Favors at a birthday party: yes or no? (NCEPR, obv)

[redheadbaker]

DS' birthday party is tomorrow at 3:30. I totally forgot to put together party favor bags. Can I skip them? 

Party is family-only. Aside from DS, there are 10 other kids under age 16 (a 10-month-old, two 6-year-olds, two 8-year-olds, 5 tweens/teens).

[Deleted]

If you asked a month ago, I would have said you shouldn't skip it. The day before the party? Yeah. You're good.

[mominatrix]

yeah. skippable.


If you really want to do favors, I wouldn't sweat over doing them as bags... I got a bunch of jigsaw puzzles and coloring books from the dollar store for DS's birthday, and the kids were psyched to get them and be able to pick which one they wanted.

[madisen]

I agree with pp. Not necessary enough to stress about it the day of.

[redheadbaker]

Thank you all for telling me what I wanted to hear One less thing to stress about.

[Deleted]

You can always skip favors IMO.

[ttt]

It's family only? You can *definitely* skip the favors, no matter what.

[IIOY]

I hate favor bags because it's always junk that winds up adding to the landfills.

My rule if this: if you must do favors, make them small and edible.

[rugbywife]

Kids don't need more crap. Frankly, the world doesn't need more crap.

[rugbywife]

The world does need more cakepops though. Those are fine.

[darnkatz]

Nov 16, 2013 8:36:25 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

Kids don't need more crap. Frankly, the world doesn't need more crap.

This. I don't like party favors.
Unless it is homemade deliciousness. Like Salsa Sweets.

[redheadbaker]

Nov 16, 2013 8:36:41 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

The world does need more cakepops though. Those are fine.

I had huge plans for this party (Very Hungry Caterpillar-themed), making each of the foods that the caterpillar eats in the book. The caterpillar eats through one ice-cream cone, and I was going to make these ice cream cone cake pops -- www.bakerella.com/i-scream-you-scream-we-all-scream-for%E2%80%A6/

Then reality (and a crazy week at work) happened, and I barely had time to make his birthday cake. 

[StrawberryBlondie]

Nov 16, 2013 8:36:41 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

The world does need more cakepops though. Those are fine.

Also: brownie pops.

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[Deleted]

Nov 16, 2013 8:36:25 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

Kids don't need more crap. Frankly, the world doesn't need more crap.

This x 10000

I really dislike any type of gift that just gets thrown out almost immediately, or only lasts a week or so.

You could always send something edible if you feel you must.

[SusanBAnthony]

Very skippable. In fact, please do.

If anything, give each kid a sheet of stickers, or something else like that that gets used up.

[heyjude]

I refuse to do goody bags. Small and edible all the way for favors.