17 Festive Christmas Party Favor Ideas

Looking for festive Christmas party favor ideas to make your holiday gathering a true standout? We get it! As the holiday season approaches, we begin to envision the perfect Christmas party. Party favors are one of the best ways to leave your guests with tangible reminders of the fun they had at your event, and for celebrating a holiday like Christmas that centers around gift-giving, giving out favors makes a ton of sense.

At this point, if you’re excited about planning your party and ready to start figuring out the party favors you plan to give your guests, here are our suggestions for the most festive Christmas party favor ideas. They’re well suited to a range of budgets, aesthetics, and more, and even if you don’t actually end up using any of these specific ideas, they’re sure to help you get inspired as you begin to plan.

1. Treat your guests to a party at a festive Peerspace event space

Although physical party favors are important, we’d argue that experiential gifts are truly those that keep on giving. So why not make your first “party favor” gift to your Christmas partygoers an evening at an amazing Christmas party venue near you courtesy of Peerspace?

With a suitable, comfortable, and welcoming venue, your party can be a total success. Luckily, it’s easy to find high-quality party venues near you. One of our favorite examples is this authentic log cabin in the mountains in Cle Elum, WA. It’s a 1,000-square-foot venue with space for 15 guests and includes holiday decor, a full kitchen, an adorable dining nook, and stunning wintry mountain vistas.

You can also book blank-slate event spaces that you can then decorate to your heart’s content! Like this modern lifestyle studio in Brooklyn, NY that boasts space for 60 guests, an open layout, a dining table, and a kitchenette.

Peerspace also makes finding your dream venue among thousands of options as easy as possible with its intuitive, straightforward, yet detailed search tool. Each listing offers all the details you need to make your final selection: thorough descriptions written by dedicated hosts, high-resolution photos of the space in question, and often reviews from past renters.

2. Help them make the perfect holiday drink with pumpkin spice hot chocolate bombs

Fair warning—a lot of the Christmas party favor ideas on this list are going to be edible because they really help cultivate that Christmas-y vibe. And who doesn’t enjoy receiving delicious treats?

That’s why one of our favorite Christmas party favor ideas is to give your guests these pumpkin spice hot chocolate bombs. They are like bath bombs but are made with edible ingredients for hot chocolate. When they make their own cozy drinks with your homemade hot chocolate bombs, we bet they’ll think of your amazing Christmas party and smile to themselves!

3. Get creative by gifting Rudolph-themed reindeer noses

Christmas party favor ideas like this are cute, creative, and sure to elicit a delighted chuckle from your guests! Specifically, it’s an homage to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The gift consists of a bag of round brown chocolates (representing the other reindeer noses) with one piece of red candy in the mix (Rudolph’s red nose).

4. Be thoughtful and gift homemade Christmas ornaments

If your guests are the kind of people who especially appreciate the thought and effort that goes into a handmade gift, consider giving each of them a DIY Christmas ornament to bring home with them after the party. What you make is up to you, but there are tons of DIY Christmas ornament guides out there (like this one from the Pioneer Woman) to help you figure it out!

5. Give out party favors in Christmas-themed bags

We’re big fans of these Rudolph-inspired party favor bags that you can easily make at home. If you’re short on time, head to Amazon or another party supply website and order the cutest Christmas gift bags you can find.

6. Or hand out gifts in mini stockings

You can also treat your party favors like they’re stocking stuffers to keep the Christmas theme going and hang each guest’s personalized stocking on a mantle or wall for them to grab when they’re ready. Here’s how to make these miniature stockings for your favors, courtesy of HGTV.

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7. Hand out useful and personalized custom matchboxes

You can order custom matchboxes from sites like Zazzle, which will make your party favors look extra fancy and impressive. You could also paint and decorate them yourself if you’re on the craftier side. Either way, the winter season is one that often involves lighting lots of candles to keep away the darkness of the long nights, so your guests will appreciate an extra box of matches to have around the house.

8. Gift chocolate-dipped candy cane stirrers for hot cocoa

Dip full-sized candy canes in chocolate for the perfect edible stirrers for hot cocoa! These are a sweet and festive favor that can also be decorative if you wrap them attractively.

9. Bring the festive spirit by handing out mini wreaths

Rich green wreaths are one of the iconic symbols of Christmas, which makes adorable mini ones the perfect choice for a Christmas party favor.

10. Keep it clean with hand Santa-tizer

Everyone needs hand sanitizer… make this necessity cute by dressing up each bottle with a Christmas theme and a fun pun, and give the bottles out to your guests!

11. Add bling to your bubbles with glittery liquor bottles

For adult guests, what about this quick and easy craft that uses Mod Podge and glitter to decorate a mini bottle of prosecco (or your booze of choice)?

12. Delight their senses with a Christmas morning pancake kit

Prepare jars of fluffy pancake mix and delicious maple syrup to hand out to your guests for their breakfast on Christmas morning!

13. Keep it simple with candy cane chapsticks

Everyone’s lips get dry around this time of year. Offer your guests candy cane-flavored chapsticks with an adorable, punny tag for extra fun.

Sure, guests love party favors, but they also love party noshes! Check out these delectable Christmas charcuterie board ideas to whip up something tasty and gorgeous for your revelers.

14. Create darling salt shaker snowmen

Here’s a craft that’s super easy and seriously adorable: making snowmen out of salt shakers, tiny scraps of fabric, cotton balls, and a bit of paint. You don’t need much more for cute and festive party favors!

15. Get interactive and gift them stovetop potpourri

Put together bags of stovetop potpourri that your guests can simmer on low to make their whole house smell amazing and Christmas-y.

16. Stick with a classic and hand out Christmas candles

Miniature candles are another seasonally appropriate choice. Purchase a bunch of candles in appropriately festive scents like pine and mint, then hand them out to your guests at the end of your party. To help you find candles you really like, here is Crate + Barrel’s annual selection of Christmas candles.

17. Borrow a British tradition and hand out Christmas crackers

Traditional English Christmas dinners always include popping open Christmas crackers. Christmas crackers are handheld festively wrapped barrels filled with little trinkets that kids and adults love. Follow this tutorial to make your own or buy some from Amazon that come pre-made and ready to gift.

Christmas party favor ideas: conclusion

We hope these festive Christmas party favor ideas have you feeling ready as you plan your Christmas party. Remember that you can use Peerspace to find and book a stylish, well-equipped party venue near you that has the amenities you need to make your hosting duties a breeze. Head to our platform to start your search for the perfect party setting today!

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