Published April 29th, 2012. No comments
Why do we say that Funtasia is the best place in all of Brooklyn for a birthday party? Well…actually…we don’t. We don’t have to. Our customers say it for us every day! Kids come in with friends, with family and with birthday party guests and light up like birthday cake candles. We see it every day. And we know the fun doesn’t stop. Those same kids will be talking about their Funtasia birthday party for the rest of the year. And their parents are talking too. In fact, here are just a few recent reviews of Funtasia from your Brooklyn friends and neighbors…
“It’s great fun for the whole family! We had our son’s 7th birthday party here and everyone had a great time. I recommend Funtasia for families with children of all ages.”
“A friend told me about Funtasia. I booked a party and the kids loved it, my friends enjoyed as much as the kids did. I was so happy with how things turned out.”
“Funtasia is the greatest place for birthdays in Brooklyn! The food was great and the party favors were really creative. The place brought out the kid in me and had fun bouncing and painting and laughing with the kids.”
Why are all the families in Brooklyn so excited about birthday parties at Funtasia?
Kids from Brooklyn love birthday parties at Funtasia because they can’t think of any place they would rather be on their special day. Our jungle-themed party facility squeezes in every possible square inch of fun. From our jungle gyms, Playstation and Wii video games, foose ball and air hockey tables to the kid-favorite bounce house, kids know that, when they get to Funtasia it means non-stop birthday fun.
Parents come from all over Brooklyn to give their kids the best birthday parties possible at Funtasia because they KNOW that, here at Funtasia, we are the unrivaled experts at packing the most fun possible into every birthday party…and we can do it at an incredible value!
And don’t forget those timeless birthday party photo opportunities. From classics like blowing out candles and opening presents to swinging on the jungle gym or challenging their friends to video games or air hockey, parents know that a trip to Funtasia not only means fun for today but it means precious birthday party memories captured forever!
Where else in Brooklyn can you find a fully equipped birthday themed banquet room with room for 40 adults and 30 kids to hang out and enjoy our funtastic disco show? Only Funtasia!
But don’t take our word for it. Bring your kids and spend the day at Funtasia. We know your whole family will love it! No matter where you are in Brooklyn, Funtasia is only a short trip away. Birthdays are all we do, so you can be sure we will help you turn your child’s next birthday into exactly the sort of lifetime memory your child deserves. Let us take the stress off your shoulders and put a smile on your face.
Funtasia. For birthdays in Brooklyn there’s no place better.
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Published April 6th, 2012. No comments
Karen, the owner of Funtasia, says, “even the most naturally well-organized parent can get unnerved preparing for a kids birthday party.” And who wouldn’t agree more? There are a surprising array of details that need to be planned. Here are a few tips that will make your road to birthday party planning a success.
Decide on facility or entertainment, if any. If it’s possible, meet the entertainer. Karen strong suggests that you, “Don’t forget to ask for references, and check them.” If you’re having a party at home, book the party well in advance. You might get a better deal if you avoid having the party on the weekend.
Prepare plenty of short games. Just in case a game flops or goes by quicker than you first expected it. For extra time, try to have a favorite video ready.
Have more treats. “A parent might forget to RSVP and show up unexpected,” Karen says. Also, an extra sibling could tag along with a guest. You could also run into a piece of cake being dropped or a prize broken. “It’s always a good thing to be prepared for the unexpected,” Karen says with a nod of her head.
Check for food allergies ahead of time, if you don’t personally know all the children who will attend. It can be disappointing for a child to come out to a party and not be able to eat the goodies everyone else is.
Karen Can Help can offer a wonderful solution for Brooklyn party venues. That solution is Funtasia! “We accommodate up to 30 kids, and there’s nothing quite like a jungle gym and a jungle-themed indoor playground,” she says with a smile. The Beach Bouncy House is great. Funtasia also offers sensory games, Xbox and Playstation games, a stick-hockey table, and a bubble show with a disco lit party room.
Funtasia offers Build-a-critter parties, arts and crafts and more. Their main office is located at 726 Bath Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. For inquiries, visit www.funtasianyc.com, or call Karen at 1-718-234-0700 today.
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Published September 21st, 2011. No comments
The upcoming week of September 25 through October 1st is “National Keep Kids Creative Week”. In line with this, we would like to invite you to celebrate your child’s creativity with us and avail of one of the several wonderful creative packages that we offer. Here at Funtasia, our staff makes every effort to help you pick out the package that is exactly right for you and your child. Our creative packages are designed to hone every child’s creative skills and allow them to have as much fun as possible in the process.
One of the creative packages that we offer is the “Paint Your Own Ceramics Party”. In this package, we invite the children to unleash their creative side and engage in ceramic painting. Each child is presented with several ceramic pieces to choose from and from there, they are able to decorate it as they wish. This package is suitable for parents who wish to give their children a break from playing with game consoles or computers. Try something different and let your child experience a walk on the creative side with our “Paint Your Own Ceramics Party”. Who knows, he or she just might turn out to be the next Picasso!
Another option for the creative package is to host a “Build a Critter Party”. Suitable for younger children, this creative package promises a party your child will never forget. With this package, your child and her guests will be able to take home a furry friend that they themselves created with their very own hands! Each child gets to choose the teddy bear he will design and stuff it as he pleases. Each furry friend even gets its very own customized Funtasia T-shirt.
What are you waiting for? Let the fun begin and call Funtasia today!
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Published September 12th, 2011. No comments
If you wish to get your child acquainted with the fine art and talent of baking, what better way to do it than by incorporating it with his or her birthday party?
