Choose bar mitzvah party favors using the religious bar mitzvah symbols as inspiration, the symbols include the tefillin, the Torah, tsitsit and the tallit. There are other themes that can guide your choice; use the color scheme of the bar mitzvah decorations or some special quality or characteristic of the bar mitzvah boy.

Bar Mitzvah Party Favor Disc

If your son can sing or play an instrument, take him to a recording studio and get him recorded onto a disc, you can also do this at home if you have the computer know how and equipment. Then make a sticker with a photo of him and the date of the bar mitzvah and stick it onto the disc as a label, there are various web sites and computer programs which can do this for you. You can buy the disc stickers with the hole already in the middle of the circular sticker, from Office Depot. You can then have the disc duplicated and give it as a bar mitzvah party favor.

If the bar mitzvah boy doesn't sing but you still like the idea of a disc then make a disc of his favorite songs, prayers, the bar mitzvah drasha or the bar mitzvah boy playing an instrument.

Bar Mitzvah Party Favor Tefillin and Chocolate

One of the bar mitzvah symbols is the tefillin, which looks like a square black box and leather straps, although obviously it is more religiously significant than that. Buy small black boxes, the size of an individual chocolate, attach two pieces of black ribbon to the box, leave the ribbon flowing about three inches long, and it will look like a tefillin. Write the bar mitzvah boy's name and the bar mitzvah date onto the box in silver or gold pen and put a special chocolate inside. Place this bar mitzvah party favor on the guest's plates.

Bar Mitzvah Party Favor Sweet Torah Scrolls

You can make a Torah scroll using two rolls of sweets (Smarties), decorative paper and glue. These treats can be bought ready made on line (candytorahs.com.) but I have made them myself in the past and although it takes patience, I always find time cheaper than money. Choose paper which matches your color scheme. Cut a square of decorative paper into approximately a 2 inch square. Lay two rolls of sweets on the paper, roll the paper up around the sweets leaving the ends of the rolls of sweets sticking out at both ends, then stick the paper shut. The cellophane sweet rapper which sticks out at both ends resembles the ends of the Torah scrolls. Then get a contrasting piece of paper or a sticker and write your bar mitzvah boy's date and name, or "Mazal Tov" on the paper. Stick it onto the torah and you are done.

Bar Mitzvah Party Toys

If you are having a party with music and dancing then confetti, bubbles and streamers will add to the celebration. Personalize these toys by buying white stickers and printing your son's bar mitzvah birthday date, his name or "Mazal Tov" onto the stickers. Attach the stickers to the bubbles, rattles or any other party toys you may have.

Bar Mitzvah Party Favor Talit Bookmark

Make a book mark which looks like a talit. Take white material or ribbon which can be written on easily and without the ink "bleeding" and cut it into a one inch by seven inch strip. Draw two blue lines across each end of the material similar to the blue stripes on the ends of a talit, and using a glue gun attach cord tassels or trim on each end.

The length of this party favor makes it look attractive draped across each guest's plate. It is a good idea for a bar mitzvah boy who reads a lot. If material sounds too complicated for you then use thick good quality art paper or plastic.

Bar Mitzvah Party Favor Flowers

Have a vase full of chocolate roses as your table center pieces which then become the party favors as the bar mitzvah guests each take one rose home.

The roses can be bought or easily made. Take wooden skewers and chocolates wrapped in red paper, using a glue gun attach the "rose" chocolates to the ends of the skewers. You could also add a "leaf" to each "stem" using decorative green paper. On the leaves you could write a bar mitzvah message of thanks or the bar mitzvah boy's name and birth date.

Bar Mitzvah Party Favor Planting New Seeds

On each place setting put a small ceramic plant pot with either a seed already planted in soil or seeds for planting tied elegantly in tulle inside the pot. Then on the outside of the plant pot write in gold or silver some sentimental sentence about growing and planting the seeds for the future, or simply the bar mitzvah boy's name and birth date.

There are of course many other bar mitzvah party favor ideas and you can find plenty of them on the internet. The more standard party favor ideas include items of clothing, mugs, key rings, placemats, lighters, matchboxes or any other item with the bar mitzvah boy's face or name printed on it. There are also a myriad of chocolate options, but what makes the ideas I have mentioned more unique is that you can make them yourself and add that personal touch.