Last year was my first year giving out gift bags. I used brown paper lunch bags and glued hand made brooms to them. I just went outside and collected a bunch of branches , tied them together with wire and voila!

Inside i put the little water bottles with some advil packets (the sinlge packets) hot glued to the neck of the bottle. I figured some people would wake up with headaches . Of course there was chocolate, and some printed "fortunes" inside. I know there was something else...but i cant remember.

Everyone seemed to like them. ANd i t was fairly inexpensive.

I gave out treat bags last year that had some goodies for the kids in them. I also made the labels & attached them to small white candy bags. There is a picture below.

This year for my tot's I will have bags again but due to the amount of adults we had come thru last year I'd like to have something for them........so I'm making these coffins & I'm going to put 5 of the gourmet chocolates we make for our company inside the coffin. This will be for adults only & only one to a family.

papercoffins


muffy

PS ooppsss BOO, I'm afraid I got off track here forgetting this was an inquiery for gift bags for guests at your party......sorry!!lol

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Those are nice bags Muffy. For the kiddies, I took the plain brown paper bags and stenciled them all with western designs. For the adults, I'm using the larger brown gift bag (with handles) and I've tied orange & black string to them. It's nice you put your name and address on them because when the kids are home going thru their stuff they will remember you and seek you out next year. I don't know how kids do it - all my nieces & nephews can tell you what I got them for any given birthday or Christmas. I can't remember what I did yesterday. Geez, getting old sucks (but I'm happy to be here!)

I'm curious about those coins too - they sound way cool!

I like to get those little orange leaf bags they make for people to hang from their trees that look like ghosts. I fill those with fun stuff I buy at the dollar store, and try to include a home-made treat. One year I made my own candles, which was fun but not as inexpensive as buying them at a dollar store. The bags serve as a goodie as well, because they are decorations the guest can use for leaves and hang from their trees and are biodegradable.

Also, another great thing to fill a bag is to get an old-fashioned polariod and take snaps of everyone in their costumes together. It can be another thing to fill their goodie bag at the end of each night, and will make sure the guest never forgets the party!


Leigh Clements
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