One children’s party theme that is sure to be filled with fun and delight is one centered on a baking theme. The children will come home with extra knowledge that is sure to be useful in the kitchen as well. Step away from the claws of technology and get back to the classic by conceptualizing a theme centered on baking. The main activity that guests can partake of during the party can involve decorating mini cakes, cookies or cupcakes in many different colors and designs. You can even hold a contest rewarding the child who creates the best birthday cake or cupcake for the birthday celebrant!
Double the fun by decorating the venue with giant cakes, cupcakes, and life-size baking utensils, bowls and other kitchenware used in baking. The birthday cake can also be designed in such a manner that the theme is evident. For games, go old school and bring back parlor games, relay games, musical chairs, hit the piñata, newspaper game and more. What is important is that your child and his or her guests are happy. Give your child a birthday party she’ll never forget!
For party favors, let the guests take home the baking goods (cookies, cupcakes, mini cakes, etc.) that they have decorated. Spice up the giveaways by including children’s cookbooks, mini kitchenware, utensils or the like. Make sure that the invitations and packaging for giveaways also have a baker’s theme. Mommy and Daddy can join the fun by giving out bakers’ hats for everyone to wear as guests arrive.
Call Funtasia today to reserve the perfect venue for your child’s birthday party or book your party online. We look forward to helping you plan the birthday party you and your child have always dreamed of.
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Published July 28th, 2011. No comments
We’ve all heard the term, “Oh, that’s child’s play.” It implies something is easy, frivolous and unimportant in the overall scheme of things. But to a child, child’s play is essential to their mental, social, emotional, and physical development.
We all know that children like to play. But what we may not know is the importance of play in a child’s life. Play is essential to every area of a child’s growth and development.
Play provides a means for energy to be put to use. It strengthens and refines small and large motor skills, and it builds stamina and strength. Sensory learning develops mostly through play. Play is significant to physical development in that without it the body could not grow and develop normally.
Children possess a natural curiosity. They, explore, learn and make sense out of their environment by playing. Parents and educators alike can support this learning activity by ensuring age-appropriate toys, materials and environments are available to the child.
Play enables children to know things about the world and to discover information essential to learning. Through play children learn basic concepts such as colors, counting, how to build things, and how to solve problems. Thinking and reasoning skills are at work every time a child engages in some type of play.
Children learn to relate to one another, negotiate roles, share, and obey rules through play. They also learn how to belong to a group and how to be part of a team. A child obtains and retains friends through play.
Play fulfills many needs including a sense of accomplishment, successfully giving and receiving attention, and the need for self-esteem. It helps them develop a strong sense of self, and is emotionally satisfying to them. They learn about fairness, and through pretending learn appropriate ways of expressing emotion such as anger, fear, frustration, stress and discover ways of dealing with these feelings.
So encourage your child’s play. Color pictures, make finger paintings, build buildings and imaginary cities with blocks, and built a tent in the middle of the living room and go camping! And as we all know, childhood is fleeting, so let them enjoy being a kid while they are one!
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Published July 18th, 2011. No comments
When planning Christmas games for young children, the options are endless. Make sure you provide room to run, do a little planning and the kids are sure to have a good time.
Let’s start with a few relay race ideas. Begin with a candy cane relay. Give each team 4 candy canes (and be sure to have a few more in case some break) and have the child who’s running hold the candy canes between their fingers, with the crooked part of the cane hanging over their fingers. But tell them not to use their thumbs. The canes should be just carefully perched between their fingers.
The children run to their teammate, exchange the candy canes (again, only using fingers), and that teammate runs to the other end and does the same. The game is over when only one team still has candy canes that haven’t dropped on the floor.
Another fun relay that kids love is pass the ornament. In this game, each team gets one ornament (a lightweight, basic thin glass one is fine) and a straw. They must blow through the straw to get the ornament down the line, then the next child blows on their straw to get the ornament back down the line. Make sure each child has a fresh straw, as you don’t want everyone to get sick.
This next simple relay game can be played with just about anything that signifies Christmas. You could have the children pass a Santa hat (perhaps requiring them to wear the hat as they run down the line) or have them wear Christmas socks that they then have to take off and get to the next child during the relay.
“Santa Says” is a fun game that all children will know how to play because it’s just like “Simon Says”. Before playing it, confirm that each child is familiar with “Simon Says” and then create a series of orders from “Santa”, like “Santa says, touch your toes”, “Santa says bend your knees” and so on. But sometimes leave the “Santa says” part off and trick the children. Always a popular game!
Young children love the “freeze dance” which is often played in preschool and kindergarten. Only in this game, you create a Christmas freeze dance: here you play some Christmas music, let the children do a little dance, then turn the music off and the children must “freeze”. If there will be several sit-down games played at the party, this is a great way to let the children use some energy before they have to sit down and focus on the other games.
Young children can play the “clue” game as long as the questions are kept to their knowledge of various things surrounding Christmas. The game is played like this: the teacher gives a series of clues about something Christmas related and keeps giving clues until someone shouts out the answer. It might go something like this:
Answer: Santa’s sleigh
Clue: I’m thinking of something big
Clue: It helps Santa on Christmas Eve
Clue: It holds a lot of presents
Clue: It’s very fast
You keep giving clues until he children figure out the answer. Since these are young children, don’t give clues that are too difficult or beyond their knowledge.
Kids love toss games, so why not create a snowball toss game at Frosty’s belly? Get or make a large cardboard cutout of Frosty the Snowman and cut a hole in his stomach. You can create snowballs out of several things. Take plastic bags and put mini marshmallows inside, or use Styrofoam balls. If you use the latter, don’t make the children throw the “snowballs” very far since the Styrofoam won’t go that far. Have the children stand a distance back from Frosty (you can determine this depending on the age of the children and space you have available) and have them toss the snowballs into Frosty’s tummy. First one to get all 3 snowballs in the tummy wins a prize!
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