I hear you’re having a birthday party for middle-aged children who are between 9 and 12 years old, and you have all the snacks, cakes and sodas ready for them to feast on at the party, but you don’t have goody bags to give at the end of the party to say thank you for coming because you don’t if they still think goodies bags are cool to get after a party. Then answer to that is yes, as long as it is age appropriate for that age group and they really enjoy what they are getting.
If you are looking for an idea to give as party favors that do not seem too young to be given I have an idea for you. The idea I would recommend is making life saver candy necklaces and bracelets instead of handing out regular old fashion candy ones because most middle aged children who received them start to begin to think they are childish. Now, however if you take the idea of the candy necklace and turn the necklace into a hard candy life saver necklace, the middle aged group of children will think there so cool and grown up enough to have hard candy.
Now to make life saver candy necklaces and bracelets of coarse you will need these items; a few bags of different flavored life savers, a package of stretching necklace string, which kind stretches like a hair tie, a ruler, little wax paper bags, and a pair of scissors. You can get these items at craft stores, drug stores, grocery stores, and local department stores for under twenty five dollars. However, if you have a diabetic child coming to the party I would recommend getting a separate bag of sugar free life savers candy to make a sugar free life saver candy necklace and bracelet out of so the middle aged child doesn’t feel left out. Most sugar free life savers can be found in any grocery and drug store in many different flavors right where you find the regular life savers.
If you don’t want to put together these life saver candy necklaces and bracelets yourself, you could have the child who is having the birthday party make them for his or her friends. Having your child making life saver candy necklaces and bracelets for his or her friends is a great way to keep them busy the day before the party when they are all excited and bouncing around.
The first step to making these fantastic candy necklaces is to, start out by taking your stretching necklace string and measure and cut out as many eighteen inch long strains of stretchy string you will need for each member who is coming to your child’s birthday party.
The second step to making life saver candy necklaces is to, take your measured and cut strains of stretchy necklace string and open your bag of life savers and begin stringing them onto the stretchy string as if you were putting beads onto a string to form a necklace until the whole string is filled up with candy life savers.
The third step to making the candy necklaces would be to, tie the ends of the stretchy string together forming a tie knot and creating a necklace like shape once your stretchy string is really full of different flavored life savers. Then you will take your life saver candy necklace and place it gently into a wax paper bag to keep the life savers protected and fresh.
Now in order to make the life saver bracelets you will need to take your stretchy string and cut and measure out as many six inch long strains as you will need to have for each member who is coming to your child’s birthday party, and repeat the same steps above that you used to make the life saver candy necklaces.
When you finally have both life saver candy necklaces and bracelets done and placed in wax paper bags, you will then have a great middle aged children’s goody bag made up to give to each child who comes to your party. Now wan’t that simple and fun to do. You will also provide a great way to thank each child for coming to your child’s party. Now wasn’t that simple and fun to do.
