How many friends for 7th birthday?

[Kellydelly]

I think you should only invite as many kids as you and your husband can handle. I wouldn't invite 30 and expect some other parents to step in and help you wrangle them. It's your party, after all . Personally I would invite ten or less.

 

[goofy4tink]

We always invited the entire class....preschool thru kindergarten years. It was more like a 'special' playdate. Lasted about 2 hrs total. When dd got to 1st grade, we invited just the girls in her class in addition to any special friends in other classes. When she got to about 5th grade, the girls started forming their own 'groups', and they had different kids in most of the classes by that point. So, it ended up with about 10 total. When she turned 16, she invited 5 friends and they went to a teen night club type place in Boston. We drove them, after having a birthday dinner and cake at the house.

 

[JanaDee]

We never invited the whole class. Even as kindergartners, they had friends they hung around with at school and they were allowed to invite the friends they wanted to for their party.

Parties have always been at our house and I think 7 was the max allowed for invites.

 

[PatsGirl]

A good rule of thumb is a total equaling the age of the birthday child, up to 10. For me, I would NEVER invite more than 6 or 7 because really, are the others good friends? I would hate my child to be invited to every students' party...with a class of 25, you'd be invited to two or three parties a month? Why would anyone invite a child who you wouldn't invite over for a single playdate?

We sometimes had parties, sometimes we did not, its not something that was a given every birthday year. We mixed it up. Maybe one year the family went to WDW, one year we might have a camping sleepover with two guests, one year have the 5 or 6 good friends for a day of ice skating or a movie and pizza, but never 15-20 first-graders running around my house (or yard lol) and certainly never spending significant money to hold a party at a venue.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

How many friends would you let your 1st grader invite to their party? We originally planned on limiting it to 20. She really wants to invite 30. Yes, 30. I tried limiting it to 10 thinking maybe it was too broad and that would help her focus on who it was most important to her to invite. That was horrifying to her.

We were planning on having it at our house. We can ask extra adults to be here to help. It just seems a bit crazy to me to include that many kids. It's hard to predict how many will come. Last year she had a good turn out. I don't know how may parents will drop off vs. stay, but we were planning on letting parents know they were welcome to stay but don't need to in the invitation.

Thoughts?

Eh, I let her invite 30. Sounds like a crazy good time.