This is maybe the most familiar yet enjoyable birthday party theme for little kids. The little playground you certainly have at home for your children will get bigger when you go to a fast food restaurant in the neiberhood with a Play Area or other kind of soft Play Place. But don’t miss the possibility to rent Inflatable Bouncers and install them in your backyard or a park for a few hours. Check out very safe and fenced off play areas for toddlers. Or simply have a “four-walls” birthday party with plenty of fun and toys at a recreation, sports or community center.

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Everybody is familiar with Ronald McDonald’s play places. In fact, plenty of other familiar fast food restaurants (Burger King, KFC, Pizza Hut, Wendy’s, Harvey’s, Subway, Taco Bell) provide similar soft play areas (known also as play centers) at different locations. They may grow vertically on two or three floors, have a pool with plastic balls, little slides, ropes, bridges and other unespected obstacles. This kind of play frames are fixed, rigid and safe for the kids. Want more? Look also at the Gymnastics theme.

Maybe less familiar to you is the fact that more and more party organizers rent inflatables at very affordable places. You’ll find plenty of different shapes: Swings, Ride-on Toys, Bouncers, Bounce Houses, Slides, Bungees, Jump and Climb. What’s great, you can rent inflatables for several hours and bring them home (install them in your backyard for a very private party). More and more recreation centers, YMCAs, sports centers, offer birthday packages including rental of such inflatables in one of their large facilities.

We also included here any other so-called 4-walls birthday party, where kids play in a private room with toys and play panels, with enough space to run for everybody, usually under the supervision of at least an adult. However, toddlers are not to be left alone in no circumstance, but the role of their parents would be rather to assist and make sure special needs do not arise.

Safety

For toddlers, you can find some great fenced off play areas in shopping malls or private party organizers, where adults can easily keep an eye on things. On carpet floors, they have safe plastic obstacles, play panels and big toys. Tiny tots will have fun with tumbling and moving from toy to toy.

Inflatables are safe because they are very soft, you don’t find rigid corners where kids could get hurt. Kids will get tired because of the way you walk on these bouncers (this is why they are frequently known as Moonwalks).

Cost

Play Birthday Parties are maybe the cheapest and most affordable. You may have to pay only for the food and the goody bags, while for almost any other kind of party you usually have to consider also admission fees, equipment rental and an hourly rate for the party host. And last but not least, they usually clean up after the mess of your kids.

The chepest birthday party you may have for your kids can cost you just $50 for a group of up to 10 kids. And this will usually be spent on the kids meals from a fast food restaurant where the kids love to go on a regular basis anyway. Consider however an overall $100 for everything included (meals and soda, toys, party favors, goody bags, cake, ice cream, party room rental, gratuity) and it’s still hard to find a better birthday party deal.

For $60, we could have ten children attend his birthday party. The cost included ten Happy Meals (everyone got their own choice in entrees and sides),party favors, games, cake (chocolate or white), and ice cream. The party times, at our McDonald’s, were two or four, which meant that no one was there eating and we had the whole place to ourselves.

Unless you want to rent the play area for a private party (and this is not always possible, but usually there are no conflictual schedules with more than one party at the same time), you may eventually occupy the tables aside the play area and rentals will not cost you a dime. In many places, access to the playground is free anyway and you can stay even three or five hours without being asked to leave or pay anything for it.

Inflatable rentals may cost you more, but it’s still affordable. You can rent a huge bouncer for 4 hours for only $100, and you’ll have your private party in the backyard. Your guests will be amazed and have a lot of fun. Look for birthday/group/event packages, because most renting merchands will include party supplies, goody bags, food (cotton candy, popcorn) at very convenient prices. For instance, a 2 hours party rental organized by Pump It Up for up to 25 children may cost you only $200, with anything you need included.

Conclusions

Playground parties are usually for kids between 2 and 10 years old. For toddlers (tiny tods) there are not many other options anyway, and this is one of the safest and best ways to celebrate their, first anniversaries.

Parties are usually 1-2 hours long, but you can always use the playground longer, for free.

Parties can be combined with different other themes. For instance, you can hire an entertainer (magician, clown) and transform all into memorable souvenirs.

Checklist

Schedule a play birthday party at your favorite fast food restaurant with a play area from time. They usually avoid more than one party held in the same time, and if most parties are held in weekends, there should be no scheduling conflict.

If you rent the party room, expect they will require a deposit, usually about half the price of the entire party.

Similar Themes

• Gymnastics Birthday Parties
• Music and Dance Birthday Parties
• Entertainment Birthday Parties
• Arts and Crafts Birthday Parties
• Rides Birthday Parties
• Zoo and Nature Birthday Parties
• Museum and Science Birthday Parties

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