Birthday slumber party for 10 year old boys?

[kellia]

Help! My sons want a slumber party for their birthday this year. What won't cost too much and keep them entertained so they don't destroy my house? My dd's parties were so much easier in the summer with the pool!

 

[Southernmiss]

Pizza and video games. Maybe some nerf guns--lots of options for boys there. Pancakes and bacon for breakfast.

At this age, I leave it up to my kids to plan. I just ask "What do you think you guys are going to do?" The kids usually have their own ideas and if not, I toss out some ideas and they usually run with those.

I have heard Minute to Win It games are popular if you'd like to have a few ideas available.

 

[*Seanaci*]

When is his birthday?

Do you have any type of gaming system (wii, xbox, playstation)?

Set ground rules. And allow only X number of boys (I would allow only 5 or 6...but that's based soley on the amount of room we have to host a slumber party). Lots of easy to fix (ie pizza rolls, chips and dip) foods.

Hope this helps! Good luck.

 

[*Seanaci*]

Pizza and video games. Maybe some nerf guns--lots of options for boys there. Pancakes and bacon for breakfast.

At this age, I leave it up to my kids to plan. I just ask "What do you think you guys are going to do?" The kids usually have their own ideas and if not, I toss out some ideas and they usually run with those.

I have heard Minute to Win It games are popular if you'd like to have a few ideas available.

The minute to win it games can be found online. Great idea, SouthernMiss.

 

[nchulka]

get some large boxes from places like Lowes or Home Depot. Give them a big bag full of toilet paper rolls, egg cartons, soda bottles, buttons, string, plastic tubing, etc. and a few hot glue guns. Send them to the basement to "create"

 

[kellia]

We have an xbox 360 and Wii, so I was planning on having one upstairs and the other downstairs. I am afraid we won't be able to fit everyone on at once, though.

What is the minute to win it?

I have twins, so we're letting each of them invite 2 boys, so that will be a total of 6. I think that's enough for this time!

 

[Southernmiss]

We have an xbox 360 and Wii, so I was planning on having one upstairs and the other downstairs. I am afraid we won't be able to fit everyone on at once, though.

What is the minute to win it?

I have twins, so we're letting each of them invite 2 boys, so that will be a total of 6. I think that's enough for this time!

I think 6 boys will be fine--I have 3 of my own and when they invite friends it can get noisy and rowdy.

The boys should be able to work out who plays the video games when. Or they can have team competitions.

Minute to win it is a tv game show where people have to do challenges--almost like icebreakers for youth groups. Google it and you'll see. There are many examples with instructions on how to do the activities on their website.

 

[zoemurr]

I think 6 boys will be fine--I have 3 of my own and when they invite friends it can get noisy and rowdy.

The boys should be able to work out who plays the video games when. Or they can have team competitions.

Minute to win it is a tv game show where people have to do challenges--almost like icebreakers for youth groups. Google it and you'll see. There are many examples with instructions on how to do the activities on their website.

We had a whole "Minute to Win It" themed party with activities that kept them busy for two hours. If you pm me I will send you the link to the youtube video. Hysterical!

 

[hsmamato2]

boys are great...set up as many tv's video games as you can in one room,and let them compete! We have had the one big tv,and a smaller tv or two (old ones) set up in the basement rec room, they all figure who plays/when.... they eat lots of junkfood,play outdoors if they can(manhunt tag at night with flashlights,yes,in the snow) they can chill out later when they're tired and watch movies.... or not. they tend to fill the time.... I never cook for them, I buy a few boxes of junky cereal,and let them choose what they want in the morning....they love it. (they like to eat pizza at night,and then I leave it on the counter all night,so they can 'sneak' and eat junk all night if it suits them,don't know why,but the kids love this) then I send home the overtired ,junk food filled boys.....

