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Search this site Ideas for venues, equipment hire, etc for children's parties.  Please ensure that you are satisfied with the insurance arrangements before hiring equipment. Children's Entertainers and party organisers including face painting

Follow the web links to find out much more about these venues and retailers: Clay Art:  The Barbican, Plymouth.  "Paint Your Own Pottery" Cafe.  Customers select a piece of pottery, choose a design, and paint.  Clay Art provides stamps, stencils, sponges, ideas books, a little coaching and a lot of encouragement.  The staff then glaze and fire the piece and it is ready for collection in a few days.  Birthday parties a speciality. Visit the website at  www.clayart.co.uk Jump Indoor Play Centre:  Christian Mill Business Centre, Tamerton Foliot Road, Crownhill, PL6 5DS.  Large indoor play centre.  Safe activities for children aged 0 to 12 years.  Open 7 days a week.  Offer children's parties with unlimited party play and a host for each party.  Tel: (01752) 782415. Loopy Looks Costumes 21-22 Prideaux Close, Tamar View Industrial Estate, Saltash.  Tel: (01752) 844789.  Sell a wide range of adult and children's fancy dress costumes and accessories. 3000 Fancy dress and theatrical costumes for hire.  Specialists in face painting and theatrical make-up. www.loopylooks.co.uk Marks & Spencer:   Plymouth. Wide range of character and personalised birthday cakes available to order.  Customer lift. View the website at www.marks-and-spencer.com National Marine Aquarium:    Offer birthday party trail around the Aquarium followed by a birthday meal in the Ocean View Cafe with a special gift for every child.  Check out the Website at www.national-aquarium.co.uk Pennywell Farm: near Buckfastleigh.  Offers a range of birthday party packages in the special birthday party village.  There's a wild west party in a wigwam or a flower fairy or farmyard theme in a woodland log cabin.   www.pennywellfarmcentre.co.uk Plymouth Pavilions:  Plymouth.  The Birthday Party  packages include one activity (either a skate or a swim), a child's meal and a party bag.  The Swiss Lake Ice Rink can also  be hired out for a private ice disco party.  Check out the Website at   www.plymouthpavilions.com Plymouth Ski Centre:  Marsh  Mills, Plymouth.  Birthday meal together with a choice of activities from skiing, snowboarding, blading, tobogganing or bobbing. Visit the website at www.jnll.co.uk/plymouth.php WOODLANDS LEISURE PARK:   Blackawton, Dartmouth, TQ9 7DQ.   Birthdays!  Heaven or Hell?  Birthday parties at Woodlands are wicked!  6 scrummy meals to choose from, a wacky painted private room for your party and 2 free adults.  Don't forget there's oceans to do indoors plus 60 acres of rides and slides, 3 Watercoasters, Toboggan Run, the Avalanche!  Your birthday party at Woodlands will shoot your street cred sky high.  Just phone (01803) 712598 and Woodlands will organise everything.  Check out the website at  www.woodlandspark.com   Going Potty:  Based in Liskeard - offer a venue for children's parties or will come to your home.   Give your children the opportunity to create ceramic "masterpieces" or transform bright woolly blankets into quirky cushions, bags and badges; also mad papier maché.  Tel:  (01579) 384228 Totally Crackers:  Plymouth.  Children's and adults' fancy dress hire at very reasonable rates.  Will do face painting, novelties, etc; also sell face paints.

Children's Entertainers:

Billy Whizz the Magician:  17 Okehampton Close, Plympton, Plymouth.  Tel: (01752) 519529.  Magic shows, balloon modelling, party games. Emazdad the Magician:  24 Haweswater Close, Looseleigh, Plymouth.  Tel: (01752) 794159.  Children's birthdays, magic shows, balloon modelling, for schools, playgroups. Fantasy Faces:  11 Fortescue Place, Hartley, Plymouth.  Tel: (01752) 310463.  Face painting specialist and balloonologists.  Professionally-trained staff are police checked and fully insured.  Cater for parties, fundays, fetes, etc - "no job is too big or small".  www.fantasyfaces.co.uk Funnyfaces:  Tel: (01752) 212880.  Plymouth.  Face painting for children's parties, fetes, corporate events, etc.  Mark's Magic:  Tel: 0845 1260354  Children's party specialist, from 20 minutes to the whole day.  Birthdays, playgroups, schools, fundays, fetes. Maunder the Magician:  35 Thornbury Park Avenue, Peverell, Plymouth.  Tel: (01752) 228112.   Magic entertainment for children's birthdays, playgroups, schools, etc.    Music Makers:  Tel: Katy Way 0774 8303517 or Rebecca Pascoe 0773 4250247.  Offer party packages tailored to your individual requirements, based around music and dance themes; also offer high school musical themed parties. Party Crew Plymouth:  Tel:  Tara Brain on  0844 415 0901.  Tara is a mum of two who offers lots of different parties for boys and girls aged 4 to 11 years.   Themes include Pirate Party, Princess Party, Craft Party, Pamper Party, Bear Making Party and many more. They cover the Plymouth region including Saltash, Torpoint and surrounding areas, bringing the party to you. Pip Critten: Tel: (01752) 361210.  Offers "anything and everything" for entertaining children.  Magic, string puppet circus, party style disco, balloon modelling, pantomime. Starlite Disco: 63 Fleet Street, Plymouth.  Tel: (01752) 563222.  Offer all-inclusive disco for children up to age 11, with light show, smoke, party games, etc. The Storybox Storyteller:  Tel: (01752) 569244.  A very experienced storyteller and storymaker, specialising in stories for young children and across the primary age range.

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