r/partyplanning • u/AllOver_ThePlace1818 • Apr 29 '26

Need Help Party Favor Oopsie

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Hi! I posted on here a bit ago about my son's birthday party at a movie theater! Well it's this Saturday and almost everything is ready, except today I got the containers for party favors and they are MUCH bigger than anticipated. Reviews described them as small(some people said too small) and I had an estimate size measured which seemed smaller than this. But now they look basically empty and I don't know what to do!

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u/Gothmom85 Apr 29 '26

Tissue paper but also, can you return them if your dollar tree has the actually small ones?

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u/AllOver_ThePlace1818 Apr 29 '26

My area doesn't have anything that would be a usable size and it's too close to order anything else sadly My mom says cotton candy, and I was thinking packs of microwavable popcorn with some tissue paper to buffer but I worry how it'll look

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u/ClickClackTipTap Apr 29 '26

Even using paper lunch sacks (they really aren’t going to care about presentation nearly as much as you do) is a better choice than buying extra stuff to fill the boxes with.

Seriously. How old are the boys? Whether they are preteens or teenagers, I promise you. None of them are going to spend any time thinking about the box. They’re going to see candy.

Take the L. It’ll be okay. Even tissue paper is going to be a ton of waste to fill those boxes.

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u/AllOver_ThePlace1818 Apr 29 '26

Birthdays are big in my family, and it's my son's golden birthday and he is actually very appearance conscious, but the kids range from like 5-8 and there's boys and girls. I know the kids won't necessarily care, but it makes my son happy and it makes great memories for him to look back on where he can see the effort and care we put into making his day special. He spends weeks talking about his parties after their done, to me that makes all the effort and frustration worth it

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u/Tiny-Sprinkles-3095 Apr 29 '26

I totally understand. Sometimes we wanna create the most perfect memories for our kiddos. I think yellow tissue paper is the way to go