Tolkien parties

[wellinghall]

J.R.R. Tolkien's Birthday: McMenamins Kennedy School celebrates the author of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy
http://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/116907636111310.xml&coll=7

Scudder, who also coordinates the parties held in the Arsenal Center's arts studios, favors creative thinking over big spending. One year, rather than purchasing a packaged "Lord of the Rings" party, she concocted her own Tolkien gala.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/01/18/wacky_ideas_fit_the_bill_for_kids_parties/

Comments

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

Quite a useful link- some good idea there!

No1 son is pestering me to let him have his birthday party at some horrible soft play place. I've said no- either we have it at home, or he doesn't get a party at all!

Children's parties are getting ridiculous these days. Either you are expected to pay over £100 for a not very interesting couple of hours at an over-priced softplay including burger and chips (mmmm what a treat!!) or the poor child has no party at all. More and more children these days do not have birthday parties. It is rather sad.

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

There was a tv programme the other night about how competitive kid's parties are getting such that most of the food is now aimed at impressing the other parents rather than feeding the kids! Oh and spending !! several hundreds of quids is in too! Not in my house it won't be!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I can't be that unusual in that 30 - 40 years ago, all mine were at home (bar one in a village hall), with no entertainers and no more "props" than some balloons.

Oh, I think that when I was about 10, I and a friend were taken to see the Disney "Robin Hood".

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

Yup- mine were the same too, and I'm not that much younger than you.

[lalwendeboggart.livejournal.com]

Love the idea of a papier mache volcano, how do you make one of those? I must try it! But even more, this quote keeps making me laugh: "my 3-year-old wants a moth party. What do I do?" I'd say just marvel at your very strange, wonderfully peculiar child :D

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

From what I've seen (on CSI actually) they seem to be part of an American child's science lessons although I don't know when in their schooling (but possibly before they're even ten!) not understanding the American system.

[lalwendeboggart.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! And quite the opposite of science lessons here which mostly seemed to consist of teachers setting you lots of questions to answer and telling you untruthfully that experiments would be held at some unspecified point 'later in the term'...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

We managed to do some fun stuff in A level physics, shading into lunch breaks, finding out which elements make the best radioactivity shields and entering a national bridge-building competition.