What are some of the best class party favors your kids have given or received?
My kids have all loved passing out little goodie bags or favors for classmates to celebrate special occasions, especially during their preschool and early elementary school years.
I think it's a a sweet tradition and like for them to participate, but since I don't love when they come home with plastic trinkets or stuff that will end up in the trash, I try really hard to send them with class party favors kids might actually use. But, between birthdays, Halloween, Christmas and Valentine's Day, I start to run out of ideas, fast!
I especially love useful favors, or consumable favors that will get used up in short order, to minimize all the stuff that tends to accumulate with kids! (Ideally, it'll also be something most kids are happy or excited to get!)
What have been some of your favorite classroom favors that your kids have come home with, or which they've shared with their classmates?
8 answers
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11/14/2025I love giving out Crayola's Bold & Bright Construction Paper Crayons for Halloween classroom favors. I often see them at Dollar Tree, and they come in a black box to fit the "Halloween" theme. We use these crayons at home constantly to make homemade birthday cards for friends with our construction paper (regular crayons just don't show up well on darker construction paper)!
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11/14/2025
Special pencils, like mechanical pencils, push pencils, scented pencils, or those pencils that write in multi-color. (But I could mostly do without regular pencils - we have so many I don't think we'll ever get through using them all!)
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11/14/2025
3D printed dragon eggs - the smaller ones are pretty reasonably priced when you buy them in bulk.
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11/14/2025
Seed packets. Not sure how much they kids actually like receiving these (I sweeten the deal with little chocolates as well!), but my younger kids love planting things in the garden, so a little seed card or packet they can plant in the ground and watch grow is a unique, eco-friendly favor idea. (And, even if it goes in the garbage, no harm done!)
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11/14/2025
My son once got a cool eraser with a little roller to pick up eraser shavings. It was super cute and fun, and he got a lot of use out of it.
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11/14/2025
Hot chocolate packets with a candy cane are fun consumable class favors to give out at Christmas time.
