Mum Held Teenage Daughter's Party AT Kmart

Mum throws Kmart party for her daughter’s 13th birthday.

Shannon Cassidy, a mother of two, shared in the Kmart mums group how she gave the five guests who attended her daughter’s party $30 in cash to spend on whatever they liked at their local Kmart store.

Shannon wrote on her post, “My daughter just turned 13 and at loss of what to do for a party, we came up with the Kmart Challenge’ ”

“Each guest was given a specially made envelope with cash in it to burn at Kmart, then we had lunch at the food court. Easiest party I’ve ever done,” she said.

After shopping they all visited the nearby food court and a stack of cinnamon donuts doubled as the birthday cake she told Better Homes and Gardens.

Her party idea has gone viral on social media, with 4.8K reactions and nearly 470 comments on the ‘Kmart Mums Australia’ Facebook page.

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Other mums have shared photos of their kids’ Kmart scavenger hunt parties and we absolutely just LOVE this idea.

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Would your kids love a Kmart party? I know I would!
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40 Comments

- - meedee said
  - 13 Jul 2022
    12:00 pm
What a brilliant idea. This is seriously awesome and the kids would have so much fun.

- - rovermum said
  - 25 Aug 2019
    5:23 pm
I would have absolutely loved this when my son was young. A fantastic idea.

- - tessie said
  - 25 Aug 2019
    2:34 pm
Wish I’d thought of this when my boys were young. It’s a great idea and saves you a lot of work so you can enjoy too

- - DaffyD said
  - 25 Aug 2019
    10:23 am
That is such a great fun thing to do and saves having your home turned upside down

- - serotonin said
  - 24 Aug 2019
    6:45 pm
Why not?? As long as they’re well behaved in the store, and they have fun, it sounds like a great idea indeed.

- - shanika said
  - 24 Aug 2019
    8:04 am
Never heard of this kind of challenge.

- - rnash02 said
  - 23 Aug 2019
    5:25 pm
I think my daughter would love this, maybe an idea for next year

- - mom362496 said
  - 23 Aug 2019
    2:51 pm
What a great idea! I know so many adults that would love this party. Haha

- - mom290396 said
  - 23 Aug 2019
    2:17 pm
A prefer the original idea of giving kids the money to spend as they will. The challenge does add an extra element to it but then kids may be going home with items that they don’t want/like/or need. As a parent I’d rather my child come home with one $20 item then 3 items

- - roseuponatime said
  - 31 Mar 2019
    6:52 pm
A very interesting idea and probably works out cheaper than buying everything needed for a party!

- - rachel1970 said
  - 11 Jan 2019
    9:45 am
I think my daughter would love it, in fact, I think my son would too.

- - tessie said
  - 10 Jan 2019
    12:22 pm
What a novel idea for a girls’ 13th birthday party. No cleaning up afterwards and the girls all got money to spend on anything they wanted and what 13 year old wouldn’t be happy with that. I’m sure they couldn’t stop talking about the wonderful time they had. Congratulations Mum on such a wonderful idea

- - mom112217 said
  - 08 Jan 2019
    11:18 am
An interesting idea and the children would have had a ball shopping!

- - sars_angelchik said
  - 08 Jan 2019
    10:56 am
That’s actually kind of cool and no mucking around! My daughter would love it.

- - mom19782016 said
  - 08 Jan 2019
    8:59 am
I rate this idea for a kids birthday party – sometimes it’s so hard to figure out what to do for tweens and teens!

- - mom101628 said
  - 07 Jan 2019
    8:40 pm
It’s certainly different.

- - Blossom said
  - 09 Dec 2018
    10:07 pm
Not something I would choose to do, but at least the parents of the guests don’t have to pay for the presents

- - tessie said
  - 18 Apr 2018
    9:56 am
What a novel idea. Thank you for sharing this and letting us know how things went.

- - ella12 said
  - 16 Apr 2018
    11:58 am
Thank you for sharing this article.

- - rovermum said
  - 16 Apr 2018
    10:55 am
I love this! What an absolutely brilliant idea. So clever. I might do this for my 50th and give everyone $50 to spend!!!
- Mum2archer replied
  
  27 Dec 2018 , 8:25 pm
  It’s such a cool idea isn’t it!! And who doesn’t like kmart!!