| Event Planning | | | | canapés or finger food for parties, wedding |
| This is a business which can cover anything from | | | | birthday cakes, or the new growth areas of |
| organizing a son or daughter's 18th birthday party up | | | | vegetarian and organic food. |
| to major corporate hospitality events with several | | | | Children's Entertainment |
| hundred guests. For private customers, the event will | | | | If you enjoy being with children and have the skills |
| be associated with a birthday, anniversary, wedding | | | | and personality to keep them amused for an hour or |
| or some other celebration such as passing final | | | | two, being a children's entertainer could be both fun |
| exams. | | | | and profitable for you. The main demand is for |
| | | | people who can provide entertainment at birthday |
| Your customers will be people or businesses who | | | | parties for children typically between the ages of |
| have neither the inclination nor the time to do their | | | | four and ten. |
| own organizing. For corporate customers, it often | | | | Most children's entertainers have a range of skills. |
| costs less to use an event planner than to get their | | | | They organize their 'shows' in a series of varied |
| own staff to do the necessary work. | | | | sessions to cope with young children's notoriously |
| This can be a seasonal business, so it is wise to offer | | | | short attention spans. These might include joke-telling, |
| planning for a wide range of events to keep you | | | | magic, Punch & Judy, face painting, balloon |
| busy throughout the year. | | | | modeling, juggling, stilt walking, children's discos, |
| Food Preparation and Sale | | | | sing-songs, party games, competitions, and so on. |
| There are many possibilities in the food and catering | | | | Another popular activity at parties held in the |
| business. They include specializing in wedding cakes; | | | | summer is an inflatable such as a 'bouncy castle'. |
| cooking for dinner parties, cocktail parties or directors' | | | | Some entertainers specialize in one particular field, |
| lunches, either in your own kitchen or your | | | | most commonly magic (conjuring). |
| customer's; and selling home-made cakes and | | | | Audience participation is an important aspect of |
| preserves on a market stall. | | | | children's entertainment. To avoid the risk of |
| Most well-known specialist jam and preserves | | | | boredom, the children themselves need to be |
| companies started this way and grew to the stage | | | | involved in some way (e.g. by helping with tricks, |
| where they operate from small factories and sell their | | | | dressing up, or simply holding things). |
| products directly to retailers. | | | | Entertainers need to be especially watchful that the |
| In general it is best to concentrate on some sort of | | | | birthday boy or girl does not feel left out and (if at all |
| specialty such as cordon bleu cookery, | | | | possible) wins the best prizes! |