Having worked in a school, I can say that letting your child hand out invitations to everyone is a little bit risky when kids are little.
They put them in a bag but I don't know how many times I found things of all sorts fallen on the floor of the bag room. Newsletters, invitations, toys, jackets. You name it.
Even if they make it home, half the parents don't clean out the bag either so it could be left sitting there at the bottom.
The parents who saw the invites though (and some would have) and did not respond were plain rude, but that is par for the course these days, I am sorry to say.
My 3 adult children have all married over the last 3 years and in every case, there were people who didn't answer at all and had to be chased up.
Personally, if I did not receive a reply from any of these strangers, I would not expect any of their children to be turning up.I think a small party with 2 or 3 best friends plus cousins/neighbours is a better way to go than asking 35 kids, most of whom would have had very little to do with the child.
Probably the best way to give out invitations is to pop along to the school or after school activity yourself and hand them personally to the parents of the children involved, where possible.
