loot bags for 3 year olds?

[{{{Angela}}}]

I'm not sure if this is the right forum to post this...but nowhere else seems to fit.

DS is turning 3 at the end of June and I am thinking about having a playdate/party for him with 3 or 4 little friends.  Does anyone have any good ideas for loot bags for 3 year olds?  I probably will include a little bit of candy and snacks, but what else?  They all have stuff like crayons already....would silly putty be too much?   Hmmmmm.....

[Deb_in_oz]

stickers, bubbles, crayons (i personally think kids always like to get new ones as they are forever breaking), a small yoyo or rubber ball, matchbox cars

[Jaime]

imo... i'd shy away from the candy, but stuff like fruit snacks/gummies & crackers are pretty good. 

stickers, and maybe those little containers of playdough - they make a party pack of about 8 small containers for only a dollar or 2.

and ditto to everything else that Deb said. 

[hawkeye1315]

I included little story books.  If you are in Canada, they sell great little toys and books too at the 1$ store. 

[Erin M]

My nephew had loot bags when he turned 3, my sister put in goldfish crackers, play dough, stickers and a tiny bit of candy.  When the daughter of a friend of ours had a birthday, they put everything in a pail with the child's name in it and included a shovel, note pad, crayons, and stickers.  That was more of a "girly" party though.

[deenz]

My dd1 got one that had a headband, cute hairties, and a bracelet in as well as the usual lollipop, chocolate etc.  But I can't imagine it was that cheap (the birthday child had heaps of kids at her birthday party).  But those are obviously girls' things though.  Don't know much about boys!

[oilerbaby]

Head to the dollar store and pick them each up a sand bucket and shovel... add a little thing of bubbles or an inflatable beach ball in the bucket or some side walk chalk... perhaps a sucker to top it off.  It's something you know they will use instead of all those dinky toys that usually end up in the garbage!

[{{{Angela}}}]

Thanks!  Those are such great ideas!   I think we are going to have a fishy/beachy theme party (since DS' current obsession is Finding Nemo) so the pail/shovel idea is super!!   Goldfish crackers too!  And a little storybook about fish!?!  If I can find one!  Yaaaay!  I'm so excited!