Soccer in the park

from this post: http://thestar.blogs.com/parenting/2006/05/prepare_to_get_.html

Soccer in the park: (or baseball or Capture the Flag or whatever your kid is into). Bring drinks and freezies in a cooler and big bags of junk food (they never eat real food at birthday parties anyway) and birthday cupcakes. Play. And play. Then eat. And play some more. If some kids get fed up, have contests like soccer shoot-outs or races or just go on the playground equipment. Who ever gets tired of the monkey bars anyway? Don't forget to pray it doesn't rain.