"No gifts required" - shall I bring nothing?

[pimlicopubber]

My child is invited to a birthday party of a 4 year old child from her class.
I don't really know her child or her parents.
The invite says we shouldn't bring any presents - should I take it literally?
I usually take a gift, but the invites normally don't explicitly say that we shouldn't.
I'm thinking of all the wedding invites that say "your presence is the only gift we require" while sharing a link with the expensive gifts they'd like guests to buy them.

I’d probably wrap a small book or hairs slides or something similar and say that my dc had chosen a small gift already. But I’m thinking £2-3 budget not loads.

What's the wording? Is it like a hint for cash instead? I'd just send a box of Malteasers with a few packets of stickers wrapped with it.

A book token?

Every year I ask for no gifts for the children, and for donations to be made to the local food bank instead…. And every year we get loads of gifts. I genuinely mean it, and would rather no gifts and I have discussed this at length with the children.

But it makes attendees very uncomfortable!

Id take it literally, get a fun card and put a small pack of nice stickers inside it, maybe attach a choc lolly to the card too if you’re worried.
they’re probably just overrun with stuff!

I would pop a fiver in a card. They can put it towards something useful or give it to charity if they really don't want it

What is the exact wording? “no gift required” to me is a bit different from “please do not bring gifts”. It sounds more like a “we know people are cash-strapped at the moment and don’t want anyone to break the bank on a kids’ party”. I would prob give something like a nice book. Sometimes parents are saying “please don’t load us up with plastic shite that will litter our home”

Just stick a fiver in the card

I've always just literally turned up with nothing. I don't think the parent or child can be upset to receive nothing if that's what they've requested.

Fiver in a card. They dont want the house full of plastic tat

The wording is "I mean it when I say no gifts are required"

Thanks for your suggestions, I'm thinking of getting a card and a tiny gift or a contribution to a charity

I'd say that's pretty clear. Turn up with nothing and they'll be happy.

We do this as the kids don't need anything and I'd rather not deal with the environmental impact of unnecessary gifts/cards.

Money ina. Card to give to charity

I'd take them at their word, maybe put a sheet of jazzy stickers in the card.