We just celebrated ds's 10th. He and I (mom) went on his favorite hike and he got to take his time and stomp through all the half frozen little creeks - something I am never patient enough for. Then the family went out for dinner and took him to see Into The Woods, which he read recently and wanted to see on screen. Gave him presents at dinner.

Sigh....I'm sure this is not the sort of thing you had in mind, lol. Anyway, he was thrilled because he LOVED his gifts and we rarely go to the movies. He had a great day.

Indoor sports plex. They can play different sports- basketball, soccer, etc. we had around 15 guests. It cost a little under 300.00. Kids had a blast.

Sleepover. 4 guests. Legos and a game on tv, if I recall. Pizza, cake homemade sundaes, maybe $40-50. Winter birthday.

The Bethesda YMCA does pool parties. They have an inflatable raft thing and there's the annex where you can do pizza/cake etc.

Paintball party 6 kids private field $170

Anonymous wrote: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!

This is what we did. Lego Movie had just come out. Six friends plus 2 siblings and 4 adults. We did lunch at our house first, then to the movie, then back to the house for cake. I don't remember how much it cost. Maybe $100-150?

Took 4 friends to a Nationals game.

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

How much are they?

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Anonymous wrote:We took him and his 25 closest friends out to mini golf (late August b-day).

25 closest friends! What?

I know, right? But some friends from school, some from camp, some from hebrew school, a few cousins, some family friends, and yeah. We were cutting people to get it below 30.

Took him and his best buddy to Medieval Times. There were five of us (2 adults and 3 kids) and we paid $200 (with a Living Social voucher).

Anonymous wrote:We took him and his 25 closest friends out to mini golf (late August b-day).

25 closest friends! What?

Sky Zone with about 10 kids plus two little sisters. They loved it (we're in Colorado but it looks like they're in suburban MD)

Gametruck will do minecraft but its expensive. Also most kids have access to ipads or kindles and can play together on those. We also considered doing a climbing party at earthtreks in rockville or a movie/dinner. For movie/dinner definitely keep it to less than 10 kids. Or for any party at the house.

We went to Kings Dominion. 4 kids total plus 3 adults. We used a deal from groupon or living social, I forget which.