Kids can celebrate a birthday with easy, creative party favors.
Your 5-year-old comes home from a birthday party clutching a decorated paper bag with candy and plastic trinkets inside. If the thought makes you cringe, you will be happy to find other creative ways to send young guests home happy from your child's next party. Does this Spark an idea?
Easy and Thrifty
Children's party favors can go beyond traditional bags filled with toys and candy.
Kids' party favors can easily go beyond the ordinary without costing more than a dollar each, Kids Party Paradise notes. The party-planning website recommends finding inexpensive favors at discount and dollar stores. Some ideas include coloring books and crayons, books, balloons, paints, seeds for planting, unopened toys from fast food restaurants, one-dollar gift certificates for fast food, pencils and clay with a cookie cutter.
Fitting a Theme
You can tailor the favors to a theme as a reminder of the party, the parenting website Creative Kids at Home suggests. Kids can dig in sand as they pretend to be archaeologists at a party with an Egyptian theme, finding small jewelry or toys with symbols fitting the theme. At another party, guests can follow a pirate's map to find a hidden stash of toys that they can enjoy together and then divvy up to take home. If the party includes a visit to a place that offers tours, such as a fire station, a gift may be part of the deal, the website notes.
Getting Crafty
Consider getting your child's friends involved in an activity where they create their own party favor. Kids Party Paradise lists many crafts kids can make simply, with little cost to you. Look for bookmarks, scented sachets, magnets, jewelry, soap and other easy crafts the kids can have fun making and then take home. Girls can make jewelry while enjoying a tea party, and a photo of each guest in her party finery adds a nice touch, the site notes.
The Unexpected
Kids enjoy taking home a favor with a special twist. Kids Party Paradise offers advice to get parents thinking creatively, with ideas like encasing small gifts in a balloon. Kids can decorate a simple picture frame during the party, and you can spice it up with a photo of them taken with the birthday boy or girl.
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