Contents of Parce the Parcel

[NoseyNooNoo]

I have 4yr party coming up and no time to arrange it so am hoping MNers can do the thinking for me!!

How flash a gift has to be inside the parcel. I've only been to a few children's parties and at one the gift was a DVD which seemed a bit flash to me. I'm also not sure how you choose who gets that final gift.

Also, should there be a gift between each layer and again how flash? Most of the guests are going to be boys so not sure what to put in for them.

The rest of the party will comprise making a crown, eating, egg and spoon race and other than that I'm hoping it will be good weather and they can run around like lunatics outside.

Pad and pencil set (poundland or cheapy tescos). If you get something too bulky the layers get HUGE by the end!
Sweet or balloon between each layer. Plan so exactly the right number or layers for each child, inc the winner.

Diff paper for each layer so they dont rip off two by accident. Not too much tape or you'l be waiting all day!

I always thought it was 'pass'! Better your way OP

I would put a sweetie in each layer and something fairly basic in the middle.

I'm not sure how you decide who wins - perhaps the person who hasn't yet won anything else? If you do it at the end.

Of course it's Pass not Parce

I have so much to do at the moment I think my head will explode - the first spring popping out of the side is the dictionary part of my brain!

no I think it shoudl be parce.

Good luck with the party.

i do enough layers for everyone plus one extra

in the first set of layers is a fruitella sweet (enough for one layer/sweet each) I watch to make sure each child gets one

then for the last layer i close my eyes until i think it's gone round a few times and then stop the music - this years final layer contains a box of smarties from 99p shop (mainly cos thats what my mum used to do and I hadnt seen big boxes of smarties for years)

God I spent a fortune on mine.

I used tissue, because otherwise it gets hard to unwrap, and there was a pound shop type gift in each layer (pen set, stickers, glitter set etc). I used yellow (either) blue (boy) and pink (girl) tissue so I could tell which gender the layer present was for!!
The ultimate gift was a slightly bigger craft set...

We had exactly 8 guests and 7 layers then the final present, so it took careful co-ordination to get the final gift to the last child. (They were 5 yos, they didn't seem to notice all the whispering/signals etc between me supervising and DP at the CD player :) )

Love the idea of a sweet in each layer...you live and learn

Ooh some that went down well for boys were Toy Story 3 stationery sets and stickers.

Or you could save yourself the hassle of doing all that wrapping and do 'pass the balloon' instead and have a bag of sweets + final wrapped up present for the eventual winner (present was a little colouring pad/pencil set).

Mind you, didn't work fantastically well with the bunch of 1-4 year olds we had yesterday. Probably had something to do with my total inability to work the iPod though

What I do (and what I have always seem done at parties) is the prize (notepad and pen, bubbles whatever) is wrapped once. As each child is out they either pick a sweet from a bowl, get a sticker or something and only the winning child unwraps.

Saves to much hassle and time.

I have never seen the multi-layered parcel done!

Well we did have parents on hand to scream "NOOOO!" and wrest it off them if they looked like going through more than one layer :)

I have done this many times:

Pressie cost normally about £3 wrapped in wrapping paper. Sticker or sweet in each layer. Every other layer newspaper. A few extra layes for luck.

Turn your back once the final layer (in identifiable wrapping paper ) has been past your child then stop at random before you estimate it will reach your child again.

IME they love unwrapping. My DC make up PTPs for each other for fun.

I LOVE parce. Am filing that away for future use.

Central present should cost no more than £4.00. In between each layer, 1 sweet or lollipop.

rofl at parce the parcel.
how very posh.