1st Birthday- Any ideas where to celebrate?

[BVale]

Hi,

Our son will turn 1 end of September and we would like to organise a (not too expensive) bday party for approximately 25 people. Our place is not big enough, pubs seem more for parents than children and have no soft or play areas :), for picnic in the park is a bit too risky in case of rain... If you have any ideas please let me know. The best would be in East Dulwich or somewhere near by.

Thanks!

[Strawbs]

I had my son's 1st bday party at the peckham pulse soft play, nothing extravagent but very affordable and it was the right kind of timings for us, 45mins play time and 45 mins to go upstairs and have some food. x

[simonethebeaver]

The Dish and Spoon cafe in Nunhead is great for kids' parties. You can hire it with or without catering.

[BVale]

sounds good.

Thanks a lot!

[gebbjane]

Try the albrighton centre - think you can use the soft play mats they have and hire a bouncy castle too. Have to do own catering - have kitchen facilities.

[buggie]

We used the upstairs room at The Old Nun's Head - they had some big bean bags which they were hsppy for us to use & combined with our own playmats (the foamy ones) made a great area for the babies to play in with ballons & bubbles the older kds entertained the younger ones (plus the bean bags were good to flump onto!).

If most of the kids coming are 1yr old I'd suggest going to a proper soft play place could be under used & would save that for when they were older and more independent.