Creative Children's Party Favor Ideas

Throwing children's parties can be fun and overwhelming all at the same time, but with the right children's party favors, it can be a hoot! It's important to make sure you have enough fun activities to keep all party guests at the children's party busy and you can expect to have a pretty big mess on your hands when it's all said and done, but in the end, fun children's parties are worth it!

Let's face it; children's parties don't have to be 100% store-bought. You can incorporate store-bought children's party favors, decorations and other children's party supplies that you find locally or online into children's parties, but it will be a lot more fun and a lot more memorable if you also make some of your own children's party favors or modify the store-bought ones.

Place Markers For Your Small Children's Party
You can find inexpensive magnetic photo frames online in the children's party supplies. They usually come in packages of four. If you're having a party for small children, you can either ask the parents to bring a small photo of the child in the party invitation or if you have photos of the party guests, you can place the photos in the magnetic frames beforehand and use them as place markers at the children's party. This is a neat idea for kids who aren't reading yet. Then, you can send the magnetic photo frame home with the child as a party gift; this will definitely make for an excellent children's party!

Miniature coloring books, party horns and other goodies found in children's party supplies are also fun children's party favors to offer the children. In the summertime you can mix up a big batch of homemade bubble soap and make big bubbles with a gigantic bubble wand for the children to make bubbles with during the party. Handing out small bubbles (usually available in children's party supplies type stores in lots of 12 or 14 for just a couple of bucks) is a fun way to end a bubble party.

Creating a Fun Children's Party Theme

Making up your own children's party themes can be really fun. I don't mean the store-bought children's party themes already available, but creating special menus, games and favors to go with a particular theme that your child is interested in. Growing up, I remember everyone's mother did this sort of thing all the time for children's parties.

For example, A mother and daughter both loved to play Super Mario Brothers on the old original Nintendo. After school the daughter came home to find that her mom had typed up a "Nintendo" menu (printed it out from a printable card making program). I no longer recall the food she served, but it was fun stuff that her daughter loved to eat and she had changed the names creatively to fit with the Nintendo games they often played. After they ate their special dinner, they played Nintendo, of course.

Another fun themed children's party night was when a mother threw an "Edgar Allan Poe" party for her son's birthday. It was similar to the Nintendo party, but offered a special Poe menu and I remember there were lots of fake crows around and they watched a movie after that.

Kids Party Menu Examples

A good example of what I mean by offering a fun menu is something like serving sponge cake for dessert and crabby patties (hamburgers) for a Sponge Bob Square Pants party. Maybe not the most appealing combination, but you get the idea!

Sometimes we need to think outside of the box in order to make a children's party memorable and fun. You don't always have to make everything by hand or spend a lot of money on children's party supplies.

Sometimes you can take the things you can find or things you have lying around and come up with some fun and creative stuff. Do it for you and your children or do it for an entire party, but have fun!

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