How much to spend on a birthday party present?

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Whole class invite. 4th birthday, nursery 'friend', although not seen her outside of nursery, soft play party.

How much would you spend and any suggestions?

I've RSVPd yes but DS helpfully is telling me he doesn't really know her so doesn't know what she likes!

Normally £8-10 here. More if best friends. I do try and get stuff in the sales to save a bit of money.

£5-£10.

£5-10

£5-£10, I normally buy an Orchard Toys game for that sort of age :) usually a few on offer on Amazon.

DS was one of the first birthdays in his year and whilst I'd previously have said around £10, the gifts he received across the board were more in the range of £15-20, unless (as I presume) they might have been purchased in the sales.

I normally pay £12 give or take.
At that age we bought puzzles, beanie baby teddies, too jit zu, fidget toys, hot wheels car set.

The works do 10 books for. £10 so I'd buy that and when a birthday came up the child would get a book along with whatever they're gift was.

I do the 2 for £15 presents from Argos for the party invites. I have twins so it works out quite nicely, but if only one of them is invited I’ll spend max of £10 on the present.

For their close friends I’m happy to spend a bit more on things I know they’ll like, but some random kid in their class I don’t even try to personalise a gift according to their interest - as long as it’s child appropriate, I figure the parent can donate it/swap with someone else/regift it as they choose.

Ideally I’d like to see giving cash as a standard for whole class parties, but I know that’ll never happen!

£7.50, I also do the Argos 2 for £15!

Also, every child my eldest has been to a party for in the last 8 ish months has received the same gift 😂

I usually do about £15 maybe up to £20 if a friend.

My little girl is 6 and has had a party last yr when at nursery and this yr in p1.

I'd say average is £10-£15 some were def more and some less.

Get a book. Completely random whether they'll like what you get, but this way, doesn't take up space if they don't :-) Will cost 5.99?

I would have said £10 but recently had a toddler party and the norm seemed to be under £10 (one friend bought something that is £4 -

I know as we have it). Many gave two books. I would rather have books than useless tat anyway.

I kept reading about £5-£10 on here and actually did it a couple of times (which I am now horrified about) until the point it was my child's birthday and all presents were at £20-£25 mark... It depends on where you live etc.!

£10-15. Play-doh set good-always nice to have new, non-brown colours.

£5 in a card and £1 packet of sweets. That’s what I can afford and the kids seem to like it!

DD got quite a few fivers in cards at her party at that age - still does now, age 7. Great as they go towards something she really wants instead of several presents that end up going on to be regifted/charity shop.
One of her favourite presents from her party last year was a share-sized bar of Dairy Milk with a card - again genius on the parent's part as there's no issue with having to find a home for it!