How To Protect Your Home During A Kid’s Birthday Party

You love your child and you want to give them a wonderful birthday party with great food, fun games, plenty of activities, and all their friends. However, you’ve also invested a lot of time, effort, and money into your home’s interior design, and the last thing you want is for a child’s birthday party to cause any damage or make (too much) mess. With that in mind, here are some of the things you can do to protect your home during a kid’s birthday party.

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Store Fragile Items

Kids will be kids, and excited kids will be clumsy, so it’s a good idea to remove any fragile, breakable, or precious (whether they’re worth a lot of money or you just really love them) objects away from the party area. If you’re letting the kids run wild in the living room or dining room, those are the rooms to clear. If they’ve got the entire downstairs, you’ll need to do more. Make sure everything’s covered, and consider whether it’s worth just storing things in a spare room or whether you need to get them out of the house and even rent a storage unit.

Although it’s extra work and cost when you’re already dealing with a party, taking your stuff out of the house could be the best option you have if you want to ensure you can have things back to normal once everyone’s gone home.
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Protect The Floor

​If you don’t have too much time or you’re pretty sure the kids aren’t going to run around too much, then you might not have to remove everything that could be broken or damaged in some way. However, it’s still a good idea to take care of your floor and protect it as much as possible. Spilled food and drink can cause havoc and easily stain, and it’ll be hard work to remove trodden-in cookie crumbs and pizza crusts from the carpet or rug.

If you have a rug, you can take that up and put it somewhere else, leaving the tiled or wooden floor underneath. Yes, it might still get messy, but at least it’s easy to clean. If you have carpet, you can invest in a cheap rug to place over the top (or more than one if it’s a large room) - make sure it really is cheap, though, as the easiest thing to do when you’re clearing up is simply to throw the rug away.

Leave The House

If you’re really worried about the house getting messy and you don’t want to compromise on the fun your child deserves for their birthday party, then it’s probably best not to have the party at home at all and instead book a party somewhere special.

If you find somewhere that specializes in birthday parties, you’ll find all the hard work is done for you, your child (and their friends) will have the time of their lives, and your home won’t suffer in any way. It’s possibly the very best option of all.