Green Baby Shower Favors
Green Baby Shower Favors are replacing traditional party favors as people move to greener living. The following green baby shower favors are environmentally friendly and unique.
Green Baby Shower Favors
Green Baby Shower Favors Ideas:
Living Baby Shower Favors – A simple, economic and growing trend in baby shower favors is to give seed packets to represent new life and growth. A variation of this baby shower favor is to tie together 3 packages of seeds with a colorful ribbon, to represent Mom, Dad and the new baby. Tiny potted plants given away in personalized terra cotta pots are another fun baby shower favor.
Charitable Baby Shower Favors – Some new mothers wish to give to charities and non-profit organizations on behalf of their guests. One particular organization or a choice from a list of organizations on a card decorated with ribbon and custom labels is both elegant and practical.
Custom made stationary on handmade paper and soy candles look great on the tables and make great conversation pieces. Please send us your green baby shower favor ideas in order that we may share them with the rest of our readers.
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Toddler Birthday Games
Toddler birthday games are great for burning excess energy and encouraging social interactions between children at your child’s birthday party. Your toddler birthday games should not only be easy to play, but safe as well. A good safety rule is to make sure that your prizes or party favors do not fit through a paper towel tube in order to prevent choking hazards.
Toddler Birthday Games
Classic Toddler Birthday Games
Pin the tail on the donkey games are versatile because you can modify the pairings by the theme of your party: frog on the lilly pad, slipper on the ballerina, car on the finish line and so on. Instead of a pin, use tape on the back of each object to be “pinned” to the poster. The child who pins their object closest to the target is the winner.
Playing a “freeze” dance game is sure to remove some of that excess party energy. Play a lively children’s song and have all the children dance. When you stop the music and yell “freeze” everyone must stop dancing and freeze in that position until you say “unfreeze.” Start the music again and repeat.
Other Toddler Birthday Games Ideas
Let the children have a birthday party parade with musical instruments, streamers, ribbons, stuffed animals or whatever relates to the birthday party theme.
Active games like Hokey Pokey, Ring Around the Rosy, or just letting the children dance freestyle really keep children entertained. Blowing bubbles or holding coloring contests with theme inspired coloring pages are also great activities.
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Construction Party
For a construction party use any kind of construction vehicles as your theme. Construction party guests can wear soft inexpensive plastic “hard” hats as they enter the birthday construction zone. Decorate the walls of your construction birthday party zone with construction signs such as “danger,” “men at work,” and “caution.” Caution tape and orange cones are also good decorations to use for your construction birthday party.
Construction Party
There is a lot of activity at a boys birthday party and the construction theme can help to keep them busy. Depending on the age of the guests you can set up activities like building a tower with blocks, create your own construction obstacle course, let the children play with dump trucks in a sand box, have a bean bag toss where the children throw bean bags into a dump truck. Sticker books or coloring books with construction equipment as a theme make good take-away projects.
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Baby Shower Food
When planning baby shower food, you need to consider several factors for success. Baby shower food can enhance the theme of your party and create a memorable experience. The first thing is to determine how many people are attending so that you will have enough food for your guests. Appetizers and beverages feed a large number people and helps to keep the atmosphere light. The next factor is your theme. Baby shower food ideas often incorporate the baby shower theme. Making food to match your theme adds an extra touch to your baby shower that really emphasizes your theme, adds to the atmosphere, and impresses everyone who sees it. Keep the baby shower menu items simple. Simple doesn’t mean plain or boring, it just means choosing baby shower menu items that are easy and fast to prepare. Another important factor has to do with the amount of help you will have. Assign some friends or family members of the expectant mother to prepare food. Having a few people each bringing one or two baby shower menu items will save you a lot of work.
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Clothing Swap
Hold a clothing swap for all of that clothing your child doesn’t wear or never could fit into. Hosting a clothing swap has become a fun trend in the current economy as many of us do our best to stretch household budgets. A swap party is a chance to get several parents together, get rid of old clothes, pick up new clothes and never have to spend a dime.
Clothing Swap
- Set a date and time for friends and family to come over for the clothes swap. You will want to explain to them that they should go through the outgrown clothes of their children and wash them and fold them neatly. (You do not want stained and messy clothes thrown into piles.) Ask them to bring these items with them to your home.
- Make simple signs with construction paper and markers or printed off the computer that say the sizes that should be at the swap party. You can have blank paper in case someone brings sizes you were not anticipating. Simply write “12 months girls” or just “12 months.” The more people you have the, more descriptive you may want to make your signs. Place them in different locations in the room so that when guests arrive they can begin to sort out their clothing into appropriated size piles.
- Have snacks and drinks available to guests to eat while they “shop.” This event works best if it is child free. That way, they are not rummaging through the piles and messing them up. If guests must bring children you may arrange for a video in a different room or an older teenager to come and entertain them while your guests work through piles.
- As guests finish refilling their boxes and bags that they brought their children’s outgrown clothes to the party in with new clothes to take home, you can box up unclaimed clothing that no one wanted to take home (if there are any) and make arrangements to donate them to shelters or other organizations.
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