Today was the first time I ever organized a birthday party of the ‘kids only’ type, but despite my lack of experience it all went pretty well. The kids enjoyed themselves, the hamster survived, and I have a headache. I reckon that’s called a successful party, right? 
I did prepare a bunch of typical birthday games, but we only got round to playing five of them, because the boys just wanted to play all the new (to them) computergames. With only two screens in the room, and seven boys, everybody had to wait for their turn, but somehow nobody complained.
The best liked birthday game appeared to be ‘bomb-sweets’: put a bunch of different sweets on the table, send one kid to the corridor, and let the rest of the kids decide which sweet is the bomb. Once decided, the ‘victim’ is called back into the room, and may pick up sweets from the table, one by one. Until he picks up the ‘bomb’, and everybody shouts “BOOM!!”. That’s when he has to stop picking up sweets, and it’s the next person’s turn to go to the corridor. I guess 6 and 7 year olds just like the suspense: is he gonna pick the bomb next?
Here’s the happy bunch:
From left to right: Tiago, Hendsley, Felix, Delano, Alborz, Kevin and Gabriël
Can you spot the one whose mother is in the room, waiting for him to put on his shoes and go home? In this next pic the others tickle him to get him to smile…
Tickling always works 
All in all it was a great afternoon, but I’m going to bed early today!
