Sleeping bags for kids - what do you recommend?

[aprilshowersbringmayflowers]

We're taking the kids (10, 8, 6, 3) camping for the first time this year, for the May BH and then for a week in July.

What sleeping bags do you recommend? Do I need to get liners?

Am a bit flummoxed by what's on offer: does higher price = better quality? or just fancier brand?

I've given up using the liners are they get twisted and tangled.
We have the Eurohike mummy style sleeping bags. DS gets hot easily so he has a lower category than the rest of us. They pack down really small (you don't roll them just shove, literally, into the bag.)
They come in different sizes too. I think pay good money and they will last you for ages and ages. Some of ours have taken quite a battering but still look and feel as good as new.
The DCs sleep in them sometimes at home, just because

we've got some from Mountain Warehouse that my girls love.

Go for layers - the kids don't often get cold unless they get too hot in the night and then wiggle out of their sleeping bags. If they've got warm pjs, good insulation underneath and layers on top the sleeping bag doesn't need to be a very expensive one.

Most sleeping bags have a season rating and a comfort temperature range on the end of the bag to help you chose.

We got basic ones from Millets - 2 season (dh and I have 3 season). The kids wear winter PJs and seem really warm in them. Have never bothered with liners and agree with pp that they would probably just get twisted up in them. I think liners are more useful for long trips where you want something that's easy to wash while you're away - but modern sleeping bags are easy enough to chuck in the washing machine at home occasionally.

Worth considering a child's one for your 3yo but you will probably find them too small for your 8yo and possibly your 6yo. (we've just bought our nearly 8yo an adult sleeping bag)

Have fun!

Sorry I forgot to say yy to mummy shape sleeping bags too. Those £3 Ikea fleece blankets are also handy in case anyone wants an extra layer or to wrap up in during the evening.

I'd suggest just buying normal size ones and fold them over. You'll use them forever. I can't get in with the mummy shaped ones, I'm a wriggler, but the kids are fine in them.

oh that's v interesting re getting too hot, one of mine is a furnace, and I can totally see that getting too hot leads to getting too cold.

Why the mummy shape? Square ones no good?

The mummy ones are supposed to be warmer than the big square ones. They take up less space when they're rolled up.
I don't like them because I move around a lot when I'm sleeping and they restrict that. They're great for kids though.

Yes the mummy ones are warmer - less air in them to warm up with your body heat.

we recently bought some suncamp sleeping bags for the kids from Attwools, near Gloucester, they are 400g/m2 and were only a couple of £ more than go outdoors own brand ones which were only 250g/m2. Seem like really good quality but still to be tried out...