children's entertainment ideas for a block party?

Re: children's entertainment ideas for a block party?

• lala5507 member

  

  March 2014

  We had a bouncy house at our block party.  The kids loved it!  I think my daughter stayed in it for 2 hours straight.  I think it was rented from a Do it Best store.  It was pretty big/heavy duty.  I'm not sure how the liability issue works. 

   
  

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• egpitt22 member

  

  March 2014

  lala-did that rental come with an attendant?  we were talking about maybe looking into a company that offered that, someone we could pay to kind of man it for both safety and crowd control purposes.  I know those things have a limit as to how many kids can fit in there and there are lots of kids in my neighborhood, so we'd hate for parents to have to spend all of their time enforcing turn taking and time limits.
  

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• lala5507 member

  

  March 2014

  No attendant, just a rental. 

  The community park I work for uses ELF entertainment for their inflatable rentals for events.  It is more expensive than just renting a bounce house, but they come to the event and set up, stay with the inflatable during the event and pack it up and remove it at the end of the event. 

  They have a wide variety of inflatables and are always reliable. 

   

   
  

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• MaryM member

  

  March 2014 edited March 2014

  We did a bounce house for our block party. It was unattended. I think most people know the risk of what their putting their kids into if the let them in, but maybe that's just me? Also, won't the parents be there? It was a big hit. We went to a bday party recently that was a bus that you bounced inside if it. Don't know what it's called or anything, but that was a big hit too.

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• 4EvR&4AlWz member

  

  March 2014

  We did a carnival theme. We had 8 games and one person organized each game (ring toss, plinko, wet sponge toss to a bullseye, bowling/knock down, and a few others). Each kid got a game card and had it stamped at each game and when they finished, they got a prize (cotton Candy). Great to start our party and took about 90 min of time before we ate from 4-6pm, eat 6, social in evening, at 9:30 show a movie against garage door, popcorn, fire pits and s'mores in the street

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• egpitt22 member

  

  March 2014

  Yeah, the parents will be there, but honestly, we were trying to avoid parents having to do much supervision.    The nice thing about the party is that it's in a fairly small area and it's totally blocked off, so you can essentially let your kids (at least the older ones) run around.  If we had a non-attended bouncy house, there would have to be an adult present to make sure there weren't too many kids in it at one time, you know?  and I don't think anyone wants to have to do that! We have probably around 30 kids or so at this party every year. 
  
  the carnival theme is cute, too!
  

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• 4EvR&4AlWz member

  

  March 2014

  We also looked into bounce houses for ours and they were $$. While we have a ton of families, we also have a lot of couples. We didn't want the couples to have to pay toward the bounce house so it would've been an extra $30++ per family for the slide and bounce house (we were going to do a slide and bounce house bc we too have about 40 kids and didn't want all of them in 1 location).
  
  We all opted to put our $$ toward the kegs and food instead as we did the carnival theme for about $70 total.

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