Jessica Bateman
Jessica Bateman 10 Sep 2017

We are thinking of having activity bags for the children so they don't get...

We are thinking of having activity bags for the children so they don't get board, has anyone done these before and if so what did you put in them?

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E Wilson
E Wilson 10 Sep 2017

Colouring books

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

I had a few kids at mine i went on amazon and ordered them pre-packed they weren't rhat expensive either and there was plenty in them kids loved them xx

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

I brought mine off amazon, £1.98 for 4 packs. Saved a fortune instead of buying everything to go in them separately

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

I bought these x

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

I made mine I did a personalised colouring book love heart crayons bubbles and some other stuff I can't remember x

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

I made party style bags with bubble wands, snap cards, a jewellery making item, colouring and sticker books with crayons and a sweet!

Sharon  Fowles
Sharon Fowles 10 Sep 2017

I thought of doing these, the only thing that puts me off, is dim lighting cause of disco & walls being coloured on. Our weddings late afternoon, & not all parents watch there children as much as rest of us... Lol..

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

I have 4 of those Amazon packs left over if anyone wants them?

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

we had a few but all what was in them was a small colouring book and some crayons so we had a corner set up with toys

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

We did this, in ours we put pencils little colouring books, bubbles balloons, made wedding word-searches & crossword puzzles and a few sweets

Jessica Bateman
Jessica Bateman 10 Sep 2017

Thanks lady's that's been very helpful. I will take a look on amazon.
We have so many children as all of your brothers and sisters and children.

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

Search for Hayley's party treats. I got her to do favours for adults and children. She does age appropriate ones and they look great x

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

I made some for my mums vow renewal for the older kids 4-9 I put some activity books with pens , a Reading book, bubbles, a wee tote bag that you colour in, and a sweetie cone (made myself) the younger ones 10months -18months I put a plastic bib, a sweetie cone (chocolate buttons and mini kinder bars) ducks for the bath, a musical instrument and a wee phone as 3 of bags wer for my kids I went for stuff I knew they would all like and for older kids 14 I made sweetie cones aswell xx

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

We had colouring books we ordered off etsy - personalised on front with each child's name and was a huge hit with them all! X

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

I made up mine and tailored to age of children, boys had little Lego sets in theirs, little card games and joke books etc and girls had more colouring type things in, and things like top trumps home bargains and pound land have loads of stuff in x

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

If your happy to DIY a little I have just purchased a PDF colouring book off ETSY you then just print on whatever coloured paper you like and as many as you like and assemble them this has worked out a lot cheaper as I have the ability to just print what we actually need! We are putting pencils/crayons with it..balloons and a
Lolly pop .

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

We're doing something similar. There's a room attached to the main room, I've asked for a table to be set up so there'll be colouring, wii, reading books sounds like a good idea.

Nicola Mooney
Nicola Mooney 10 Sep 2017

I went to the range and bought things that would go inside party bags really so for boys I put in little cars and the girls mini jewellery making kits, I put a colouring book, crayons, bubbles and animal snap cards in them all. I got positive feedback from mummies! 😊 xxx

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

We just bought cheap colouring books and put a glass with lots of coloured pencil in and a sharpener. We had 35 kids to be honest they barely touched them they liked the glow sticks and mini jars of sweets more x

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

I put some together for my wedding. We had colouring books and pencils, some bubbles, a little bag of sweeties, little toy dinosaurs, some plastic jewellery for the girls, a squashy mini rugby ball and an animal mask. I just got loads of bits from the pound shop or eBay and we only had family children at our wedding so it was only about 8 bags I did. Also someone else brought a bubble gun and a huge bottle of bubbles so that kept the kids entertained outside for ages!

Amber Neat
Amber Neat 10 Sep 2017

This is a fab idea! Thanks for posting

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

I made my own. Asked the parents what the children liked and made them all very personalised. Admittedly we only had 4 children to our wedding so it was quite easy but put things like colouring books, mini lego people, make bracelets a lollipop bubbles and then something to do with the wedding in it! X

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

We made a puzzle book and put in some colour pencils, crayons and some 'party bag' toys

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Hazel Cottrell
Hazel Cottrell 10 Sep 2017

We are getting disposable cameras and a list of things for them to take photos of - like the wedding cake, people laughing, the youngest person and so on...

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

I just ordered them personalised colouring books on eBay, for the girls they had Disney princesses and the boys had avengers (the characters were made from words like wedding, marriage, nephew/niece etc) and came with colouring pens, the kids loved them and they didn't cost a fortune!

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

Sorry no advise but surely ukbride.co.uk could spell check the posts before posting them?! *bored (!!)

Alice Hutchinson
Alice Hutchinson 10 Sep 2017

My brother and his wife had these made and gave colouring pencils for everyone

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

We did a colouring table at ours and I printed lots of colouring sheets off the internet. Stapled them together and put a massive tub of crayons, pencils and felt tips in the middle. Kept our kids entertained for an hour or so which was what we needed.

