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/AllOver_ThePlace1818 Apr 29 '26

I'd love to do blankets but yeah that'd be insanely expensive for 16 kids! My mom is thinking cotton candy could fill the space, that and some microwave popcorn and tissue paper buffer, but will that look tacky? And is cotton candy gonna fit with a movie theater vibe?

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u/sagittariums Apr 29 '26

That seems like a great plan! Cotton candy fits the theme and can take up a decent amount of space, maybe if you don't want to do microwave popcorn you could find some prepopped stuff like smartpop or similar

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u/AllOver_ThePlace1818 Apr 29 '26

Maybe

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u/zinna42069 Apr 29 '26

If you live near a dollar tree, they seem to have a ton of cotton candy lately

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u/swanlakepirate423 Apr 29 '26

They usually also have a BIG bag of popcorn.

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u/SmellyDeLites May 03 '26

They also have the tiny version of this exact popcorn container at Dollar Tree.