Some great ideas, thanks everyone... hmmm 1 week til the party, better get myself sorted!
The jewellery etc will be one piece things with no beads or breakable bits, the whistles i am doing as a thing the MUM can do for the kids, DD has already learnt to blow a whistle as my MIL gave her one in a toy bag for her 60th birthday, DD loved them so thought might be something cute.. wont be too little though.
Ok So DP and i went and bought some stuff for the lolly/goody bags today, let me know what you think, has pretty much worked out about $5 a bag which wasn't too bad for what we have, we also had some stuff DP's aunty gave my SIL for the kids and she left here for us to use so that took a bit off.
Toy Cars x 10 - for the older boys and big enough for the goody bags too
Thick Chalk - for all the older kids
Bouncy Balls - 1 each for the older kids and then 2 big ones left for DD to play with
Stickers - 1700 stickers, will divide them b/w ALL the kids even the littlies
Farm Animals / Dinsoaurs - for ALL the kids, bigger animals for the juniors and dinosaurs for the boys
Books - each of the junior bags, i will be writing in the cover to say thanks for coming to ava's party, the boys got the same series and little E the only junior girl gets her own special book! (shhh BG pretend you didn't know)
Necklaces - 2 each for the older girls
Ben 10 bubbles and toys - for the odler boys (from DP's aunty)
Bubbles - for the girls and the juniors (mummy' can use these)
Rattle - for E as the junior boys got a car (shhhh BG)
Lollies - party mix, sherbert bombs, jelly beans, racing cars, fruit sticks, milkyway, twix or something similar and freddos (each junior getting a freddo for their mum or them), i think there is more but not 100% sure.
For the older girls going to get the little plastic rings as the boys have a bigger present in there with the ben10 stuff and then i think thats it.. i think we have done well to get ALL of that for $5 per child.
Now to find loot bags big enough, any ideas?
So what do you think... tooooo much or just enough?
I think the kids will be thrilled when they open their Loot bags
I have used white paper bags with handles. ( i got the kids to decorate their own bags with stickers when they arrived). I've also used large cardboard noodle boxes. Do you have a Discount shop anywhere near you? They often sell plastic containers cheap enough for you to put the loot in.
Yeah looked at the plastic containers but nothing was really big enough.. oops
Oh well we will figure something out, getting DD's balloons from lombards on Tuesday night so might just look in there for something!
can you just grab small gift bag type things from one of the cheapy shops? they'll do the trick - you can get the recycled paper looking ones and put Ava to work painting them like she did for DPs fathers day present - then you can name them so you know who's is what
can you PM me details on the easiest way to get to your place. mum has it stuck in her head you have to go a certain way to get there cos she has taken dad to a doctors down that way - but i'm sure she's making it more difficult than it needs to be!
can't believe it's this weekend. DH will have to stay home and mow the lawns while we go out partying!
time has probably gone the same place for you as it has for me! this time last year i was starting to feel deathly ill with ms! i remember mum ringing to tell me Ava was born and me telling her to rack off cos i was dying! lol
i'm hoping E stays in the good mood she's been in the last couple of days. she's not loving the car so we're going to give her a break as much as we can this week (too much car time lately with stuff happening!) - with luck she'll sleep most of the way to your place and be a super happy camper. she's fascinated by other kids at the moment, so it should be good for her
Ok so her cake choice is SET and thanks to everyone who thinks it sounds nice.. lets see if it actually works out that way! just gotta buy the chocolate for the wall, am thinking will buy milkybars and just use big chunks!
So the lolly bags are sorted, here are an example of the boys bag, junior bag and girls bag, sounds like the melbourne show...
Boys: Car, Bouncy Ball, Stickers, Chalk, Dinosaur Figure & Ben 10 toy They get 1 less item as the ben 10 toy is quite bigish
Junior: Whistle (mummy can use), book with msg from Ava, stickers, bubbles, car for boys, rattle for miss E, freddo and lollipop (for mummy)
The lollies going into the bigger kids bags are: strawberries and cream, bananas, sherbert bombs, jelly beans, candy fizzers, racing cars, timeout, milkway and lollipop oh and party mix.
So what do you think?
On the thought of the Melbourne show we are also having a jumping castle (free of charge it's DP's cousins), a huge trampoline with balloons on it (already here, DP's cousins and AVA loves it), we are also hoping to get a train ride (DP's cousins friends friend said we can have it free aslong as we pick it up)... you never know people might think it's a fair!
I am kinda excited now, tomorrow my girl is 1 then finally once Saturday has been and gone i can relax a little!
Ok so the cake is decorated, so far so good i think.
It's in the fridge but i don't have anything big enough to cover it, i it stays put all night and tomorrow before dinner.. hmmm might find a BIGGER box and sit it in that on the front seat for the drive to nans.
I can't put pics on here but will upload to FB at some stage over the next day or so (prob thurs when things calm down).
Thanks for everyones suggestions, if you wanna look at the cake feel free to add me to FB.
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just gotta buy the chocolate for the wall, am thinking will buy milkybars and just use big chunks!
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