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Make Your Birthday Celebration Memorable With a Birthday Chronicle

Birthdays are a special occasion, and are celebrated in a number of different ways across a variety of cultures. Of course, birthdays are a once-a-year occurrence where people take the time to remember and celebrate someone’s life, their accomplishments, and their unique individuality. However, since it’s difficult to remember what the world was like on the day of our birth, it’s a cool idea to imagine what the world would have been like when we were born – on the exact day we were born!

Lady Celebrating Her Birthday

Birthday Chronicle is a cool way of immersing people in the culture and climate of the world on the day of someone’s birth. There’s a lot that can be inspired by this birthday event feature, and it’s become even more popular in recent years. In this article, we’ll talk more about the ways you can implement Birthday Chronicle into your next birthday celebration.

What is Birthday Chronicle?

We’re always looking for new and unique ways to celebrate the birth of the people we love and cherish to help them feel special and recognize their importance to the rest of us. Birthdays are often overlooked as simply another excuse to have a party, and we forget the meaning behind a birthday celebration – to “celebrate” one’s birth! Parents and older loved ones can usually remember what the world was like when a child was born, but it’s rare for us to have a good understanding of what was going on at the time we were born ourselves.

Birthday Chronicle is a perfect way to immerse oneself into the culture and climate of the time when we were born. It’s simple: you enter a birthday into a program, which generates all of the important news and events going on at the same time as one’s birth. Then, a printout is made, usually in the form of a news article with all the big, relevant headlines. There’s a lot you can do with this for your next birthday celebration.

Ways you can integrate Birthday Chronicle into your next birthday celebration

A Birthday Chronicle isn’t just a printout or a piece of paper to be thrown away at the end of the day; it can serve as inspiration, party favors, décor, and other great elements of your next birthday bash. Here are a just a few ideas we’ve come up with:

Fun birthday souvenir for the birthday boy/girl or for guests

It’s a struggle to try to find the perfect birthday souvenir that will help guests remember a birthday celebration. The Birthday Chronicle printout is a perfect gift for those who love scrapbooking, or appreciate a tangible reminder of the significance of one’s birthdate.

Another way to recognize the importance of the day

As we mentioned before, birthdays are certainly about celebrating a specific individual’s birth; but Birthday Chronicles help bring awareness to the rest of the world through the lens of the special day. A Birthday Chronicle makes birthdays not just a day to be celebrated, but a way to see others’ birth as a historical treasure of sorts.

Inspiration for your birthday celebration

Birthday Chronicle can also serve as inspiration for the next birthday event you’re planning. Here are just a few ideas to think about:

o Guest attire – transform the event into a throwback party! For instance, if your birthday took place in the 80s, you can have all of your guests dress in 80s attire.

o Decorations – you can put the Birthday Chronicle printout on all of your guests’ tables as a souvenir, or an activity to keep them entertained in their seats. You might even include fun word games that utilize historical references from the Chronicle.

o Entertainment – complete the evening with an 60s, 70s, or 80s-themed band that really transports guests into the right era.

Birthday Party Planning At Creative Event Services, we consistently deliver on unique party-planning ideas that truly make birthdays memorable occasions. The residents of Boston, Hartford, and New York have utilized our services time and time again because of our persistent attention to detail with each event we help plan. If you’d like to learn more about Birthday Chronicle or other ways we can help make your birthday celebration unique and memorable, please contact one of our event-planning specialists directly.

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How to Keep Kids Engaged in a Birthday Party

Planning an event for adults can be much simpler than planning an event for children. As we get older, our gauge on what kids “like” tends to dwindle, leaving us at a loss when it comes time to plan an effective party. Birthday parties are a great opportunity to put some of your ideas to the test, but it helps to have some guidelines and tips on how to keep kids engaged throughout the evening.

Kids Celebrating Birthday Party

There are a lot of factors to consider when it comes to event planning, and when it comes to engaging children, it’s important to tailor every aspect to their liking—otherwise you might lose some of their attention. There are a lot of ways that you can make a birthday party especially fun for all kids, it just takes some careful thought and intentional planning. Here are some helpful tips on how to make your birthday party plans effective for engaging children.

Plan a Themed Party

Using a theme for a party can actually relieve a lot of thought from the process of planning. Choosing a theme such as sports, carnival, or circus are great ways to streamline your planning and keep kids engaged throughout the event. You might be surprised to find that kids are especially captivated when birthday parties feel cohesive. It might even be fun to have them dress up to align with your theme!

Time the Event Well

This is perhaps one of the most important aspects of birthday party planning for children. Keeping a set schedule of events or attractions is key so that you don’t lose their attention. Kids can become exhausted after a long day of playing, so timing the event well and activities close together is usually your best bet. And don’t forget the cake!

Make Every Attraction Fun

Of course we want our birthday parties to be fun for our little ones, so thought must go into every aspect of a party. Food is a great opportunity for keeping kids engaged. Having fun food attractions like cotton candy machines and popcorn bars are a great way to keep kids entertained—and fed!

