My seven-year-old daughter, or miss popular as we like to call her, has been invited to a number of fun birthday parties, everything from a hip hop dance party to a rock-climbing party. Her own birthday is coming up, and she wants a cupcake-moonbounce-girlie party for all of her friends, whatever that means.
The moonbounce idea was actually her father’s, who thought renting a moonbounce might be fun for the kids. I agree that it would be, but unfortunately, since her birthday is in November (and we live in an area that has dramatic changes in seasons), it will be a bit cold to be outside.
The next thing we did is contact our church to see about renting out their hall. They often have a moonbounce set up in there for kids activities. As members, we were hoping that it wouldn’t be too expensive. We were wrong. While the use of the facility is free for us, there is a $200 custodial fee, in addition to the rental of the moonbounce itself. The church also requires that we get insurance for the day, which also costs a couple of hundred dollars.
I was a little shocked. After all, I grew up on parties in church basements. This one could costs us upwards of $700 before the food, invitations, decorations or goodie bags. Subtract the moonbounce, and we are still looking at $400. Had we not been members of this church, the cost would have been even higher.
Here is what I have learned since then (yesterday).
A two-hour party at a moonbounce place costs about the same as renting one moonbounce for the day. Food is extra in both cases. With the moonbounce place, if you want food, you have to buy the food there (with the exception of the desert).
If we rent a moonbounce or have it at the moonbounce place, it will be cheaper during the week as opposed to a weekend. Fortunately, the kids have a couple of half days that week, so it might actually work.
Bottom line price would be about $225 for the party, plus cake and ice cream. Food plus a weekend date would raise the price to a cap of $300.
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