Ideas for Parties for All Ages
It doesn’t matter if you’re the parent of a toddler, tot or tween, you can plan a birthday your child will never forget with age-appropriate games and activities, food and entertainment. Our eat and play fun center offers different kids birthday party packages that can be tailored to the type, size and budget of the party you want to host. Plus, you and the birthday boy or girl can add your own touch, choosing birthday themes that reflect their current interests—whether that’s princesses, dinosaurs, superheroes or sports.
Set the Stage for Guaranteed Fun
We know a thing or two about hosting children’s birthday parties. After all, we’ve been throwing them for over 40 years. When it comes to your little one’s special day, there are a few things you can’t do without. Start with location, food, fun and games.
Birthday Party Locations
Wondering where to have a kids birthday party? Regardless of what time of the year it is, indoor party places for kids offer the flexibility and freedom to plan a birthday bash without having to worry about the weather. Chuck E. Cheese family fun center even has party coordinators and servers dedicated to your party. They take care of the logistics and clean up, so you can focus on making memories with your little one.
Birthday Party Food
With a kid-friendly menu that adults love too, you can choose a meal the whole party will enjoy. Yes, we’re known for our famous pizza, but we also serve wings, salads and more at our family restaurant. And you’ll have to save room for dessert because birthday cake is a must. Let us be the baker or bring a cake of your own, whatever is more convenient for you.
Kids Birthday Party Games and Activities
The best kids menu in town is a plus. But no kid's birthday party would be complete if you didn’t have games, games and more games! We’ve got lots to pick from at Chuck E. Cheese, like stand-up arcade games, console and video games, and prize games. If you want to add to the excitement, you’re welcome to bring your own activities as well. The more fun, the merrier.
Chuck E. Cheese Birthday Cakes
That's right! At Chuck E. Cheese we have the perfect birthday cake for you. We offer chocolate or vanilla cakes available in two sizes. The 8″ round cake serves approximately 12 guests and the 1/4 sheet-size cake serves approximately 18-20 guests. Pick from a variety of cake toppers to customize your Birthday Star's cake.
Incorporate Meaningful Extras
While this covers the essentials, the party planning doesn’t stop there! There are other items to consider, such as making sure your guests save the date to join you and arranging for take-home goody bags for all in attendance.
Birthday Party Invitations
You can’t have a party without guests, and you can’t have guests without invitations. Make it easy on yourself with birthday invitations online powered by Punchbowl. Our collection of invites offer tons of options to choose from, including invitations featuring the birthday guru himself, Chuck E himself. Need inspiration on kids birthday party ideas? Picking a theme based off of invites can be a good jumping-off point.
Party Bags
Birthday boys and girls don’t have to be the only ones who get star treatment at Chuck E. Cheese. With favors as part of our Mega Super Star package, every guest gets a goody bag they can bring home. All of the kids will be thanking you for planning such an awesome bash!
Birthday Star Play Band
The Birthday Star Play Band is an exclusive item given only to the birthday kid during their party. Instead of using a Play Pass card like all of the other guests, the birthday star will be set apart with their awesome play band! Your Birthday Star will be able to enjoy playing games hands free and avoid worrying about losing a Play Pass card. With the Birthday Star Play Band, all you have to do is tap your wrist to a game to play! All three of our birthday party packages include the Birthday Star play band, so no matter what party package is right for your party planning needs, your birthday child will be able to enjoy this item.
As an added bonus, make sure your child holds on to their play band after the party is over! These are more than a one time use item- the play band can be recharged with play points and used during any future Chuck E. Cheese’s visits. Visit our Birthday Party 101 blog post to learn even more about the party experience.
More Reasons to Celebrate
The new party packages at Chuck E. Cheese make throwing a kids birthday super simple! With any party package you will receive a reserved table for two hours, a tablecloth, paper plates, utensils, and a dedicated server for you and your guests.
Additionally, all parties come with an assorted number of helium balloons, and the iconic ticket blaster experience for your birthday star.
Star-Our Most Basic Package
• Comes with 30 Play Points per child
• 2 slices of 1 topping pizza and a drink with free refills per child
• 3 helium balloons
• Exclusive Birthday Star Play Band, 250 bonus tickets, birthday show recognition and Ticket Blaster experience for the birthday star
Super Star-Better Value
• Comes with 45 Play Points per child
• 2 slices of 1-topping pizza and a drink with free refills per child
• 6 helium Balloons
• Exclusive Play Band, 500 bonus tickets, and a Ticket Blaster experience for the Birthday Star
• Collectible cup with free refills for the life of the cup per child
Mega Super Star-Best Value
• Unlimited Games per child or 60 tokens for locations with Play Pass
• 2 slices of 1-topping pizza and drinks with free refills per child
• 9 helium balloons
• Exclusive Play Band, 1000 bonus tickets and Ticket Blaster experience for the Birthday star
• Collective cup with free refills for the life of the cup per child
• Goody Bag per child filled with toys and candy
• Dippin’ Dots ice cream per child
• Coil wristband per child at locations with Play Pass
Recently my son had his 8th Birthday. In the past, we've always held a small family gathering at our house to celebrate the day. We have always enjoyed those parties.
And even though we always kept the parties simple, hosting them was still a lot of work. Clean the house, prepare the food, get out the extra serving utensils, plates, bowls and cups. I could go on, but you get the idea.
This year we decided to do something a little different. Instead of hosting the party at our house, we had the party at Chuck E Cheese and loved every minute of it!
