{"id":7675,"date":"2020-05-14T16:23:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T16:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7675"},"modified":"2020-05-14T16:23:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T16:23:34","slug":"how-to-throw-a-virtual-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/05\/how-to-throw-a-virtual-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"How to throw a virtual celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just because we are in lockdown it doesn&#8217;t mean that life stops, and so it shouldn&#8217;t. Now more than ever it&#8217;s important to celebrate the small and big milestones. If one of your loved ones has a special event or birthday coming up, here&#8217;s a few ideas of how to make it special.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperlesspost.com\/\">Send a card (Paper or Virtual)<br><\/a>Who doesn&#8217;t love receiving cards in the post, if you can&#8217;t get to the post-office because of lockdown why not make a card, print out your postage online and pop it in the post box or if you can&#8217;t send one physically why not send a digital one with something like paperless post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/\">Host a Zoom Party<br><\/a>Zoom is a great way to throw a virtual party with friends and family. Setup the Zoom, send your invites and off you go! Why not arrange for everyone to have a bit of cake or a drink in their hand to sing Happy Birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Create a video montage<br>Why not ask the friends of the person who&#8217;s celebration it is to record a special message for them. Then put all the messages together into a video for them to watch on the day and keep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflixparty.com\/\">Host a Netflix party<br><\/a>Did you know you can download a special plug-in for your Chrome browser which enables you to host long distance movie nights and TV watch parties!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/houseparty.com\/\">Host a houseparty<br><\/a>Houseparty is a video chat app which can be used on mobile or desktop. Members of the party can play online games together or chat making it great for tweens, teens and adults.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/caribu.com\/\">Caribu App<br><\/a>The Caribu app is a brilliant video calling app for younger kids. The app offers in-app games and activities aimed towards young kids and is great choice for young kids who might feel a bit awkward having a virtual party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just because we are in lockdown it doesn&#8217;t mean that life stops, and so it shouldn&#8217;t. Now more than ever it&#8217;s important to celebrate the small and big milestones. If one of your loved ones has a special event or birthday coming up, here&#8217;s a few ideas of how to make it special. Send a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/05\/how-to-throw-a-virtual-celebration\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":7676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,3149,72],"class_list":["post-7675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kids","tag-lockdown","tag-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7677,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675\/revisions\/7677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}