You may want to have both alternatives at the ready, because if you have rowdy (do they still use the word rowdy?) children, using them as actors may be a tad too exciting for the little dearies.
The rest depends on your storytelling abilities…. At the end, the kids will either have balloon costumes to wear, or have one of the characters or props as their own. If necessary, make some more to give each kid an equal share of balloon, and do something extra for the birthday boy or girl. • BTW, I’ve used a similar setup, but with a different story (Snow White and the Seven Dwarves) at my niece’s kid’s birthday, and it worked like a charm. There were only about nine kids, which meant I had to have some kids play different characters, but it did give each kid a more or less equal part in story participation. The kids were between nine and eleven. I played the wicked witch myself (with a witches hat on and a broom made of balloons. I had a basket with real apples, which were distributed to the kid, but the poisonous one was a balloon apple. Although It was hard to keep the kid’s attention to the story, I think it was a successs.
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