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Is it rude NOT to give out goody bags at your kids' birthday party? Some moms think that party bags are wasteful, filled as they usually are with plastic and sugary junk that usually gets thrown away at home. But others feel guilty and find it hard to part with the tradition of handing out party favors as a "thank you" to guests.
If you think a parting gift is a nice gesture, here are a few creative alternatives to the classic trinket-filled goody bag.
- Spend money on one nice thing (one piece of a favorite candy, a box of animal crackers, or a nice toy) instead of a bag of junk.
- Homemade cookies (or other baked goods) wrapped in plastic wrap and tied with a colorful ribbon.
- Do a craft at the party (paint pottery, iron-on t-shirts, color masks, decorate crowns, etc.) that the kids can all take home.
- Bubbles.
- Give each guest a book that goes along with the theme of the party.
- Balls, yo-yos, or Frisbees.
- A balloon.
- Burn a CD for each guest with your child's favorite songs.
- Art supplies like crayons and paper.
- Playing cards.
What do you think about goody bags at kids' parties? Are they a nice gesture or should we ban the tradition?
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Comments (11)
Love these ideas...you don't have to spend a lot of money to make an impact, kids can be easy to please sometimes... don't forget!
i Love these ideas...but i don't make them anymore due to the fact everyone rsvp but never showed up =(
Great ideas, plus I hate the ones that are just filled with candy. They are such a waste. We had two birthday parties this weekend, and my kids want to eat the good immediately after the party. I usually put the bags away, and if they don't ask for them for a day or two, I just throw them out.
recently went to my boyfriend's daughter's birthday party.... her mother put together these party flavors... ugh... she spent a ton of money on just the packaging. Honestly, she could have bough some stickers and colored paper bags and written the child's name on each and let her daughter decorate them with stickers. It would have been more cost effective and more sincere. Next, they had junk in them. Each oversized box contained a very cheap, very crappy eraser, a pencil sharpener shaped like a dog (that you couldn't empty the shavings out of), a decorative notepad no bigger than a mini post-it, and a pencil.... These were 4-6 year olds... These aren't things they like or care about... how about crayons? or kazoos? or freshly baked goodies? or something that they may actually like and not throw away. When we were cleaning up I found about 90% of them still full and in the trash can... They just weren't very age appropriate...
I didnt do candy goody bags but since my daughter was having a Dora Feista- I bought maracas & sombreros instead of the little prizes than did a Pinata with cansy.
I like them. For my dd's party this year we gave a small stuffed animal, bubbles, chap stick and a couple lollipops.
I like those ideas as well. I always have goodie bags for the little ones soon as my kids got to 12 no more goody bags,lol....Thank you for the ideas.
Stonemommy4
Great ideas! Thanks!
Im not a fan of candy goody bags I rather a coloring book or pencils crayons useful things.
I think they're a nice gesture. In the goody bags I would give out, they generally had things like fun looking pencils, a small notepad, jacks and bouncy balls, fun shaped erasers, sugar free gum, bubbles... things like that. The few times I have passed out treats it's always been in the form of a sucker. Once I was at one of those stores that sells a lot of novelty items, and they had a box full of ball shaped compasses marked down to fifty cents each that actually worked; I bought a bunch of them and put them in goody bags and the kids thought they were AWESOME.