How much do you spend on party favors?

[Anonymous]

I don't have a specific budget. I've spent $15 getting only stuff from the dollar bins at Target, and spent $15 per gift bag for each kid. Range is wide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Total for goody bags is usually around $7. But then again, I love goody bags! I do hate when people put super, super-cheap stuff in their goody bags and give them out. If you're only going to spend $1.50 per goody bag, give one good thing, not crap like 1-inch bottles of bubbles that don't work or cheapo plastic sunglasses from Oriental trading that break on the car ride home from the party or one tiny container of Play-Doh! Or at the very least, if you give out super cheap stuff, give out stuff you know is going to work like stickers or small boxes of crayons or modeling clay.

I hope I don't know you. And I really hope that you aren't the parent of one of DDs pre K friends. Nightmare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Total for goody bags is usually around $7. But then again, I love goody bags! I do hate when people put super, super-cheap stuff in their goody bags and give them out. If you're only going to spend $1.50 per goody bag, give one good thing, not crap like 1-inch bottles of bubbles that don't work or cheapo plastic sunglasses from Oriental trading that break on the car ride home from the party or one tiny container of Play-Doh! Or at the very least, if you give out super cheap stuff, give out stuff you know is going to work like stickers or small boxes of crayons or modeling clay.

I hope I don't know you. And I really hope that you aren't the parent of one of DDs pre K friends. Nightmare.

+ 1,000

[Anonymous]

I LOVE goodie bags and spend around $7-8 per kid. We only invite 4-5 kids anyway so it's not that expensive.

This year the kids' birthday is firefighter/dalmatian themed so they're going to "rescue" a webkin from a building on fire ($1 each) and they're taking home a small reusable bag with a firefighter rubber duckie, a "make a scene" activity with a firehouse background and firefighter stickers, a pawprint stamp and balloons from the party (to help me clean up )

Oh, and the party hats are firefighter hats.

What do you guys think?

[Anonymous]

Moms from my friend circle asked us not to give plastic junk that gets thrown away.

My go to goody bag filler is snack size bags of goldfish, sunchips, gummy fruit snacks, pringles, blueberry muffins - that kids can take to school in their lunch box. I may add some candy usually - chocolate bars or fruit roll ups, or ring pops. I will also add in a few pencils, or a pencil box, erasers etc. - that they can use at school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's the competition: "my party is better than your's".

Something more useful would be better. Decorate a cupcake and take it home; for toddlers, one coloring book + 4-crayon box or a little book. As a parent, I would be happy with that. Or, you could have a pinata, and whatever the kid manages to put into his grab bag, is what he gets to take home. Kids are happy with even cheap, crap plastic toys; as a parent, I'm not. More junk in the house.

Please, something small and more useful.

You don't consider a backpack or a book to be useful?

Sure, but backpack is over the top expensive for little kids for a goody bag. The op asked about how much to spend, and a backpack is crazy.. I did say book was useful, and I've done those.

[Anonymous]

We spend a lot but its based on my budget. I'm not sure why you need to ask other people what you should spend. Do you always give others control of your wallet? Stop worrying about comparing parties and just put something together that the kids will like. It doesn't take much.

[Anonymous]

$2.99 for a book x number of guests. But I don't have big parties. 1st grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Total for goody bags is usually around $7. But then again, I love goody bags! I do hate when people put super, super-cheap stuff in their goody bags and give them out. If you're only going to spend $1.50 per goody bag, give one good thing, not crap like 1-inch bottles of bubbles that don't work or cheapo plastic sunglasses from Oriental trading that break on the car ride home from the party or one tiny container of Play-Doh! Or at the very least, if you give out super cheap stuff, give out stuff you know is going to work like stickers or small boxes of crayons or modeling clay.

I hope I don't know you. And I really hope that you aren't the parent of one of DDs pre K friends. Nightmare.

Why do you say nightmare? What exactly is the problem? That I like goody bags or that I don't like super cheap stuff that breaks within 10 seconds?

[Anonymous]

For the 3rd birthday last year, I spent about 20 bucks total for 10 kids at Party City. I've been to parties where the goodie bag made me feel like we should've paid admission.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I LOVE goodie bags and spend around $7-8 per kid. We only invite 4-5 kids anyway so it's not that expensive.

This year the kids' birthday is firefighter/dalmatian themed so they're going to "rescue" a webkin from a building on fire ($1 each) and they're taking home a small reusable bag with a firefighter rubber duckie, a "make a scene" activity with a firehouse background and firefighter stickers, a pawprint stamp and balloons from the party (to help me clean up )

Oh, and the party hats are firefighter hats.

What do you guys think?

See comments on your other thread. No, no, no.

[Anonymous]

We spent about $10 per goody bag, but invited very few children. Had there been a ton of kids, I would not have spent that much. More intimate party = better goody bag for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I LOVE goodie bags and spend around $7-8 per kid. We only invite 4-5 kids anyway so it's not that expensive.

This year the kids' birthday is firefighter/dalmatian themed so they're going to "rescue" a webkin from a building on fire ($1 each) and they're taking home a small reusable bag with a firefighter rubber duckie, a "make a scene" activity with a firehouse background and firefighter stickers, a pawprint stamp and balloons from the party (to help me clean up )

Oh, and the party hats are firefighter hats.

What do you guys think?

See comments on your other thread. No, no, no.

Agreed. The firefighter hats and ducky are ok. My son would shave no interest in a web kin, and the activity scene, stamp and balloon will get trashed.