Party planning 4 – party favours

I said before in this series that I know what I wanted.

This, party favours, are my thing.

I love doing them and they never feel like a burden.

My thinking

  1. I didn’t just want sweets (candy) and chips. I don’t allow our kids to eat these things normally so didn’t feel it fair to dump it on other kids.
  2. I wanted something useful.
  3. I wanted to use up some formula cans we had.

I initially thought of making the cans into buckets and adding spades.

That would have worked but in the end it came down to what I had around the house because I wanted to use existing things as far as possible.

So I made little packs of gel pens/ pencil crayons (each child got 5), added a brightly coloured exercise book and put in a covered formula can. The cans were then placed in cellophane bags and had thank-you tags attached.

The idea was for the kids to repurpose the formula can holders into pencil/ crayon holders.

Exactly what my kids do with their crayons 🙂

I was VERY happy with how they turned out – very cute and useful.

Here’s what they looked like:

These 3 pics were taken by our photographer, Jeanette Verster.

and these were taken by me 🙂

So, do you do party favours? What kinds of things do you do?

PS I’m not averse to receiving sweets and chips from other people – more snacks for Dion and me! 🙂
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Comments

  1. Those are so adorable! Great job! And how great that you reused what was already available and made it a useful gift instead of just another clutter item!

  2. These are adorable! I love that you up-cycled the formula cans and made something so useful…and what a great party favor!

  3. I know I never comment and I’m sorry 😛

    But I was reading this, and with A2’s party around the corner (on Saturday, actually) I just had to tell you what I’m planning. His theme is Monsters (but cute and cuddly ones, seeing as he’s only turning 1). So I (with some help from my BFF) made each attending child a sock monster. From colorful fluffy socks. I’m hoping they will become much loved friends to all the little ones coming 🙂

    And I used new socks, just in case you were wondering.

  4. I’m a huge fan of handing out useful stuff too. When my girls have parties at school for holidays, they always get so much candy- and I always send in holiday themed pencils for them to pass out. I figure the way kids go through pencils in school they are useful and as my mom the teacher says, at least on that day no one is asking her for any LOL

  5. LOVE that you up – cycled and used what was available. I give a minimum amount of sweets and a small gift like a notebook or something.

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