Party bags/favours - help! 🙏🏼

Planning for my son’s birthday party this weekend and I don’t want to do the standard party bag as it’s a big cost for stuff that the kids usually don’t really care about, and feels wasteful (no judgement if you like doing them - it’s just not for me!)
I’d like to get something though, and wondered if anyone had suggestions for something small that they could take away that they’d actually like?
Last year I gave little dairy free chocolate lollies which I could do again, or bags of sweets, but open to different/ non food suggestions 🙏🏼

(Impossible to find a pic of him not doing a dinosaur roar atm 😅) 🦖

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Sorry for jumping in..I want some ideas too..doing on saturday for my girl☺️

I still do party bags but I put useful things in them like for example it was my daughters birthday last weekend and in the party bag was a reading fairytale book, a T-shirt from Primark, a notebook and pen and stickers(which all kids love!) and just some sweets. I got a lot of good compliments from the parents of the children on Monday saying that they were better than the normal stuff that everyone puts in that doesn’t get used! X

My daughter’s bday was last week and we did party bags (no plastic tat), some little crafty things like a wooden shape to colour in and hang up but the biggest hit was the bathbomb I put in. I bought about 30 off amazon and some little squares of material and wrapped them with a little ribbon. Went down really well!

We do books and bubbles. I’ve got some temp tattoos this year too because this age they seem ovsessed. We get the 10 for £10 books(apparently they’re 12 for £10 atm) from the works

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