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

Yeh we plann to put together some goodie activity bags for the children also place a mat/rug in a corner of the room with toys on so children have plenty to do so the parents can relax xx

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

I had bags made up, mainly for the speeches. I had 11 children so tailed them to what they liked x I did travel games, cards, cars, colouring books and pencil's, bath toys, bibs and plates for the under 2's.
I then had half of the hall set out with toys so a playhouse, Lego duplo and trains x (we had the wedding in a church that is not used anymore)

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

We did them we put in a sticker book. Colouring book and colours a mini toy and a junior Lego set there was only 2 of them so it wasn't expensive but Poundland do some little toys you could add in... and a little packet of sweets x

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

Bought my boxes from Ebay...the person/company i bought them from had various themed boxes and for different age groups too...they're fab! Can't wait for the kids to receive these...even the cat liked them

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Denise Kirby
Denise Kirby 10 Sep 2017

We bought "I spy" cards from eBay and disposable cameras. The cards had a list of things they had to take pictures of. I.e. Best man speech, cake, funny dancing etc

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

I did these for our wedding.
I put sweets, colouring book, note pad, pens / pencils, bubbles, the girls all had a bracelet making box and fairy wands, the boys all had a car / truck toy and a pack of mini dinosaurs

They were all aged 6 and 7..

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

We got bubble wands, and a lunchbox pack so we put little things in like little action figures or cars and some puzzles, stickers and colouring books and a pack of sweets like Haribo the kids loved them if you would like some more info feel free to pm me.

Megan McKinlay
Megan McKinlay 10 Sep 2017

We are doing Sticker books for ours. Our venue has a clause about colouring pencils and table clothes. There is a charge incurred if this happens so they suggested alternative options. Might be worth just checking your contract first x

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

We went to B&m got sticker books colouring in books that had mazes and bubbles and they had a great time to be honest there will be so much going on you will find they probably don't get bored x

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

We went to B&m got sticker books colouring in books that had mazes and bubbles and they had a great time to be honest there will be so much going on you will find they probably don't get bored x

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

We had some colouring bits, handheld games, bubbles and lego for the slightly older ones

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

We had a craft table, card making, stickers, draw bride and groom, activity books. Went down a treat. Bought most of the stuff from Poundland and The Works x

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

we did :) colouring books, glow necklaces, paper airplanes/fairies. The kids loved it :)

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

I'm doing party bags and got colouring packs from Amazon and little matching pairs and snap cards from the pound shop x

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

I gave ours age appropriate Lego, colouring books, colouring pencils and blank paper. I asked them to draw a picture for the bride and groom and post it in the card box and we got some lovely pictures to keep

Dee Gilham
Dee Gilham 10 Sep 2017

I got some personalised activity boxes off eBay and they had some activities (games/colouring books) with them. I just brought some wedding theme colouring packs and sweets to add to them x

Chloe Mclean
Chloe Mclean 10 Sep 2017

My partners auntie gave out gift bags and activity books for the age of my baby so it included a penguin hand puppet some teething rings and a personalised colouring book for when shes a bit older, the other kids who were 1 and 2 got some little toys and sweets instead of the teethers xx

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

We made our own activity booklets, we had a crossword, a secret message and other personalised activities and there was a prize for the first child to finish each one. They were really popular. We also had a giant jenga, connect 4 and dominoes.

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

We bought colouring packs off amazon and they worked out at 40p each. Also did kids activity table with card and crayons to make us a card, bought a giant snakes & ladders set and skittles for on the dance floor during the day xx

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

I got mine off etsy for about £1.80 each. Was a box with colouring and puzzle pages, sweeties, toy snake, maze, pencils etc. Great value and speedy delivery!

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

Sounds good

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

i got coloring books which were lovely which had our names and date of wedding on activity coloringbooks and not too expensive from amazon

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

I was a nursery nurse when I got married, so my group of children were invited to the wedding reception with their parents. I played party games with them like pass the parcel and musical chairs, they loved it.

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

We did a kids tables with colouring books etc but the best purchase we made was we bought some inflatable pirate swords and some fairy Wands and the kids had a blast. Hours of entertainment there and they all got to take one home. We also got bubbles too. X

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

Ours have personalised activity book, drawing pad, pencils, novelty straw, glow sticks, bubbles, a new phone case for the older 3, sweets and a book each to read, oh and a foam disc shooter gun lol x

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

I have done colouring books for kids and then crayons and bubbles in little silver buckets. Looked brilliant! x

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

We did activity boxes. They'd a mini colouring book, mini pencils, stickers, bubbles, a pack of biscuits and a chocolate bar.
Our baby guests had wooden animals, a teether and some baby snacks.
Our older children had notebook, pen, lipgloss, biscuits, a chocolate bar etc. They went down really well

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

I did jars of lego

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UKbride Administrator 10 Sep 2017

I did this for all the children at my wedding and they loved them I put bubbles in magic bubble little Colouring book and little pencils and a rainbow pencils, sweets, a little
Man that you throw and stick to things, little games like snakes and ladders noughts and crosses I would give some one game the other another game so they all didn't have the same game as thought it was pointless the chocolate favours I had a little pack of cards for the older ones and a pack of snap cards for the younger ones I can't think of anything else I put in lol but the kids loved it and kept them busy after they finished their meal was lovely seeing the kids playing with their bits

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UKbride Administrator 11 Sep 2017

Colouring / activity books with crayons and small packs of Lego for the big kids lol. Xx

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UKbride Administrator 11 Sep 2017

Activity books, travel size games, foam aeroplanes/animals, inflatable props etc. If you have a Tiger shop nearby pop in there I got most of the bits from there

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UKbride Administrator 11 Sep 2017

'bored'

Emily Higgins
Emily Higgins 13 Sep 2017

I bought kids lunch boxes from eBay as well as mini packets of crayons and mini colouring books, then went to the pound shop for some party bag filler toys, multipack of mini haribo and small packets of crisps all in I did 15 kids boxes for around £20 and I bought glitter glue to write the kids names on them xx

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 14 Oct 2017

Ooh I never thought of this but it's a good idea and I might do it myself. We are going to hire other entertainment (only stuff like giant games) but it will be nice to have something a little more orientated to them. Thanks!

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