I am stumped on favors for my daughter's birthday. Right now there is a wide range of kids coming.
Three 2 year olds, two 5 year olds, three 8 year olds and a 10 year old.
We are doing a classic Sesame Street party--my daughter likes the older characters--not so much the new ones.
My friend (whose 2 kids are coming) were asking about games--I didn't even think of games! I was going to have more activities set up--coloring pages and crayons, basketball (we have a hoop), swing set, sidewalk chalk, bubbles. I just really didn't feel like herding and corralling toddlers into games, and I figured the older kids would enjoy the swing set/basketball hoop stuff.
Any ideas?
Re: Favors and activities?
Given the range of ages you have, I wouldn't worry about games....I think you're right that the bigger kids will just play basketball or play on the swings.
We also did a Sesame theme for DS's last bday and had a range of kid ages to cover with favors. I put a mini pack of chips ahoy cookies with a Cookie Monster head stapled to the package, a mini pack of goldfish, a slinky, a large bouncy ball, bubbles, crayons, and Sesame crazy straws. We got all the toys at Party City and the goldfish and cookies at Target.
I wouldn't bother about activities, given the wide age range, having different options for the kids to entertain themselves is good enough
I'm a fan of edible favors + 1 or 2 small themed toy that could be bubbles, cheap book, coloring book, ball, small character, gadget... being SS your theme it should be easy enough to find a big variety of items with SS characters on them
I like to give Earth's Best Fruit Smooties for favors. I will either go somewhere like Target to get a good price or get a pack of the smoothies on Diapers.com.
https://www.diapers.com/p/earths-best-fruit-yogurt-smoothie-strawberry-banana-105496
I also like to give snack packs of Earth's Best Cookies:
https://www.diapers.com/p/earths-best-letter-of-the-day-cookies-vanilla-snack-pack-6314
This. I feel like we get one of the $1 Sesame Street books every time we head to Target. My son loves them.
The other thing I would suggest for favors are maybe cds of Sesame Street music. This should be fairly easy to make yourself, and kids like music!
I think your activities sound fine. Games seem a little advanced for a 2 year old's party.