What kind of psychopath.....

[HeyAssbutt]

Lighthearted

Puts whistles in a party bag?! Whistles!!!! Party of 4 year olds and you could see every parent there getting the same expression when their dcs were given their party bags and they pulled out a whistle. Well that's just great, I now have to spend the afternoon listening to them blowing that fucking thing until I can think of a creative way for it to disappear. Aibu to think that's just evil!

Any other 'brilliant' party bag gifts?

Ah yes. There was also a bouncy ball included

I hate those things at best they bounce away straight away or break something at worst even 4 year olds can’t always be trusted not to bung them in their mouths

Slime😱

Indeed 😱to slime. Turquoise. All over my pale grey sofa. Five minutes before we were to sit down for Christmas dinner.

I sincerely believe a jury would have acquitted me.

Ah, this brings back fond memories of when we put Poundland vuvuzueles into party bags... they made such a satisfying honk!

OP, for your DD's party, you could do what DontDribbleOnTheCarpet did and have two types of party bag. A nice one for the nice kids, nothing annoying or messy. And one for the other kids, with whistles, etc......

How about these or this?

I must admit I nearly killed my ex the day he allowed our then 6 year old DS to buy a duck whistle with his pocket money..........

Here you go. It goes meep, meep, meep until the batteries run down.

www.amazon.co.uk/ARSUK-Penguin-Slide-Running-sounds/dp/6040141069/ref=pd_lpo_vtph_21_lp_t_3?psc=1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&refRID=73KDHC9P178SNHQ6MY0H

parents who gave their dc baked beans or high roughage food Sunday night before sending them to the childminder (me) on Monday - I wouldn't dream of giving them jacket potatoes with baked beans on Friday night... rather like year ! teachers who send home enormous painted models dc had made on wet & windy days that wouldn't fit into carrier bags (especially if you were collected 3 dc (did the woman hate me????)

Ha the penguin thing. I remember that from when u was a kid. Hmmm yes maybe I should give annoying stuff to the little bugger who spent the party punching the other kids

My DD went to a party where the party bag contained (amongst other things) little maracas and a cheap plastic recorder. I wanted to slice my ears off.

*when I was a kid

@SkintAsASkintThing
I'd love one of those.

How about model airplanes with genuine starting noises? When DS was 4 - the kids loved them. I took out the batteries the next day.

Not party bags, but when I was going to have school Christmas dinner with my tutor group I treated them all to Christmas crackers - just went to the supermarket and got some suitable for children - without checking the actual contents, and some of them had mini water pistols in.

I was NOT popular with my colleagues that afternoon.

The following year the school provided crackers for all the children wanting a school Christmas dinner. Wonder why?

I raise you this...

As we were walking into the church for my much loved Grandfather's funeral my DF (whose Father's funeral it was) thought it was an excellent time to gift DS (4yrs) a large bouncy ball.

Thanks.

You could always get your revenge by putting vuvuzela’s in next year’s party bags!!

Bubbles. I hate bubbles in general but the ones in party bags we've had are just the liquid - no stick or whatever to actually blow bubbles with! Wtf am I supposed to do with that other than listen to my child whinge his little head off for hours because mummy won't let him blow bubbles (and refusing to understand its not my fucking fault he can't blow bubbles!)

Also. Bouncing balls. They need to fuck off too, dangerous little balls of evil. But seriously, what kind of knob head puts whistles in a party bag!?

Oh god @AskMa

I’m sorry but that’s given me the biggest laugh today

I put recorders in DD’s 9th birthday bags (nowt expensive but still recorders).
I AM SO, SO SORRY.

Haha If I ever fall out with all the parents at DC's school I'm so putting a glitter bomb and fart machine in the party bag.

I use to put Glitter in all cards & invites !!!
My son finally told me off and said that he was sick of it.
I remember one mum telling me ' Your the mum that causes a mess every Christmas & birthday time'

DC got tubs of Slime in a party bag last year.

At Easter, lovely DMIL and DFIL said they wouldn't get our 1yo twins chocolate but a present.

They got them a drum and a trumpet which plays tunes when you press its buttons.

They already have a mechanical T rex whose batteries are running down because he gets so much usage.

The soundtrack of my summer is the trumpet playing a hideous chirpy tune, barely masking the dismal howls of T rex as one of the twins mauls him.

I put a slice of cake and one nice thing in party bags.

One year it was a decent quality bath toy.

Another year it was a plastic dino.

Another year, a homemade pink chocolate lollipop.

No glitter, choking hazards or loud noises!

My sil got my pair slime and pencils for drawing on windows for Christmas. Thought she was joking. Who on earth does that?

I let dd2 pick the most terrifying baby doll for daughters bday and her son is getting a recorder for his...

Blow pens. Seriously. I'm still not over it.