Can you make a children’s holiday at home? Easy! First of all, you should grasp that this is not just his holiday, but also yours, so you should not completely shoulder a burden. Children can also help you. They can decorate a room, lay the table, remove flat before and after reception of guests.

What is required of you?
You should know whom a child is going to invite, and he should know - how many friends you are willing to see. When invitations will be eliminated, contact with parents of future guests to discuss organizational issues with them. The most frequent: how child will get to you, whether his parents will stay at the festival, if not, when they need to pick him up home. It is absolutely useful to find out whether someone of guests has any allergies.

Size of apartment does not allow you inviting both children and their parents? You are not familiar with parents and do not know what to talk about? Do not worry! If you tell how you are going to engage children, inquire your guest’s features and leave your phone number to his parents, they will easily understand you. It is unlikely that they want to stay in your apartment in order to try salads, as they also do not know you, and have many reasons for worrying.

Try to realistically assess size of your headquarters and your forces. If you arrange a celebration for the first time, limit to 2 hours.

What to do?
Think how to feed young guests? This issue is the latest, it will not take much time. It is much more important to think how to entertain children.

If you are going to hold contests, start immediately, do not allow children dispersing, in 10-15 minutes you just can be not able to gather them. Some of guests is late and you have to wait? You should not! Think beforehand what game you would play in such case. A quiet game you can join any time is better.

When everyone is ready - start to your core program. Try to remember your childhood, read books, search Internet - you will surely find something you enjoy. One thing - alternate quiet contests with moving, to ensure that all children have opportunities to win.

Doubt, can not understand which game will interest children? Buy several rolls of toilet paper and cheap balloons. Why balls have to be cheap? They are bursted easier. You hardly can imagine a funnier competition.

Favorite competition - throwing balls from one-half of the room to another. Children are divided into two teams, and start  kicking balls into territory of another team, the team, which after “Stop” command has fewer balls, wins. When all competitions end, offer children bursting balls. There is no need to pity them. They burst with such a roar, and this gives children a bunch of delight.

What to cook?
Now to the question on how to feed guests. The most important thing is to provide a sufficiently large number of drinks, children drink a lot. A lot of joy is received through permission to mix different juices, juice with fizzy water or tea.

Most of children eat little and not things we would like them to. All eat sausages and some vegetables - cucumbers, tomatoes, pepper - you can cut them in pieces, or create some architectural masterpiece. Many like chicken fried in breadcrumbs.

Some children eat cheese, fruits. Strangely, but not everyone likes pizza. It is even more strange that many like potato puree soup. Normal puree, from usual potatoes, add a tea spoon of mustard, and put a plate with white baked breads and saucer with chopped green onions on the table.

Sandwiches with caviar are very popular. You can limit only with these dishes, any salad will hardly raise interest in children. But all children adore French fries.

How to feed children with salad?
Cut all ingredients and put in different little cans (baby food jars are very good). Glue label to each bank, and write a name on it (you will have to invent it). If children can not read, a picture can be a title. Choice of name depends on you. If you have a Harry Potter birthday, a bank will contain potions, and if you search for treasures, bank should contain treasure.

You also should prepare an instruction, preferably encrypted - numbers instead of letters, pictorial puzzles, if children can not read, you can draw a scheme according to which they will be looking for a note with figures - each figure corresponds to the number on a bank. Your instruction should be read this way: Take bank number 1 - put it into a pot, mix 5 times clockwise, 5 times - contraclockwise, and so all banks in turn, translate the last sentence - squeeze mayonnaise (or pour olive oil in banks) and mix. It is better if one child guesses the first sentence, second adds ingredients, third mix and so on.

Puffing out candles? Together!
Of course, cake is the most important dish! To be more exact, candles on it.

Take care of candles in advance, not to run at the last moment. Birthday child puffs out candles, and you can cut a cake. Wait! Children will get a lot of joy, if you allow all blowing candles. It takes very little time. Someone refuses very rarely, children like blowing out candles.

Birthday is coming to an end. Mothers, grandmothers and baby-sitters come for children. Do not forget that a birthday child should say goodbye to guests and thank them for presence.

Now it is time to look through apartment. Toilet paper? It should be collected during a special contest, “Who brings more.” Give children at least two empty packages, each team will fill their own. Remnants of balls are removed quickly. Just exchange three (four, five) pieces on a chocolate medal, or a whole ball. Dishes? You should spare yourself and buy disposable plates, then you will have only cups, salad bowl with spoons and forks.

Just keep in mind that you may find that:
• grandparents, aunts and uncles, as a rule, want to communicate with a birthday child personally, and presence of other children in apartment can affect them in different ways. If you understand what I mean, do not invite them at the same time with children, they may visit you closer to the evening and weekends;
• children do not know how to give a gift;
• hesitate to ask where is a toilet;
• are afraid to participate in competitions (make such child a judge’s assistant, it is possible that he will want to join participants later);
• are afraid of “bursting” a ball (if they feel sorry for it, present a child a ball and do not allow other children destroying such “private” spheres, if they are frightened - give them a fork or stick) ;
• children want to get same prizes, explain them that these sweets are same, only packing is different;
• Some parents still spilled into your apartment (do not think they are just guests, engage them completely);
• Your child still has no friends? Birthday is a great way “to have” them.
• And more. Do not expect that you will be able to succeed in everything, you will have to improvise, change places in different competitions. Make a list of all necessary details, and check their availability.

We told you nearly all details, but the most important one - go back to childhood, play with children on an equal footing - you will get only fun from holiday.

You will be a judge during all competitions - be a fair judge, but try to create conditions that all children could win somewhere.