How to spend a child's birthday 10 years? The fifth grader is moving from primary school to teenage. Children more want independence, diversity and creativity. Most parents also want to celebrate their child's first anniversary in a special way. Consider different options for celebrating your tenth birthday.
Modern options: pros and cons
Conventionally, all the holidays are divided into three categories: budget, comfortable, visiting. In the first case, we are talking about home parties, in the second version, animators, artists are invited, the last way involves celebrating an anniversary outside the house.
Celebration in various cafes, entertainment centers is convenient in the sense that mom does not need to cook dishes, do dishes, entertain guests. All this will be done by professionals. But this offer has two drawbacks: high price, the same type of template programs. Of course, you can choose makeup workshops for girls, go to shooting ranges with the boys or go to an ostrich farm together, but not all Russian families are used to celebrating without a feast.
In the next version, the hostess of the house will have to think through a children's menu, and after the holiday to clean up the house. Invited animators will entertain the guests. This option is not much cheaper than the first, but it’s convenient for those mothers who don’t have any idea how to celebrate their birthday in autumn or winter otherwise. The disadvantage is expressed in the sky-high pricing policy of animators. But if we turn to students of an artistic university, then the benefit will be to all participants of the holiday:
- children will have a cheerful unique birthday;
- parents will save the budget;
- students will receive a portfolio and earnings.
The third option is budget for finance. Moms themselves prepare dishes, decorate the house, prepare a holiday script, work simultaneously as a waitress, toastmaster, animator, dishwasher. A woman will need a lot of strength, energy, especially if many guests are invited. But even before the holiday, you need to carefully consider the scenario of the birthday (10 years for a child).
How to choose animators, artists?
If an entertainment facility is selected for the holiday, then initiative is not required from parents. We rented a room, chose one of the two or three programs we liked, informed the guests about the place and time of the holiday - that’s all.
If you invite artists to your home, you need to think through a script. To do this, you need to know your child’s favorite heroes, as well as the exact number of guests. What is it for? Firstly, the holiday will be fun with familiar cartoon characters. Secondly, all guests must be involved.
Call all the companies, specify the following points to have a fun children's birthday (10 years):
- what heroes are there;
- how many artists can be ordered;
- what is the payment;
- how many hours the entertainment program lasts;
- what celebration options are there;
- look at the portfolio of holidays;
- read customer reviews.
All this is very important to consider. When worrying about how to spend a child’s birthday, check with the company if the artists need to prepare the interior, attributes for the competitions and other little things. You can save on professional services by using private ads. Or contact student artists. But then you need to think through the scenario yourself, prepare the interior, test the actor in action so that you do not get embarrassed.
Many pseudo-actors behave ambitiously, talk about employment, a large number of customers, that is, they fill the price. Therefore, try to speak with such a person clearly, firmly, competently, demand a personal meeting to see his acting skills in action, or let him provide links to videos. By the way, the budget option is to help the music director of the kindergarten. More often they have to spend all the holidays. If you have friends, contact them.
If the holiday is on the street ...
Birthday in summer is better to celebrate in nature! The expanse of children, and parents in the house do not need to clean. What is needed for this? First, think through the menu. Secondly, prepare the terrain. Third, think through contests with prizes.
The idea can be borrowed from the West. On one side of the selected site, set tables under a canopy with snacks, canapes, sandwiches, drinks. In the middle, organize a platform for outdoor games, competitions. It is good if there is an inflatable pool or a river. Competitions can be taken from television programs (“Fort Boyard”, “Crossroads”, “Big Races”, “Call of the Jungle”, “Fun Starts”) or come up with yourself, the main thing is to prepare the attributes.
In general, one can easily celebrate a birthday (10 years). Games are selected by age and gender: for boys there are more active contests, for girls come up with creative games. A game in the West is very popular with hanging a bag with prizes, confetti, sparkles, which you need to knock down with a stick with your eyes closed. It can be remade a little. For example, boys like to play blind man's glasses on a roller coaster. Hang prizes on the stairs and tell the driver where the gifts are with claps.
Or add mystery: hide prizes, prepare notes with puzzles for them. Children will complete tasks and receive part of the gift or points for which a souvenir is given. Such contests with the search for "treasure" are loved by both children and adults.
How to celebrate a birthday in autumn or winter?
