Unlike,
many people who will tell you of how great they are at party planning, I
just wish to say that I enjoy party planning, always have. I wish to
start from humble beginning and get to a professional level when I get
there. In the mean time, should I encounter any great finds, I shall
share it with you.
Being a working mum, it's never easy to coordinate everything you want to within the given 24 hours in a day.
However,
I did try my best to source out at a couple of places for great finds.
In the Singaporean contacts, I believe we want value for our money and
we want it fast. (
am I right?)
There
are a handful of great shops out here in Singapore, for anyone to get
their party materials. A couple of years ago, I planned and carried out a
modest Halloween party at my place, I sourced out many shops in town,
that carried great costumes and party favours. Of course you can also
buy them online or if you are creative enough, make them yourself.
Many of you could have heard of
SKP,
a local store that you can find at many heartland shopping malls. You
will be able to find many basic party needs there such as, paper
plates, garbage bags, plastic containers, etc. Should you wish to widen
your budget you may want to try at
PARTY CITY at
Raffles City Shopping Center. They have a great number of colourful
party-ware for you to choose from. I also managed to get my son's SCREAM
costume from there, and he loved it. I must also mention, the awesome
array of Halloween candy that they carry. It was amazingly wonderful.
Unfortunately, I was too eager to pack them up that I had forgotten to
snap pictures of them. Do however, check them out should you be planning
one.
Every party must have balloons, sweets and favours. I went simple on my
party favour bags, but there are many out there that look Oh... so
wonderful.
DAISO was also one of the stops I made for simple knick- knacks like the witches to add a little deco to my gift table.
When you plan a party for kids, you must understand that they are a restless bunch. Being a Early Childhood Educator, I definitely am aware of that. So Games are a must have. I bought a Pinata resembling a Dragon, for the kids to go at, and boy did they love it. (Even I did too, you should try it some time, it is very therapeutic)
Besides this, we played Pin the Tail on the Donkey.
It was a hoot of laughs for that game. All in all, the kids had great
fun and everyone was a winner, simply for taking part in the games.
Along
with all these, I had prepared some finger food of local delights such as
curry puffs, popiahs, finger sandwiches and candy, of course. For the
beverage, I served chilled Rose Syrup with Sago in it, to give an
interesting effect, for the afternoon batch of kids that came.
But
for the all-nighters, we ordered pizza and had a SCREAM MOVIE MARATHON.
The older kids and adults, enjoyed a night long, marathon, with Popcorn
from Garrett's and stayed glued to the TV set all night
long, as we all cuddled up in the living room, in the dark watching
SCREAM. It was an awesome party, as I humbly say. Now I am encouraged to
be a little more adventurous the next time around.
The
only regret I had, was that my hubby was not in Singapore for our
party. I am very sure that he would have dressed up and gone all crazy
to enjoy the party. He did however, see the pictures and commented that I
looked pretty good as a witch.... hmmm.... was that a compliment?
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