{"id":261,"date":"2016-04-11T08:16:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T08:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kim.mind-speaks.com\/?p=261"},"modified":"2022-02-21T01:00:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T01:00:45","slug":"hmns-birthday-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kim.mind-speaks.com\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"HMNS- Birthday Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">I&#8217;ve been working at The Houston Museum of Natural Science for two years as a Birthday Party Coordinator. (I worked as a Birthday Party Coordinator from 2014 to 2016.) I am part of the <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hmns.org\/education\/families\/birthday-parties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Party Smarty<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0Crew, and we each run several parties throughout the weekend. As the party coordinator, I make sure the room is party-ready by decorating it in the selected colors. I make sure the birthday child and parents have what they need and ensure the party is running as smoothly as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Party themes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dino<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Butterfly<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Astronomy<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Egypt<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wildlife<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-261 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/kim.mind-speaks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/partysmarty.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kim.mind-speaks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/partysmarty-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/kim.mind-speaks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/partysmarty4.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kim.mind-speaks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/partysmarty4-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/kim.mind-speaks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/partysmarty2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kim.mind-speaks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/partysmarty2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/kim.mind-speaks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/partysmarty3.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kim.mind-speaks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/partysmarty3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>After I have escorted and helped the birthday family to their party room and set up any food or other decorations, they have brought. I alert my supervisors of any expected deliveries. After some time, we usually start with a specific craft that goes with the party&#8217;s theme. My favorite party theme is dinosaurs. A dino party means I give the party a tour of our paleontology hall. After the tour, we return to the party room for cake. I assist with keeping sticky fingers off the cake until after we sing Happy Birthday and then help with cutting and serving.<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally, I work as a supervisor, and my responsibilities change from running the party to making sure the other coordinators have everything they need. In this situation, I would then run and get any deliveries or items the coordinator might need.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working at The Houston Museum of Natural Science for two years as a Birthday Party Coordinator. (I worked as a Birthday Party Coordinator from 2014 to 2016.) I am part of the Party Smarty\u00a0Crew, and we each run several parties throughout the weekend. As the party coordinator, I make sure the room is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kim.mind-speaks.com\/?p=261\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HMNS- Birthday Parties<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kim.mind-speaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kim.mind-speaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kim.mind-speaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kim.mind-speaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kim.mind-speaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/kim.mind-speaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/kim.mind-speaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kim.mind-speaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kim.mind-speaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kim.mind-speaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}