4 options for keeping kids entertained at St. Louis weddings
If children are on the guest list for your big day – or even an important part of your nuptials – consider these four local vendors to keep your youngest partygoers entertained.
Craft central: City Sprouts
Encourage amusement with a collection of toys, packable games and easy-to-contain crafts found at metro area toy stores.
At City Sprouts, children’s creativity is tapped with crafts. Hey Clay offers a stain-free, nonsticky clay, with a free, downloadable app that provides interactive, 3D instructions on farm animal molds. Floss and Rock’s Magic Water Color Cards contain any mess to reusable cards, thanks to a handy pen you fill with water. Fat Brain Toys inspires kids to build robots and more, with Jixelz sets that include micro-jigsaw puzzles and encourage design and building.
Craft central: Happy Up, Inc.
Happy Up, Inc., offers two locations, in Clayton and Edwardsville. Discover packable games and activities, such as fast-flipping card games Slamwich or Rat-a-Tat Cat. Bring back a bit of nostalgia when you pick up a battery-operated Mini Lite-Brite. Meanwhile, Hide Inside! Thinking Putty entices kids to try their luck at finding hidden emojis inside the crystal-clear goop.
Astounding entertainment
Dancing need not be the only activity available to guests at your wedding. Little ones will love a special appearance from Christian the Magician! From juggling to making things disappear and reappear to more elaborate stunts, like making something or someone float, this local talent is a crowd-pleaser who is known as much for his humor as he is for his magical abilities.
Marvelous mementos
Youngsters will flip over the idea of taking home a memento of your wedding day just for them. And what better gift than a funny doodle of your little guests? Invite Bax Illustration to come out and do live caricature art at your reception. According to the service’s website, its “caricaturists draw approximately 17 to 20 people per hour per artist.”
Bonus, the more tech-savvy tykes will get a kick out your personalized Snapchat filter when you choose to design a Wedding Geos filter with Bax Illustration that features caricatures of you and your soon-to-be spouse.