I took my kids to a birthday party last week and was so impressed with the party favor. I just had to share with all of you and give props to my friend Sara for coming up with this. My kids each got a $5 Gift Certificate to Barnes and Noble Bookstore. The girls card has Fancy Nancy on it and the boys had pirates. I just loved the idea of giving something the kids could actually use to pick out what they wanted, it gave me an outing to take them to the bookstore and encourages reading and the value of money. Clearly, most books cost more than $5 so it helped my kids understand the value of what they had been given as a gift as well as what money we used to put towards the book they had chosen. This didn’t take much effort on Sara’s part in regards to having to make special gifts for each kid either. I am so appreciative of her generous party favor and thankful that we have discovered a new place to have an outing…the bookstore! My kids love Barnes and Noble now!
You could probably do this at your local book store too! Thanks Sara for inspiring me to be more creative with the gifts I give kids rather than just another bottle of bubbles:)
