Party favors for adults: group of people wearing party hats and drinking

If the party you’re planning is approaching, you’ve got a long list of things to do. Finalize your theme and guest list, plan your menu, pick your invitation, and — what should you do for a party favor?

You want to leave guests with a memento to take home with them, but you don’t want it to be something they’ll just throw away. Thankfully, we’re chock full of ideas for party favors for adults.

We’ve broken our list down into beverage, food, eco-friendly, customized, self-care, and DIY/creative favors. Scroll through and find something that resonates with you.

Beverage Party Favors for Adults

Party favors for adults: hands holding coupe glasses with cocktails

Something to sip on is always appreciated, from a DIY cocktail to some handcrafted hot chocolate. If you’re looking for a beverage-related party favor for adults, check out our favorite suggestions.

1. Cocktail Kit

Gift guests everything they need to make a single serving of your favorite cocktail. For example, put together a Bee’s Knees kit with a mini bottle of gin, a vial of honey, and a lemon. A Moscow Mule kit would have a can of ginger beer, a mini vodka, a lime, and a potted mint plant. We love this as a bridal shower favor or New Year’s party gift to take home!

2. Local Tea

Buy bulk tea from a local shop (or order from your favorite tea retailer), and add individual tea bags to your gift boxes. This is an especially lovely takeaway for a tea party.

3. Mini Champagne Bottle

This party favor is a classic for a reason. Send guests home with a quarter-sized bottle of bubbly, often retailing for just $3-$7. It’s just the right size for pouring yourself a single glass and reminiscing on the perfect party.

4. Hot Chocolate Kit

Make a hot chocolate kit by layering a vial or mason jar with hot cocoa powder and marshmallows. Craft your own perfect flavor mix by adding layers of chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, crushed candy canes, cinnamon, espresso powder, vanilla powder, chai, or even a pinch of cayenne. Guests just need to add hot water!

5. Bottle Opener

Add a keychain bottle opener to a wine-themed gift bag so your guests are always ready for a good time. It can have the date of your event on it or just be a simple, useful keepsake.

Food Favors

Party favors for adults: dessert table with assorted pastries

Nothing, and we mean nothing, is better than food on the way home from a party or the morning after.

6. Homemade Treat

Fill favor boxes with cookies, blondies, caramels, fudge, Hershey’s Kisses cookies, or banana bread for a gift that will show your guests how much you care. It can even be cupcakes from a box mix. A party favor for adults doesn’t need to be fancy to be meaningful!

7. Jam

What’s cuter than a tiny jam jar? You can buy them online or buy jam in bulk and put it in tiny jars with cute string and gift tags around the rim. Of course, if you’re the jam-making type, have at it! Write “You’re My Jam” on the tags along with everyone’s names. This party favor idea works great with honey, too.

8. Sugarfina Candy

The Sugarfina brand gummies and chocolates come in ready-made gift boxes that look adorable even without wrapping paper. It’s hard to pick between all their delicious flavors, but we believe in you.

9. Tiny Hot Sauce

Gift your guests a bottle of hot sauce they can have on their person at all times. Write a note that says “You Keep Life Spicy,” and they’ll think of your big bash every time they flavor their food.

Eco-Friendly Favors

Small eco-friendly party gifts

Not wanting to add more to landfills? Us too! Be kind to the earth with these green gifts.

10. Reusable Tote

For an eco-friendly favor, create a cute graphic on Canva and print it on a reusable tote for your guests. You can either include the date and the event name, like “Tiffany’s Bachelorette Party,” or leave the details off so the tote can get daily use.

11. Succulents

Buy mini succulents from the nursery or grow them with cuttings from your own garden. For a baby shower favor, add stickers that say “Grow baby grow” or another plant-based pun.

12. Flower Seeds

Grab some packets of flower seeds as part of an Earth-loving party favor bag. Sunflowers, nasturtiums, petunias, marigolds, black-eyed Susans, and daisies are all easy to grow for beginners. This gift idea is perfect for wedding favors — guests can be reminded of your love and your special day when they see their blooms.

