A big thank you to today’s family for letting us share your special day! Today we celebrated a first birthday party with a jam packed role play village to entertain a range of ages while the adults could relax and catch up too! Today we set up:🧱 Construction Site🚨 Emergency Services 🍎 Supermarket💇🏻♀️ Hairdressers🚂 Tracks and Trains🦸🏻 Superhero Training Zone🍬 Sweetie cones for the guests as a take home gift.Thank you to everyone who came to play today. It was a pleasure to share it with you. If you are planning a celebration then remember we offer a 10% early booking discount for parties booked more than 3 months in advance and our autumn/ winter bookings are filling up fast! See you again soon.Erica x#kidsparties #basingstokeparties #basingstokemums #tadleymums #fleetmums #wallingfordmums #oxfordshiremums #rdgukmums #cavershammums #tilehurst #childrensentertainment #mobileroleplay #popupplayvillagebasingstokeandreading
What an amazing day we had with the @lovebasingstoke team for the first Fri-YAY of the summer! We had fun with our role play supermarket, sports hero training zone and our Art studio where we were decorating wooden medals. I loved hearing the children choose which sport they would award themselves a medal for and was impressed with the throwing and balancing skills I saw them practicing. Thanks to everyone who came along to play and we look forward to seeing you again soon! #lovebasingstoke #basingstokemums #roleplayvillage #popupplayvillagebasingstokeandreading #basingstokecommunity #basingstokebusinesses #childrensentertainment #olympicsinspiredplay
Come on down and join us at @wellingtonarmshants today for their wedding fair from 11-3pm. There are lots of suppliers set up and ready to welcome you along and chat about how we can help make your wedding day really special. Megan is set up outside to showcase our outdoor games and I’m indoors ready to chat about how we can help entertain the littlest guests at your wedding. #weddingplanning #berkshirewedding #hampshirewedding #basingstokewedding #readingwedding #kidsatmywedding #weddingswithkids #popupplayvillagebasingstokeandreading #weddingsupplier
Wishing our birthday girl a very happy 2nd birthday today! We had a great time celebrating in the sunshine and want to thank all today’s villagers for playing so nicely and making us all so welcome. What a great way to kickstart our summer of fun. See you again soon! Erica #partytime #popupplayvillagebasingstokeandreading #basingstokeparties #basingstokeparty #kidsparty #rdguk #readingberks #burghfieldcommon #tadley #fleet #caversham #tilehurst #shinfield #chineham #bramley #hatchwarren
I’m looking forward to popping up for a garden party today where we are setting up with:
🧱 Construction site
🐶 Vets
🍎 Supermarket
👶🏻 Baby Nursery
🐄 Farm themed sensory trays
🦸🏻 👑 Dressing up rail
We can’t wait to welcome all of today’s villagers to play! See you soon 🎉
#partyhire #kidsparty #gardenparty #mobileroleplay #roleplayvillage #popupplayvillagebasingstokeandreading
Ready to RAVE! All set up this morning with Pop Up Play Village - Thatcham and Newbury to play at Raver Tots in Reading! We can’t wait to have lots of fun today! If you are coming then we can’t wait to meet you! #ravertots #popupplayvillagebasingstokeandreading #mobileroleplay #rdguk #prospectpark #childrensentertainment #kidsfestival #playtime
🌞🕶️ What an awesome morning I spent with the amazing children at Rainbow Nursery today. It was an added extra to my usual monthly sessions with them to celebrate the end of term which was such a treat for me too! I loved choosing play areas that I knew the children had loved over the past year and then a fun craft for the Art Studio to make a paper plate sun with groovy shades! Watch to the end for the children’s awesome creations! Didn’t they do a good job! Thanks to all the staff and children for making me feel so welcome each time I come to play and I look forward to coming back to see you all again in September. Good luck to those who are moving on to big school… I’ll miss you! #popupplayvillagebasingstokeandreading #burghfieldcommon #nurseryvisit #endofterm #eyfsvisit #craftideas #paperplatecrafts #sunnydaycrafts #schoolvisit #thanksforhavingme #seeyousoon
A big thank you to the lovely children and staff from Rainbow Nursery for having me along to play again today. I so enjoy my monthly sessions with these guys and getting to see how much the children change over the year. Today was a holidays/ summer themed session so we were visiting the beach in the sand tray building sand shapes, visiting the beach shop and cafe, serving ice creams in the ice cream parlour and we loved some sensory play in the water tray with fruity tea bags to make potions all of this plus our pirates and mermaids role play area which was a firm favourite with the children and it was quite a mission finding all the pirate treasure at tidy up time… it was everywhere!! 😱😂 I loved all the swashbuckling and there was a lot of “Polly’s got a cracker” and “arrr haaa me hearties” being proclaimed! 🏴☠️🧜🏻♀️🦜#piratesroleplay #mermaidsplay #popupplayvillagebasingstokeandreading #nurseryvisit #burghfieldcommon #efysvisit #basingstoke #readingberks #tadley #chineham #schoolvisit #basingstokeschools #summerplay #roleplayoutdoors
Dino washday today for the hard bodied dinos as they took a dip in the bubbles before stomping around on the patio in the sunshine to dry off! Anyone else loving the sunshine this afternoon? Making the most of my weekend off… by working? Hmmm something not quite right there! Better go and put my feet up for a bit in the shade 😎☀️🦖🦕#dinosaurplay #washday #cleantoys #dinosaurs #toydinos #popupplayvillagebasingstokeandreading #mobileroleplayvillage #roleplayparties #eyfsvisits
Did you know that we have a great selection of giant games that we can add in to your hire? These are used for our wedding set ups most often but are equally popular for kit hire deliveries. Choose from:
Giant connect 4
Giant jenga
Giant snakes and ladders
Quoits
Skittles
Boules
And many more
Games can be hired for up to 24 hours or just for the afternoon if that was preferred.
