During the pandemic, kids really missed out on celebrating turning a year older with friends in traditional children’s party fashion. And, while weekly birthday gatherings of 30-ish hyperactive children aren’t necessarily missed by parents (!), with lockdown restrictions practically a distant memory, you can now make up for lost time. If you’re looking for celebration inspiration, I’ve put together a list of birthday party ideas for kids in Bristol.
Where to have an outdoor birthday party Bristol
The Outdoors Project Bristol
Known for their school holiday clubs (my kids did a Harry Potter-themed day with them once), The Outdoors Project also run 1.5 hour-long birthday parties for groups of 10+ on Saturdays at either 10am, 12pm or 2.30pm at Horfield Common.
Choose from the following party themes: Pokemon, Harry Potter, Minecraft Vs Wildcraft, Nerf Games, Nerf Fortnite, fire lighting and shelter building, mini blobsters and mini shelter building.
Age Range: 5-12 years, price: £13.50 per child.
Birthday party in the park ideas
For a more budget way of celebrating your kid’s birthday in Bristol, grab a gazebo, a bit of grub and create your own open-air picnic celebration in one of Bristol’s many parks and open spaces.
Children’s forest school parties Bristol
For adventurous outdoor birthday party ideas, seek out a local Forest School. Organised activities include things like making nature art, working with woodwork tools, building dens, toasting marshmallows on the fire and cooking a pizza in local woodland…magic!
Bristol companies offering Forest School parties are:
At Play in the Woods Forest school party Bristol
Soft Play birthday party Bristol
Some parents shudder at the thought of them, others love them, either way, soft play parties are an unavoidable right of passage for most carers of young children, and a great way to tire little ones out. Plus they get easier as they get older! Bristol has an abundance of fantastic soft play venues and play cafes where you can host kids birthday parties.
For a full list of the best kid’s cafes and soft play indoor party venues for kids, click here
Home birthday party ideas
Softplay Bristol
This is a great one for toddler parties. Forget giant, windowless warehouses with hundreds of kids pinging off inflatable equipment and instead re-create a soft play birthday party in your own garden! Choose your package – prices range from small (£75) to large (£100), with a disco option (£135/£160) or bouncy castle (+£25).
Rubber Duckies Hot Tub Hire
If you have outside access to your garden, you can get involved with some splashtastic fun and hire a hot tub for your children’s party at home! This company comes highly recommend via a friend of mine, who rented the hot tub for her seven year old’s outdoor birthday party in January. Particularly fun under the stars!
Available for a minimum of 4 days, be sure to check the conditions before booking.
Dinky Drivers children’s party hire Bristol
For the cutest children’s party hire ideas, this company supply pedal cars and ride-on toys for ages 2-6 and will set up everything up for you.
Their base ‘Race Day’ package includes the essentials of a vintage car party – 16 vintage pedal cars and ride on vehicles for a three-hour hire period. The package also includes a garage play tent, vintage gas pump, road signs, working traffic lights, traffic cones and racing photo backdrop and podium.
There are a range of extras you can for extra fun – check out add the Dinky Dig Up, Depot, Diner or Dress Up role play areas.
All equipment is fully cleaned and disinfected before and after delivery.
Pop Up Play Village
This mobile role play village for children aged 0-8 years is an exciting experience for children who love to role play.
Pop Up Play Village areas can be hired for use indoors or outdoors, at home or at a venue (for up to 30 children and their parents) for a kids birthday party, special event, or if you need entertainment for kids at your own party!
The bespoke packages can be tailored however you like and can include everything from ‘Veterinary Centre’, ‘Supermarket’, ‘Hospital’, ‘Hairdressers’, ‘Construction Site’, ‘Cafe’ and more.
Outdoor Cinema children’s parties Bristol
Sunset Cinema Company
Bring Hollywood into your own home with Sunset Cinema Company’s ‘Kid’s party package’, complete with movie-style accessories to transform your kid’s birthday into their own exclusive magical outdoor movie premier!