 

[roliepolieoliefan]

My 9 year old daughter just had a slumber party for her birthday. My husband is a text book type A so I couldn't even imagine having a party at the house. I rented a room at the Homewood Suites. $140 for a 1 bedroom suite. There was a pool, hot tub and breakfast the next morning.
I told the front desk ahead of time it was a party so they gave us a room off by ourselves.
The girls had a great time, plus no mess for me.

 

[mdsoccermom]

You don't really need to plan anything. For my son, I buy chips, pizza, stuff for ice cream sundaes. They play video games and watch movies in the family room, or go play in the basement. In the morning, I have bagels and fruit, sometimes I run out for donuts. That's about it.

 

[JamesMom]

My 9 year old daughter just had a slumber party for her birthday. My husband is a text book type A so I couldn't even imagine having a party at the house. I rented a room at the Homewood Suites. $140 for a 1 bedroom suite. There was a pool, hot tub and breakfast the next morning.
I told the front desk ahead of time it was a party so they gave us a room off by ourselves.
The girls had a great time, plus no mess for me.

We did something similiar for my son's 10th a couple of weeks ago. Found an excellent groupon deal on Great Wolf Lodge (30 minutes from our house) and invited 4 boys - 2 attended so total of 4 boys with brother, too- to spend the night at the Lodge. Got a bunk bed room and they boys paid for their Magi Quest wand activiation (we had a spare wand for the boy who didn't have one). We were there from 10am on Thursday until 7pm on Friday. The deal included theme park lunches so they ate lunch for 2 days for free. We bought pizza to go with the cookie cake for dinner and brought pop tarts and donuts for breakfast. The kids had a blast and it costs us $300, but it was worth it not to have the kids in our house! I sat and played with my ipad the whole time

 

[njcarita]

throw them outside at night to play manhunt.........

 

[2disneyboys]

With 2 boys of my own, 6 nephews and 7 neices all within a 5 mile radius and a 12 year age range, and the biggest rec room and yard of the family, I find myself the regular host of slumber parties... the ones the kids seem to like the most are the ones where they spend about 1/2 the night OUTSIDE (yes, regardless of the temp or weather) playing various hide & seek style games, nerf war games, and glow stick painting contests... lol, parts of my yard STILL glow The kids love it.

but depending on where you live & if outside time is possible or not, I ditto the setting up game systems all in same room ideal if possible.. they love this! it's similar to a party bus you can rent in our area..The bus comes & has every game system you can imagine on it and all the kids pile in and play various games for hours.. We can't afford the bus, lol, so we have simualted it in our rec room... move a few TV's in there, use our PS3s (we have 2) Wii and borrow my sisters Xbox, plus we have all handheld games charged as well (DS's so the ones not paying on the Wii, PS3 or Xbox can play a DS or something..) the boys think this is amzaing!!! only thing I would say is make sure if any parents have any rules on what games they can play.. my 9 year old was at a slumber party last week and came home going on & on about this game he played and was so excited he was going to use some of his Christmas $ to buy the game for himself.. took him to the store... turns out the game was something with a much higher maturity rating then I would have prefered he play!

Food.. pizza rolls, chips, soda, icecream, sugary cereral, dounuts. while my son's love veggies & dip, none of the other kids that come over tend to eat that so we stick with making sure they have plenty of junk food available.

I usually try to confine the party to one room in the house if possible as that just makes it easier to keep up with everyone and less disaster zones to clear out when the party is over. Have Fun!!!!

 

[dreamer423]

We just did this last week for my 11 yo. I've also done it when he was 7 and 8. This was more successful and easy prob cuz they were older.

We had dropoff at 5:30 and pickup at 9;30. Boys tossed football outside, had nerf guns even after dark. We had hotdogs and tater tots-only cuz ds wanted that instead of pizza. They goofed off a lot. Some played xbox for awhile. We did cake. Around 8;30-9 we started a movie-netflix was wonky so it took awhile. i had ahead of time decided with Ds what movie. He's definitely at the tween stage-wants to be cool with friends and have "cool" movie pix. We had a huge tin of popcorn factory popcorn, made a candy bar with the $ store movie candy and 1 coke per kid. I made up labels his "production" company for their red solo cups to keep for the night, water, candy, popcorn and candy bar. They paused the movie to goof off and watched another.

