Organizing My Daughter's Birthday Celebration

I started organizing one month in advance. I thought of many activities for the participants. 

Some that were old/ CLASSIC / happened to a previous birthday party: 

• cake, 
• pizza, 
• sticker dress-up, 
• coloring pages, 
• pinata, 
• photos and 

some NEW: 

• oracle type of coloring pages, 
• treasure hunt, 
• stories collage and 
• diplomas.

Here is the plan (in Romanian). I didn't follow it perfectly, there was room for flexibility, but the kids aproached all the activities.

Most of the activities were a success with the kids. 

The noisiest and happiest activity was the treasure hunt, they were happy to find the clues, but some got upset that they didn't guess the clue, or that they weren't the first to find the next clue. There were 5 clues, and the final treasure was a box filled with many marshmellow bags, for every participant, because it's Ioana favorite treat these days and I wanted all the kids to find something yummi.

The next happy activity was stickers dress-up.

The oracle type coloring page was done in peace and quiet. They colored pretty nice.

Then I wanted to make a little story afterwards, each child continuing the previous child's story. That didn't work. Only 2 kids participated, the others were not interested.

Sticker Dress-up was fun for most of the girls, they were busy with it for a while.

Diplomas were not such a good idea maybe, but I had this idea and did many diplomas for the funniest girls, the most peacefull girls, the naughtiest one, the fanciest, the most talkative etc. They weren't greeted with much enthusiasm, only maybe anticipation, "what did I get??!" were the girls asking.

All in all it was nice, but not 100%. It got me thinking if it was her birthday celebration or my attempt at organizing an event, I say that because she wasn't happy all of the time, she got upset a few times, and it was her birthday. There is that song, "it's my birthday and I can cry if I want to" but still it's not nice to cry on your birthday. Like that song, "sa plangem doar de fericire"/ "to cry only tears of joy".(Voltaj) My excuse is that I am trying my best, it's  just that not all works out as planned. Probably I should have left the kids play for themselves, but when they did that they got around my office and played with my stationery supplies. I survived. No problem. But not ideal for me. I will think about next year, maybe I will make it smaller, and less organized, who knows?

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