The price (£200 per outdoor booking (Fri-Sun) or (£180 Mon-Thu)) includes drop off, set up and collection of the Cinema Equipment:
- 3x3m Blackout Gazebo
- Moon Chairs with fluffy covers
- Hollywood-theme Scatter Cushions
- Blankets
- Ladder Shelf with Sweets Bar Sign
- Popcorn Boxes
- Traditional Pic’n’Mix Sweets Jars with tongs and Sweet Paper Bags
- Milk Bottle Drinking Glasses with Paper Straws
- Personalised Movie Ticket Sign with Stand
- Directors Clapper Board
Kids home birthday party dome
Bristol’s Bells and Domes
Bristol’s Bells and Domes (whose gorgeous indoor sleepovers in festival-style tents I reviewed here when they were known as Sleepunder Bristol) offers Bell tent and dome party hire for beautiful outdoor setups in your garden.
Packages include lights, heating, and furniture that are all beautifully styled by organiser Heidi, according to your chosen theme. As you can see below, they look utterly stunning! Go for a cosy lantern-lit sleepover in a tent or twinkly stargazing dome to make your celebration super special.
Sleepover party for kids
The thrill of camping (without the weather worries) mixed with magical styling, twinkly lights, midnight feasts and your best buds – these indoor festival-style tent sleepover parties have got me longing to be five years old again!
Utterly enchanting, they are perfect for special occasion celebrations, they are one of my favourite kids party at home ideas.
Science birthday party Bristol
Fun Science
Sparks, slime, eruptions and rockets are the main ingredients of these fun kids birthday party packages. Fun Science offer small, personalised birthday celebrations with activities such as popping test tubes, themed slime-making and a rocket launch!
Choose from ‘Crazy Chemical Celebration’, ‘Sweets and surprises’, ‘Fantastic physics’ and ‘Chemical/electrical extravaganza’ or ‘The complete package’ which merges them together.
Fizz Pop Science Parties
Choose your favoured flavour of interactive science show for your child’s birthday party – be that chemical reactions, foaming eruptions, flaming explosions, sweet-making, putty creating, rocket launches, spooky glows or rainbow bubbles.
Science Parties range start at £165 and prices are dependent on dates, themes, extras and distance from the presenter.
Active children’s birthday parties Bristol
Active Giggles Football Parties Bristol
If your offspring are footie-obsessed, this’ll do nicely! Kick off the birthday celebration with an Active Giggles football party Bristol. All hosted by an FA qualified coach, parties are designed for children aged from 5-11 and involve exciting games, soccer skills and oodles of fun – footie fanatic or not. Bristol football parties for up to 15 kids take place at Goals Bristol South, and cost £199.
A football party for up to 15 kids includes:
- 60 minutes of football fun
- A captain armband
- A trophy for the birthday child
- Certificates and medals
- Bottled drinks
- A Mitre flare football
- Drawstring boot bags
Airhop birthday party Bristol
Bounce your socks off at an Airhop Bristol party!
An Airhop Bristol birthday party includes 60 minutes of jumping time in the ginormous indoor trampoline park, 30 minutes of party time, Dominoes pizzas and oodles of fun.
For littles ones (6 months-6 years), there are Mini Hoppers parties which involve boinging, soft play and 45 minutes in an exclusive party room with disco lights and music, snack boxes plus choice of a party mascot. My daughter had her 4th birthday party here and it was fantastic.
Freedog Bristol
If you’re stuck for active Bristol birthday ideas, Freedog is known for its huge trampoline court, foam pits, dodgeball and slam dunk lane, which should keep energetic kids busy! There’s also a three-storey high soft play centre onsite open to kids aged 0-10 years with a ‘Puppy Pen’ for babies.
Puppy Parties (available during toddler/family bounce sessions) are aimed at kids aged 5 years and under, and include one hour of bouncing, a decorated party room for 45-minutes, mini pizzas, jump socks and unlimited squash (£16 per person). Minimum attendees per booking is 8 and maximum is 30.
Over 5s are considered Mega-Dogs and get pretty much the same type of Freedog parties (plus slushies) for £20 per head.
Froglets Sports
Froglets Sports host sporty birthday party packages at an outdoor venue for kids aged 2-11 years old. Choose from three different birthday packages to suit your budget. All parties are led by a qualified sports coach with First Aid knowledge.