At home, also decorate the interior with balls, Christmas garlands, shiny rain. In the middle of the room on the curtain, attach the anniversary date with congratulations. For most apartments, outdoor games are not suitable, because the table can be placed in the middle of the room. All attributes for the competitions, hide the prizes in another room or at the exit. To create an atmosphere of celebration, mystery from the first minutes, arrange a costume party or give out attributes to your guests (masks, cloaks, glasses, caps, etc.).
As competitions for a birthday (10 years for a boy), intellectual, musical, and artistic games with a "male bias" are suitable: about cars, weapons, super-heroes. There can be many variations. If this is a costumed holiday, then remake all familiar contests (“Guess the song”, “Guess the puzzles”, “Draw a portrait”, “Tell the tale”) taking into account the subject. For example, on a pirate theme, menus, clothes, interiors, puzzles, songs, games.
Girls add creative contests. For example, create a fashionable outfit from the proposed clothes and accessories, draw sketches for dolls. You can make a hairpin, bracelet or keychain in a short time, which will remain as a gift for guests. Even more girls will like culinary contests when you can cook sandwiches, salads, snacks to the table with them.
But more memorable are costumed anniversaries. Not all parents will be able to make a costume for their child, because the mother of the birthday boy needs to consider various options. For example, everyone will be in pajamas, pink, striped or green dresses, which almost everyone has. Or prepare the attributes for the guests. For example, children love the movie Harry Potter. Then all guests receive the Gryffindor badges. All contests revolve around the character. Here's how to spend your daughter's 10 years birthday with contests on this topic:
- Magic wand. From improvised materials, children make themselves a magic wand. The competition is suitable if the mother of the birthday man is not ready for some dish to the table.
- Potion. On the table are the ingredients for a simple salad with magic inscriptions, and a recipe is given. Children mix “components of a potion” in their plate and fill everything with magical power.
- Spells. You need to spell not only cast without hesitation, but also bring it into effect.
- Portrait of Voldemort. Draw it with your eyes closed.
- Travology. Threads with gifts are tied to a stick, and children, in turn, with their eyes closed, cut off a souvenir.
Watch a movie, come up with a contest for each subject. Children will love to plunge into magic. After such contests, no child wants a jubilee in a cafe.
10 years (birthday): congratulations, menu
Decorate the street territory with flags, garlands, balls, flowers. You can make jewelry out of paper yourself. Be sure to include the anniversary date. Not a single birthday (10 years) is complete without this. The table menu on the street may include sandwiches (bread, vegetables, sausages, cheese), snacks, drinks, canapes.
On the street you can make grilled vegetables, barbecue, bake fish, potatoes. If you are making an anniversary in nature, then you can catch fish with your children and cook your fish soup. In the open air, even fickles will take away any dish. Only sweets will need to be brought ready, the rest of the dishes can be made with the children.
The home menu may be more varied. In the sense that it is easy to add hot and main courses. Only now, children of ten years of age rarely touch such food, unless the holiday lasts more than four hours. Most of all the kids prefer cakes, pastries, ice cream. Therefore, you can order an ice cream cake, prepare fruit canapes, cocktails.
The main component of the holiday is congratulations! At first the children are squeezed, so the adult's task is to think through the details of the 10-year birthday script to the smallest detail. Include a compliment or congratulations contest at the start of the feast. This will help the birthday boy evaluate his strengths, cheer up, and guests will learn how to compliment.
For guests to relax, first play the game "Corridor of compliments." Children form a column, and those passing by it are blindfolded. Each of the columns should say in a whisper something good, pleasant to the passing one, greetings, hugs, strokes are welcome. The game ends as soon as the last child passes through the column. After this game, it will be easier for children to express sincere wishes and congratulate the birthday boy.
How to build a holiday?
Ten-year-olds seem to be able to organize their leisure time, but more often after the games the house resembles ruins. If a birthday (10 years for a girl or a boy) lasts more than two hours, then the children get bored. They are not interested in sitting at the table all the time, as a result, catch-ups, fights with pillows and other meaningless games begin.
This is where the help of an adult or animator is needed. It is necessary to initially accompany contests, feasts, outdoor games. It is important to correctly connect all stages of the holiday into a single thread. For example, before the competitions to tell some legend, embarrassing pauses to brighten up with stories and jokes so that all stages of the celebration were interconnected.
