Mommy to p
my daughter 1st birthday is this Saturday and it is a princess themed party what do i put in the kids birthday favor bags?
The ideas i had were
fruit bars
gerber fruit snacks
and i don't know what else to put lol
any ideas would be great
Thanks
Answer
Congrats and GTMA -- my daughter's birthday is the 9th and we're doing her party on Valentine's Day, and doing a princess theme as well. :) I've been scouring the web for ideas.
What it came down to for me is the age of the children who will be attending the party. I don't want to put anything in the bags which is either a) inappropriate for the child's age or b) expensive.
I basically have two levels of children attending. We've got a few who are about my daughter's age, who aren't really going to know or understand what's in the treat bag, anyway. My thought was to give them *something* in a pretty bag, but not anything which would be unsafe, and not much, period. We've got more who are age four and up, so I've got more leeway.
What I did was create two separate treat bags.
I recommend going to a party supply store, if you can. I found a bunch of favor type stuff online very inexpensively, but you won't have time to get it there. However, a place like Party City will have a pretty good selection of stuff you can use.
What I included for the older children:
Princess temporary tattoos
favor size Play-Doh
Princess vials of bubble solution
3 small favor boxes with treats inside - I used Craisins, jelly beans in the party colors and chocolate-only M&Ms
Mini pack of crayons (I found ones with a Princess label on the outside, but you can get generic or Crayola in a 4 color size, too, and put a label on them)
Princess stickers (I got a big roll of these for cheap, too)
Mini coloring books with a princess theme (these come in big packs and are very cheap)
Personalized luggage tags and zipper pulls with a Princess background (also surprisingly cheap)
Water soluble color dots for bathtime use
Crown pins with 'Princess' on them that light up and flash
When I did my research, I saw that some places had candy wrappers and treat boxes with personalized labels on them that looked great, but cost a fortune. Fortunately, I'm very good with Word and do a lot with it professionally. It took me 3 minutes to copy a picture of my daughter's invitation, paste it onto an Avery label, and make my own personalized labels for the treat boxes and Princess bubble solution vials. They looked even better than the ones online and they were dirt cheap.
With labels, you can buy non-Princess themed items, stick a label on them, and bingo, you've got an item that looks really impressive, but costs next to nothing. ;)
I happened to find the personalized zipper pulls and backpack/luggage tags online for .99 each. We don't have many kids coming, and two of them have very strangely spelled names. I know one, my niece, is always dying for something personalized, but there's never anything with her name on it, so she'll be thrilled. Again, I know that's not something you probably have time to do at this point, but it's a thought for future parties.
For prizes, I found party spinners with a Princess tag inside and a crown on top. When you press the button, the spinner inside twirls and lights flash. I also found some inexpensive tiaras for party hats, but those I had to order online. I did find them at Party City, though - just didn't like the design as much.
I also managed to order some jeweled plastic goblets for drinkware and labeled them. Sounds expensive, but it wasn't. They look neat and the kids can take them home. Also, I don't have to worry about the kids using fifteen cups apiece; they'll hold onto this one!
I didn't do as much for the younger kids, for obvious reasons, but they're *so* little, they won't notice or care. The two coming to the party are under 2, so I was primarily concerned with putting in things that they could play with and which their moms wouldn't have to worry about in the rush and confusion of a party.
Treat boxes (I put in 3, and filled them with three different flavors of yogurt drops)
a small plushy toy (which I made sure was safe for their age)
A Froot Loop necklace I made, which they can wear. All it is, is a long piece of unwaxed dental floss (less likely to break if they yank it hard) upon which I strung Froot Loops. I knotted it together when the string was full. They can eat the Froot Loops right off the necklace. You could do the same thing with Cheerios if you wanted something more healthy; I just wanted the colors. :)
Again, it's not much, but it's all safe, and they'll get a goblet they can take home, too, for when they get older.
Hope all that helps!! Best of luck to you on your party.
fimo modelling clay?
Yanika B
hey i was trying to personalize my school stuff for next year..
Can i put pens and pencils in the oven when covered in fimo or will they melt?
Any ideas of how can i personalize these things ?
thanks for helping im sooo freeaking bored and need ideas thanks
Answer
You can "cover" various plastics with polymer clay then cure them in a home oven, but some plastics will shrink or distort. The pens that work best for covering with clay are the plain white Bic Round Stics (not the clear Bics!)... they are the right kind of plastic to stand up to the temps required to cure polymer clays, and they're also completely cylindrical (not tapered) so they're just easier to do.
There's loads of info on covering pens with polymer clay on this page of my polymer clay "encyclopedia" website:
http://glassattic.com/polymer/pens.htm
Items made from other materials can be covered with polymer clay (and baked with it) too --materials like glass, metal, wood, stone, etc.
Check this page for more on how to cover those materials, and what some of the possible items to cover would be:
http://glassattic.com/polymer/covering.htm
Other ways to personalize school items might be to make decorative things to put onto your notebooks --those could be small clay items (created by hand or from all kinds of molds--even molds you make yourself from clay-- or stamped clay items, etc.), decorative clay sheets, clay cutout shapes, or they could even be whole covers for the notebooks).
Or you could put various things inside your locker (make clay items into magnets, or make a frame around a mirror you stick to the door, for example).
Or make pulls or buttons for your backpack.
Or make bookmarks.
Check out some of these pages for lessons and examples of all those things. Rather than give a direct link for each page though, I'll just have you go to the "Table of Contents" page for the whole site:
http://glassattic.com/polymer/contents.htm
then click on each of the following page names from inside the alphabetical navigation bar on the left:
Kids & Beginners > Cutouts...and Stamping-Molds
Miniatures
Books--Mini,Covers > Covers
Cards, Postcards > Bookmarks
Frames & Mirrors
Beads > Misc. Uses for Beads (zipper pulls, etc.)
Buttons
Sheets of Pattern
Other Materials > Magnets
P.S. It's good not to refer to FimoClassic or FimoSoft (or any particular brand of polymer clay) as "modeling clay" since the types of clay that are most often called that can't be put in the oven (they'll melt) and will never harden.
"Air-dry" clays are different from either of those, but they won't stay soft in the air (they'll dry and harden). You could experiment with those too, but they'll need to be sealed after drying and they can shrink while drying (clays like Makins or Hearty, or Creative Paperclay, for example).
HTH, and have fun!
(you'll never be bored with polymer clay--there are so many different ways to go with it that you'll never get through them all, much less really explore them all!)
Diane B.
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