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When children see their parents getting excited about their New Year’s Eve celebrations, they want to celebrate, too. You can easily plan a family-friendly New Year’s Eve celebration with inflatable rentals and a range of budget-friendly accessories.
Inflatable Selections
For youngsters age 6 to 12, a bounce house is an ideal solution. It’s fun and allows them to expend energy in a safe and healthy way. Depending on available space, you might also want to consider renting an inflatable obstacle course. There are options available for toddlers to adults, ensuring that an age-appropriate obstacle course that’s in line with your child’s age and interests. Life size board games are offered, along with sumo balls and a host of inflatable activities.
Fun Food
Youngsters are sure to work up an appetite with all the bouncing and playing. Fun food machines can also be rented. They encompass hotdog steamers and rollers, candy dispensers, and cotton candy, popcorn and snow cone makers.
Banners, Hats and Goodies
An extensive variety of New Year’s accessories and favors can be purchased inexpensively. You can take your pick of hats, eyeglasses, multiple types of noise makers, and glow-in-the-dark jewelry. You can decorate with banners, balloons, stars and streamers. Crowns and tiaras make an excellent memento of the event.
Celebrate Internationally
It can be fun to work in some New Year’s customs from other countries. Eating a grape for every chime of the clock during the countdown to the New Year is practiced in Spain, while those in Ireland sing as many courses of Auld Lang Syne as they can manage. Serving 12 round fruits in customary in the Philippines, gifting homemade tamales is practiced in Mexico, and those in Denmark and Norway celebrate with a cake of at least 18 layers.
Final Thoughts
It’s traditional to make a New Year’s Resolution and children can also perform the ritual. Keep resolutions light and fun. Don’t forget some fancy plastic wine glasses to give a celebratory toast to the New Year with grape juice.
It’s time for planning Christmas festivities. You can make your home gathering, office party or corporate evet stand a memorable one with a variety of inflatables and accessories that can be rented. You can create a winter wonderland and provide unique photo opportunities.
Rentable inflatables are an easy and convenient solution. The company will deliver to your location and perform all the set up and take down tasks. Be sure and book your desired inflatable early to ensure availability.
Human Snow Globe
Imagine your guests surprise when confronted with a 15 ft. snow globe. Let guests get inside the snow globe and have their photo taken for an extraordinary memento.
iGo Photo Booth
For the digitally minded, the photo kiosk provides guests with a strip of photos and prints in just 16 seconds. The booth can be customized, produce images in color, black and white, or funny frames with wigs and hats.
Bounce House
Events where children will be present shouldn’t be without a bounce house. The inflatables are available as a giant snowman, giant elf or gingerbread house.
Snow Machines
Snow is a rarity in the South Florida climate so make your own with a high output snow machine. Create a gentle snow or blizzard like conditions. The professional snow machines have multiple effects. You can also choose from a snow/foam cannon, complete with lights and an attendant to operate it so you don’t miss any of the festivities.
Team Building
Business owners and organizations that want to take the holidays as an opportunity for team building exercises have a wealth of options from which to choose. You can choose from obstacle courses to giant lawn games
Fun Food
Catered cuisine is a great idea for adults, but it’s lost on the vast majority of children. To feed everyone at an informal event, fundraiser or children’s event, consider renting fun food machines. Select from a hot dog steamer, popcorn maker, cotton candy or snow cone machine, or candy dispenser to make your holiday event easy, convenient and fun.
Many parents are choosing to host Halloween parties as a safer alternative to crowds of little ghosts and goblins. It’s also an opportunity to fulfill older youngsters’ desire for a spookier experience than trick-or-treating can deliver. Don’t forget to include a photo booth to capture a memento of the event for guests and a fog machine to set the mood.
Scary foods are a must, like eyeballs (peeled grapes), breadstick “snakes,” jack-o-lantern faced cookies, banana ghosts on a stick, and “mummy” hotdogs. Another good snack is witch’s fingers.
Monster Music Bash
The potential playlist of Halloween and monster related songs is almost endless. Compose a playlist of perennial favorites encompassing tunes such as Monster Mash, Somebody’s Watching Me, Enter Sandman, and Time Warp. A sure hit with everyone is Thriller and Ghostbusters. You can also hire a DJ.
Haunted House
You can decorate your own home, turn your back yard into a scary graveyard, or take guests to one of any number of haunted houses being conducted. For home parties, choose a soundtrack of creaky doors, screams and similar sounds.
Scary Movie Screening
There’s no shortage of scary films to watch in celebration of Halloween. Choose age-appropriate films. Guests can dress as their favorite spooky movie character.
Costume Contest
Set the stage for multiple categories in a costume contest. Prizes can be awarded for the most inventive, scary, funny, original costumes and more.
Halloween Scavenger Hunt
The premise is the same as a traditional scavenger hunt, but with Halloween flair. Hide eyeballs, spiders and similar items for guests to uncover.
Tell Your Fortune
Fortune tellers are great fun for youngsters and adults. Hire a fortune teller to come and read the palms of guests. If you know someone who is a good actor and is unknown to guests, you can hire them to give fun, positive readings.
It’s not difficult to find a good ghost story in South Florida. The Sunshine State is home to some of the best places to get a good Halloween scare ranging from ghostly apparitions to orbs of floating light. Many of the sites have been featured on TV shows and been investigated by professional paranormal researchers.
Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables
The hotel has hosted presidents to notorious gangsters. Guests report lights turning on and off, messages written on mirrors, and elevators that stop at the wrong floor.
Cuban Club, Tampa
People report seeing a ghostly actor, a board member, lady in a misty dress, and a young boy playing ball.
Huguenot Cemetery, St. Augustine
Visitors to the cemetery say they’ve seen orbs of light floating among headstones, wispy ghosts in trees, the transparent ghost of a girl who died of yellow fever, and a former judge.
Lake Worth Playhouse, Lake Worth
Built by Lucian and Clarence Oakley, visitors claim they’ve seen Lucian’s reflection in mirrors heard his footsteps, and experienced objects being moved around.
Lighthouse, St. Augustine
The structure is said to be haunted by a number of lighthouse keepers who met tragic ends over the centuries. Of particular interest is the 2 daughters of a lighthouse keeper and their friend who drowned. People have reported the sound of footsteps and laughter as the 3 girls are reunited in the tower for a ghostly play session.
Nancy and David Bilheimer Capitol Theatre, Clearwater
Said to be haunted by the ghosts of a sea captain, a young girl, and a murdered theatre manager, they’re said to roam the theatre playing jokes on unsuspecting guest.
Riddle House, West Palm Beach
A former funeral parlor, it’s reported to be home to a previous overseer who paces the porch and a former employee who hung himself.
River Inn, Miami
Guests of the hotel have reported the sound of footsteps and ghostly banging in the middle of the night.
Tampa Theatre, Tampa
Individuals say the theatre is haunted by a man that worked the projector and still returns to cause mischief.
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