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how much to spend in each party bag? ds first bday party (age 4)
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I can't remember what it cost but the list of what went in was:-

Pencils
Colouring Book
About 4 different plastic toys
Small bar of chocolate
Bag of jelly sweets
Story Book

The first 3 things came in bulk from ebay and the rest from Costco. This year, I'm going to buy a delection of Woolies Lucky Bags - £1.99 each.

As little as possible.

So.

Cake
A few chocolate coins.
Ball (you can get wicked light up ones from john lewis for a £1 and the dcs still play with them)
fruit bag (they are yum honest)
little car maybe?

I wouldn't spend more than a 2 or 3 quid.

One way to do it is to have a lucky dip to pick out things to go in party bag. Each child could pick a couple of presents to go with their cake and balloon

Sometimes my dcs some home with party bags filled with more presents than what they took for the birthday child!!

Don't think there is any need for that at all.

Favourite bags have included a piece of the birthday cake and 3 or 4 sweets - a bar of choc etc. More than adequate.

No more than £1 a bag

DD's party is this Saturday and we have:

For the girls age 4-6: small Polly Pocket sets, bought for 99p eachFpr 8y girl - small craft set, 89p
For the two boys age 6 - Horrid Science book, cost 89p
For the 3-4y old boys - Underground Ernie vehicle, 50p in Waitrose sale
For little ones - CD of nursery rhyme songs, 99p

All wrapped in tissue paper and accompanied by a piece of cake

Oooh I have to share my uber-poncy very popular amazingly cheap option.

For my dd's last birthday we had recorded lots of Charlie and Lolas off Cbeebies and burnt them to dvds, stuck a label on using free software and badda bing!

Sainsburys are selling little hot wheels type cars for 49p at the moment. Put one of those in plus:a freddo choc bar (15p?) some Haribo chews (bout 10p) a balloon and a piece of party cake=job done for under £1

For DD's 4th partyI bought packs of books from The Book People - works out at less than £1 a book

DS2's party on Sunday, knight theme.

You got:
Knight fridge magnet (online, about 90p)
small bar cadbury's/flake/etc
Red Nose reader book (from Book People, v cheap, like 50p I think)
silver balloon
party popper (Wilko's, 99p for about 20)
piece of yummy cake

Total cost

Uhhh, Slur pirate party bags, naughty, naughty .

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For boys - very bouncey ball, water pistol and lolly. Actually, the same would probably do for girls too!

For my DD's 3rd birthday in a few weeks I'm doing beach buckets with spade,rake and trowel, bouncy ball with fish in it, bubbles and choc buttons. Total £2 per bucket. Party is beach theme hence the buckets, and managed to find buckets for £1 inc spade etc and am then adding the bubbles, ball and choc. I LOVE doing the party bags and all the decorations and themes so probably go a bit mad! They'll also get various prizes from the party games as well.

I usually go for the sets of books from The Book People, which can then be split one per bag - usually work out less than £1 and pad out with sweets, balloon, pencil, rubber etc. Poundland excellent for packs of very cheap sparkly pencils etc.

Love the bucket idea sprog.

About £1 per bag here; less if I can.

as near to £1 as possible, tho spend more as they got older and not so many guests. Worth looking in £1 shops, sometimes they have some good stuff (vs tat).
Other things I have done:
Book People books
Packets of cress seeds.
Novelty cake mixes.
Colouring/puzzle books.
Mini jigsaws.
Sticker books.
Mini balls
Cars (from multipacks)
Animal figures (split down from multipacks)
Gliders.