pw: party favors - yay or nay?

zazzu · April 2011

I have no idea what to give as party favors to a bunch of 1 year olds. That's the age of most kids likely attending W's b-day party. Do 1 year olds use chalk, or do they just eat it? I really have no idea what kids can /can't do at certain ages. Is it a waste to do favors of some sort at that age?

MrsAmyB · April 2011

Do you anticipate the guests all being one year? For us, out guests are between the ages of 0 and 5. For the trio, we are doing apple crayons (melting our own) in a baby jar, apple pops (scoops of apples on a stick dipped in chocolate/carmel), and a few other things all in a apple tin. As a parent, I weed through gift bags and decide whats best for my kiddo.

StellaZ · April 2011

Yes, it's a silly tradition - but it's cute and fun. I like sending them home with a little memento. Chalk is probably not appropriate (we are just using it now). We went with homemade Baby-Rock CDs and "monkey munch" (banana + chocolate cheerios). So , something themed and/or super simple...or yes, nothing at all is fine too!

mrssmith717 · April 2011

We didn't do any favors for L's first b day. And I doubt anyone minded.

mishquiche · April 2011

If we do them, we'll be going the edible route. I don't think they're necessary, but they can be fun for the kids depending on what you do.

AnnetteWalker · April 2011

We didn't do any favors for DS's party. And I don't expect them if we go to a party.

cmcmillan · April 2011

I am personally not a big fan of the grab bag type; usually things W can choke on and I end up throwing away. At M's 1st we didnt do one (it was just family), 2nd little stuffed monkeys w/ TJ's banana granola bar, 3rd match box car & mini playdough cookie cutter set (target $1 bins), 4th firetruck cookie. I have decided I like the edible favors best; easy, quick and everyone likes them.

cwhip77 · April 2011

Yeah, they're probably not necessary but that's the fun of a party, I say.

For M's first birthday I did just a general favor for everyone. It was a beachy Sesame Street theme so I made starfish shaped chocolates for everyone. I guess it was more for the adults than the little ones.

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KNemo · April 2011

Max's party was train-themed, so we did a this train whistle ($0.97/whistle):

along with some edibles; Stretch Island Fruit Co. Fruit Leather and Hershey's Hugs and Kisses in homemade train bags. Simple, cheap, and fun!

StellaZ · April 2011

@Katie - where did you get the whistles? We might do a train theme someday - but also I really just want to get G a whistle. Poor guy can't play his harmonica (he loves when we play for him) or blow bubbles - he gets so perplexed - how can we do it and he can't?? This he could do!

Seattle_JiLLn · April 2011

I wish we could abolish favors. So I think you can easily skip them. But if you want to do them, I think something edible (like a cute cookie??) is nice rather than some little piece of junk like from the party stores - which, yes, I did for Ben's McQueen party. ugh. He really wanted to give stickers and stuff.

The best favors we've gotten from parties were CDs of kids music, or a thing of bubbles. Or really, at one, just a balloon is fun. You can usually get plain mylar balloons at the party stores for $0.99 and those aren't the chocking hazards that latex balloons are.

iHeartHimMore · April 2011

I'm in the "totally unnecessary, but fun" camp.

For L's first birthday we did plastic beach pails w/ shovel ($1/ea at Target) and in each one was a beach/luau themed rubber duckie (found on Amazon - about $5/dozen).

MOHjen · April 2011

iHeartHimMore:
I'm in the "totally unnecessary, but fun" camp.

This exactly. I did it because I found some cute things. We did squishy basketballs that were safe for all ages. Girls got a basketball hair clip. And the older kids got some basketball shaped crayons.

I wouldn't expect it or be upset if we went to a party and didn't get one.

KNemo · April 2011

StellaZ:
@Katie - where did you get the whistles? We might do a train theme someday - but also I really just want to get G a whistle. Poor guy can't play his harmonica (he loves when we play for him) or blow bubbles - he gets so perplexed - how can we do it and he can't?? This he could do!

I got them at the Snoqualmie Train Depot, at the gift shop. They are little and perfect for Grady! Max love his still.

StellaZ · April 2011

Irishsapphire · April 2011

I was thinking about doing Earth Best's baby food, baby juice, baby cookies--my 10 month old chews on everything. I figure most of the babies will eventually be old enough to eat it in the future.

The only other thing I can think about is a cute cheap book that the parents can read their baby. My baby is starting to talk so I will be reading more to him.

Seattle_JiLLn · April 2011

IrishSapphire:
I was thinking about doing Earth Best's baby food, baby juice, baby cookies--my 10 month old chews on everything. I figure most of the babies will eventually be old enough to eat it in the future.
The only other thing I can think about is a cute cheap book that the parents can read their baby. My baby is starting to talk so I will be reading more to him.

Oh we actually did get books at a party once. Those were a hit. If you know anyone in school, you can usually order through Scholastic - they have great deals on books - often paperback versions of books are like $1. And ordering benefits the school too.

Or I often see board books in the dollar bins at Target too.

@Katie - those whistles are cute!! If Cooper is still a train nut in October I might have to copy you.

KNemo · April 2011

Seattle_JiLLn:

@Katie - those whistles are cute!! If Cooper is still a train nut in October I might have to copy you.

If you do a train party, I stuff you can have (banners, cupcake toppers, invite JPEG that I can easily change the info on, etc).

chibipoe · April 2011

I say nay but then I do pretty low key parties and I like to keep things simple. If you do them I would do something consumable, most little toys just end up adding to household clutter.

Seattle_JiLLn · April 2011

KNemo:
Seattle_JiLLn:

@Katie - those whistles are cute!! If Cooper is still a train nut in October I might have to copy you.

If you do a train party, I stuff you can have (banners, cupcake toppers, invite JPEG that I can easily change the info on, etc).

Thanks!!!!

*Bloom2be* · April 2011

We didn't do grab bags for Hudson's first because there weren't many kids and several of them were too little to care anyways! We did do a "Candy Bar" that was a huge hit though .. I just had several types of candies in our theme colors (blue/white/red) and had bags on the table and a sign reminding people to take some with them. We barely had any left over surprisingly!

I agree that chalk wouldn't work too well for 1 year olds, Hudson is still putting most things straight into his mouth and I'm sure he'd try to eat it

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