Birthday Party Ideas for Kids in Brooklyn's Syrian Community

A kids' painting party at home — a birthday idea that actually works for families in the Syrian community: Gravesend, Ocean Parkway, Midwood. Paula brings everything.

Every mother in the community knows the birthday party problem. The same venues, the same entertainers, the same goody bags. By the third party of the season the kids are bored and so are you.

Here's what's different about a paint party: every guest sits down to a blank canvas and gets up holding a finished painting. Not a craft. A real painting, themed to whatever the birthday kid loves — and it goes home instead of a bag of nosh.

Paula teaches art at Magen David Yeshivah, so a table of twelve excited kids doesn't rattle her. She runs the whole activity start to finish. You get to actually enjoy the party, talk to the mothers, serve the food hot.

It happens in your own house. No hall rental, no schlepping to a venue, no cutting the party short because the room is booked after you. For families around Ocean Parkway, Gravesend, and Midwood, she comes to you — setup, supplies, cleanup, all included.

Girls' parties, boys' parties, mixed little-cousin parties — the project bends to the crowd. Flowers and calligraphy for one group, sneakers and pop art for another.

Dates around school vacations go first. Text 646-262-2794 or email [email protected] and tell her the date, the age, and the headcount — she'll shape the rest.