youngest age group for a party

[milo]

this is good stuff - where's your playlist

http://www.forum.mobilediscodirector...play.php?f=111

[Matty12]

No younger then two years old I would say, I do quite allot 3 to 5 years old parties.

[djdave01]

I do one or two 3 year old birthdays a week. Plus I've got four resident slots a week for toddler groups at children's play centres.

The two best albums for them are:

100 hits (kids) and The Ultimate Children's Party (Paul O'Brien).

The Tweenies have a couple of good albums and I think I've got some Cbeebies albums too. Just keep on top of Cbeebies theme tunes.

Always get the grown ups to join in and do...

Hokey Cokey (not the crap American Hokey Pokey one). Mums and dads can help form the circle and they can do it holding the babies so it includes everyone. I usually go in the middle and pretend to be getting squashed as they run towards me. Kids love it and it gets them out of their shell.

If you're happy and you know it.

Mamma's taking us to the zoo.

Sleeping Lions.

Traffic Lights.

Duck, duck, goose.

Nelly the Elephant.

Anything like this will do, but you have to really work sometimes to get the parents to join in and it won't work anywhere near as well without their participation.

When working with this age group it's important to get down to their level, so I spent most of the time on my knees, I also do a lot of mirroring with toddlers if they're shy.

If you do a few of these parties I would recommend getting a couple of little magic tricks to break the ice - you can't go wrong at £10 for a magic colouring book.

good music suggestions there, thanks for them. The only 'magic' trick i know is making Bicardi dissapear

[nisfo]

I have only ever done gigs for friends children, but have found that balloon games never fail, even with the adults...lol

[DazzyD]

Got a party for a four year old on Saturday so this is a really timely thread and I'm mopping up the advice given!!