tip of the day — cheap party favors

I have a problem shelling out $50-$100 for birthday party goody bags when most of the crap in them is going to break before it even gets home from the party.

Tomorrow I am having a birthday party here at the house, and 25 kids (I’ll get to that tomorrow) are coming.  So here is what I made for party favors, and it cost me almost nothing.

I made stationery folders for all 25 kids coming to the party.

Here are the front covers:

Here is a boy’s folder:

Here is a girl’s folder:

Each folder contains:

• five sheets of personalized paper
• five envelopes
• 3 pens
• 1 sheet of stickers

This is how much I spent:

• 25 folders………………..$6.00
• 125 envelopes…………$0.00 (already had them)
• personalized paper…..$0.00 (printed on my computer)
• 75 pens…………………..$0.00 (got them for free at Target using Bic stationery coupons)
• Stickers…………………..$3.00 (3 packs of 300 stickers at the Dollar Store)
• personalized labels…..$0.00 (already had them and printed them on my computer)

TOTAL………………………..$9.00 for 25 party favors

I showed them to my kids and they loved them!

Do you have any suggestions for affordable and useful party favors?

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