If your child is having a birthday party soon and you're thinking about activities, one idea is a foam party. While foam parties are often synonymous with adult-oriented events at nightclubs, many party rental companies rent foam equipment for you to use in your own location. If you have a fenced-in backyard, for example, you can use this venue for your foam party to the delight of the children. It's probable that this will be the first foam party experience for many of the kids, which will make your child's gathering one to remember. Here are three reasons that a foam party is the perfect activity for the party.

It Can Provide A Lot Of Entertainment

While you want whatever activities you provide you be fun, it's also ideal if you can choose things that will keep the children engaged for a long time. Games such as tag or a tug of war might be fun, but they don't have a ton of lasting power. Because the foam party concept will be so new to the children, it's a safe bet that they'll stay engaged for a long time. This will free you up to prepare food, get the cake ready, or perform the many other duties that always seem to be part of a child's birthday party.

You Can Work It Into Many Themes

It's common for children's birthday parties to have themes, and having a foam party essentially gives you a blank slate that will work well with virtually any theme. If your child's party theme is pirates, for example, you can hide small prizes in the foam and call them buried treasure. The objective for the kids will be to hunt down the buried treasures. If your child has expressed an interest in having a water gun fight, this activity works well with the foam party, too. After the foam, the children can spray each other off with their water guns.

It's A Safe Choice

Provided that you endeavor to make the yard safe before you start running the foam machine, this will be a safe activity for your child's birthday party. As the host parent, you always need to consider safety. Some activities may be fun, but could lead to injuries. For example, the children playing baseball could end up causing an injury to one child, which would quickly dampen the fun. A foam party won't threaten anyone's safety, which can be a relief.

A foam party is by far one of the newer activities for kids' parties.