Best party bag fillers

[LostittoBostik]

I'm on the hunt for the best party bag fillers for a 4 year old's birthday party but not plastic....

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Food. Such as a mini bag of party rings. All kids love party rings
Stickers, decent notebook and a pencil. One pencil is better than the mini packs of colouring pencils that no one ever uses
those cheap books are not popular

Squishy toys
Slime
bouncy balls
scratch art bookmarks
Stickers
Tattoos
Silicone key rings
Little tubs of play dough
Punch balloons
Felt animal masks
Paper slap bands
Cardboard kaleidoscopes

You can also do little sweet or popcorn cones.

There is very little that's good and doesn't have plastic in it.

It's best to go for 1-2 good quality items than loads of instant breakable tat.

Full sized Bubble wands are very popular with kids.

Slime
Sweets
Bendy pencil
Sticky man that climbs down the window
Bouncy ball

Kids like plastic tat

Packet of cress seeds

You can get cans of bath foam - essentially coloured shaving foam. All kids I know go wild for it.

A used to get the multi packs of books from the Works etc and split those - one to each child.
Also successful were splitting multipacks of fun socks.
Seed packs

I’ve done mini bath bombs etc (lots of options in the style name section https://amzn.eu/d/2IU0l3p

Picture books - you can get bundles that work out as a pound or less per book.

I have also bought from Eco Party Bags - the seed bomb, soil and pots are nice, though I’m not convinced many actually had success growing anything.

I have seen mini cake kits from the likes of Craft and Crumb recommended.

If you are doing food yourself, have a look to see if you can hire plates/cups/bowls/platters etc locally. https://www.partykitnetwork.org My local even washes them as part of the (very small) hire fee 🙌🏻

I did a make your own party bag one year. I bought 'Happy birthday' ice cream cups, multipack of pencils, erasers, stickers, tub of heroes and haribo, and they went along in a line and picked their own things and seemed to like that.

At 4 a multipack of books for them to pick from would go down well, the Book People (trade under a different name now I think) used to do 10 books for £10 and be the Elmer book set or similar.

Bubbles & Stickers (especially) are always a winner!

I saw a lovely idea where instead of party bags one of the party activities was where they had an adopt a cuddly toy table. I think they had dog and cat beanie babies (or cheaper alternatives!), a box shaped like a pet carrier to be decorated with felt pens and some beads and pipe cleaners to make a collar for them, I think there were letter beads included so they could name their new pet