Cheap Homemade party favour ideas?

Rosiglow

There's a recipe for coloured popcorn here:

howtomakestuff. com/2009/08/24/how-to-make-colored-popcorn/

(sorry, won't let me post full link)

I made some at Christmas using the sugar water method and it turned out really well. I put it in cone shaped cellophane sweet bags that I got from ebay. I think they were £3.95 for 50, including postage.

HTH:)

MandM90

This is crafting but for DDs I'm considering buying plates from IKEA (30p each) and some ceramic pens (whole coloured set for £2, will buy 2/3 sets) and letting them decorate and take them home as a favour. I'm also going to do flapjacks or something, but I don't like the idea of loads of sweets. DD has a party nearly every weekend and along with grandparents, her dad and friends constantly giving her sweet treats and still having them left from Halloween last year I groan if we receive any. Some parents have put raisins in which I think is much better...or maybe I'm just a food Nazi

Butterfly_Brain

99p stores do big bags of coloured popcorn, which is as cheap as doing it yourself

Another favourite shop that is brilliant for clever bits that are reasonably priced are Tiger stores http://www.tigerstores.co.uk/

What about buying mini plant pots and adding some seed and tie on a childrens trowel or fork you could paint the pots and add the child's initial if you wanted to personalise them.

B&M have pots of candy lollipops for 99p that could be split between bags and you could add a homemade pinwheel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-R2TugdZ-M

You could make your own lollies by melting chocolate and sprinkle with left over candy canes (White chocolate ones look most effective) and cover with cellophane, you can get lolly sticks from most good craft stores

Make some paper cones up and fill them with sweets with the same colour wrapper such as silver, blue, gold, red, green etc

Look out for cheap childrens erasers and coloured pencils and print off some colouring pages from the web

Buy a pack of glow sticks and wrap each one individually - kids of all ages love these

Get some small cello bags and make this sort of thing with a printed cardboard top https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2766466

This time of year there is always the leftover bits from Christmas in the sales that are going really cheap

Here are some sites that may help

http://www.thecraftycrow.net/2009/10/homemade-party-favors.html


http://www.tipjunkie.com/do-it-yourself-favor/
http://www.party-ideas-galore.com/homemade-party-favors.html

samborambo

Right, I'm just going to have to hold many more parties so I can do all of these - I love some of these ideas. Haven't figured out which to do yet but will be off shopping this weekend to see what I can get. Wish we had one of those Tiger stores nearby though - it looks amazing and so up my street!

Annelien

What my mum used to do for our birthday parties was chocolate bars of all kinds (or you could do it with homemade cookies too I'm sure!) and she would wrap them in silver foil or wrapping paper or whatever she had lying around and tie strings around them with a big loop from each of them.

Then she would throw them all in an old baby bath, find a firm long stick, tie a string on it and at the end of the string tie the hook of a clotheshanger.

At the end of the party when people would start going home, everyone who was leaving would be allowed to do some "party favour fishing" and everyone always loved it!

you can make little silverfoil parcels with all sorts of things in them, biscuits, chocolates, marshmallows,...

Have fun

Annelien

VfM4meplse

Annelien wrote: »

At the end of the party when people would start going home, everyone who was leaving would be allowed to do some "party favour fishing" and everyone always loved it!

Great idea!

kippers

Annelien wrote: »

What my mum used to do for our birthday parties was chocolate bars of all kinds (or you could do it with homemade cookies too I'm sure!) and she would wrap them in silver foil or wrapping paper or whatever she had lying around and tie strings around them with a big loop from each of them.

Then she would throw them all in an old baby bath, find a firm long stick, tie a string on it and at the end of the string tie the hook of a clotheshanger.

At the end of the party when people would start going home, everyone who was leaving would be allowed to do some "party favour fishing" and everyone always loved it!

you can make little silverfoil parcels with all sorts of things in them, biscuits, chocolates, marshmallows,...

Have fun

Annelien

I love that idea, my dd's are slightly too old for this now, what a shame.

I hate the little plastic toys you get in party bags so i have never given out. I made muffin sized cupcakes and decorated them with icing, sprinkles, sweets etc and then wrapped them in cellophane that i bought quite cheaply from my local florists and used that curly ribbon to tie them. I put a square bit of card covered in foil for the cake to sit on in the bottem. They looked great and are far better than the c..p yu get in party bags that cost loads more.

Recently I saw some muffin sized cake boxes in asda, maybe you could use these and tie with a pretty ribbon?

thriftmonster

One year I made gingerbread men, the kids decorated them with icing and jelly beans and dolly mixture and took those home. I also boought plastic glasses decorated with fish for about 30p each and put a few sweets and ballons in those as a gift one year. Our pound shop does packs of 10 or 12 sparkly pencils for a pound and you can break those up as well. I used to work on 2 lollies, 2 balloons, 1 pencil and a mini choc bar per bag.

tanyalbeck

oh my God... I was googling this subject last night!! My boys are having a combined 6th and 8th party soon with a filmmaking feature (I have a friend starting out in the party business!) and am looking for cheap but nice related favours rather than the usual tat. I like the idea of a lucky dip and the cone sweet thingies!!
Can I make a cone with ready made cellophane bags? I have plenty of small bags for bath bombs and cosmetics already!!

gloriouslyhappy

I make birthday crackers using the bits from cheap xmas crackers which you can pick up for pennies at the moment. I keep the hat, joke, the (usually) useless 'toy' and of course the all-important snap part, then add a few sweeties, a sparkly hairband or a pirate patch and put it all in a new cracker using a loo roll core and coloured tissue paper of my choice. Tie it up with ribbon at the ends, add a name sticker - or for simplicity use pink and blue tissue with 'thank you' stickers - and it's done.

The birthday child hands them out as people leave, they're usually a big hit, and I've found as long as it goes 'bang' when pulled, they don't notice the contents too much! The parents like them too as it's not too many sweeties after all that birthday cake.

Happy partying..