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[quote=Anonymous]I appreciate what you're trying to do OP. It's totally reasonable to have a budget for kids birthday parties but I would be more realistic here. You're trying to skip serving a meal and do s'mores (which is part of the "entertainment") and skip cake. If you hire a teen to help that's going to use 10-15% of your budget just to pay them. You either need to scale down the guest list or choose simpler activities. Organizing 14 kids to decorate gingerbread houses when you mentioned in your post that you often splurge on entertainment because you get nervous about entertaining so many kids is setting yourself up to fail. And a bouncy house for 4 year olds is not going to entertain 14 8/9 year olds. Movie nights are popular because they're easy to execute and cheap whether you have 5 kids or 15 kids. Keep the party to 2 hrs, serve hot chocolate, s'mores and some snacks and have a few simple crafts (ones that don't require a lot of adult supervision). And serve cupcakes or a cake. Boxed mix is fine. [/quote]

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