Just the other day I had a request for Roxy’s recommendations of birthday and holiday party venues for kids who have done it all. If you’ve got 25 competitive tween gymnasts who have already been bowling, ice skating, rollerskating and swimming, Cooks and Crafts in Flanders, New Jersey just might be a creative alternative destination. The family-owned store offers families or party-goers the opportunity to do something wholesome and empowering in cooking and arts and crafts. Having hosted a gingerbread house making party for thirty 4-year-olds in my own home, let me tell you what a relief it is to have an arts and crafts event where someone else is responsible for the clean-up. Cooks and Crafts has four state-of-the-art and spacious FunShop event/party rooms, a gourmet wireless internet café, a specialty retail section (I bought a cool sheet-cake-cutter that makes birthday cake serving a breeze) and a new scrapbooking room.
Cooks and Crafts, 244 Route 206 South, The Mall at 206, Fanders, New Jersey 07836. Phone: (973) 927-3222.
