Parties for Kids

By Judy Bastyra

Book Overview

Here's the essential guide to help parents, and anyone who spends much time with toddlers to ten-year-olds, organize every aspect of successful parties, whether for a birthday, halloween or any other festive occasion. Practical yet fun ideas illustrated with hundreds of colorful step-by-step illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions cover partytime from the planning stage, to invitations parents and kid can make together, and going-home presents. Tested recipes include baking a smiling, giant clown chocolate chip cookie to interesting new ways to present party favorites, from sandwiches, drinks and cakes, to barbecued foods and dips. Imaginative themes and games, whether quiet or active, range from princess parties, to dinosaur, Wild West, and pirate parties. Suggestions on venues, entertainers, and even tips on involving shy children make it easy to keep the party running smoothly. Best of all, every idea in this book can be achieved in a pinch, and on a budget.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0753450925
• ISBN13: 9780753450925
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Kingfisher
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.8" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 7 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 4

Customer Reviews

Judy Bastyra's Parties For Kids

An excellent resource for the Mother who is mad enough to host an 'at home' party but hasn't got the requisite imagination and arty crafty skills that make it a real success. Full Color Photographs make the suggestions easy to envisage and copy. Ideas for invitations, decorations, favours, games and food are all included making it a comprehensive manual.I attempted the fairytale castle cake for my Daughters 5th birthday and was delighted to find that the result was excellent, indistinguishable from the picture in the book. However a word of caution to others, make up more frosting than the book recommends. Also if like me you find chocolate covered jelly rolls, impossible to find don't even attempt to use uncovered jelly rolls they aren't rigid enough and refuse to be covered in icing, breaking up instead. Substitute standard aluminum cans instead which are far more ameanable to being iced and are exactly the right proportions for a two layer 8 inch square cake with small semi-circular sections cut out of each corner to slot the cans into. Obviously the towers aren't edible this way but the effect is excellent. I'm feeling so impowered I'm even contemplating attempting the train cake for my son's birthday next month!