loot bag gifts for 2-3 year olds

[dontwanttogetoutofbed]

other than the sweets, i was thinking Stickers? any other ideas?

just thinking of the better things we've recently had:

cake!
party blowers
a bouncy ball
pen stamper (you can get sets of felt tip-like pens that have a pen on one end and a "stamp" at the other)
finger puppet from a multi pack from ikea
mini playdough kit (99p from tesco)

HTH

Have you posted in the "parties" board?

we had a little red tractor book recently.. the mum had seen a pack of 12 books onsale for £5.00 so she split the pack up.. here the book people often do good deals on multipacks of books.

Having had 100s of party bags brought home by me 3 I'd say avoid the plastic tat that just gets binned to be frank. I think it's a dreadful waste and to be honest if it does get looked at it's often highly annoying for the parents eg whistles-why!!!!!!!!! My 3 recently bought 1 each home from a party resulted in 15 mins of noisy hell then 3 tearful kids after I'd confiscated them all (put in bin).

Anyway my ideal party bag would be a paper one(we used Jellyandblmange ones, were I think 30p each and they had a nice little thankyou for coming to my party tag on). I then put in 1 item that cost about £3 (we had a nice wooden fairy finger puppet for the girls the boys had a wooden boat from Jellyand blamange £1 each and a magnet from a split up £3 magnet pack from Hawkins Bazaar), they also had in them a biscuit wand they'd made at the party. I also made up some clear little bags of dolly mixtures (3 bags split up from Woolies, 3 for a £1) I think a little bag of sweets doesn't do any harm and I personally would rather have that than a load of chokable, breakable plastic tat.

They all came to around £3.50 a bag plenty IMHO. I'd rather have and give 1 nice thing that the kids will actually play with but I'm lucky in that most of my kids mums feel the same and none of us want to get into the expensive party bag thing so it may not work for all.