Nowadays, –regardless the financial crisis or worldwide catastrophes– young mothers want to host Birthday Parties for their young ones. That´s the way it is, because the Smiths had an amazing party for little Lucy and invited two clowns and a magician. They distributed Birthday party bags to all the attendees. The Joneses –down the street– invited the whole 2nd grade class to a surprise petting Zoo in their yard. The Fernandez family had an amazing Piñata for Juanito last week. All these events happened recently in your neighbourhood. You know they are waiting to see what you will do for your little darling on her 3rd birthday. How can you outmatch them if you are on a tight budget but –of course- you don’t want anyone to know?
There is no substitute for party balloons, children love them and expect them. You can tastefully decorate the front yard with Mickey shaped helium balloons or other Disney characters that the kids recognize. You will need to purchase some balloon weights to keep them from flying off to the clouds.
You will surprise and delight everyone –from the smallest to the oldest–, if you hire a balloon artist that can do animal sculptures with the assorted wholesale balloons you have purchased. Depending on their professionalism, you can hire a good twister for $100-150 an hour.
If you are not aware of the short attention span of small children (less than 10 minutes), you will learn that magic tricks are great for older children, and clowns make everyone laugh, but that little ones will soon wander away trying to find something to do. Usually the attending fathers will watch the clown for the rest of the hour while the moms run after their kid.
Nothing matches the thrill of watching a lame long balloon magically turn into a cute little poodle, a fierce tiger, a horse, or even a cool samurai sword at the hands of a good balloon twister. It keeps the children wanting more, interacting with the artist, asking for special personalized balloon toys and –to our relief- out of trouble. The boys will enjoy a good sword fight in the yard and the girls will be thrilled with their princess hats, poodles and ladybirds. They will keep asking for more balloons and your birthday party will be a success. Each kid will go back Home with their treasured special balloon and tell everyone how great your party was.
