Party bags are cool

[daffodily]

On Mumsnet, party bag fillers all go "straight in the bin". My children can't be the only ones who are usually still playing with the toys days, even months later. Sometimes they even spark a new interest.

Things they've kept, or used up, include:

those pens with 4 different colours of ink
those plastic pencils with 10 different colours you can rotate through
rhinestone stickers
a little craft project
small notebook
rolls of stickers
sticky gecko
bubbles
a small dress up mask, or prop
a balloon
small plastic animal
small car
party blower

Add a mini bag of haribo and you are good to go.

Yeah MN hate party bags, it's weird.

YANBU but MN just loves to moan 😂

I don't get the hate. My daughter adores party pages - it doesn't matter if I don't always get it, it's not for me. She'll play with it for ages.

The sheer joy a party bag brings to my little one tells me they are cool. Doesn't need to be much. Stickers, pencils, cake and some sweeties. Fab!

Some party bags are great- stickers, mini boxes of crayons, little colouring books are great for taking out and about. I really hate slime and cheap plastic toys that break immediately.

My dds have always loved a party bag, even though my youngest is now 12, she still had party bags: face mask, lip gloss, stickers, hair accessories, sweets, scented pencils 😄

Love a good party bag, especially one with useful bits like stationery and hair ties and not the plastic cracker toy crap. Can remember having some brilliant ones as a child which definitely did not go straight in the bin.

Some were great, and some not so great. The 20 pack of cheap plastic spinners with crooked stickers and ragged plastic excess on the edges so they don’t actually spin is the kind of thing I hated to see coming home. But I’m biased because things that should but dont are torture for autistic kids and for their parents by extension!

And whistles … special spots in hell for those parents!

But we also had some good ones too and the dc enjoyed the same kind of things you’ve listed.

Then we ended up at the other extreme. DD’s class were inviting all the girls to every party up to 10/11 and the last couple of years of party bags were very creative, competitive and by the end expensive.

I agree, my DD has party bag fillers she still plays with, from nursery parties 2 years ago. All the kids get excited at the end of a party when the bags are given out.

I'm quite generous with party bag fillers as I like putting them together and coming up with ideas for something different.