{"id":5167,"date":"2014-07-02T08:18:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T12:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=5167"},"modified":"2014-07-02T08:18:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T12:18:25","slug":"better-goodie-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/02\/better-goodie-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Goodie Bags"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goodie bags are perhaps one of the things I dislike most about birthday parties. \u00a0I hate coming home with a bag filled with candy, nail polish and lipgloss (all things that I don’t really let my kids have) or messy goo and bubbles or tiny little silly toys that my girls look at for a second and then toss aside.<\/p>\n

When I went to make the goodie bags for Honeybun’s birthday this year, I set out on a mission to get things that the children would like but hopefully the parents would too!<\/p>\n

We went to the dollar store and this is what we ended up getting: a pen, small spiral notebook, spiral art stencil, swirly straw and glow bracelets. \u00a0We used plain white paper lunch sacks which Honeybun decorated for each of her guests.<\/p>\n

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I tried to buy everything in multi-packs which also helped save money. \u00a0I ended up spending about $15 total and had enough items to make 9 goodie bags plus extras of some items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Goodie bags are perhaps one of the things I dislike most about birthday parties. \u00a0I hate coming home with a bag filled with candy, nail polish and lipgloss (all things that I don’t really let my kids have) or messy goo and bubbles or tiny little silly toys that my girls look at for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-time-to-celebrate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5178,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167\/revisions\/5178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}