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I mentioned that we are throwing my daughter a fun tropical themed birthday party. I just finished up the treat bags and wanted to share them with you . The majority of our budget has been spent on decorations and food, so I wanted to make sure the treat bags came out as economical as possible. I am happy to report that the treat bags came in for around $1 a piece. I used the dollar store and clearance finds to put these together. Here is what I did:
She chose fuschia, orange and yellow as the colors for her decorations, and we found a cute little 3-pack of bags at the dollar store. We decided to use these instead of just the clear cello bags we had originally planned on using. Each bag is about $ .33 each.
We added one of the Tropical Lip Smacker lip glosses to each bag. I picked these up at the Target Easter clearance when they were 70% off, these cost me $ .38 each.
I saw these bracelets at Kohl’s on clearance to 80% off. They just happened to match the colors of my daughter’s party. There were exactly 8 bracelets in the pack for $3.20, which is exactly how many treat bags we were making. The cost of each bracelet works out to be $ .40 each.
I had planned to go out an buy some candy to put in the bags, but I remembered I already had these YummyEarth Organic Lollipops on hand that I picked up from Amazon recently. These were FREE from Amazon with my Swagbucks. (If you haven’t tried these yet, you really should, they are so good!).
I used my Silhouette to cut out a hibiscus flower to dress them up a bit. So the final results are a treat bag with a bracelet, a lip gloss and some organic suckers all for only $1.11. We made 8 treat bags, so the final cost for all of them was $8.88. I am pretty happy with the results and my daughter is too!
I would love to hear your clever ideas for treat bags and any money saving tips you might have.
Michelle says
Just recently my youngest turned four. We had a shape and color birthday party. The treat ‘bags’ ended up being what the kids did for crafts/activities during the party. I made shape sugar cookies, colored frosting, and had sprinkles. Each kid frosted two cookies. Originally, I had planned for them to cut our their own cookies, but decided against that.
The next craft/gift was making ISpy bottles with colored rice. That was super cheap. Basically, I had my mom bring down some empty water bottles, colored some rice, and went around the house looking for objects to put in the bottles. Probably the most expensive part was I decided to buy some alphabet beads so the kids could put their name in the bottle. After the kids picked out what they wanted to put in the bottle I took a picture of their specific objects, printed it out, and used my laminator. I punched a hole in the cord and super glued the lid and a ribbon on the bottle and hung the card on the ribbon.