We had 6 boys- i wanted 4 but unexpectedly 2 of the boys who were away, came back! I don't have a basement-i gave them the family room.

Ds and 1 friend fell asleep first around 1;30, the others by 2:30. they were all up by 7. they played nerf etc. I made breakfast-which only ds ate, and they were gone by 9:45.

I made peace with not getting sleep ahead of time. Also with not caring what time they went to bed. At other sleepovers-i have had to call for a pickup around midnite both times-for a child that just wanted to sleep in his own bed. At 11 they outgrow that stuff.

So-we didn't have a lot of plans and the boys like it that way. Had We had a rec room-i am sure they would've been busy, had it light longer -they would've been busy outside with nerf, football running around.

10 still needs some supervision-but really-less is more. Have movies ready. The boys probably don't mind not all playing xbox/wii at once.

 

[StephMK]

DS & his buddies are easier and a little quieter than either of his sisters' & their friends. If you have video games, movies & lots of food, you're all set. Maybe some nerf guns or an indoor bball hoop for more active play. We have one of those bball shooting nets that they mess around with sometimes.

We usually do pizza for dinner, lemonade & sodas, then chips & cookies for later. Breakfast is chocolate chip or blueberry muffins and fruit.

They go straight to the basement and only come up for food. As soon as they're done, they go right back down. Easy!

 

[riley2008]

My boys will be 10 in 2013 - can't wait to hear how the party goes. (I can use the pointers.)

We did a fondue dinner last night with the boys and 2 friends. First course was cheese served with veggies, pretzels and bread. Second course (about 40 minutes later) was chocolate served with strawberries, bananas, marshmallows, grahams, and pretzels. Surprisingly, the biggest hits were the carrots & cheese, and then all the fruit with the chocolate. (They cleared me out of bananas and strawberries - I forgot about the apples until the end otherwise, I think that would have been good too.) I didn't keep everything out for too long, otherwise I think a mess would have begun. They all knew too, when they were done, I was cleaning it up. Everyone just crowded around the kitchen table, ate, and ate, and ate, and left to play - VERY easy to clean up - surprisingly.

Also, with the kiddos last night, and all the new video games, unboxed legos, a new telescope, microscope and a metal detector.....they played with an old Discovery Toys marble maze I've had since before they were born. My husband found an old bottle full of marbles and they were in heaven - played for 3-4 hours. None of it planned - of course, it wasn't a birthday party. I guess my point is, kids will find something to do.

(I do LOVE the lots of large boxes idea, but I'd do the boxes, scissors and rolls of duct tape. I can only imagine the possibilities.)

 

[brennicksmom]

two years ago we had 29 boys spend the night (My son's bdays are 2 weeks apart). We had burgers and hot dogs, cake, ice cream, sodas and chips. It was all nerf guns all night! They only slept about 2-3 hours. We didn't have to plan anything else. Each kid got a small nerf gun and an ammo bag as a party favor. I bought $1.00 canvas bags at the dollar section at Michaels and had permanent markers to decorate them, then they carried the ammo in those all night. EASY party!!! The kids loved it!

Last year my oldest went into middle school and I didn't know all of the kids well so we separated the parties. each kid had 12 boys, two nights in a row. They wanted a video game party so w had 5 tv's set up, we had kids bring over XBox's and a few games and they played all night. The kids set it up so that they could all play against each other at the same time. I think there could have been 16 against each other how they did it. It was just as easy. I set up a taco bar for those two parties. Taco meat in the crock pot, toppings ready. They ate all night long.

Boy sleep overs aren't bad at all. Just set up some ground rules at the beginning IE: no bullying, no name calling, no shooting in the face, if something breaks let us know


Good luck and have fun!