This year, I held a birthday party for him and a few of his friends he was allowed to choose from. It marvelled him when he saw the invitation cards I made for him to give to his guests... ("What a wonderful mom I have")... Gee...
He wrote the names on each card and passed to his friends.
The day came and gone. It was chaotic fun! At least for the children. I had painstakingly prepared games for them to play and everyone, except Joshua, participated. What luck!
The games session started with "Guess the goodies". Every child is invited to make a guess on how many items there are in each of the goodies jars and the closest guess gets the jar. The first and smallest prize went to Joshua who split his prize with his friend who had the same guess as him. I thought that would be an encouragement to him, but instead....sigh!
The party proceeded with paper plane attacks whereby they were divided into 2 teams, one mainly the boys team and the other, surely, the girls' team. They were supposed to make as many paper planes as they could and throw the planes across to their opponents' "territory". The team with the least paper planes at the "STOP" signal wins, and that went to the.... girls' team! That was because they were "far-sighted" enough to throw their planes over as far as they could. Shows how much smarter girls can be, eh?
We stopped the games at 6, for a brief dinner interval, I called it as "Rancangan Tergendala" while CK said it's advertisement time! :)
Food was served simply with egg and ham with cheese sandwiches, sticks of "fishball, broccoli and sausages", pizza, roasted chickens, "ta-pau" fried rice and fried noodles, watermelons and cans of "Anything"s and "Whatever"s. Enough to stuff the guests, though it wasn't very impressive. I suppose for a kids birthday party, we should stick to the rule of "junk food applies".
The children were soon getting restless, and to get them in high spirits of "partying" again, the games continued with "Memory game".
They sat in a circle, and it started with one of them saying "A is for (something which starts with A)". Then the person on the left had to repeat what he/she said, and add on with the next alphabet. It goes on until the person can't remember the sequence and what they have said, and the last person to be "out" wins the game. Joshua was out very soon, and he sulked and complained that the game was unfair... *Pathetic sigh*
Then, we had a simplified version of "Wheels of fortune". With a whiteboard and marker pen, the children take turns to name an alphabet and guess the phrase I wrote on the board. Pretty fun that is. Some moms there tried to help the younger members in the group. This game is good for 7 year olds, I do think.
After blowing off the 7 candles on a fruit cake and did all that is to be done, party's adjourned at 8+. And I was really darn tired that night!
Then again, what I had planned initially is to let Joshua have a good time. Apparently, I had failed miserably in that mission. Really have to instill in him that the main point to participate in a game is to enjoy himself in the process, learn from the mistakes, and be smart to kick opponents away, and that it's NOT necessarily meant that he MUST win. How am I going to teach him that?
2 comments:
What a fun party!
The games that you have carefully choosen are really the great one. A big applause to the marvelous mom.
Also, belated birthday to Joshua.
Wow...a great mom and a great party planner. Moms nowadays need to have so many talents eh??
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