Spike's Bitches 33: Weeping, crawling, blaming everybody else
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Quick question for kid having (or knowing) buffistas.
We are holding a kids event for kids from 3 to 11.
We provide three types of entertainment. (The idea is that if a kid has a short attention span or is in a bad mood, it will be easy for parents to slip them out between acts.)
Acts:
Stuffed animal trainer (kids get to hold stuffed animals and help "train" them)
Clamshell marching band (kids get to join "band" and march around making obnoxious sounds .
Marionette show.
I'm thing of booking them in that order in hopes that the first two acts will wear out the kids enough that they will sit still for the third. But as a non-kid haver it strikes me that I am underestimating kids energy level. Maybe it will just get them stirred up, Perhaps the Marionettes first, the Marching Band second, and the stuffed animal act as a way to calm down?
Anyway - obviously on this I need the opinions of parents/ grandparents/Other where care of kids in this age range is either something you are currently doing or still a vivid memory. I'm not qualified to make that decision. I do think the three acts find common ground across the age ranges. It is all stuff a child as young as three or old as eleven should be able to enjoy. But, obviously, I'm open to the opinions of wiser heads on that too.
When I was little, I saw Grease 3 times in a row. My mother bribed me with the soundtrack to get me to stop drinking from a bottle. I named every boy I liked Danny. My Grease love knows no bounds.
Also, I am posting from the bar. I'm going to have a shot to deal with Zenkitty's sudden reappearance.
Hey Gar, my experience is that you are better off maintaining their attention earlier than later.
I think I should join Daisy in drinking to the return of Zenkitty! Fun pictures yesterday, DJ. I had to go back and look again after clicking the not so fun link to rid the unpleansant vision. It worked!
The stuffed animal training and the band both seem to me like kids toward the older end of that spectrum might find them babyish, especially if they're doing them with preschoolers.
As for the energy level, different kids will react differently. I think I'd probably put the band last, since that seems like the sort of thing that will get little kids stirred up.
Thanks, Hil. So if we keep the stuffed animal and marching band, what is the top age we are likely to appeal to? Also, both acts do have fairly clever patters. Would that raise the age limit as well? There is a hand puppet show we could replace the stuffed animal act with. Do you think that if we kept the marching band as the last act that we would have a fairly broad age appeal?
Drinking to my return, or to deal with my return, hmm... well, either way I have an influence!
I'm watching The Mummy. I forgot how much I enjoy that movie.
I have never seen Grease the movie, but I saw it on stage when Lucy Lawless was in.
bought her a special edition dvd that came in a Pink Ladies satin jacket when she was waiting to have her twins. Because now I don't have to watch it with her.
And you're just happy she didn't name them Sandy and Danny?
Gar, it's hard to appeal to all those ages together. Three year olds are just learning to play together, and 11 year olds are often pretending they're teenagers. The marionettes should appeal, I think. The marching band, with clever patter ought to be okay. I don't know about the other two. Aidan wouldn't like either, but he's not typical. Kara would absolutely love both. The clever patter is key to anything working. I don't believe stuffed animal training would work with the older kids even with that, though, unless you enlisted them to help the little ones; got them on the grown-up side of the equation.
Gar, how many kids are you talking about and what kind of event is this?
The stuffed animal training and the band both seem to me like kids toward the older end of that spectrum might find them babyish, especially if they're doing them with preschoolers.
I agree (have a ten year old; he and the almost 8 year old might enjoy if there were no other kids around their age there to see them, but they'd be just as likely to roll their eyes).
What a lovely day! Brunch with new friends! Mimosas! Chocolate! Fabulous food! Coffee! Conversation!
So, judging by the exclamation points, I had a good time. Of course, it was back to real life before I even got home (disturbing phone call about things I need to deal with).
And, related to real life, I could use some unspecified ~ma about an event tomorrow. I don't think I'm gonna sleep much tonight. Sometimes life is hard. Good thing that there are days like today that make up for the rough ones.