In general, ask the hero of the day how he sees his birthday (10 years). You can make contests with him. This will help you understand what teens like. Then diversify them with your tasks, buy gifts, souvenirs. Compose the script so that you can change it at any time. We noticed that the children were bored, immediately added a dance moment or a funny contest. And do not forget to give the children to chat with each other after the holiday, share their impressions.
Board Games
We continue the conversation on how to spend the birthday of a child of 10 years at home. What games can be organized at the table?
- "Guess." On the table, put the yule with the arrow. Around it lie strips on which the subject of riddles is signed on the reverse side. Children take turns spinning a yule, name a topic, and the presenter reads the riddle. A token is issued for the correct answer. Whoever has more of them will receive a prize.
- "Slovodel." Each participant receives a note with letters. From this set you need to make a word. The first to cope, he receives a gift. You can also encrypt a proverb or proverb.
- "Who is bigger?". All participants are given a leaflet with one word (for example, "yogurt"), from which you need to make as many words as possible. Who skips a move is eliminated from the game. The winner is awarded a prize.
- “Smile.” Birthday (10 years old girl) will not do without a smile and compliments. Out of the box, the guest pulls out her task to smile. For example, to show the smile of Gioconda, the cat of Leopold, the teacher, the baby, the loner, who received the five. You can also hold a compliment contest, when in turn you need to say nice words to each other.
- "Letter". One letter you need to sing songs or name dishes, fairy-tale characters, flowers.
Action games
No matter how interesting the sit-down games may be, however, it is difficult for teenagers to sit all day long. A child of 10 years old must be involved in outdoor games:
- "Fanta." Small items of each participant are hiding behind the player’s back. The host asks him what to do about this phantom, and he gives the task.
- "Painter". Children receive a piece of paper with the task, for example, to draw an elephant. Each artist closes his eyes and is led to a picture where he paints only his detail (ear, trunk, leg, tail). It will be better if the guests are divided into two teams, and the winner is the one who guesses what is drawn.
- "Silent movie". The participant is given the task to depict the written word without words. The one who guesses goes to the place of the portrayer. It is better to initially discuss the topic of animation.
- “Dance like that.” Children take turns pulling forfeits, complete the task (they dance like kittens, dogs, ducklings, crocodiles). It is important to prepare children's songs in advance. Guests can dance each task, if there is a feeling of embarrassment, embarrassment, then one task is given for everyone and the best dancer is chosen.
Outdoor games
How to spend the birthday of a child of 10 years in nature? Create an entire holiday in the style of sports starts or treasure hunts. All contests from television shows, “Zarnitsa”, “Shrovetide” are suitable here. It’s better if you divide the children into teams, then it will be more fun and reckless.
- "Tug of war." Whoever drags the opposing team to his side until the last player, he becomes the winner.
- "Pop the ball." A ball is tied to the foot of each guest. It is necessary to burst the enemy’s ball to the music. Whoever remains with the whole attribute is the winner.
- "Overcome the obstacle." It is necessary to transfer the egg in a spoon without dropping it to the ground. Hands are tied behind the back, the spoon should be held with the mouth.
- "Obstacle course." It is necessary to go through a series of tests for a while: crawl under a rope, jump in a bag, and squat.
Sports games are more suitable for a boy's birthday (10 years). If there are girls among the guests, it is better to plan an anniversary on the topic of treasure hunting. For example, children receive assignments all day, guess puzzles and find feast dishes. After they set the table, they can eat and move on to the next contests. Any outdoor ball games, rope, as well as badminton, hide and seek will do.
To help parents
And if parents cannot be animators, have no opportunity to hire artists, then how to spend a child’s birthday 10 years? Children will be able to organize their own leisure if attributes are prepared nearby:
- puzzles from a hundred parts;
- lotto;
- board intellectual games;
- dominoes;
- twist;
- economic games;
- travel rebuses;
- stationery.
Buy board and other games for children in advance. This will help brighten up family evenings, a long journey and a child’s birthday of 10 years. With such games, the presence of an adult is not necessary, only if you occasionally suggest rules or correct discipline. By the way, do not allow the appearance of boredom. As soon as the children become uninteresting, they immediately sit down at computers, pick up phones, go home. That is why we need adults who organize their leisure time.
Many ten-year-old girls are already completely independent and want to spend their holiday without parents. Then you need to discuss all the nuances about discipline and order in the house. The child understands perfectly well that all remaining birthdays will depend on his behavior. Therefore, the house is always put in order at the arrival of the parents. Whatever birthday your child wants, it is important to consider his wishes and interests.