Have Plenty of Different Games for Everyone

Just as adults do, kids have a wide range of different interests, and it’s important to attempt to cater to as many as possible in your single event. Kids like to move from one thing to the next relatively quickly, and having multiple captivating or competitive games certainly helps.

Enlist the Help of Live Entertainment

Depending on the theme of your party, you might consider having live entertainment for your kids. Magicians, jugglers, singers, acrobats, and cartoonists are all memorable ideas for entertainment that will keep kids talking about the event for years to come. It will also keep their attention for a period of time while other portions of the event are being prepared.

Enhance the Fun with Decorations

Most people think that decorations and the “minutia” of party planning is lost on children—but that couldn’t be farther from the truth! Kids are very perceptive, and the more you put into an event the more the kids will feel like they were a part of something special. Focusing on decorations is a great way to tie in your birthday party theme and wow kids as they walk in and out of the party.

How We Can Help

Kid Birthday Party As you can see, there are a lot of factors that must be considered when planning a birthday party, or with any event for that matter. The details of event planning can make the process feel lengthy, stressful, and difficult. Having the help of trusted experts in event planning can greatly remove some of the burden off your shoulders and make your children’s birthday party even more spectacular than you imagined. Here at Creative Event Services, we have helped plan children’s birthday parties all over the areas of Boston, Hartford, and New York with great success. Children are unique from adults in that their imaginations are expansive; that’s why planning a birthday party for them as adults can be challenging. If you’re trying to plan a birthday party for your kids and are having a rough time, please contact us to relieve some of the stress. Put our services to use—your kids will thank you!

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Sports & Video Games for Birthday Parties

Planning an average birthday party is not simple. Organizing the decorations, cake, food, activities, and invitations can become overwhelming. Hiring a professional event planning service can save you time, energy, and stress and can make the event more special and well thought out. If your guest number keeps rising, it can be even more complicated to attempt to plan a large-scale, memorable event. Keeping a large number of people entertained is no easy feat, but birthday parties don’t have to be the same old boring time that guests now comet to expect. With event planning services you have access to a wide variety of games and activities for your guests that will make it the most exciting birthday party they’ve ever attended. Sports games in particular are perfect for any occasion including bar and bat mitzvahs and other birthday parties. Digital sports video games are a great way to get your guests interacting with one another, to create a friendly competitive atmosphere, and send your guests home with lasting memories of the special day. Here are some digital sports and video games that we recommend for birthday parties:

Sports in Birthday Party

Dual Race Car Simulator

Always wanted to be a racecar driver? Well, you’re not alone. The dual race car simulator is a fun way to pin your guests up against each other and see who wins the race. This game uses state of the art technology to provide a realistic driving experience for players and is perfect for those lead-footed fanatics. This simulator also fits perfectly into NASCAR or racing-themed birthday parties.

Double Shot Basketball and Hoops 2 Go

In double shot basketball, two players compete for the basketball champion title. With an electronic scoreboard and a digital countdown, it feels like the real deal for players. To add a little more realism and excitement to the mix, you can even include an attendant who is dressed like a referee! Hoops 2 Go is another basketball championship alternative that can include up to four players who face off in a countdown to who can make the most hoops in the allotted time.

Pool Table

Have you ever wished you could have a billiards-themed showdown at your party, but didn’t wan to deal with the hassle of shuffling heavy pool tables to your venue? Now you can simply rent a billiards table, have it delivered and set up, and leave the fun to your guests. Pool tables offer a lot of fun in one area of the party, but don’t skimp on competitive spirit.

Virtual Sports Arena

Are you planning a sports-themed birthday party but can’t choose just one sport to include? Well, now you don’t have to! You can get all the sports you want in just one activity. Including baseball, football, basketball, golf, and volleyball, our virtual sports arena is a one-stop-shop that will please everyone. You can even have multiple arenas set up all over the event and have several different sports sections of your party so you don’t have to limit your theme to just one type of sport.

3 Screen Video Game Wall

Want to include as many players in one game as possible? Our 3-screen video game wall includes 3 large TV monitors where up to 12 players can battle it out at baseball, bowling, or any other popular sport you can think of. This is one way to get everyone involved in the same activity and up the competition a bit. Video games at home on one TV don’t compare to the video game wall, and we guarantee that your guests have never seen anything like it at another party!

Creative Event Services Options

Virtual Sports Arena If you are planning a birthday party or other event in the areas near Boston, Hartford, and New York, we can help you maximize the fun and minimize the stress. At Creative Event Services, we cater to our clients’ individual needs. Planning exciting and unique birthday parties, bat mitzvahs, bar mitzvahs, and other events is our passion, and we make it our mission to provide plenty of activities, decorations, furniture, and other party planning ideas for our clients to choose from. Allow us to help you simplify the planning process—we will deliver and set up all of the activities and make sure the technology is working properly at all times. If you have any questions about our services or would like to know more about the sports video games we offer, contact us today—we look forward to helping you plan your special day.