Talking to the wonderful Cassi Thomas!
She grew up in Hong Kong and does loads and loads
of awesome birthday parties dressed as a princess!!
Her mum’s (!) website is http://www.arabellasparty.com/
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Highlights: Lots of great info about doing parties, including a great game where pairs of kids have to stand on increasingly smaller sheets of newspaper. Plus a great candy relay race game. Also some great stories at the end about being propositioned by dirty old dads at birthday parties! (Is that enough “greats”?)
Also,
00:52:00 asking in advance if there is a bouncy castle, and asking if it can be turned off during the show.
00:19:00 Snowflakes on parachute. Birthday girl in middle spin her round (on floor)
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COMPLETE CONTENTS:
00:07:00 Birthday parties
00:09:00 Travelling (in costume)
00:12:00 Arriving at the party
00:13:00 Music system
00:14:00 Warming up the audience
00:18:00 Crowd work with Birthday kid
00:19:00 Games - Snowflakes on parachute. Birthday girl in middle spin her round (on floor)
00:22:00 Everyone’s a winner!
Candy relay races, Singing, Dancing, Musical statues,
00:25:00 Newspaper islands game
00:26:00 Using bigger kids or domestic helper as your “Assistant.”
00:29:00 Facepainting
00:30:00 Big finish; structure of the hour
00:33:00 Controlling the kids
00:38:00 funny transport stories
00:43:00 Worst birthday ever story
00:45:00 sad stories
00:46:00 Mentally challenged kid story
00:52:00 asking in advance if there is a bouncy castle, and asking if it can be turned off during the show.
00:53:00 Another worst birthday story
01:00:00 Advantage of NOT being at the top of google!
01:01:00 Propositioned at parties and dirty old men!
NAMES AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
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http://arabellasparty.com/
