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#Post#: 19448--------------------------------------------------
Re: Kids' birthday parties- is skipping party favors okay?
By: Hmmm Date: November 20, 2018, 3:48 pm
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I agree that you don't need to do party favors. But I will admit
that we always did them until the kids hit about 10.
Like Toots, one thing that made the expenditure more palatable
for me was to buy something they could use at the party. For
example, my DD had a swimming party and I gave out swim noodles
to each child with their name on it. At a cowboy themed party
for my son, I gave each child a bandana to wear during the
party. At all girls glamour girl party, I gave each a small tube
of lip gloss and a small bottle of nail polish.
An all purpose goody bag that a neighbor used to give out was a
small bag of flavored popcorn. She'd buy a big tubs of it, but
about 2 cups in a clear party bag, tie a pretty ribbon and name
card with the flavor... she'd usually have 2 or 3 flavors the
kids could pick from.
Another friend did bags of jelly bellies. She'd buy a 4 lb pack
from Costco of the assorted flavors and put them in separate
bags. My kids loved guessing the flavors.
#Post#: 19500--------------------------------------------------
Re: Kids' birthday parties- is skipping party favors okay?
By: swedishfish Date: November 21, 2018, 10:24 am
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I love the idea of a craft or other sort of activity that is a
favor in that you take something home. But we're doing this
party at a bounce house place, where the kids only have 2 hours
to jump, and any activity in the room (eating cupcakes, etc.)
takes away from that time. So for this sort of party, doing a
craft or other activity is out. That's why I thought of a
coloring book to match the theme of the party decorations, but
we aren't really doing any activities other than the jumping, if
that makes sense.
#Post#: 19534--------------------------------------------------
Re: Kids' birthday parties- is skipping party favors okay?
By: betty Date: November 21, 2018, 3:44 pm
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We didn't give out favors when my son had birthday parties. A
couple of times we did a craft so the kids took that home.
I'd say most parties did give away favors, but my son didn't
care if there wasn't one at the end. And he never got a party
favor or goodie bag that included things he really wanted or
played with later. Mostly, what came in the bag stayed in the
bag for a very long time (including most candy, ugh), then got
tossed (or donated) when we cleaned up his room.
Kids are adaptable. If you don't have favors, and a child asks
for one, just tell them you don't have any and thank them for
coming to the party. They'll probably be just fine.
#Post#: 19649--------------------------------------------------
Re: Kids' birthday parties- is skipping party favors okay?
By: lakey Date: November 23, 2018, 11:33 am
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Modified, I accidentally put a comment for the "Uninvited
Guests" post on here. So I removed it. Sorry.
#Post#: 19700--------------------------------------------------
Re: Kids' birthday parties- is skipping party favors okay?
By: jpcher Date: November 23, 2018, 8:24 pm
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[quote author=swedishfish link=topic=821.msg19444#msg19444
date=1542747125]
I'm going to get over it. We do cupcakes instead of a birthday
cake, and I always make enough for the kids to take one home as
well as have one at the party. And we'll have enough balloons
for each child to take one. As one of you said, the kids often
are more thrilled to get a balloon than anything. I know my
daughter is!
[/quote]
Ding! Ding! Ding! For the win! ;D
I think the above is perfect. But if you're still thinking about
something small, like the coloring book do an Amazon search for
"coloring books birthday favor" instead of just coloring books.
They are smaller and so much cheaper. Here's one that includes
crayons and stamps. A set of 12 for $12.00:
HTML https://www.amazon.com/Fun-Land-Coloring-Stampers-Stickers/dp/B01FUZGIUU/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1543024616&sr=8-3&keywords=coloring+books+birthday+favor
Then you could get something like this:
HTML https://www.amazon.com/Clear-Cello-Cellophane-Basket-Package/dp/B01KP670CE/ref=sr_1_2_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1543025398&sr=8-2&keywords=celephone%2Bgift%2Bbags&th=1
and tie the bags to the balloons so that the balloons don't get
away from the kids. (Has anyone had a child who lost their party
balloon and cried all the way until you couldn't see it any
more? Yes, very sad.)
Just throwing that out there. ;)
And, to answer your question it is not rude to not include a
goodie bag full of garbage. If "but I wonder if the other
parents are secretly judging me, lol." then the parents who do
this are the rude ones.
#Post#: 19787--------------------------------------------------
Re: Kids' birthday parties- is skipping party favors okay?
By: swedishfish Date: November 24, 2018, 8:27 pm
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jpcher- that's a great idea; thanks so much!
#Post#: 20229--------------------------------------------------
Re: Kids' birthday parties- is skipping party favors okay?
By: jazzgirl205 Date: November 28, 2018, 2:57 pm
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[quote author=Hmmm link=topic=821.msg19448#msg19448
date=1542750508]
I agree that you don't need to do party favors. But I will admit
that we always did them until the kids hit about 10.
Like Toots, one thing that made the expenditure more palatable
for me was to buy something they could use at the party. For
example, my DD had a swimming party and I gave out swim noodles
to each child with their name on it. At a cowboy themed party
for my son, I gave each child a bandana to wear during the
party. At all girls glamour girl party, I gave each a small tube
of lip gloss and a small bottle of nail polish.
An all purpose goody bag that a neighbor used to give out was a
small bag of flavored popcorn. She'd buy a big tubs of it, but
about 2 cups in a clear party bag, tie a pretty ribbon and name
card with the flavor... she'd usually have 2 or 3 flavors the
kids could pick from.
Another friend did bags of jelly bellies. She'd buy a 4 lb pack
from Costco of the assorted flavors and put them in separate
bags. My kids loved guessing the flavors.
[/quote]
This sounds like me. For dd's 5th birthday, she wanted to play
musical chairs. I bought 12 kid sized plastic chairs for $2
each. Each guest got to take home a chair as a favor. For her
9th b'day party she wanted a pirate theme. Dollar Tree had
pirate sets that included the hat, hook, sword, and clip earring
for $1. Voila!
#Post#: 25119--------------------------------------------------
Re: Kids' birthday parties- is skipping party favors okay?
By: bopper Date: February 1, 2019, 2:59 pm
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During the beanie baby craze I got each kid a beanie baby and
the craft was making a "sleeping bag" out of felt for the beanie
baby. I would rather one good gift than junk.
Another time we went to Claire's accessories and they would have
10 accessories for $10.
#Post#: 25147--------------------------------------------------
Re: Kids' birthday parties- is skipping party favors okay?
By: jpcher Date: February 2, 2019, 6:22 am
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swedishfish -- are you still around here?
How did the party go?
#Post#: 25234--------------------------------------------------
Re: Kids' birthday parties- is skipping party favors okay?
By: swedishfish Date: February 4, 2019, 2:25 am
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[quote author=jpcher link=topic=821.msg25147#msg25147
date=1549110169]
swedishfish -- are you still around here?
How did the party go?
[/quote]
It went great! I ended up doing enough cupcakes for everyone to
have one at the party, as well as take one home. And I got
enough balloons for each child to take one home. Most of them
didn't even want to take a balloon home, though (the parents,
not the kids! lol). I doubt anyone noticed the lack of other
favors.
A few weeks after our party, we attended one for my daughter's
friend who was also turning the same age. She didn't have
favors, either. Maybe we can start a trend! lol
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