Anonymous wrote:This is the weirdest thread ever. This is by far the easiest age group to hold a birthday party for, I don't know why you'd have trouble and I also do not at ALL understand how the theme of a young child's birthday party could be "bring $5".

I'm not going to give you any ideas because you sound terrible.

+2
The Fiver thing is awkward and weird.

Just meet at the nearest trampoline/bounce house/Dave &Busters, buy the 6 guests a game card, order pizza, bring your cake, done.
No prep. No cleanup. All kids of all ages (you said siblings invited) will have fun. Done.

This is the weirdest thread ever. This is by far the easiest age group to hold a birthday party for, I don't know why you'd have trouble and I also do not at ALL understand how the theme of a young child's birthday party could be "bring $5".

I'm not going to give you any ideas because you sound terrible.

Anonymous wrote:No gifts, just bring $5.

Positives is it’s cheaper than the gift you were going to bring. Kid can buy one big item instead.

WTF?

Anonymous wrote:No gifts, just bring $5.

Positives is it’s cheaper than the gift you were going to bring. Kid can buy one big item instead.

Hard NO - you never ask for money.

Is it warm where you are? We did our kindergarten birthday at a splash pad, let the kids run around at the park for an hour, then gave them cake and sent them home. Super easy.

Simplest: Host at your home. Order pizza, put out snacks (goldfish, tangerines, whatever), plus bottled water and juice boxes. Cake or cupcakes. Set up play zones (chalk, bubbles, bunch of hoola hoops) or get a bounce house. Skip treat bags or do something easy each guest gets a giant bottle of bubble stuff or a Little Golden book.

If you don’t want to host at home and are OK paying more for experience: book the group at Build a Bear. I think the cheapest option is $15pp. There’s one in National Harbor, Bethesda, and Fairfax. Go at an off time, like 2pm and then walk down to an ice cream shop for birthday treat.

Backyard bounce house. Maybe another station of independent quiet activities - just a table with coloring, temporary tattoos, oobleck. Don't do a meal time. Cake and fruit.

We had a great party in early elementary, during Covid so we did it at home and limited it to 5 kids outside. They played in the swing set, dug in the dirt, ran around.

Yes, restaurant is not a great idea for that age group.

For 5-6 friends, either do it at a playground, if it has one of these shelters, try to reserve and order pizza and bring cake there (like clemyjontry in VA or Wheaton or Cabin John regional park in MD), or something similar in DC, where the kids can run around, come for pizza & cake.

If you’d like something simpler, and have yard, do some fun stations for them. Ask a highschooler or middle schooler with face painting abilities to do face paintings, bring tattoos and a few games.

Problem for me is it’s still weird to ask for this. I think it’s a great idea, and like i said way cheaper and easier than choosing a gift.

No gifts, just bring $5.

Positives is it’s cheaper than the gift you were going to bring. Kid can buy one big item instead.

What's a Fiver party?

Clarifying that I was responding to this
-OP

Yes it is.
How do I do this simply?
Just lunch and a few zones for playing with toy sets?

I don’t want to set up games. Maybe we do a bounce house?

I wouldn’t do a restaurant where the kids have to sit still at that age. I’d your house/yard an option?

Birthday party ideas for my soon to be Kindergartener?

Simpler the better! I’ve done bigger parties, and this one is going to be 6 friends or fewer (add some parents and a sibling or three). This time I wouldn’t mind just meeting at a restaurant and calling it good. We pay of course. Or a Fiver party (never done one…).

Do you all have any simple ideas?

I’m newly out of the dc area… so many locations don’t apply anymore