Garden Games Hire in Birmingham and the West Midlands

Not every activity at an event needs instructions, a timetable or a queue. Sometimes you just need to put a great game in front of people and let them get on with it. That’s exactly where our garden games come into their own.

Tom’s Lights Events has built up a varied collection of giant games, traditional favourites and unusual activities for parties and events throughout Birmingham and the West Midlands. They can fill an unused corner of a venue, create several activity stations around a field or provide something for guests to pick up and play whenever they fancy.

Games You Don’t Need to Build the Whole Event Around

One of the best things about garden games is their simplicity. They don’t have to be the headline attraction to earn their place at an event.

Guests can have a go while waiting for food, between other activities, during quieter parts of a wedding reception or while someone else is using the main inflatable. Some people will play once. Others will insist on a rematch. Before long, somebody will probably be keeping score far more seriously than anyone intended.

That makes garden games particularly useful alongside bigger attractions such as bouncy castles, inflatable slides and rodeo bull hire.

Nine Holes Without Leaving the Party

Our 9 Hole Crazy Golf can turn part of your event space into its own miniature golf course.

Crazy golf has a useful quality for event planners: people already understand what they’re supposed to do. Guests can play a hole or work their way around the course, making it suitable for family celebrations, corporate events, school activities, weddings and community days.

It’s also an activity that doesn’t depend on everyone being the same age, which is useful when you’re organising an event for families rather than one particular age group.

Go Giant with Familiar Games

Making a familiar game enormous changes it completely.

Our Giant Connect Four takes the tabletop classic and turns it into something guests can spot from around the venue. Then there’s Giant Jenga, where a straightforward decision about which block to move can suddenly attract an audience.

Games like these are particularly easy to weave into an event because they don’t require a lengthy explanation. Children understand them, adults recognise them and different generations can play together.

Garden Games at Birmingham Weddings

There can be surprisingly long gaps in a wedding day. Guests arrive at different times, photographs are being taken, rooms are being turned around and people find themselves with half an hour to fill before the next part of the celebration begins.

A few well-positioned games can make excellent use of that time.

They’re informal enough that nobody needs to be organised into taking part. Guests can wander over in pairs or small groups, children can play with relatives and people who have only just met suddenly have something to do together.

For weddings with younger guests, garden games can also sit alongside our Wedding Bouncy Castle, giving families several entertainment options rather than relying on one attraction.

Give the School Fete More Places to Play

School fields are perfect for spreading entertainment out rather than putting everything in one place.

A summer fete could have an inflatable at one end, refreshments elsewhere and a collection of games positioned around the site. Sports days, PTA fundraisers, leavers’ events, reward days and end-of-term celebrations can use the same approach.

For a more activity-focused event, combine garden games with our sports games. For something closer to a traditional fete, mix them with funfair games such as Hook A Duck, Tin Can Alley and Splat The Rat.

A Different Approach to Corporate Entertainment

Corporate entertainment doesn’t always need to involve a microphone, formal team-building exercise or complicated activity schedule.

Garden games can create an informal activity area at staff summer parties, company family days, networking events, team socials and outdoor corporate functions. Colleagues can join in when they want to rather than being told when it’s their turn.

If you want to make the entertainment more substantial, our interactive games and arcade games can provide completely different activities elsewhere at the venue.

From Back Gardens to Big Community Events

The clue is in the name, but you don’t actually need a domestic garden to hire garden games.

They can be used at suitable halls, event venues, school grounds, marquees, wedding venues, corporate spaces and community events as well as private garden parties. Because different games have different footprints, you can choose products according to the space you have available.

They’re equally useful when planning a relaxed family barbecue as they are when creating multiple entertainment stations at a larger public event.

Big Darts. Very Big Darts.

Some of the products in this category stretch the definition of a traditional garden game rather dramatically.

The Giant Inflatable Dartboard, for example, stands over five metres high. It’s not exactly something you’d mistake for the dartboard at your local pub.

Products on this scale can provide a much more visible feature for school fields, corporate days and large outdoor celebrations while still retaining the straightforward have-a-go quality that makes games so useful at events.

Mix Fast-Paced Attractions with Slower Activities

A good event doesn’t necessarily need every attraction operating at maximum intensity.

If you’ve already booked one of our assault courses or a large inflatable, garden games give guests something completely different to do. Younger children, parents, grandparents and anyone taking a break from the larger attractions can still get involved.

For events involving toddlers, you can create another distinct area with soft play and ball pools. That gives you several styles of entertainment within the same event rather than asking one attraction to suit everybody.

Community Fetes, Fundraisers and Family Fun Days

Garden games are particularly at home at events where people arrive and leave throughout the day.

At a community fete, charity fundraiser or family fun day, visitors don’t necessarily follow a fixed programme. They walk around, stop at whatever catches their attention and move on when they’re ready.

Games fit that format naturally. Spread several around the venue and you can create small pockets of activity without having to manage everybody as one large group.

Add Something to Eat While They Play

For summer events and family celebrations, you can combine games with selections from our fun foods range. Popcorn, candy floss and slush options can help create the familiar feel of a school fete or community fun day, particularly when paired with traditional fairground-style activities.

If you’re organising a much bigger event, browse All Products to see how garden games can fit alongside the rest of our entertainment range.

Garden Game Hire Around the West Midlands

We bring our games to events throughout Birmingham and the surrounding region. Our delivery areas include Castle Bromwich, Solihull, Dudley, Walsall and Sutton Coldfield, along with many other parts of the West Midlands.

So whether you’re arranging games for a Birmingham school fete, filling the lawn at a Solihull wedding, planning a company summer party in Dudley or putting together a family event in Walsall, take a look through the available products and see what fits your plans.

Quality Equipment, Ready for Your Event

Our garden games are part of the same professional hire operation as the rest of our event equipment. Products are cleaned and checked as part of our hire process, and our team takes care of getting your booked equipment to your event.

Tom’s Lights Events also holds £5 million public liability insurance, giving schools, businesses, venues, community organisers and private customers additional reassurance when arranging their entertainment.

Pick a Game and Start Planning

You can keep things simple with one or two giant games, create your own mini games area or combine them with inflatables, sports activities, funfair games and other event entertainment.

Browse the garden games available above and use our online booking system when you’ve found what you want. For help putting a larger entertainment package together, visit our contact page and tell us a little about your event.

Call us on 07503 196103 or email info@tomslightsevents.com.