Kids' Party Bags

[mommylovesu]

So I'm having a party for my five year old daughter, and I thought, as sweets are unhealthy and bad for little children's teeth, I could include some interesting and cheap gifts.
I plan to include: a deflated balloon, 3 ikea pencils, an elastic band, 2 pennies, a drinking straw, one page of "The Beano" and, of course, a traditional Jacob's cream cracker.
This is quite urgent as the party is in two days, and I wouldn't want to disappoint anyone ):
Thanks for reading this and helping me out!!!

What? 1 page of the beano and a cracker? 2 pennies?

Just don't do any.

You are joking, aren't you?

Please be joking. When it comes to party bags sweets and tat are very important to 5 year olds.

Eh?

Pop a in aswell

Sorry, my kids don't expect a party bag but would question some of the items you have suggested, a dry cracker? Just give the kids a bit of the cake, or a balloon.

Pencils and balloon good. Pennies rubbish, what's the point if they can't buy anything? Cream crackers and a page from the beano is a bit weird. Just buy some little wrapped biscuits, they don't need to have haribo.

Are some of you actually taking this seriously

love the addition of the cream cracker to your story OP

What age are the children? Not sure when putting cream crackers in a party bag became a tradition. Never experienced it in my lifetime. Balloon -fine, pencils - fine, straw (as long as it's a curly plastic reusable one) - fine. The rest is a bit bizarre in my opinion.

Dammit!

Anyway, these days I just give each child a pound of sugar and a spoon.
organic of course.

Have you stolen a job lot of the little pencils they have to write down your wish list at IKEA? Are the elastic bands the red ones dropped by the postman?

It sounds like the crud at the bottom of a handbag.

If that's the party bag god only knows what will happen at the party