What did you do for your son's 10th birthday?

[Anonymous]

How many guests?
Where?
Activity?
Total cost?

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Where are you, OP?

[Anonymous]

Rollingcrest Chilllum indoor splash park. Son and 5 kids. Used the "free" entries they gave us the year before when we had a birthday party there (we forgot to hand them out as favors) and kid for some strange reason wanted donuts instead of cake.

Cost: 1 box of donuts, 6 juice boxes, 11 candles. Maybe $10 at the most?

This was our cheapest party ever! Obviously when he was 9 we actually paid for a splash pool party ($200 for 10 kids, I think) the year he was 11 I took him and his best friend to Harry Potter World in Florida (don't want to think of the price there). But 10 was cheap!

[Anonymous]

Sleepover with 4 boys. Pizza, ice cream cake, breakfast the next morning. They played Minecraft and played outside for a while. It might have cost $100 tops.

[Anonymous]

Video game party at the house. Around 10 kids. All seemed to have a good time. We setup 4 player minecraft on the Xbox and had the Wii going on another TV with Super Smash Bros. Ordered pizza and had cake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rollingcrest Chilllum indoor splash park. Son and 5 kids. Used the "free" entries they gave us the year before when we had a birthday party there (we forgot to hand them out as favors) and kid for some strange reason wanted donuts instead of cake.

Cost: 1 box of donuts, 6 juice boxes, 11 candles. Maybe $10 at the most?

This was our cheapest party ever! Obviously when he was 9 we actually paid for a splash pool party ($200 for 10 kids, I think) the year he was 11 I took him and his best friend to Harry Potter World in Florida (don't want to think of the price there). But 10 was cheap!

I think Rollingcrest is closed for renovations for several months. What about laser tag?

[Anonymous]

is there a movie out that he and his friends really want to see, and that their parents would be cool with? you could take a small group to se the movie and then out back to your house for pizza/food and cake? or out for pizza afterward of you don't even want to involve your house. have fun whatever you decide!

[Anonymous]

We took him and his 25 closest friends out to mini golf (late August b-day). They divided themselves into teams of 4 or so, and half played in the arcade, then golfed and the other half golfed, then did arcade. Then they all came back to our house - DH grilled hot dogs and hamburgers (and chicken for the one allergic kid), we served watermelon and ice cream cake.
Then about half of them slept over.

[Anonymous]

Field day at home. If you don't have space, go to a park or rent a room at a community center

[Anonymous]

Laser tag party at our home!

[Anonymous]

They do parties at the Lego Store at Anne Arundel Mill. There are also people who will come to your house with bricks.

[Anonymous]

Gametruck in front of our house. Then pizza and cake after. Not the cheapest but definitely the easiest!
http://www.gametruckparty.com

[Anonymous]

5 kids over and they played in a LAN world on Minecraft. free except for pizza and i bought them each a 5$ creeper stuffed animal at Target and made the cake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We took him and his 25 closest friends out to mini golf (late August b-day). They divided themselves into teams of 4 or so, and half played in the arcade, then golfed and the other half golfed, then did arcade. Then they all came back to our house - DH grilled hot dogs and hamburgers (and chicken for the one allergic kid), we served watermelon and ice cream cake.
Then about half of them slept over.

Wow, that sounds like great fun but a lot of work!!

[Anonymous]

OP here.

We are in Bethesda.
A Minecraft party sounds neat but we only have the one computer.

Thanks for the suggestions so far!