Goody bag replacement 7 year old edition

[Anonymous]

For a pool party, we gave water toys. We had extra in case kids lost them during the party, which they did. Everyone got to take home two.

[Anonymous]

Nothing the trampoline park admission is plenty. Most of the stuff gets tossed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I did fake bricks once - like movie props. They were foam, but looked really realistic. The kids loved them.

A singular fake brick? I have been trying, but what I am picturing on my head is nothing that anyone would be excited about. Do you have a link, PP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I did fake bricks once - like movie props. They were foam, but looked really realistic. The kids loved them.

A singular fake brick? I have been trying, but what I am picturing on my head is nothing that anyone would be excited about. Do you have a link, PP?

+1

Weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I did fake bricks once - like movie props. They were foam, but looked really realistic. The kids loved them.

A singular fake brick? I have been trying, but what I am picturing on my head is nothing that anyone would be excited about. Do you have a link, PP?

+1

Weird.

What do you even do with a fake brick? Use it as a yoga block?

[Anonymous]

I've always just done some candy and the balloons we have as decorations. Kids seem happy with that.

[Anonymous]

I do stickers or nice temporary tattoos. Food is too hard because every family has different preferences. Toys are cheap crap. So yeah, stickers it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most people don’t want books. It’s more clutter that won’t be used and they are tossed or donated. We never received a book for a party favor that was kept and read. The interest wasn’t there, it was a duplicate or the reading level was wrong.

Stick to simple, disposable things that can be eaten in the car, saved for later or thrown out of the parents insist. A cookie, big candy bar, bag of candy, big lollipop, bottle of Gatorade… one of these is plenty.

I feel like you live on a different planet than I do when you say most people don’t want books. That’s like saying most people don’t like ice cream. It is a collection of words that do not seem to go together. How hard is it to drop it in a little free library or save for Christmas and put in the toys for tots bin or send it to school with a note for the class library? They are literally the easiest thing to find a new home for.

We must. I look at it as one more thing I need to donate and we already have plenty of books here that need to be donated. Sure, it doesn’t take long. But it’s one more thing for me to do. I am just telling you that my kids have never received one that’s been kept.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I did fake bricks once - like movie props. They were foam, but looked really realistic. The kids loved them.

A singular fake brick? I have been trying, but what I am picturing on my head is nothing that anyone would be excited about. Do you have a link, PP?

+1

Weird.

What do you even do with a fake brick? Use it as a yoga block?

I was thinking they could throw it at each other if it was foam? Still, this would be interesting for a few minutes.

[Anonymous]

Doing nothing is fine. But easy/inexpensive/exciting to kids might be a movie style box of candy. Get a variety and let them pick one on the way out. I think they are around $1/each.

[Anonymous]

I'm a big fan of nothing.

But in general, one object is better than many. Party city has some good fidgets or Rubik's cube type games, there are those large foam glow sticks, a notebook and cute pen. It's all junk, but some get played with more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a big fan of nothing.

But in general, one object is better than many. Party city has some good fidgets or Rubik's cube type games, there are those large foam glow sticks, a notebook and cute pen. It's all junk, but some get played with more.

NOTHING.

I have never given out goody bags and no one (not even kids) has ever asked for one or otherwise commented on their absence.

[Anonymous]

Bubble wand, pin wheel, sidewalk chalk, sensory notebook/journal (they're like $5 at 5 below), pop-its, word search.

One year I did jacks. Old school and they loved it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always wonder when people say XXX was a bit hit or the kids loved YYY. Did they really or just for the first 2 minutes?

THIS EXACTLY. Kids "love it" for 5 minutes and then it spends the next year taking up space in your house, never to be looked at again until finally someone (probably mom) goes on a decluttering tear and it ends up in a landfill.

STOP THE MADNESS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I always wonder when people say XXX was a bit hit or the kids loved YYY. Did they really or just for the first 2 minutes?

THIS EXACTLY. Kids "love it" for 5 minutes and then it spends the next year taking up space in your house, never to be looked at again until finally someone (probably mom) goes on a decluttering tear and it ends up in a landfill.

STOP THE MADNESS

Lady, you've got problems.