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Penny Whistle Party Planner

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I used this book, and it's follow up (The Penny Whistle Birthday Party Book) to plan my son's 3rd birthday party. Both books are excellant...and you just need one of them. They both start with a good overview of the party segments: arrivals, active games, wind-down/food, leaving. They also give good time lines for organizing and purchasing things (best to start 6 weeks in advance, but can be condensed to two if you put it off).

All of the chapters have a different "theme", and include: how to make a cool invitation, decorations, fun party favors, thematic foods to serve, thematic games to play

What I liked most was that they have a special section on parties for kids 4 and under...how they differ from older children. They also encourage you to take their party plans and adapt them for your own situation.

My case: my son wanted a bug theme. There is not bug-theme party in either book. I took the basic principles for parties for toddlers, adapted games from some of the other parties (there is a dinosaur party, a teddy bear party) and added some things of my own invention.

I read several of their party themes just to get my imagination rolling. I enjoyed them all thoroughly.

In a nutshell: Easy to read, very well organized, the only book you need to plan children's parties!

This an excellent book with a number of party ideas for all ages. I especially like that this books gives suggestions for older kids parties. Packed with recipes, decoration, invitation, and favor ideas to go along with your theme. I will be using this for years to come.

I find this book to be very helpful for prents planning a party for their children. It's completely foolproof, from deciding on the number of guests appropriate for your childs age to making clever invitations, food, activites and take home gifts...all falling into one of several themes. There is a theme for any child's interest. The instructions are simple and very adptable to many different situations. I have had this book for years and used it many, many times with 4 kids.

Great ideas. It ended up to not be exactly what I was looking for but stimulated creativity.

This book was easy to follow and had ideas in it which were easy to adapt to other themes. I loved the information about how much activity each different age group should be able to handle. My three-year-old's party went off without a hitch thanks to this book. It will get used many more times in years to come.

I have had this book for years and was able to give my daughter the best and most creative birthday parties I could imagine. I just ordered this book for a friend with two small children as she was searching for fun and economic ideas for their celebrations. My daughter had 6 parties; the cheerleader party was one of my favorites, and the bicycle birthday with neighborhood parade is still talked about 15 years later! Buy this book and make great memories!

I grew up on these books. Now that i have my own little ones, I am thrilled that they hold up. they are well organized and thorough and make a daunting task completely fun and executable! I might also add that you can use the structure here for adults too!

This is the best ever party planning book. If you are planning parties for kids, or just want themed activities for another event, this is the book for you. These people really know their stuff!

Outstanding book...something for everyone, and most items that need to be purchased can be had at the dollar store. Rock-Solid book full of well-thought out parties.