Petting Zoo and Pony Ride Parties For Kids

If you’re planning a zoo theme party, an animal theme party, a farm theme party, a western theme party, a cowboy theme party or cowgirl theme party, harvest festival, carnival or fundraiser, or any party along those lines, you may want to consider hiring a petting zoo and/or pony rides to come as part of the entertainment.

Kids go crazy for pony rides birthday parties and who doesn’t love getting to interact with bunnies, chickens, ducks, goats and more at your very own zoo. Our petting zoos and petting farms include all set up and clean up, an attendant and decorations to match your party’s decor and theme.

The pony ride packages also include all set up and clean up, an attendant as well as cleaned, groomed and decorated ponies.

We work with reputable companies that treat their animals with love and care. All attendants are great with kids and all party guests.

 

If you are considering petting zoo rental or pony ride rental for your kids birthday party, call Celebrity Party Planner for more info on a Petting Zoo in Los Angeles, or Pony Rides in Los Angeles, as well as in the San Fernando Valley.

Halloween Party Idea: Creepy, Crawly Bug And Reptile Show

Looking to bring the creepy to your kids Halloween party? Look no further than Celebrity Party Planner for our scaly, crawly, slimy and multi-legged fun with reptile and bug & insect parties.

Halloween Party Entertainment

Are you planning a Halloween party for kids or adults this year? Celebrity Party Planner can help you with all the details (party locations, party decorations, party seating, lighting, etc. as well as catering and more). We are your one stop shop for Halloween entertainment as well. We have an endless number of Halloween characters in costume for any kind of Halloween celebration.

For young kids, we have adorable and fun characters, such as someone dressed in a cute pumpkin costume who can do face painting, balloon animals, games with kids and more.

For teens and adults, we have witches, vampires, werewolves, movie characters, fortune tellers, magicians and more. Characters can range from eery to spooky, to utterly horrifying depending on the type of event you’d like to create.

We can help you create pumpkin patches, spooky mazes, haunted houses and more!

Give us a call at 818-980-0032 or contact us about planning a Halloween party on our website.

Halloween Puppet Show for a Kids Halloween Party

Here’s a great idea for a Halloween Party for kids and children – a spooky (but not too scary) Halloween themed puppet show! Perfect for kids, our kid-friendly Halloween performances are a great way to have fun with Halloween and dressing up for younger kids. It’s ideal for a Halloween birthday party as well! Visit our site for info on our puppet shows for kids parties and call us at (818) 980-0032 for details on our Halloween specific shows.

We can help you create a Halloween party anywhere in the San Fernando Valley (Studio City, Sherman Oaks, Encino, Tarzana, Woodland Hills, etc.), Los Angeles, Burbank, Glendale and all LA area neighborhoods.

Los Angeles Birthday Party Locations: The COOP

Yep, that's a disco ball up there

Outdoor kids birthday parties are always a great time and we at Celebrity Party Planner/Happy Parties have helped our customers create amazing and memorable backyard, beach, and park parties all over Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley.

However, it’s not always practical to have an outside party. Allergies or bad weather are some of the biggest reasons.

It’s not always easy to plan an indoor birthday party for a child in your home – for one thing, who wants all that mess. Indoor party spaces do all the clean up for you!

To help create a fun, indoor birthday party for kids of any age, we turn to our favorite indoor birthday party places in Los Angeles and the Valley.

The COOP in Studio City is one of our favorite indoor party venues in Los Angeles. We have worked with them to create some truly terrific childrens birthday parties.

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The COOP is open for indoor play Monday through Friday. It describes itself as a “cool modern playspace for kids that doesn’t forget the adults desire to be in a space that caters to them as well.”

On the weekends, they do kids parties for just about every occasion, especially birthdays. The COOP and our customers have called on us often to help provide party entertainment (super heroes, princesses, circus & carnival entertainers, puppet shows, face painters, balloon artists, magicians, etc.).

The COOP plus Celebrity Party Planner means Happy Parties every time!

Video Arcade Party

Transform any venue into a Video Game Party

Recently, we at Celebrity Party Planner transformed an entire restaurant into a Arcade Game Room, for a Video Arcade Party Theme for a birthday party for a 10 year old boy. We helped the family find the perfect party venue in the San Fernando Valley and gave him the video game birthday party he had dreamed of.

We know all the birthday party places in Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley and can help you find the ideal venue for any occasion. And, if the venue is lacking all the elements you want for your party (for example, it has all the space and your favorite food, but not enough video games), we can arrange for all the other details to put together the party experience you want.

If you are interested in creating a video arcade party theme or need help finding the perfect party venue for a kids birthday party, give us a call at 818-980-0032 in the San Fernando Valley, 310-282-0818 in Los Angeles, and 714-671-1230 in Orange County, or contact us online at www.celebritypartyplanner.com.

Easter is hopping your way!

