Commercial party bags

[boston84]

Attended a party where commercial party bags are given to the children. DD's bag contained hair bobbles, tacky plastic bracelet, charm and stickers. Ds's contained really cool toys including a yo-yo.
AIBu to expect party bag manufacturers to at least include some toys in girl's party bags.
My dd's hair is too short to tie back for a start.

Reading this I think I went overboard last month for DS whos 10s party bags. I bought boxes from Ebay and filled them with a bouncy ball, a whoopie cushion keyring, a dinosaur pencil and notepad, some balloons, sweets, a homemade giant dinosaur cookie and of course the cake at the end.

Certainly does, one way of ensuring your kids don't get too many party invites!

duckdodger. That sounds fab!

One year my 7 year old wanted to invite the whole class (we were moving away from the area soon afterwards - normally restricted to about 6), we couldn't afford fancy partybags for everyone so I trawled round every shop I could find in the sales and did a lucky dip (nothing more than 50p) it went down a treat.

ooh- I like the lucky dip idea - makes it a bit of a game too rather than just handing things out.