Please learn from my mistake

[flyingbytheseatofmypants]

If throwing a party for 20+ small children, never be tempted to wrap the parcel for Pass the Parcel in brown paper. It grows at a seriously alarming rate.

My own experience was not even a pure brown paper wrap, I alternated it with standard birthday paper (and a small prize in the middle) and this still resulted in a parcel the size of a 3.5 year old.

You use <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=wrapping+tissue&hl=en&gbv=2&tbm=isch&tbnid=cXji2P5oBz1r9M:&imgrefurl=www.vandanatissues.com/&docid=Hgx74twqaPfQMM&imgurl=www.vandanatissues.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/Colored-Wrapping-Tissue-Paper.87115339_std.jpg&w=600&h=450&ei=wqXgTvzRFIWC8gPyleTvBA&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=366&sig=100917297802735748290&page=1&tbnh=117&tbnw=157&start=0&ndsp=68&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0&tx=83&ty=77&biw=1920&bih=979" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wrapping tissue.....

Can they even pass the parcel, or will they need a hoist?

If I'd put a larger prize in they would have definitely needed a hoist!

Surely your original mistake was to try to make it so that everyone got to do some unwrapping? Pass the Parcel is a zero sum game .... six layers of wrapping tops, one gift (none of this sweets in every layer thing) and, if anyone doesn't get a turn, tell them it's character building.