Drop us a message if you have an event coming up and would like them added to your package.
#toyhire #gameshire #basingstoke #readingberkshire #fleet #farnborough #weddinggames #weddingentertainment #kithire #partyplanning #childrensentertainment #notjustforkids
When you come home to find the dinos have finished their wash and your lovely daughter has put them out to dry!
I love that the stegosaurus is sunbathing on his back and the T-Rex is looking slightly menacing peeking over the top! 🤣🤣🦖🦕
#cleantoys #washday #kitcleaning #popupplayvillagebasingstokeandreading #popupplayvillagedinosaurs #dinosaurplay #washthedinosaur #behindthescenes #lifeofasmallbusinessowner
Soooooo…. You may have noticed we have been a little bit lopsided recently and a lot quieter than usual. Well there was a very good reason for that and.
As you may be aware we are a double act, husband & wife team and following a chest infection and hospitalisation for Frank in December he was told he had a leaking heart valve and he had to rest and await major surgery. About a month ago he had his operation and was subsequently in intensive care and on the high dependency unit for a while in London before being transferred back to Basingstoke and he finally made his way home on Father’s Day much to the relief of our 4 children.
We are so glad to have him home but man oh man it has been a journey! There is still a great deal of recovery ahead of him so do bear with us while he gets back on his feet. However do not panic as I am very much still here and running things singlehanded!! I’m out and about running parties and delivering kit hires and visiting our regular nursery and school sessions, I just haven’t been shouting about it on our socials as I really didn’t have time to focus on that side of the business… sorry!
I will undoubtedly pay the price now for being quiet as the social media algorithms won’t like me but we are here… we are open and we are running events for you! More than that we are planning for an action packed summer with sessions we are running for Basingstoke Council and of course not forgetting that we are attending Car Fest at the end of August.
We have also been busy working on a really big project that we are looking forward to sharing with you in due course so stay tuned! 🫶🏻🤞🏻
Thank you to everyone who has known about what we have been going through and has been so incredibly supportive of us as a family and our little business. Thank you for all your well wishes over the last month in particular for Frank and to keep me going on the hard days. We are so thankful and intend to come back fighting fit just as so
I ran out of time to share with you what we got up to yesterday at Rainbow Nursery so here is a sneak peek… a day late! We had great fun smashing the ice to free the dinosaurs and creating the dinos lunch in the mud kitchen but I have to say the swamp making way my favourite and I’m just sorry I didn’t manage to get any pictures of the finished swamp in all its muddy glory to share with you!! It was quite an impressive mess to clean up after that’s for sure! 😂 I’m glad the children had fun and they certainly knew lots about the different dinosaurs and had some really good discussions with me about how they could free them from the ice and what might work so there was lots and lots of fantastic learning going on for them too! A favourite of mine was when they learnt that whisks are not very good for bashing ice… the ice gets stuck inside the whisk! 🤣 Thanks for having me to play, I can’t wait for next time. Erica x
#nurseryvisit #burghfieldcommon #eyfs #dinosaurplay #outdoorexplorers #outdoorplay #learningthroughplay #eyfsvisit #popupplayvillagebasingstokeandreading #rdguk #basingstoke #tadley #schoolvisit #basingstokeschools #rdgukschools
This is why we love what we do! Watching your little villagers as they learn through play and show their own understanding of the world around them by copying what they see you do and wanting to do the same... from reading bedtime stories to cooking dinner... it's how they learn.
#learningthroughplay #roleplayvillage #whyroleplay #popupplayvillagebasingstokeandreading #basingstokemums #rdgukmums #berkshiremums #hampshiremums #oxfordshiremums #mobileroleplay #justlikemum
It was a swift all change in the van last night as we returned the gazebo and the art studio items to storage and repacked the van ready for todays party! Today we are setting up the village to celebrate with:
🚂 Tracks and Trains
🦕 Dinosaurs
✉️ Post Office
🚨 Emergency Services
🚧 Construction Themed Tuff Trays
I love seeing new combinations of the play areas that make up the village and with 21 different areas to choose from it’s hardly a surprise that we often see our little villagers choosing something we haven’t had for a while! I’m sure todays guests will have a great time and I look forward to welcoming them to the village.
See you soon!
#roleplayparties #popupplayvillagebasingstokrandreading #partyhire #kithire #partiesinbasingstoke #basingstokemums
We are off to party this afternoon with our birthday girl who is turning 6! Today we are setting up the village with:
🏕️ Campsite
🏴☠️🧜 Pirates and mermaids
🚂 Tracks and Trains
🦕 Dinosaurs
And a bumper dressing up rail to really add to the imaginative play 🦸🏻♂️👮🏻♂️👷🏼♂️👚👖👗👑
We can’t wait to welcome the villagers! See you soon!
I just had to show you! We can’t wait to bring this to the host of events we have planned this summer! We will be at a lot of fetes and fairs but also @ravertots in Reading on 21st July and @carfest.south on 23-25th August! Come and join us by finding the flags! Eeek #post #newdelivery #newkit #marketing #newflag #igetexcitedoverlittlethings #popupplayvillagebasingstokeandreading