Mojo Active Bristol Childrens parties
With Mojo Active, you get a choice of two ground level activities or a High Ropes party for.
Activities for your kid’s party could include any two of the following – assault course, low ropes, archery tag, climbing wall, a woodland package, assault course, zorb football and a nerf course.
A 2 hour party costs £210 for up to 8 children (minimum age seven years old, or six for Nerf party Bristol) and includes:
- Exclusive use of a cabin
- Free T-Shirt for Birthday child
- Tea / Coffee for parents, juice for kids
- Military themed dress for the children, Camo Cream, Assault vest and Beret for Birthday Child if desired.
Mendip Activity Centre, Sandford
If you’re looking for action-type things to do for kids birthday, Mendip offer exactly that!
Their kids party packages include a private activity and 45-minutes in the party room with hot party food. Or, just book a private activity and eat in the Alpine Lounge, their rooftop diner. Their birthday activities for kids are as follows:
- Tobogganing – ages 4+
- Abseiling – ages 6+
- Archery – ages 6+
- Archery Active – ages 6+
- Air Rifle Shooting – ages 6+
- Axe Throwing – ages 6+
- Assault Course – ages 6+
- Bushcraft and Survival Skills – ages 6+
- Canoeing – ages 6+
- Caving – ages 6+
- Frisbee golf – ages 6+
- Kayaking – ages 8+
- Rock Climbing – ages 6+
- Skiing – ages 8+
- Snowboarding – ages 8+
- Stand up Paddle Boarding – ages 8+
Kids birthday party Bristol Attractions
Bristol is one of the best UK city breaks for families, and having lived in the city for many years, I’m always blown away by the brilliant Bristol attractions. Whatever interests your child has, you can pretty much guarantee there’s something to excite their curiosity in Bristol.
Under-the-sea loving fish-fanatic? A Bristol Aquarium birthday party can be shark, pirate and mermaid-themed for 4-10 year olds, with a VIP tour, fish feeding experience and a dedicated party host.
Animal-tastic children’s party ideas Bristol
VIP Animal Encounters at Avon Valley Wildlife Park
Avon Valley Adventure and Wildlife Park offers VIP animal encounters for groups of six to get up close to their choice of animal for an interactive 45-minute experience! Walk, feed and meet owls, alpacas, rabbits and guinea pigs, foxes, pigs or goats) inside their pens and where possible, take them for a stroll around the park.
You can also book the Avon Valley Play Barn for soft play birthday parties for 1 hour and 30 minutes, plus 30 minutes in the safari tent (for up to 50 people) to enjoy your party food and cake.
Alpaca Walking Bristol
If you’re after more unusual children’s party ideas, Alpaca Emporium in Cadbury offer alpaca walking experience vouchers. These last 1-2 hours and consist of a tour of their small-holding, meeting and feeding the alpacas and walking an alpaca of your choice. Pack a party picnic to enjoy on the farm afterwards.
Arty children’s parties Bristol
Graffiti children’s party Bristol, with Graffarty
Are your offspring enthusiastic wall-scrawlers or budding Banksys?! For the mama of all fun party ideas, why not encourage them to decorate somewhere other than your walls with a Graffiti Party?
Graffarty party organisers can come to your house if you have a suitable garden area for the party, or to the venue that you have hired if there is an outdoor area (there needs to be enough space for the easels they use to do the spray painting on). They provide all the kit, including a gazebo in case it rains on the day.
Children’s Scrapstore Birthday Parties
Children’s Scrapstore’s most popular party day is Saturday, when they run parties at 10.15am and 2.15pm. They can also host weekday parties during the day and after school on Thursdays and Fridays. Parties last 1.5 hours and take place in their PlayRoom, with colourful birthday bunting, creative activities on your chosen theme, and tables ready for your birthday feast.
Pamper birthday parties Bristol
The Nail Shed on Gloucester Road don’t offer children’s parties anymore but they still do a ‘mini beauty lovers’ manicures that can be booked for a maximum party size of four children. £16 per person.
Dreams and Themes pamper party Bristol
Dreams and Themes offer themed pamper packages as well as a regular pamper party. Send them a message for more deets.
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