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Party bag ideas

36 replies

BlueyandBingo · 01/01/2022 21:45

DD (nearly 6) and her friend are sharing a party in a couple of weeks. I am so fed up with getting bits of plastic tat in party which break straight away and end up in landfill.
Can anyone suggest a single item which we could do instead? Would rather not books if possible as they are all at such different levels… a craft project or something like that might nice… all ideas welcome!

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Luckyducky75 · 02/01/2022 04:45

This place has some lovely wooden bag fillers and colouring books, etch bookmarks etc

theoriginalpartybagcompany.co.uk/collections/craft-partybag-fillers?sort=price-ascending

BritInAus · 02/01/2022 05:07

I do stuff that's probably tat, but at least 'useful' tat rather than plastic toys designed specifically as 'party bag fillers.' For my 6 yr old DD, last birthday I did hair scrunchies, fun socks, initial keyrings (her classmates love keyrings on school bags) and just a small chocolate treat each. I've also done bath bombs in the past. So tat, but useful/consumable tat.

Jumpingintomenopause · 02/01/2022 05:37

Things we have done in the past:
Notebook and pen
Hair bow or scrunchie
Paint your own piggy bank set (£3 each Tesco sale!)
Necklace and ring sets (Acessorize sale)

Personalised individually wrapped biscuits (a company called fees fondants on fb) instead of cake in each bag.

Cocogreen · 02/01/2022 05:57

I would do a little notebook, a few stickers, coloured pen and a cupcake.

Twinkleylight · 02/01/2022 06:20

Try Rex for party bag fillers, I bought craft kits for my dd's party a few years ago.

BlueyandBingo · 02/01/2022 07:25

Thanks everyone, some great ideas here Smile

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Twinkleylight · 02/01/2022 07:27

Or BakerRoss

Cattitudes · 02/01/2022 07:31

We did poundland bucket and spades one year, Yes they are plastic but at least they have a clear purpose and friends were still using them at the park (and presumably beach) years later. Might be too early in the year to get hold of them though.

lms2017 · 02/01/2022 07:45

Sweetie cones , and a piece of cake.
Everyone loved them , no plastic tat.

Igmum · 02/01/2022 07:57

I used to do books. Buy a collection from the Book People super cheap, they get one each (with plastic tat and sweets Grin). We had Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton, Michael Morpurgo - can't remember the others! Also very popular but a bit more pricey were soaps with goldfish or Lego or toys in from soaps for little suds soapsforlittlesuds.co.uk/maintenance.php

LondonMummer · 02/01/2022 08:25

The two best we ever did were (unusually cheap) kids umbrellas from Tiger and slap watches from EBay (although they came from China and needed ordering months in advance)

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