13. Potted Herbs

Grab potted herbs as your adult party favors to give guests a sustainable way to have dinner ingredients on demand. Mint, rosemary, parsley, thyme, and basil would all be a big hit. Place a variety on a table by the door so guests can pick.

14. (Intentionally) Leftover Party Decorations

A sustainable practice for your party is to pick party supplies that will last beyond a single night. Select vintage bud vases from thrift shops, collect unique taper candle holders, or find old wooden crates and baskets to place artfully around the room filled with decor. At the end of the night, tell guests to take home what they see on the tables and use it in their own space!

15. Handwritten Note

This favor is completely free, and it works for an adult birthday party favor, wedding party favor, wedding favor, or dinner party gift idea. Write a handwritten note for each guest, sharing something you love or admire about them. Place the notes at each place setting or add it to a goodie bag. This party favor for adults adds a truly personal touch and will be remembered long past a beer coozie or candle.

Custom Party Favors for Adults

Black matchbook with the words "let the sparks fly" on it

Get a favor customized for a bespoke item that’s unique to your party and yours alone.

16. Initial Keychains

A monogram keychain is a cute bachelorette party favor or wedding party favor. Pick an acrylic or metal initial keychain for each person and attach it to their favor container for a simple gift.

17. Temporary Tattoos

Order temporary tattoos with your initials, phrases you say all the time, or a wedding logo. Your guests will love getting tatted up for the night!

18. Deck of Cards

Add your initials, logo, or party theme name to a deck of cards. This is perfect for a casino night themed party, but who doesn’t love an extra deck of cards on hand? Write out instructions for your favorite game to complete the party favor.

19. Matchbooks

We adore the idea of a custom matchbook for a party. Add a graphic or logo that fits your theme along with the date and your name(s). Matchbooks double as decor while being a practical favor that guests will definitely want to take home.

Self-Care Favors

Makeup palette and 3 makeup brushes

These gifts communicate that you care about the wellness of your guests and want them happy, healthy, and relaxed.

20. Recovery Kit

If your party will be high energy, give everyone kits to get them through the next morning. Add packs of ibuprofen, Liquid IV, under eye masks, sunglasses, a bottle of water, mini mouthwash, or a protein bar.

21. Silk Scrunchie and Eye Mask

Bring comfort and good ZZZ’s to your loved ones with the perfect duo: a scrunchie and an eye mask. You can buy sets in the same color at many retailers.

22. Bath Bombs

Wrap up colorful bath bombs in cellophane to show off what’s inside. They’ll love treating themselves to a cozy scented bath. Puns thanking your guests for being the bomb are pretty much required.

23. Mini Beauty Products

A personalized kit with small versions of your favorite beauty products is a useful party favor for adults especially. Raid the Ulta, Sephora, or drugstore travel section and put together kits of products like lip oil, mascara, blush, eye cream, and moisturizer.

DIY & Creative Favors

Close up of a hand holding two instant photos

These favors don’t fit neatly into traditional categories and are all tons of fun for your guests!

24. Lottery Ticket

See if Lady Luck is on your side by giving each person a scratch-off lotto ticket. Do them at the end of the party or add them to gift bags. If someone wins big, it’ll be a day you’ll all never forget.

25. Question Cards

We’re Not Really Strangers makes a box set of thoughtful and entertaining connection questions like “Is there a feeling you miss?” or “What is something you wouldn’t want to change about yourself?” Parse them out into gift bags that guests can open at the party and ask one another to get the conversation flowing.

26. Polaroids

A simple and time-honored party favor for adults is a Polaroid picture. Set up an Instax Mini and a photo backdrop, and let your friends loose! Provide colorful Sharpies and stickers so people can personalize their prints.

27. QR Code Playlist

Make a custom playlist for the night. Bump it through the speakers all night and then let guests take it home with them by adding a QR code to the gift favor bags.

Party On

Have so much fun at your party! If you need more guidance on the planning side, check out our Stationers blog. Consider it our party favor for you.