Our Birthday Party Experience at Chuck E Cheese
Birthday Party Table Set-upWhen we arrived the table was decorated for us. Each child had their own place complete with reusable cup and a microphone balloon. There was also a big balloon guitar for my son.
Tip: I was told that those reusable cups (as long as they aren't broken) can be brought back at any time for free refills. So, if your child has a party or attends a party be sure to save the cup so you can bring it back the next time you visit.
Party ScheduleThe party hostess that was with us during the party gave me an overview of the party schedule, the tokens for each child and got as set up for a day of fun.
The party packages include food for the kids, but since I also had adults coming I ordered some food and drinks for them. Our party hostess was extremely helpful and provided some recommendations on food choices.
Tip: If you are unsure about how many adults will be staying, you can place an initial food order and then add to it if you need to.
So many games!As the kids arrived we passed out the tokens and off they went. Each child had their own cup of tokens to carry around with them.
I was especially impressed with how clean the game room was and with the various activity choices: Skee-ball, racing games, ride on games, computer games, jump rope games and many more. The best part is that all ages from toddlers to adults were out there having fun.
Tip: In the excitement of the games, rides and ticket winning, it's easy to set down the cup of tokens and walk away leaving them there. You may want to pass out a small amount of tokens for each child in case they misplace them.
Laser ChallengeFor our group, the game of choice was the new Laser Challenge. Think mission impossible where the kids enter a dark room filled with lasers. They have to duck, bend and twist through the laser maze to complete various checkpoints. At the end they are awarded a score and tickets based on how well they did.
To add to the excitement, there is a video screen on the outside of the room that displays what is going on inside. It was so fun to watch everyone take the challenge.
Tip: The Laser Challenge game is only available at select Chuck E Cheese locations, so be sure to call ahead before you visit.
Happy Birthday!After playing, it was time to eat. The kids enjoyed the pizza, cake and ice cream. And our party host was there to help the entire time.
Tip: They have both Chocolate and Vanilla birthday cakes in various sizes available for parties. They also allow you to bring in your own cake. So if you'd like to bake one or get one from a local bakery you can do that too.
Chuck E Cheese himself made a special appearance right before the cake was served. We sung happy birthday, got pictures with him and they had a special dance party and each of the children used their balloon microphones and balloon guitars.
Tickets, Tickets and more Tickets!After the pizza and cake, the kids had a little more time to play in the game room and use up their remaining tokens. My son even got his own turn in the ticket blaster where he won even more tickets. The ticket blaster is part of the party packages.
Tip: Be sure to show each child where the ticket redemption machines are located in the game room. The machine allow you to turn in your tickets and print out a receipt that indicates the number of tickets you earned. It is so much easier to carry around the receipt than a big pile of tickets.
Overall, we had a great time at the birthday party. My son and his friends had a great time. And I didn't have to worry about a thing, no extra time spent cleaning the house, making the food or cleaning up after the party. It was fantastic!
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I partnered with Chuck E. Cheese's in exchange for sharing my honest opinion.
For my 9 year old's birthday we celebrated at Chuck E. Cheese's and it was such a hit that there was no question my other two kids were celebrating their birthdays there. I will say I have never seen my kids so happy then when they had their birthdays at Chuck E. Cheese's. No joke! We have had so many kid parties throughout the years for all three of my kids but Chuck E. Cheese's really does go above and beyond.
I will say what made the biggest difference I think was that we hosted a VIP Birthday party. A VIP Party means you get the whole Chuck E. Cheese's to yourself! No other parties or people other than who you invite.
So What's the Catch?
They only host two of these parties each weekend – 8 AM Saturday or 9 AM Sunday. Yes it is early but it is well worth it! Not having to worry about leaving my bags and tickets on our table, not having to worry about not knowing where a child is and honestly it not being crowded with strangers is amazing. I don't worry about my older kids as much as I do about my 5 year old so it was nice to have peace of mind for those two hours of private party time that she was surrounded only by friends and family (and Chuck E. Cheese's workers of course.) Honestly too us adults were able to enjoy some games where normally I am just following my kids around!
You need to invite a minimum of 10 kids and it has to be a Mega Star party. Yes the Mega Super Star party is the most expensive ($23.99 compared to $13.99 or $18.99 for the other packages) but it is well worth it if you can make it work.
I love that all I had to do was take a few minutes to schedule the party online and send out invites. Chuck E. Cheese’s did all the work thereafter – from calling to confirm the party specifics to hosting the party.
Celebrate 2 Birthdays!
I was able to add an additional Birthday child for a small cost which was perfect since my two youngest children are less than a month apart from each other. I had both of their friends there and both got to be the Birthday Child!
So what did we think? Since pictures are worth a thousand words, here are some of ours:
Awesome goodie bags you can add-on!
Can't do the early times? I have no doubt that Chuck E. Cheese's puts on a fabulous party anytime of day. Every time we go to Chuck E. Cheese’s (which is pretty often) there are always parties going on and I have yet to see a sad face there. Chuck E. Cheese’s really does make you feel like a kid again and its hard to not smile when your there! From all the games only costing one token (compared to other places that charge various prices for games) to the great selection of games to the amazing pizza, Chuck E. Cheese’s is our family favorite. I had to add to their amazing pizza because if you haven't tried it lately they have changed the recipe and it is truly delicious. I had so many parents rave about the pizza while we were there, they couldn't believe it was Chuck E. Cheese’s pizza!
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We partied at the Chuck E. Cheese's in Batavia, Illinois and I have to give them a shout out for being so awesome and helping to create some great memories for us!
Chuck E. Cheese's
511 N. Randall Rd.
Batavia, IL 60510