Thank You Note Ideas

I personally HATE having to fill out my own thank you card envelope at parties. I already gave you a gift. Now you want me to address my own thank you note? I think it's rude. But that's just me.
Why don't have you have sign in book that people can write in as they enter the party. You can have a space for their name and for their address. You can title it the "Let's Keep in Touch" book and that way, even people who do not bring presents can be thanked for coming and/or kept in touch with.
Good luck!

My daughter is much younger but to make thank you cards easier and more creative. I took a picture of her holding a sign that said thank you with pictures in the background from the party. This way people had pictures of the party and a thank you card. One picture you could take is her all around the presents before they are open and then just add thank you to the picture.

I have also heard of people having guest fill out there envelope for their thank you card when they got the party. Have one of those picture frames with a mat for the guest to sign and then an envelope they can address next to them.

After the party just make the photo thank you's have them printed at WalMart (cheap) and then put them in the already addressed envelopes.

At Target they have pre-printed thank you cards for kids, where you just fill in their name, your name, and what they got--those might help in getting through a large number, but still getting the notes out. Also, letteringdelights.com has thank-you candybar wrappers you can download and print that say "thank you," if you want to go with that idea.

I took a picture of every kiddo at the party then I went to walmart and had those pictures printed. I took a picture of my daughter from the party and had them make it into a preprinted thank you photo card. I sent the card and the picture of their own child to them.

It was very inexpensive and fun to do!

K.

I'm a believer in thank you notes to show appreciation. a rule in our house is that a gift is never used until a thank you note is in the mail. By in the mail...I mean within 2 days of receipt of gift.

SO many young people just don't get it when it comes to etiquette. Although you do not know all of the addresses, I like the idea of addressing their own envelope at the door. I've done that at baby showers, etc. By having the guests do this, you are also setting a positive example of the importance of proper etiquette.

Have fun!!

TF

In my opinion, a verbal thank you should be enough. As the guests leave, have your child verbally thank them personally for the gift as they had out the treat bags. Personally, I only really like a thank you note when I've mailed something, and that's only so that I know it made it there. If I was there and gave it personally, saying thank you should be good enough.

I agree that for a large children's party like you are describing, verbal is enough. In EVERY other case, a written thank you is a "must." I agree with the other lady who posted about "etiquette," and the importance of it.

My children must verbally thank each guest as they leave and thank the parents as well for bringing their child. We always do some sort of thank you note, too. With 4 children who have huge parties it is getting more and more difficult to get the thank you notes in the mail in a timely manner so I have come up with some creative solutions. For my daughter I took a pic of each guest on the pony we had at the party(w/ a polaroid camera so the pics were available immediately). We made foam pic frames during the party as one of our activities and while the kids had lunch and cake and ice cream I put their pics in the frames and wrote a thank you message on the back of each frame with a sharpee and attached a magnet so they could put their frame on the fridge when they took it home. For my son's last party I bought each child a one lb Hershey's bar and I replaced the brown label with a personalized label that had a silly pic of my son with thank you message printed on it. Each child was given one along with a helium balloon and a goody bag as they left the party.