Party Bags for 2 Year Olds ?!

Shiloe

I've been given the task of assembling party bags for 10 roughly 2 year olds :eek: and I'm struggling most things I think of say 3+ and I keep second guessing myself so far I have on my list

-Bubbles [although I think whats the point they cant blow them themselves]
-Mini cheerleading pom poms for the girls [then I think they will try eat and choke them]
-Cake [A given as its a birthday party]
-Some small sweets/chocolate buttons
-Either little cars or dinosaurs for the boys

Plus it just seems it adds up so fast if one party bag totals say £4 times that by 10 and its like 40 quid gone on crap that will probs go in the bin anyway !

... god Im just so lost so what would you or have you put in your 'toddlers' party bags for their little friends

Oh and lastly I was wondering if 'party games' would actually be a success :undecided

bizzybee

Why don't you buy a packof 10 toddler story books from The Book People and wrap up one for each child and then just put a piece of birthday cake wrapped up in a napkin. I can remember doing that ffor my kids.....many years ago!

sassyblue

You could do it for £15 and not look tight.

Go to Poundland and get them each a sticker book, in a little party bag put a piece of the birthday cake, a little bag of chocolate buttons and a bag of party ring biscuits, animal biscuits or something like that.

If you still feel 'tight' doing that wrap the books up for them so they have something to open, but l agree with you definitely no plastic tat at that age. Bubbles are okay.

They'd enjoy pass the parcel mums usually sit behind them and help, l think you'd struggle to get them to play much else at that age they're happy to play alongside each other with toys.

pigpen

Instead of games do stuff like hokey-cokey, wheels on the bus... action dancing songs...

id put in a small pack of sweets, cake, balloon, maybe a little pad and a few crayons.. buy a huge box and split it , larger bouncy ball, small book, a mask for example...

Mimi09

Try www.tickseed.com - they've got some lovely cheap liitle things and only £2 postage. Morrisons are doing 4 small Thomas & friends colouring & sticker books for £1.75. My 2 year old loves a balloon on a stick, little pots of playdough......

Lunar_Eclipse

I'd go for a tub of Playdough wrapped in cellophane, with a piece of cake and some raisins, rice cakes or breadsticks. I didn't appreciate my kids receiving sweets or chocolate at that age (although I know that raisins are no good for teeth!)

A book is another frugal option as already mentioned.

skintchick

Can I be controversial? Don't bother! I haven;t done party bags and don;t intend to get sucked into the nonsense either. You get a piece of cake, you enjoy a party, you go home. Only the birthday girl or boy needs a gift.

None of my friends have done party bags except for one who did them for her one-year-old's at which DD was the oldest guest aged 2, and I was bemused to be honest! It was lots of sweet things which I hid away and let DD have one a day till they were gone, and some hair clips, which were sweet, but it was unnecessary - DD had had a lovely time anyway and didn't expect a bag of gifts.

At DD's second birthday I did half an hour of singing children's action songs and it went down really well. I wrote down my list of songs and did two 'song bags', one was for Old MacDonald with animals in, and the other had things in it that pertained to a song, so a duck for Five Little Ducks, a bus for Wheels on the Bus, a star for Twinkle Twinkle, etc., and then handed that round, each child pulled out a thing and we sang the relevant song.

Other than that we just had toys out (in garden as she's a summer baby) and had cake and drinks for a couple of hours.

They're only toddlers - you don't need elaborate parties! (Well, I think they don;t at any age, really, it all seems to have got out of hand, but I shall be making a one-woman stand! :rotfl )


Oh, and girls like cars, too, you know. No need to have sexist toy selections surely, there is plenty of time for them to realise the world is gender-obsessed! Can't they just be kids for now?

shirlgirl2004

I do like to give guests a present because it is nice for the birthday child to know it is good to give as well as recieve. I prefer to give a book each but then we don't give junk food to children. As has been mentioned a pack of books should work out at £1 each. The plastic tat just ends up in the bin, at least a book can go to the charity shop when it is finished with.

skintchick

shirlgirl2004 wrote: »

I do like to give guests a present because it is nice for the birthday child to know it is good to give as well as recieve. I prefer to give a book each but then we don't give junk food to children. As has been mentioned a pack of books should work out at £1 each. The plastic tat just ends up in the bin, at least a book can go to the charity shop when it is finished with.

On their birthday they receive, on others' birthdays they give. Otherwise, all they learn is that they constantly receive! I am so anti party bags, I think the message behind them is all wrong.

And since when is a book finished with?!?! :eek: If i had my way, no book would ever leave my house!

sparrer

skintchick wrote: »

Can I be controversial? Don't bother! I haven;t done party bags and don;t intend to get sucked into the nonsense either. You get a piece of cake, you enjoy a party, you go home. Only the birthday girl or boy needs a gift.

None of my friends have done party bags except for one who did them for her one-year-old's at which DD was the oldest guest aged 2, and I was bemused to be honest! It was lots of sweet things which I hid away and let DD have one a day till they were gone, and some hair clips, which were sweet, but it was unnecessary - DD had had a lovely time anyway and didn't expect a bag of gifts.

At DD's second birthday I did half an hour of singing children's action songs and it went down really well. I wrote down my list of songs and did two 'song bags', one was for Old MacDonald with animals in, and the other had things in it that pertained to a song, so a duck for Five Little Ducks, a bus for Wheels on the Bus, a star for Twinkle Twinkle, etc., and then handed that round, each child pulled out a thing and we sang the relevant song.

Other than that we just had toys out (in garden as she's a summer baby) and had cake and drinks for a couple of hours.

They're only toddlers - you don't need elaborate parties! (Well, I think they don;t at any age, really, it all seems to have got out of hand, but I shall be making a one-woman stand! :rotfl )


Oh, and girls like cars, too, you know. No need to have sexist toy selections surely, there is plenty of time for them to realise the world is gender-obsessed! Can't they just be kids for now?

I'll join you on the controversial bench if I may. I don't understand why it's deemed necessary to send guests home with presents when it isn't their birthday. Strange idea. As for filling a bag with cake, sweets and biscuits, (and a balloon - for two year olds?) is that a good idea when many mums try to feed a sensible diet these days? And many other children need one

Admittedly my children are grown with children of their own but like skintchick I, and my friends, didn't treat the guests like the birthday boy/girl, in fact there was no such thing back then. Just my humble opinion and I fully expect to get shot down in flames for it but I think it's a silly game the parents feel they have to compete it, even when they can't afford it. It's about time it died out, I wonder if anyone is brave enough to be the first not to play?

xmum2threex

I agree on the books went down a treat at my daughters second birthday party I brought the mini character libaries where you get 5 small board books they are on buy 1 get 1 free at tesco so £5 for 10 books and lots of compliments for something a child can keep rather than pocket money toys that get broke within 5 minutes xx:beer: