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Birthday Party Favors
I'm leaning towards not doing them, as the general feeling is they are just crappy little items you don't want, right?
But on the other hand ... I kinda want to do some kind of favor.
So what kind of (realistic) favor would you like to see at a kid's birthday party? What's the best favor you (your child) has ever come home with?
ETA: The average age of the kids going to be there is 3-4, with a couple of older and a couple of younger kiddos thrown in.
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Re: Birthday Party Favors
My fav was a party where there were a bunch of little Dr. Seuss board books and all the kids could pick a book when they went home.
We'll be doing this for DS's first (doing a Seuss theme!).
Food is another good favor because then it gets eaten. Anything interactive is also a win (stickers, etc...) but that may just be for the older kiddos.
i usually dont like the favors we get at parties, but also felt weird doing nothing for guests. for ruby's party this weekend, we made a "mix tape" of her favorite songs for each family. it's a good mix of kid songs and kid friendly grown up songs that we listen to together.
eta: rssnlvr is wise. food is always appreciated for sure. we did cookie mixes in ball jars last year and i got lots of compliments. and i LOVE the book idea. i wish we went to parties with books as favors!
This is what I was going to say... we went to a party and the hostess burned a bunch of CD's with her kiddo's favorite songs, songs that went with their theme, etc. It was cute, seemed pretty easy and DD loves listening to it!
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I try to look for something that goes with the theme. Like DS's next party will probably be cars so I will probably look for a car coloring book w/ colors and maybe one of the cars for each kid. What is the theme for DD's party? I would no favor over plastic crap people will throw away immediately.
I love these ideas! I'm leaning towards some kind of food. That sounds like a great idea, especially since a lot of the guests are adults.
Rosie, I think you have fancier parties than I get to go to!
that kazoo is a gift that keeps on giving. we even played with it this morning and it's a regular instrument in the edmonson family band
We did little snacks and bubbles at M's party for favors.
M's theme was polka dots and was around Easter, and depending on the age of the kids we had different things in plastic Easter eggs that were in a polka dot gift bag. We had bubbles (round), yogurt melts (round), cherrios (round), m&ms (round), etc. I don't remember all the round food related things, but that gives you an idea.
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Ditto! I put a lot of time and thought into mine.
Some of our faves- CDs with music, puzzle and book, food is always a fave with the kids, crayons (I've made them in the past by melting the crayons and pouring into molds), coloring books, stickers. Or sometimes something they used at the party becomes the favor. One year the kids made mini pizzas during the party and their favor was the apron, chefs hat and rolling pin they used.
ETA- thought of some others- bubbles, sand toys in beach buckets, train whistle and conductor hat. Items for dress up are always big hits.
For Em's first birthday I made embroidered towels with each kids name on them, a French Patamoyo children's CD and then gave them the Dr. Seuss Circus book.
For Linc's first birthday each kid/baby got a mustache/bow shirt, crayon mustaches, bubbles and mustache cups.
2nd Birthday- Princess wands, paper dolls, nail polish and stickers. The boys got boy toys but I can't remember what.