Easter 2011 is coming up on April 24. This is a great holiday to spend with kids and enjoying spring weather – it’s usually pretty nice here in the San Fernando Valley at Easter time.

There are as many ways to celebrate Easter as there are people in this world. Happy Parties can help you create a fun celebration for children. We have adorable Easter baskets and fun surprises to fill them with. The Easter bunny will be a hit with this selection. If your church or organization wants to have an Easter egg hunt we can help you plan the whole thing – plastic Easter eggs, baskets to collect them in, an appearance by the Easter bunny himself, face painting, balloon animals, spring decorations, a bounce house for entertainment before or after the hunt, an Easter or spring themed puppet show, and much much more.

Call us (818-980-0032 or 310-282-0818 or 714-671-1230) or contact us online to let us help you create an amazing Easter celebration.

Fancy Nancy Birthday Party Ideas

Celebrity Party Planner can help you book this "Fancy" entertainer for your party!

Does your birthday girl want a “posh soiree” (that’s fancy for fancy party) for her birthday party? Does it seem like she owns every Fancy Nancy book there is? Then here are some ideas for the swankiest shin dig around!

Fancy Nancy Birthday Invitations:

Oh-la-la! Invite everyone to don their fanciest ensembles and dress up for this extravagant fete. Greet guests with an enthusiastic “Bonjour!” and say “Enchente” to everyone you meet for the first time.

Fancy Nancy Birthday Decor

For a Fancy Nancy bash, there is no end to the amount of decorations you can put up. Make a large, ornate welcome sign saying “Bienvenue à la Partie” which is “Welcome to the Party” in French, the fanciest of all languages.

Have plenty of decorations in pink and fuchsia (a fancy word for purple, Nancy’s favorite color). Tie tulle to all chairs, wrap around poles, use as bunting in doorways, etc. Put out bouquets of pink and purple helium balloons and table cloths (Celebrity Party Planner can blow up the balloons for you). Drape bunches of mardi gras style beaded necklaces every where and pile on table surfaces. Kids can put them on as dress up during the party and collected as party favors as well.

Fancy Nancy Birthday Games and Activities

An important and fun activity is, of course, dress up! Anything is fancy with a pile of accessories – tiaras, boas, over the top hats, scarves, beaded and other costume jewelry, hair clips and bows, lip gloss, and more.

Guests can also make their own fancy necklaces and bracelets with shiny and blinged-out beads and string from the craft store.

Fabulous games can include “pin the bow on Frenchy the Poodle.” Find and print out a large picture of Fancy Nancy’s poodle Frenchy, get a glamorous bow to pin into her head.

Play “What’s The Fancy Word For…” You can have a list of not-so-fancy words and the guests can come up with as many fancy words as they can. The winner is the one who created the most words. For younger parties, you can reverse the game – have a list fancy words and the guests can guess the non-fancy word.

Celebrity Party Planner can help you hire a “Fancy” party entertainer character who can help glam up the guests with face painting and more.

Fancy Nancy Birthday Food

For the meal, serve “brunch” or “supper” instead of plain lunch or dinner. Even though kids don’t always like fancy food, you can fancy up even kid food. Make simple sandwiches and use heart and flower shaped cookie cutters to make them look exquisite (a fancy word for beautiful). Put a fancy cocktail toothpick in each because as Nancy says, sandwiches DO taste better with a frilly toothpick.

For dessert, serve “parfaits” (that’s a fancy word for ice cream sundaes) and/or cupcakes with PLENTY of sprinkles and candy on top – to make them fancy of course. You can even have the children do their own sprinkling as a fun (and messy!) activity.

Below are some links to Fancy Nancy printables, invitations, games and more.

Contact Happy Parties online to book a Fancy character in Studio City, Encino, Sherman Oaks, Valley Village, North Hollywood, Woodland Hills, Tarzana, Chatsworth, Calabasas, Northridge, or anywhere in LA, get directions to our store, or call us at  818-980-0032 or 310-282-0818 or 714-671-1230 to help plan your most extravagant affair!

Fancy Nancy Printables

Fancy Nancy Party Kit including printable invitations

Fancy Nancy Printable Paper Dolls

Fancy Nancy Printable Stickers

Fancy Nancy Printable Coloring Pages

What Do You Do When Uninvited Siblings/Guests Come To Your Kids Birthday Party?

Every parent knows it happens. Bobby’s younger sister came to the party, even though she wasn’t invited and barely knows the birthday child. Lisa’s cousin is in town so her mom brought her along because she thought she’d have fun.  So how do you deal with parents wanting to bring siblings or other uninvited guests to a birthday party?

Every party planning parent dreads the uninvited guests. But the smart party planner anticipates it.

