{"id":395,"date":"2022-02-20T15:03:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T15:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/?p=395"},"modified":"2022-05-01T20:23:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T20:23:53","slug":"keeping-the-children-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/keeping-the-children-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping the children happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping older children happy on your big day can be somewhat of a challenge, but here are some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weddingbranch.co.uk\/category-page.php?par_cat_id=183\">wedding entertainment<\/a> ideas that they can bring along to maximize \u2018smile satisfaction\u2019 for 6 to 12 year olds\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Snakes &amp; Ladders, Ludo, Draughts, Chess, Monopoly and Guess Who, to name but a few. These fantastic family favourites are played with a group of children and, wherever possible, a member of staff who oversees the game, as well as injecting extra fun into the proceedings. The object of the game, more often than not, becomes to beat \u2018Miss\u2019 at the game.<\/p>\n<p>Arts and crafts are a must for this age group. Producing a number of handmade items relating to the wedding that they can take home always goes down well. We supply a large selection of craft activities such as badge making, door hanging signs, wooden craft boxes, drawing, scratch art and wooden spoon puppets.<\/p>\n<p>Hoopla Hoops, Skittles, Blind Man\u2019s Bluff, Bubble Disco, Hall Games, What\u2019s The Time Mr. Wolf, British Bull Dog, I dropped My Keys are all huge favourites when it comes to more active games. These games can be played anywhere\u2026 Great if it starts raining and you have to move proceedings inside.<\/p>\n<p>Older children love to return to games they had when they were younger. Play-Doh is always the outright winner here! They get great pleasure from kneading, stretching and moulding the Play-Doh; it\u2019s a very calming activity in fact. On top of this, they can then produce a model of their own design, which is incredibly rewarding for the child, providing tons of conversation, laughter and joking around as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Story time\u2026 why not get a group of children together and start a story going, for example you could start them off about a story of an \u2018alien living on the moon\u2019, each child will be asked to follow on the story after two sentences. Their imagination will run wild and the story can be as imaginative as they like and great fun too!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping older children happy on your big day can be somewhat of a challenge, but here are some wedding entertainment ideas that they can bring along to maximize \u2018smile satisfaction\u2019 for 6 to 12 year olds\u2026 Snakes &amp; Ladders, Ludo, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/keeping-the-children-happy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[320,319,301,303,261],"tags":[280,311,268,296],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}