Tbh you already have a problem. Just not the one you’re asking about.

While you still have a little bit of time for RSVPs, I will say that my experience with my 9 year old’s parties, since about Kindergarten, where we invite 20 kids we only have about 7-8 RSVPs each time. This was with both evite and paper invites. This is why I always let siblings come because hardly any kids were coming. My younger daughter in K now has an early September birthday, we figured it was too early for a class party so we didn’t bother.

I had a similar experience when my son started second grade at a new school. We had a little “getting to know you” party at our house and sent out paper invitations to the whole class. A few days before the party, we had only received four RSVPs, so I changed the menu and some plans for games. We had rented a bounce house and I kept it. Thank goodness!

The day before and day of the party, we got another 10 RSVPs, and then another 10 kids showed up to the party without RSVPs at all. Some of whom were in another class in the same grade. It was a home party, so a little easier to improvise, but still difficult. I had to ask one of the other parents to stay and help me out while DH went to get more food, and we ended up playing games like “run around the house relay race,” and “paint the squash the previous owners had planted in the garden.”

Anonymous wrote:You might want to see if you can poke a room parent to start an informal list of parent emails for the class. I'm sure you're not the only parent who would find that very useful and I suspect that nearly 100% of the parents would give out their email for the list.

This is good advice!