The best way to deal with this is to head it off with a few easy steps:

1. Address the party invitation directly to the invited guest (not the parents or the family). On a physical, snail-mail invitation, put the child’s name on the envelope as well as the actual invitation itself. For online invitations (such as evite.com) your address book and the online invitation services do let you associate each email address with a first and last name. Make this name the child’s name rather than the parent’s name, even if it is a parent’s email address.
2. Add a line to the RSVP request that says “Please RSVP by xx/xx/xx as we need an exact head-count” or “Please RSVP by xx/xx/xx as we have space limitations.”
3. Be direct. Add a line at the bottom that says “Please, no siblings.” Most parents will understand that each guest costs money and a simple, polite request is reasonable.
4. Call or email guests a few days before to confirm their attendance. Say “just making sure that we will see Johnny tomorrow at Ethan’s birthday party. We’re looking forward to having him there!” This is a direct way of communicating your expectation that only one kid will be there (and gives them the opportunity to let you know in advance if they plan on bringing a sibling).
5. Discuss the activities planned for the party and emphasize their age appropriateness. Parents may be reluctant to drag an older sibling to a party geared toward much younger kids or vice versa.
6. If a parent asks you if a sibling can attend, tell the parent that the party is for the birthday child and his/her friends only and you’d prefer not to have extra guests to supervise. Or say that you’ve budgeted for X number of guests and you’re sorry but you can’t extend the size of the party. If there are extenuating circumstances, and you want to make the accommodation, request that the parent stay to help supervise.
7. Create a buffer and be prepared for extra guests. Despite all these efforts, some parents will not heed your requests or hints. Buy a few extra favors, have some extra food, balloons, chairs, etc. If they go unused, the birthday child will have a little something extra to make him or her feel even more special.

Sometimes extra guests have to attend because there is no other childcare for the sibling, or something comes up last minute. Considerate parents will call in advance, apologize and offer to pay for the extra child. But uninvited guests come to almost every party so be prepared. Just as frequently, a child that has RSVP’d “yes” gets sick at the last minute and can’t attend anyway, so your overall number of guests may not even change.

So, do your best to politely head off the problem, but be open-minded so that if (when) extra people come, you’re prepared and it doesn’t interfere with celebrating  your child’s special day.

For more birthday party etiquette advice, birthday party ideas, party theme ideas and much, much more, contact our event planning experts at Celebrity Party Planner!

Kids Birthday Party Checklist

Planning a children’s birthday party can be a lot of work. There are a lot of things to do, book and hire and get ready, even for the simplest get together. Celebrity Party Planner can help make your job easier by doing most of the party planning work for you so all you have to do is show up and have fun. But here is a handy check list to help make you make sure you have set up and arranged everything you need to pull off a great birthday party for that important kid in your life. Here is the list and there is a link to a printable birthday party checklist at the end.

• Location (your house or backyard, a park, an indoor playground, a restaurant, bowling alley, mini-golf, amusement park, roller rink, ice skating rink, movie theater, baseball game, bakery, ice cream parlor, etc.)
• Invitations – be sure to include:
  • All the details of address, date, time (include an end time to give parents an expectation of how long the party will be)
  • RSVP info. Most people like having the option of phone AND email even if you’re doing an online invitation
  • Any special instructions or info
    • If at a park or other large public area, details as to where your party will be
    • Decide if they will say “No siblings please”
    • Gift registry or request for no gifts or donations
• Decorations
  • Kids Birthday Party Decoration Ideas: Balloons, Streamers, Confetti, Photographs of the birthday girl or birthday boy, Wall decorations, Table cloths
• Pick a theme
  • Kids Birthday Party Theme Ideas: Princess (Rapunzel, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Belle, Snow White, Tiana, etc.), Super Hero (Spiderman, Batman, Transformers, Iron Man, etc.), Magic, Tea Party, Construction, Cars & Trucks (Disney’s Cars), Trains (Thomas the Tank Engine), Farm or zoo, Favorite TV Show or Movie (Dora the Explorer, Star Wars, Yo Gabba Gabba, Toy Story, Sponge Bob, Sesame Street, Bob the Builder, Harry Potter, Glee, etc.) Science party, 50’s party, 60’s hippy party, 70’s Disco party, 80’s party, Hawaiian luau
• Games and activities
  • Kids Birthday Party Games and Activities Ideas: Pinatas, Carnival games, Contests, Face painting, Balloon animals, Karaoke machine, Bubble machine, Arts & Crafts, Music, Pony rides, Petting zoo, Puppet show
• Bounce houses/jumpers/moonbounce
• Costumed character or entertainer
  • Princess, clown, magicians, puppet show, super hero, TV or movie character
• Party food for kids and adults
• Beverages for kids and adults
• Plates, napkins, cutlery, and cups in colors that match the decorations and/or theme
• Set up tables and chairs. Rent additional if needed
• Guest book
• Cake and/or cupcakes
• Gift bags and party favors

You can download and print out this kids birthday party checklist and get started on creating a well organized and super fun birthday party for that special kid!