All Things Entertainment provides clowns, TV characters, superheros, princesses, and entertainers of all kinds - balloon twisting, face painting, magic, games, and more - for birthdays, schools, and family events.

Alleyoop, AKA Al Hirsch, has been entertaining and educating children for more than 30 years and has won two Parent's Choice awards for his children's music recordings. He's a storyteller, musician, puppeteer, historian and much more, and offers a wide variety of programs for children of all ages.

Clowns Unlimited offers entertainment for birthday parties and special events. Services range from a single clown to multiple clowns, magicians, inflatables, and interactive rides.

Clowns Unlimited travels anywhere in the greater Seattle area. Prices increase according to travel distances.

David's Party Trains owner David Carlson has train parties available in the local area. He offers several different types of train parties.

The Riding Train is on rubber tires and travels through your neighborhood with adults and children aboard. Parties are three hours and suitable for all ages ($345).

If you enjoy bouncers, David says he has the best. Choices include the choo-choo jump-n-slide - with water in warm weather - with a ladder and slide and a separate exit area ($300). David's large electric trains run indoors or out - even in the rain. The track size is custom fit to the available area ($275).

Race cars are a hit with any age. David offers 1/25 scale slot car sets for $225.

Other party options include: two 15x15 inflatable bouncers (castle and a train) for $195, face painting ($100), and balloon twisting ($75(.

Discounts are available for orders of more than one item: 15% off the price of the second item ordered and 25% off the price of the third item.

illustriddler provides face painting for birthday parties, picnics, school carnivals, and other events. Art for the full face, "just cheeks," arms, or wrists is available.

Frank Dunn Magician performs magic for birthday parties and other magical events. He has been performing for over 25 years. His magic show includes live doves and he makes animal balloons.

Kimmy's Kloset provides children's entertainment for all types of events and occasions throughout the Seattle Metro area (or outside the area with a travel fee). A vast array of characters are available including Kimmy the Clown, the Conductor from Thomas the Train, Daphne from Scooby Doo, the Disney Princesses, Barbie and the Twelve Dancing Princesses, Dora the Explorer, and many more. Character appearances include a magic show, story telling, face painting, and balloons. Parties for fewer than 12 children can also include games.

Kimmy's Kloset also offers dress-up theme parties for all ages, which include costumes, face painting, balloon art, and games.

Kimmy's Kloset also provides singing telegrams.

We hired Kimmy as Ariel the Mermaid for our daughter's seventh birthday party, and the children were mesmerized by her performance and thrilled with their painted faces.

Mad Science offers summer camps at multiple locations throughout King and Snohomish Counties.  Mad Science camps are designed to stimulate scientific learning through exciting, hands-on scientific activities. Camps run from Jun through Aug for children in grades one-six. Registration and other information are available online.

Mad Science also offers birthday parties for groups of any size. Birthday parties include an interactive presentation by a specially trained Mad Scientist, and includes a completed experiment for each guest to take home. The Basic party includes a giant Mad Science color poster and goody bag for the birthday child and a cup of "slime" for all of the children. Call or visit the website to schedule a party.

Mad Science also offers Special Event shows and After School presentations. Call or visit the website for more information.

Magic Joe is a well-rounded professional magician, whose polished routines include stage performances, close-up magic, stroll around magic, and kids' shows. He has performed for Bill Gates, the Mariners, the Seahawks, and the Sonics. He is wonderful with kids and can perform for birthday parties, assemblies, fundraisers, or any other event where a magician makes sense.

Birthday party packages include the Standard Magic Show (30-minute show, audience participation, souvenirs); the Deluxe Magic Show (45-minute show, audience participation, free prizes and gifts, birthday child package, magic trick taught to the kids); and the Premium Magic Show (1-hour show, plus everything in the Deluxe Magic Show and magic using live doves that the kids can meet and pet).

Noah's Ark "Stuff-n-Fluff" Animal Workshops come to your birthday party or event, and guests can make their own stuffed animals to take home.

Guests choose unstuffed teddy bears or other animals and hand stuff them. Then they "wish upon" and insert rainbow stars, and name their new animals. Kids also create customized birth certificates and personalize their animals by dressing them up. Participants have the option to take personalization even further by adding animal sound chips, and can color and decorate their new friends' take home bags or "Ark" animal carriers.

Noah's Ark provides birthday party invitations.

The Northwest Puppet Center, tucked since 1986 into a charmingly renovated church in North Seattle's Maple Leaf neighborhood, is the Northwest's only puppet center, and a labor of love by its founders, the Carter family. It offers puppetry for the entire family by the The Carter Family Marionettes and guest artists, and features a museum, store, research library, picnic area and playground (great for letting off steam before or after), birthday parties, and school programs.

Shows here are a lot of fun - stories are arresting, and the puppets are beautifully made and handled. Puppeteers are skilled at keeping an auditorium full of restless children interested and engaged. An American Sign Language interpretation is featured on the first Saturday of each show, 1pm.

Birthday parties: See a puppet show with your birthday group, and the birthday child will have the honor (or the embarrassment) of being called up on stage to receive a crown and an audience rendition of "Happy Birthday." Room rental is available after the 3pm shows on Saturday or Sunday ($75/hour, plus the regular ticket price.) Use the kitchen to store cake, ice cream, and other party supplies (please bring your own table cloth.) The party room is good for twenty kids or fewer. Call for details and to reserve.

Seattle Clowns offers clowns, characters, and children's performers for birthday parties, picnics, and parades. Other services include face painting, magic shows, and balloon animals.

Garry Golightly, under his nom de play Bubbleman, is one of those people who gives our sometimes maddeningly reserved city a bit of spark. He's a bubble-blowing fixture at local fairs and festivals and, if you're lucky, you'll catch sight of him doing his bubble thing on Green Lake's east side at sunset. His purple van with Dot Calm license plates, often streaming bubbles from the driver's side window at stoplights, is a common sight around town.

He says he's "availabubble for birthdays (I call them Worthdays), weddings, divorces, day-care and community centers, upgradings, downsizings, Bar Mitzvahs, unions, reunions, family reunions, schools, nursing homes, fairs, festivals, flea and farmers markets..." His fees are negotiabubble, and he offers a single mother discount. Call him with queries or send an email through his website.

At his shows, which last about an hour and which he prefers to do outside, he puts a length of chain around him and his equipment in a large circle, and doesn't allow children to cross it while he's working. He also enforces a no-smoking and empty-hands (no food or drink in kids' hands) rule. He uses of all sorts of interesting shapes and found objects to make his sometimes enormous bubbles, all the while talking about conservation, respect, and the joys of really cheap toys. Kids are transported to bubble heaven. Everybody's happy.

TinkerBelly's custom dance parties offer a unique dance experience for children, incorporating belly dance lessons, dress-up, jewelry making, and music.

Face painter Lynn Brevig is an artist and art teacher with over 25 years of experience working with children. She's available to paint at birthday parties, festivals, company parties, sporting events, wedding receptions, bar mitzvahs, and other events.

She brings a display board with over 30 designs to choose from to your event; guests can also make special requests. Kids can choose to have their faces, arms, hands, or legs painted.

Lynn uses high-quality, hypo-allergenic paints (specially formulated for skin) and can provide references upon request.