they just ran around like lunatics. I didn’t do this because I left it to late to go buy enough chalk, but you could hand out chalk ( that they then keep) and have each kid draw something in your driveway or sidewalk in addition to getting an ice cream........

This is what we are doing! Except getting a shave ice truck, but same idea!

[Anonymous]

We also make a big deal out of birthdays in our family. My daughter's birthday was in April. We celebrated at home, but of course it wasn't the same. Next month, we are going to the beach with close friends - they have two kids. Ahead of time, both families are isolating for two weeks and some time during our beach week, we're having a party - cake, party bags, balloons. It will just be the four kids (my daughter's a social butterfly, so it seems small to her) but it will still have the trappings of her regular birthday celebrations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have my kid's September birthday coming up - 4 years old. He has had a big party all previous years. I don't want to try any distanced party, and we won't have any extended family members available either, so it will be just us. I think he will not really be disappointed in this at 4yo. His previous parties were really just excessive on my part, like he won't even remember!

Anyway, I am interested in ideas to make it special. I liked earlier idea of doing lots of decorations as a surprise. I am thinking lots of helium balloons, special cake, favorite foods. Maybe short zoom appointments with friends and family members? I feel like short individual meetings would work better than a big group meeting.

For gifts, have been considering getting him some kind of game system, but not sure what is right for his age.

Birthday fairy!
Kind of like Christmas - when the kid wakes up in the morning, the table is set with decorations and a little pile of presents.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have no idea. He is turning 11 and says he doesn't want anything. So maybe we are doing nothing. He has friends but doesn't want me to organize drive or bike bys to hand out cake.

My just turned 11. He wanted to try a BBLT at sonic for some strange reason. Never been before. Drove out to Manassas for lunch and ate in one of the drive-in spots. Happiest kid ever.

I can identify with your kid. I am late 30s but have never eaten at Sonic (not from out here) but am intrigued by the ads on TV. Your kid probably was too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have no idea. He is turning 11 and says he doesn't want anything. So maybe we are doing nothing. He has friends but doesn't want me to organize drive or bike bys to hand out cake.

My just turned 11. He wanted to try a BBLT at sonic for some strange reason. Never been before. Drove out to Manassas for lunch and ate in one of the drive-in spots. Happiest kid ever.

I can identify with your kid. I am late 30s but have never eaten at Sonic (not from out here) but am intrigued by the ads on TV. Your kid probably was too.

No joke, my kid is STILL talking about it. Good thing it’s not close to home and pass by it regularly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have no idea. He is turning 11 and says he doesn't want anything. So maybe we are doing nothing. He has friends but doesn't want me to organize drive or bike bys to hand out cake.

My just turned 11. He wanted to try a BBLT at sonic for some strange reason. Never been before. Drove out to Manassas for lunch and ate in one of the drive-in spots. Happiest kid ever.

I can identify with your kid. I am late 30s but have never eaten at Sonic (not from out here) but am intrigued by the ads on TV. Your kid probably was too.

No joke, my kid is STILL talking about it. Good thing it’s not close to home SO WE DON’t pass by it regularly.

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[Anonymous]

My 12 year old is getting dinner of her choice, made by us, I'm picking up dessert from her fave place and we are doing a family movie night.

[Anonymous]

We are planning an outdoor movie night in our backyard for 8 yo DS and two friends. Will setup some way to give them each a circle or area 6’ apart, and add things to make it special like string lights and lounge chairs and individual snack boxes.

[Anonymous]

Turned 5 june 15:

Had a party at the playground with his friends. They played, I brought balloons. Then we sang and had cupcakes. It was great.

For dinner we had pizza and cake and lots of presents. It was a great day!

[Anonymous]

Playground party sounds nice. Did the kids stay apart at the playground or wear masks? I am not sure which would be harder to enforce!

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Anonymous wrote:I had a teary tween when I explained that we will not be able to do the dinner she wanted this year.

The tears went away quickly when we said - that since we were practicing social distancing [no contact with friends since Friday] we thought that she needed her own phone.

+1. Love this.

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Anonymous wrote:Playground party sounds nice. Did the kids stay apart at the playground or wear masks? I am not sure which would be harder to enforce!

Neither. They just played. They’re kids and the most risky thing they did was drive in a car to the playground.