Drink Recipe Books

• A drink recipe book as a party favor can celebrate the birthday's correlation to adult beverages. Cocktail manuals, mixed drink encyclopedias or guides to the various types of drinks and alcoholic beverages all educate guests who are of age. Guides can be silly, like a collection of recipes for girly, frivolous drinks, or something serious, like an informative manual on wines.
  
  

Drinking Accessories

• Another way to honor the meaning of the birthday is to give out alcohol accoutrements as party favors. Champagne is a drink used for celebrating special occasions, so champagne flutes make an appropriately celebratory gift. For a wilder party favor, shot glasses are suitable. Glasses can be elegant, funny, or personalized, with guests' names engraved in the glass. Likewise, drinking accessories, such as martini shakers, glass stirring sticks or even aspirin, make good favors.
  
  

Theme

• Play with the party's theme when looking for a good favor. If the party is Vegas-themed, give out poker chips. For a dance club theme, miniature mirror balls can be fun and colorful. For an Asian theme, personalized or humorous fortunes in fortune cookies can add silly fun to an event. For a spa event, personal beauty products, like bath salts or lotion, can give guests a chance to enjoy pampering after the party is over.
  
  

Nostalgia

• Party favors can celebrate the guest of honor by consisting of nostalgic items from the birthday boy or girl's childhood or popular items, like a collection of music, from the birth year. Nostalgia-based party favors can also include wines from the guest of honor's birth year. Vintage clothing, like T-shirts, also celebrates the year of birth.