Birthdays at school

[quesyrah]

DS's school does not allow food but kids can bring non-food items for their class to celebrate their birthday. What kinds of things would your 5-6 year olds like to have in a goody bag?

All of DS's ideas are food related or too expensive to do for 26 kids.

[cjcouple]

Any little trinket/party favors. Disc shooters, those mini bouncy balls, hand held little game things with the ball that rolls inside, pensils, erasers.

[quesyrah]

Stupid question but...where do I buy stuff like that? We don't typically do birthday parties with goody bags like that.

[cna]

If you have a party store they should have stuff like that. Target has some stuff and I hear Walmart has a good selection of party favors if you're feeling brave.

[gastro]

Jan 15, 2016 12:07:02 GMT -5 quesyrah said:

Stupid question but...where do I buy stuff like that? We don't typically do birthday parties with goody bags like that.

Party store, craft store or online like oriental trading

[cjcouple]

Target and Walmart have some. Even check the $1 bins for pencils. Dollar tree of you have one also has tons too.

[quesyrah]

Thanks guys!

[Deleted]

Party city is my go to! See if you have one nearby. They even sell favor value packs with all the kinky stuff kids love!

[Kcthepouchh8r]

I've never bought gifts for the other kids honestly. I send enough party hats for the whole class to sing happy birthday. Our school does allow healthy snacks so i send fruit salad and pirates booty for the kids who can have milk.

[quesyrah]

Jan 15, 2016 14:15:13 GMT -5 Kcthepouchh8r said:

I've never bought gifts for the other kids honestly. I send enough party hats for the whole class to sing happy birthday. Our school does allow healthy snacks so i send fruit salad and pirates booty for the kids who can have milk.

Well he wants to bring something because he's used to doing so, and other kids have.

And I honestly would rather spend money on a little trinket than a hat. I think the kids would like trinkets better too than a party hat.

[nicolewi]

Dollar Store! Do you have Dollar Tree? You can get $1 little puzzles or other trinkets.

Or...I would rather have one or two "nicer" things than a bag of junk. A Little Golden book type book, puzzles, box of crayons, small animal figurine?

[quesyrah]

Jan 15, 2016 14:46:03 GMT -5 nicolewi said:

Dollar Store! Do you have Dollar Tree? You can get $1 little puzzles or other trinkets.

Or...I would rather have one or two "nicer" things than a bag of junk. A Little Golden book type book, puzzles, box of crayons, small animal figurine?

Dollar tree had nothing! But I did get a box of 32 Star Wars valentines for DS to package with his bubbles for V-day.

Party city is up next

[thecheshirekat]

99 Cents Only will sometimes have a decent quality toy for $1 - one year I bought Webkinz tree frogs for everyone in DS's preschool class. Or a Hot Wheels car for each kid? Like PP, I'd prefer one cooler toy to a goody bag of the little tops/erasers/puzzles.

[lala]

Target dollar spot. That's where DD got the erasers she handed out for valentines last year. I'd go w/ fun erasers & pencils. Something that's still fun but not useless junk.

[dizzycooks]

Play dough, bubbles, stickers, erasers, pencils. All of this is in the target dollar aisle right now and kids adore this stuff at school!

[lexus]

Jan 16, 2016 22:08:23 GMT -5 dizzycooks said:

Play dough, bubbles, stickers, erasers, pencils. All of this is in the target dollar aisle right now and kids adore this stuff at school!

Play doh is an awesome idea. They have party packs at target too with a ton of little canisters and cute stickers to write your son's name on.

[quesyrah]

Thanks for the play dough idea! My target has them in the toy section it the dollar bins but it was perfect.

[arnegard]

Go to the dollar store and get small boxes of puzzles. We got this from a party and the girls thought it was awesome. I hate getting 4-5 items that are crap. My girls are older, but we did $1 movie boxes of candy for A & T's parties this year.