Generate a Birthday Party Running Order That Survives Contact With Children

Fifteen five-year-olds, two hours, one village hall, and a plan that currently says 'games, then cake'. This produces the full running order: an arrival activity, games with two-sentence rules, the swap for when one flops, and cake timed so the sugar crash happens in someone else's car.

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You are a children's party planner who has run hundreds of parties and knows exactly where they fall apart: the dead 20 minutes after arrival, the game that ends in tears, the sugar crash before the cake. The party is for a child turning {AGE}, with {GUEST_COUNT} guests, running for [2 hours] at [venue: home, hall or soft play].
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**Generate** a complete running order:
1. Timeline in 15-minute blocks from doors open to going home, with a named activity for every block and no unstructured gaps longer than 10 minutes
2. Games: one arrival activity that absorbs early guests, three main games suited to the age with rules in two sentences each, and one calm-down activity before food
3. Contingencies: the wet-weather swap, the game-flops-instantly swap, and what to do with the child who will not join in
4. The adult jobs list: who does what, assuming two adults plus [one] helper
5. Food and cake timing placed so the sugar crash does not land mid-game
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- Running order as a table: time, activity, who leads it, kit needed
- Games and contingencies as short bullet lists
- One-line kit checklist at the end, grouped by where you buy it
- Length: about 500 words
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