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How do you celebrate your twins Birthday at your Place/home?

Birthdays are the events that the kids and parents are equally excited about. Celebration at home can be as exciting as doing it outside. You can retain the excitement of in-house celebration by coming up with new and unique idea year on year. I always ask this question to myself " what should I do this year? " & always look for the new ideas over the internet, every years for my twin daughters, Here I thought I will share my celebration ideas to all of you. 

Until the age of 7, we have been cutting a single cake for their birthday. The reason I think it may change here onwards is because they are now in different classes and have different sets of friends as well. They hence get invited into different birthday parties individually, often without the other one. I guess its only a matter of time before they insist on individual birthday parties with their respective groups as against doing it combined. Don't know how we will deal with the situation but whenever we come across the same, we will surely share our experience in this forum.

I personally enjoy making cakes of different kinds and based on different themes. This helps me avoid the monotony of the same kind of cakes year after year. For their previous birthday, I created a Barbie Doll (please see the picture) that came out amazingly well. While I am open to sharing my thoughts and ideas with you all, I am also eager to know how do you deal with birthdays at your end.

So here I have collected some information for you which might help you. There are simply too many things to be elaborated, and I may not be able to do justice to all of them, however a checklist is a good starting point:

• Make a list of all invitees.

• Think over an appropriate birthday party theme, like Cinderella party, Batman party, etc.

• Decide the birthday party game and activities.

• Plan your food list: Order for the cake, other menu and confirm it before the party. In case you are preparing the cake at home, bake the cake one or two days earlier.

• Arrange for balloons, colourful streamers, candles, etc.

• Check the batteries of your camera.

• Arrange persons for your help on the day.

Date: Conventional wisdom suggests that we have a party on the day itself. However depending on the target guests, and public holidays, you may have to move it to a different date, to ensure an optimal attendance. Between Saturday and Sunday, you may want to choose Saturday if you are expecting the event to be tiring for yourself and for others! You may also want to factor in weather forecast, other events etc.

Theme:  Typical boys theme would be based on sports or action & adventure. Girls theme in contrast could be more conventional princess based.

Decoration: Balloons and streamers play a vital role in brightening up the occasion. Hang bunches of captivating multi-coloured balloons in every nook and corner of the venue according to your fancy and tie these with colourful, curled ribbons. Arrange some streamers and hang them on the four opposite sides of the ceiling. Don’t forget to decorate the table as well as the cake. You can decorate the table where you are going to keep the cake with flowers, balloons, ribbons and brighten up the cake with a candle-lit focus. Inflating several balloons is tiring, use of a pump comes handy and helps you save you energy for the party itself.

Cake: The cake that you choose would depend on the gender of you kids. While the girls are likely to be inclined towards princess character based cakes, boys would fancy locomotives like cars or trains! In case your twins are one boy and one girl, you will essentially need two cakes to cater to their different tastes.

Games: The number of games for the party should depend upon the duration of the party and age of your kids. Make the necessary arrangements for the birthday party games well ahead of the party. Some games games for typical 5 years old could be: Passing the parcel, pin the donkey, treasure hunt etc. You should also draw inputs from your kids as they would surely know what tickles them more!

Gifts: When purchasing gifts for the twins, it's a good idea to have different  presents for each that reflect their interests. You might decide to give a large gift for both as well, if you like. But giving personal gifts still stresses to the kids that "you're unique individuals, and individuality does matter!"