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.
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!