There are many ways to customize gift bags for children.
When you throw a birthday party for children, one of the things you need to think about is party favors. While there are lots of different options for favors, a gift bag is a popular one. Create gift bags in advance for your guests and hand them out as the children head home. It is easy to match the gift bags to your party's theme and include several small items in each bag that will please your guests. Does this Spark an idea?
Arts & Crafts
Give each child a gift bag that stimulates creativity. Start with a small canvas bag and use fabric paint to write each child's name on the outside. In each bag, include items like coloring books, construction paper, crayons, colored pencils, washable markers, kid-friendly scissors, glue sticks and a booklet about make crafts.
Princess Party
Little girls love princess parties, and you can create gift bags to match this theme. Select plastic bags with princess pictures on the outside, or even small pink cosmetic bags. Fill the gift bags with stickers, pencils, erasers and miniature princess figurines; brightly-colored plastic rings and bracelets and sparkling lip gloss are other options.
Edibles
Send the kids home with a gift bag filled with items they can munch on. Make sugar cookies based on your theme, whether the shapes are trains for a boy's party or flowers for a girl's party. The bag can include a few cookies wrapped in clear cellophane, plus miniature candy bars, bubble gum and jawbreakers; a mix of fruity candy and chocolate candy works well. Check with parents of your guests in advance about possible food allergies.
Gardening
Let the kids help out for this twist on a gift bag, using a flower pot as the "bag." Set up a table with small flower pots, stencils and paints and let the children decorate their flower pots during the party. Once the flower pots are dry, fill them with several different seed packets, a small, colorful spade and a miniature watering can for the children to take home.
Construction
Little boys like building things, and a gift bag for a construction-themed party is easy to fill. Each bag can include colorful plastic building blocks, a toy dump truck or other construction zone vehicle, plastic tools like a toy hammer, screwdriver and wrench, and stickers with construction zone scenes and signs.
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