Wedding Favours for Kids

Weddings are the ultimate family occasion with aunties, uncles, long lost cousins and grandparents galore coming out of the woodwork! Everyone looks forward to the big day but as any bride will tell you, their one big worry, apart from whether their prospective other half will actually turn up, is how all the children will behave.

It is fairly easy keeping the children quiet during the ceremony, as parents are usually close by and ready to pounce on any naughty youngster, but once they get to the reception all that changes and that’s why you need to invest in great wedding favours for children. With all that playing to do and new friends to meet they will need something to keep them amused.

Once the children are seated at the table for the wedding meal, boredom automatically sets in and fidgeting commences so they need entertaining and our kids wedding favours are ideal for this.

What Wedding Favours for Children to Choose

Ideally you need to think what is best for each child, or range of age groups to keep them amused. At Cocoon Party you can order a single party bag at a time – we don’t make you order all your kids wedding favours the same. You could order a bag to suite each child, so for the little ones you could buy ‘A Treat for Ewe’ but for the older boys ‘Party Time Party Bag’ or ‘Pirate Party’ would be great. The girls would love ‘Springtastic’ or ‘Star Style’ and for an extra 20p you can add a personalised tag with the child’s name on too!

Always pick something the kids can play with like card games, puzzles, crayons, activity books and maybe some sweets. Although it’s probably not a good idea to include too many sweets in your kids wedding favours as you want them to eat their meal! If you want us to take any sweets out of the party bags we show on our site we can easily do this for you and include another toy in its place.

Girls love notebooks, pans and any cute, like our lovely sand animals which are very popular, as are our fairy and princess activity sticker books. Light up dolphin pens and feathery boas are great, and we even have tiaras so they can play at being the bride for the day too!

What Not to Include in Your Wedding Favours For Children

It is all supposed to be about fun we appreciate that, but unless you have a great sense of humour whoopee cushions, fart pots, noisy putty and rocket balloons may not necessarily suit a wedding reception. Whilst good fun for the kids, you don’t really want farting noises while the father of the bride is making his speech. If you do think this would be a great idea then you must choose ‘Wicked’ of ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ and give them to the most mischievous children and let nature takes its course! (Please note Cocoon Party takes no responsibility for ruined wedding receptions due to children being naughty with their party bags!)

Wedding Favours For Children Who Are Older

Early teens are a difficult age to cater for. They probably don’t want to be treated like a child and be given kids wedding favours, but they will be disappointed if they are just given an adult wedding favour. At Cocoon Party we have something for every age and for this group we would recommend ‘Puzzled’ or ‘Poker Face’. We also have party bags with word search and Sudoku in and some great puzzles such as the Optica Puzzle.

Cocoon Party Bags – a flexible solution

At Cocoon Party we can match your kids party bags to your own colour scheme. We can add a personalised tag with your own message such as ‘ Dave & Jan’s Wedding 2nd June 2012’ and also add the child’s name to the tag. Cocoon kids wedding favours also make an ideal table place setting for each child. If you see a party bag you think would make a great wedding favour but you would like a few more items adding to it, or a few things replacing with other items, we are more than happy to do this for you so you end up with the perfect wedding favour for your wedding and it won’t cost you a fortune either.

If you have avoided sweets in your wedding favour party bags you could always give a sweet surprise after the meal. When the coffee is served for the adults you could pop one of our funky green buckets of sweets on the table for the kids to eat during the speeches and even the adults would appreciate that too! If you wanted to wait until later in the day you could bring out the buckets and put them on the buffet table for the evening reception for everyone to dig into. The ‘Bucket of Party Sweets’ is packed full of sweets to share and for a little added fun try ‘Bucket of Party Fun’ too which contains party poppers, balloons and bubbles, perfect to get the party started.

If you have decided not to have any wedding favours at your wedding, it would be a nice idea to give the children a party bag to take home at the end of the wedding, as a thank you for being good throughout the day. You could also give them to the children after the meal to keep them occupied while the older guests have a drink or three at the bar!

If you can’t decide which bags to choose for the children, as there are so many, here is a list of our top 5 party bags other brides have chosen to keep their little guests amused at their wedding reception!

1. Activity Fun
2. Colourful
3. Star Style
4. Colour Me Happy
5. Soldier, Soldier