Candy Train
This is a great quick and easy project that you can do with your child to make party favors for their party or do as a project for the party goers! A candy train engine! All you will need is: A roll of Lifesavers or similar, a 5 stick pack of gum, 2 Hershey?s Kisses, a Hershey?s minature candy bar, 6 Starlight mints, and a low temp hot glue gun. Begin by gluing the roll of Lifesavers to the pack of gum. Glue the wrapped Hershey?s Minature standing upright to the back of the end of Lifesavers. Glue a Hershey?s Kiss to the front to make a point out of the Lifesavers, another Hershey?s Kiss up on top of the roll near the front end as the smoke stack. Glue three wrapped Starlight mints to each side of the pack of gum and ta-da! A candy train engine! Fun to do with the kids, and makes a great edible party favor.
Firefighter Birthday and Party Favors
A firefighter birthday party is a popular theme for young boys. You can decorate the room like a fire station--make sure to include a stuffed Dalmatian toy! Outside, set up a fire station with various activities. Young children will enjoy a ride in a wagon decorated to look like a fire truck. You can also shoot the water hose at a target if you can handle wet children! For a great activity, give each child a cardboard box and let them decorate it to look like a fire truck. Want some birthday party favor ideas? Plastic fire fighter hats are an obvious choice. Small stuffed Dalmatians would also be fun, as well as small fire trucks or water squirting toys. Some local fire stations offer a tour if you can manage an outing.
Party Favors for a Carnival
One party that will require a lot of party favors is a carnival party. You can set up various games for the kids to play to win favors. These don't have to be elaborate though. Look for party favors that you can buy cheaply by the dozen. Stickers, small plastic animals, bubbles, bouncy balls, and small containers of play dough make good party favors. For girls, hair decorations and rings and bracelets can also be found inexpensively.
Party Favor Ideas: Double Duty as Decorations
When you're looking for party favor ideas, don't forget to incorporate your decorations as favors. Balloons can make a great party favor. Helium balloons especially are great fun for the kids to take home. Buy a few extra in case some pop during the party though. Even regular balloons can put a smile on a child's face, though. If you're at all inclined, make animals or shapes by twisting balloons together. For older kids, have them create the balloon shapes as an activity and take their creation home. Party favor ideas can be as unique as your child. For a child, party favors they've created are especially fun.
Too much candy!
Although candy is a cheap way to fill kids? loot bags, parents often don?t appreciate all those sweets! Keep the candy to a few pieces each, or include small toys or sugarless gum and fruit snacks instead.
Birthday Party Favor on a Budget
Birthday party favors don't have to break the bank. Find some small object that fits the theme of the party. If you're a pool party, small inflatable toys are fun. If you're at the park and it's summer, squirt guns are a perennial favorite. Small airplanes or cars can fit with a variety of themes. Small stuffed animals or animal stickers can fit with themes such as a circus party, a favorite animal party (everyone brings their favorite stuffed animal), a jungle safari, or a teddy bear party.
Party Favor Ideas: Crafts
Brainstorm a list of party favor ideas that relate to the theme of your party. Bandanas can be decorated as one of the party activities and then sent home with each child for a cowboy or cowgirl party. Hats or visors can be decorated to match many different themes. For older children, decorating t-shirts can be fun and provide both an activity and a party favor. *Ideas can be found online or by thumbing through any number of birthday party idea books at your local library.
Child Party Favors and Sleepovers
If you're having a girls' sleepover party and need some activities to keep the girls busy, have some craft activities that let them create their own child party favors. Decorating hair barrettes and visors is fun. You could also get a hair ribbon making kit and set that up. Teach each girl to make friendship bracelets and supply the lacing necessary. T-shirts are always fun to decorate, with fabric paint or stamps or a tie-dye design.
Four and Five Year Olds
Children this age are quite possessive, so make sure that favors can be kept close at hand. Personalized favors go over well.
Beach Theme
A great beach themed goodie bag idea is to use something other than a bag! Why not use a sand bucket and write the child`s name on the shovel with permant marker? Then, fill the bucket with things like bubbles, lollipops and more fun things that can be enjoyed at the beach or outdoors!
Dollar Stores
Party favors can be expensive. The local dollar store is often a terrific place to find less expensive favors as well as decorations.
About Child Party Favors
Most children are enthtalled by bright colors and pretty things. To a young child, party favors might be the most important thing about their birthday party. For many families, the ideal is something both affordable and fun. Pick a budget per child and try to find a few small toys that fit the theme of the party. Make sure your party favors are age-appropriate and safe for your guests. If you are having a range of ages at a party, create two different sets of toys so that the younger children don't get toys not suitable. Inexpensive toys like play dough, small sets of building blocks, or stickers can be plenty.
Young Children and Loot Bags
Young children can choke on small pieces of party favors or toys. Keep the age group of the children in mind when buying loot bag toys and favors.