Guest guest Posted April 23, 2009 Report Share Posted April 23, 2009 Hi everyone, I am trying to see if you all have some ideas for " earth friendly " party favors. This is for our son who will be turning 4 soon. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 With spring here, you can do seed packets, a small terracotta pot and those little potting soil pellets. If you're crafty, you can make paper, and add seeds to it - write on them a thanks for coming to the party, and instructions on how they can plant it (if you use a lot of seeds, they tear it into pieces and can plant them). We found little 'kits' of the pots/seeds/dirt they were tiny, and all had different herbs, I think. We also found the paper cards w/seeds and bought them for our wedding so many years ago, too. We weren't able to make them when we bought them, so I know they're out there. That's all that comes to mind right now. Good luck! missie On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:13 PM, lakshmi rao <laks_class12 wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > I am trying to see if you all have some ideas for " earth friendly " party > favors. This is for our son who will be turning 4 soon. > > Thanks. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 Rather than a bunch of junk that will be in a landfill in few days, why not a craft project that they can take home and show off. Projects we have done: decorated hat; decorated wooden boxes; painted pillow cases. --- On Thu, 4/23/09, lakshmi rao <laks_class12 wrote: lakshmi rao <laks_class12 Earth friendly party favors Thursday, April 23, 2009, 5:13 PM Hi everyone, I am trying to see if you all have some ideas for " earth friendly " party favors. This is for our son who will be turning 4 soon. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 What a great idea, Missie! Target sometimes has little clay pots with seeds. --- On Fri, 4/24/09, Missie <mszzzi wrote: Missie <mszzzi Re: Earth friendly party favors Friday, April 24, 2009, 8:12 AM With spring here, you can do seed packets, a small terracotta pot and those little potting soil pellets. If you're crafty, you can make paper, and add seeds to it - write on them a thanks for coming to the party, and instructions on how they can plant it (if you use a lot of seeds, they tear it into pieces and can plant them). We found little 'kits' of the pots/seeds/dirt they were tiny, and all had different herbs, I think. We also found the paper cards w/seeds and bought them for our wedding so many years ago, too. We weren't able to make them when we bought them, so I know they're out there. That's all that comes to mind right now. Good luck! missie On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:13 PM, lakshmi rao <laks_class12@ > wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > I am trying to see if you all have some ideas for " earth friendly " party > favors. This is for our son who will be turning 4 soon. > > Thanks. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 Hi, Seed packets are fun, or little gardening tools or gloves, or little solar flashlights or toys, or toys made of recycled stuff (I've seen little wooden cars made from recycled wood scraps, for example), or we have this great pencil made out of a thin little tree branch, or what about a packet of recipe cards with homemade fun recipes (play dough, bubbles, face paint, etc. all made from food/nontoxic stuff) and you could make one of them at the party or give samples that you made ahead of time as favors. You could try doing a google search for " green party favors " and see what you get - we got a lot of ideas for holiday gifts with searches like that. Good luck and have fun! And happy birthday to your son! Our son turned 4 last fall . . . and less earth friendly . . . he wanted to give wind-up robots as his party favors. :-) Lorraine On Behalf Of lakshmi rao Thursday, April 23, 2009 3:13 PM Earth friendly party favors Hi everyone, I am trying to see if you all have some ideas for " earth friendly " party favors. This is for our son who will be turning 4 soon. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 25, 2009 Report Share Posted April 25, 2009 When my daughter had her 5th birthday, it was princess and prince themed, we did lots of crafts using re-purposed things. We made gift bags out of old cereal and other boxes. Just cut handles, and painted or pasted pictures on. (I did ones with dragons and ones with a princess). Then for the activities we had a craft table. Saved newspaper was made into crowns (or swords--all the boys idea) by folding into long strips and covering with tinfoil. The girls could make princess hats using fabric and poster boards (the boards were rolled into a dunce like hat shape leaving a small opening at the top that the fabric could be pulled through. The fabric was scraps that I found very cheap, and the poster boards only needed to be clean on one side (or you could cover with colored paper or something). Then I made a play castle for the kids to play with using cardboard boxes that I rescued from various businesses around town. You can find ideas on this web site. http://www.mrmcgroovys.com/t-how-to.aspx They have ideas for a pirate boat and other things as well. Not sure what kind of a theme you were thinking of. Basically everything was recyclable and reused! Just a little bit of paint to liven the boxes up. Hope this helps. Laura Ballinger Morales ________________________________ robin koloms <rkoloms Friday, April 24, 2009 9:25:56 AM Re: Earth friendly party favors Rather than a bunch of junk that will be in a landfill in few days, why not a craft project that they can take home and show off. Projects we have done: decorated hat; decorated wooden boxes; painted pillow cases. --- On Thu, 4/23/09, lakshmi rao <laks_class12@ > wrote: lakshmi rao <laks_class12@ > Earth friendly party favors @gro ups.com Thursday, April 23, 2009, 5:13 PM Hi everyone, I am trying to see if you all have some ideas for " earth friendly " party favors. This is for our son who will be turning 4 soon. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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