My little Grace will be turning 6 at the end of the month. Today I sat down to plan her party. Pretty basic. She wants a party here at home with a moonwalk for the backyard and cake and ice cream. No problem. I won't have to serve a meal because we will have the party mid afternoon and I found a moonwalk that looks like a castle that only costs $85 for the entire day. So I began to make out the guest list. We will invite grandparents, two aunts, two uncles, and a few family friends, plus her friends from the neighborhood, church and dance. That came out to 20 kids!! What in the world am I supposed to get for 20 kids as party favors? I don't want to go broke! Now I know they all won't show up but most of them will. So I really need help here. I am totally drawing a blank. I know some of you are really creative and crafty and I need you!! Help me! What do I do?
The favorite thing my kids get in their party favor bags is the little cans of playdoh. We go through a lot of it on our house so its fun to get more. But they're 4 and 2, so I don't know if 6yo are still into playdoh? Do you have a theme? I helped my sil last summer with a pirate theme (I created a treasure hunt...so fun!) and the kids got the little bags of chocolate gold coins, eye patches and some fake jewels in their party favor bags and the kids loved it. You can get all that kind of stuff pretty cheap at a party store.
I always get my party favors at the dollar store! and in the party section of walmart...I get packages with 6-10 favors per pack for .88 - 1.00
You can get the clear party favor bags in a pack of 20. I usually get the little bubbles (pack of 24 I think) at Target and then a bit of candy and I like the playdoh idea. It's more the thought than what's in it...although let's face it...kids want the loot :lol: Every kids likes bubbles though. Rhonda
Great ideas so far! Yes my Grace loves Play Dough and bubbles! I will check the $$ store too. Man I freaked when I saw 20 kids on the list! Now I am a bit more calm. Keep the ideas coming please!!
I would check out sales for www.orientaltrading.com they must have some kind of "treasure box" kit with an assortment of little goodies that you could divide up........Put them in plain brown paper bags with huge question marks----- you can let Grace docorate the bags with birthday party stickers (look at the craft store I've gotten books of stickers for a buck)....... then use either stickers or markers to write their name..... use curling ribbon from the dollar store to use as a closure.
here is one of the packs of toys I saw: http://www.orientaltrading.com/ui/b...=Cross Sell-_-Product Detail-_-Product Detail
We had a combined birthday party for all three of ours last month (hey, their birthdays are all within 3 weeks - one big bash vs three small ones with guests giving up by party #3). I second the Oriental Trading suggestion. We had a carnival games theme, and on that theme along, they had quite literally, hundreds of offerings for favors, games, crafts... I ordered a simple craft - our guests ranged in age from 16 months to 8 years. Pretty much everyone 4 & up coudl do the craft on their own, and there were enough adults to help the littles. The best part - the craft was a little hand held game, so it kept them busy after, too. I had white paper bags that had birthday rubber ducks (1 per guest) and they added their craft/game to the bag.
Or you could get icing and sprinkles and let the kids decorate them themselves! I like a lot of the ideas so far, playdoh, stickers, bubbles. Pencils, erasers, hair stuff if it's all girls. I don't like all the "junk" toys that usually come in party bags. It usually just ends up getting thrown away-what a waste!
Tiffany, sounds like fun I want to come too. Tiffany hit the dollar store and get things for the girls hair, cars for boys, there is tons of tons of things. Have fun
Ya know another issue I have is that I am not going to know how many kids are actually going to be here. I mean, I am inviting these 20 kids but how many will actually show up? And you all know how people are these days - nobody rsvp's anymore and I hate that. (((sigh)))
For my daughters party this year it was a princess party so I got plain crowns with glitter pens and stick on jewels and also did sugar cookies out of crown cookie cutters and star cookie cutters (I put sticks on those to make wands) but I let them decorate both as an activity and then they wore their crowns home and I wrapped the cookies in plastic bags with curly ribbon for them to take home! Double duty and VERY cheap
Tiff, RSVP are a joke anymore, what I do is let the girls invite who they want and who shows, shows, now for party favors I know it's hard to decide how many well if you invite 20 have 20 and make sure it's something Grace likes and if some don't show she gets to play with the extra. KWIM.
For my stepdaughters 7th birthday I went to Michaels and bought the big tub of foam Princess stickers with my 40% of coupon. Then I divided up the foam stickers. The girls LOVED the stickers! They got a big bag of them (there were a LOT in the tub!) and they used them to decorate their notebooks, lunch boxes, etc.
oHHHHH Micheal's has all the stuff they had for $1 (stocking stuffers) for 40% OFF ...... so .60 for each and there are some neat things like stickers, growing capsuls, etc.........
One year we got bubbles 3 for a dollar, then we made labels to go over the label that had our daughter's picture on it and "Thanks for coming to my party". We think I had 18...and since we had the paper, ink, etc. It only cost us the $6 for the bubbles. You could buy chocolate bars and wrap them with a picture and a note too - they come 6 in a box usually for the full sized ones. I've really tried hard to stay away from candy. My oldest now makes the party favors for her guests. Last year we had tea party and we made these neat dessert plates - you buy clear glass plates and do modge podge to glue tissue paper on the back (so you can see through to the serving side). You cover it with more tissue and lots of coats of modge podge and it dries hard. Just don't dishwash it! This year, we didn't really have a party, but we had girls over for cupcakes. Since she was going to American Girl NYC this year. She made salt dough star necklaces for them. It cost us about $6 for all the stuff (flour, salt, 2 colors of acrylic paint and ribbon from Walmart!). We made 18 stars. Good luck figuring out what you do!
Just an idea....make the RSVP for regrets only. I tend to get a much better response when I do that b/c it only takes a minute to call or shoot an email that says you're not coming. I don't know if it works in all cases, but since I've started saying "Regrets Only" and including my email in my invites, I get a pretty accurate count.
It wouldn't hurt to try Target's $1 bins, also. When we went in a few days ago the black dot items were $.60.
