Ideas to Celebrate Kids’ Birthday on a Budget

Celebrating kid’s birthday bash at eleventh hour needs more pain and money. Instead of rushing at last minute fishing out for even organizers, it’s a better choice to chart out a check list 2 months ahead.

Checklist for kid’s birthday on budget

• What’s going to be the birthday theme?

• Budget

• Are you going to celebrate it at home?

• Any plans for amusements (face painting, tattoo maker)?

• Would your kid design her birthday invitation?

• Any other activities?

• How many of them in the guest list?

• If it’s a theme décor, who’s taking charge of it? (family & friends /event organizers)

• Budget for party food items

• Budget for return gifts

Lesser guests - Now that the checklist is done, next in the line is food. Party food could get Indian, and could be on budget too. One good idea about celebrating kid’s birthday party on budget would be downsizing the guest list. An intimate birthday party with limited number of guests would make it a big bash.

Party food - Charting out the checklist a month ahead saves you from awkward moments.  Party food is of two kinds – perishable and non-perishable. To be wise, it’s advocated to spend lesser on perishable party food. Most of the guests being kids, it’s good to cut down on steaks and caustic food.

While signing contract with event organizers, you can take charge of buying raw materials as meat, theme décor knick-knacks on bulk. Are you very much into collecting coupons? Then this would help you save on party food.

Handmade invitations – There’s one good reason for the love of technology. That looks on your kid’s face, when he designs his birthday invitation! You don’t put a price on it. Pinterest is the place. Mothers into home and garden, it’s their time to rock. A bit of glue, confetti, colors and origami; good enough for personalized birthday invitation!

Then some printouts  

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