To ask for some party bag ideas please!

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7 year old's party coming up soon and I haven't sorted any party bags! I am totally stuck for ideas. I really don't want to load them up with plastic tat. Don't want to do books - too hard to cover all ability levels and interests.

So far I've just got a slice of cake and some sweets planned. Ideally nothing too expensive, there's quite a lot of guests.

A slice of cake and some sweets sounds lovely. Would that not be enough?
My DD’s are older now but I used to absolutely hate the plastic tat they were given in n party bags.
How many are coming? If you want to add to it I’d suggest a fidget spinner, yes it’s plastic but it has some uses, my nephew (also 7) and is obsessed with his.

Please not a load of plastic crap that'll break in 5 minutes and end up in landfill for 500+ years - I completely agree with you! Little notebooks/mini packs of pencils/rubbers plus a few sweets, maybe?

Small Selection Box?

Selection box is a great idea. I have done a Terry's chocolate orange before or box of malteres instead of rubbish.

Selection boxes are more plastic than chocolate, if the objection is to plastic waste.

Cake and sweets are fine. What about something like this, a growing kit? I recall being fascinated by growing cress in cotton wool as a child! www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1081534098/bulk-10-packs-party-bag-cress-head-kit?gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_uk_en_gb_b-craft_supplies_and_tools-floral_and_garden_supplies-greenery_and_gardening-other_greenery-seeds&utm_custom1=k_EAIaIQobChMIrInwnZjB9AIVlKl3Ch2_9gu_EAQYBSABEgLxafD_BwE_k&utm_content=go_12601771895_122736599471_508652553105_pla-320728462966_m__1081534098engb_487320477&utm_custom2=12601771895&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIrInwnZjB9AIVlKl3Ch2_9gu_EAQYBSABEgLxafD_BwE

Before or after Christmas? Either way I'd just give them a giant tube of smarties.

is there a party theme?

tesco's have got mini selection boxes half price @ £1 at the moment if you have a club card
I must stop buying them for myself

Sunflower seeds or bee bombs.

The works are great for small cheap things for party bags. For me son's bday when he turned 7 this year I did a light up bouncy ball each, a fidget toy, a little tub of putty/slime, sweets, cake and glow sticks. It was a small party with only 6 children but all of those items weren't more than a pound per item.

Plastic Plant pots for “bags”
Small amount of compost in a resealable sandwich bag (zip lock ones best)
Seeds
As the plant pot is new the cake (wrapped) and sweets can go in there too
Can also add a pack of stickers for kids to stick on outside of pot to decorate
Kids love it

Of you are concerned about the environment I suggest cardboard sandwich box and some sweets and one of those cardboard glider planes ... I did something similar many years ago and the kids loved it!

www.littlecraftybugs.co.uk/sale-6-unicorn-party-food-lunch-or-favour-boxes.html?msclkid=f490c6670c081c296a02a7c1c6c8bc42

I did a notebook, a small pack of pens, a horrible history book, bag of Haribos & a slice of cake for ds 6th birthday party

Jacob’s Ladders are wooden. Pack of playing cards, jacks, yo-yo (wooden), a pack of rainbow colouring pencils, grow your own Venus flytrap.

B&M sell packets of microwave popcorn 4 for £1

Thanks for the ideas! I'll probably do the seed idea as my DD likes gardening. Though it's good to know that sweets and cake would be considered enough, in case I don't get around to doing more.

The reason for no plastic tat isn't so much an eco thing, as much as knowing how annoyed I get by fiddly bits of crap that end up getting stood on or broken!

Seeds in winter?