Shrek Birthday Party Favors

Green, purple and orange theme: For party favors, you can go with a green, purple and orange theme and stuff colored gift bags with treats in these three colors. Visit your local dollar store and pick up stickers, small toys, novelties and candies in these colors. How about glow-in-the-dark nail-polish or necklaces? Other ideas are: jelly beans, gumballs, pixie-stix, yo-yos, small plush or wind-up toys, bouncy balls, colored bubble bath or bath crayons, mini flashlights and novelty keychains. For girls, you can go with nail polish in these colors, stick-on gems, hair accessories or costume jewelry.

If you're short on time then consider buying a pre-made Shrek Party Favors kit from Celebrate Express. The kit includes a green stripe favor box, a Shrek Forever After sticker sheet, Shrek Forever After ears, Shrek Forever After blowout, a glow putty egg, snap and glow pop and glitter bounce ball. Shrek fans of all ages will definitely love these party favors!

Custom Shrek t-shirt
If you can find inexpensive kids’ t-shirts, you could take a picture with a digital camera of each child after they’ve had their Shrek ears attached and their face painted green. Load the photos onto the computer and print each photo out on your home printer using iron-on transfer paper (available at most stationery stores). Iron a photo onto each shirt and hand them out to the appropriate guest as they leave the party. You will need a helper to take the photos, print out the transfers and iron them on to the t-shirts during the party but they can turn out really neat!

Jars of Swampwater
Purchase some glass or clear plastic jars and fill them with green apple candy rocks. Add gummy candy worms, licorice flies, marshmallow frogs and other tasty critters, and shake it all up. Print out “Shrek’s Swampwater” labels on your computer and affix them to the jars. You can have fun with the labels: “Shrek’s Swampwater: Good for what ails you! A few spoonfuls of this tasty mix of chewy worms, crunchy flies and green bilgewater will turn you a healthy green!” If you can’t find green candy rocks, you can use green licorice shoestrings as a base and label the jars “Swampweeds.”

Gingy decorator kit
Here’s a fun and inexpensive party favor for a Shrek party. Use a giant Gingerbread cookie cutter to make big Gingerbread men. When cool, wrap in plastic wrap and place in a paper bag with a packet of smarties, a packet of goodies, a packet of ju-jubes and a squeeze-tube of white icing. Make labels for the paper bags that say, “Gingy Decorator Kit: Everything you need to decorate your own giant Gingy!”