Today I have another free gift for you. These pretty flower boxes can double up as party favours for your daughter’s birthday party or even be used as a party activity.
They can be filled with small party favours like lip gloss, hair accessories, friendship bracelets or candy.
Teenage girls will love rose petal soap when they receive it as a party favour. Simply buy a few silk roses, take them apart, melt grated glycerine soap in the microwave or on the stove (over low heat, as the soap really melts quite quickly), add one or two drops of fragrant oil, use tweezers to dip the rose petals into the melted soap. Place on wax paper dry. Use a pretty box (like these flower boxes) and arrange the soap petals on tissue paper inside the box to look like a rose.
The boxes can also be filled with small friendship cards, one for each year of your daughter’s age. Your daughter would als
o enjoy making these cards herself if she is old enough. The friendship cards can either be made on the computer using images from a card program or from the internet and then be printed using the business card printing settings/option in the card program or in a word processing program.
I used this idea a few years ago for a friend of my daughter on her 21st birthday… 21 cards with inspiring quotes… and her friend really loved this small gift.
The flower box on the left in the photo was the actual box that I used for the cards. I printed the template on A4 size paper and took it to the copy shop to have it enlarged to A3 size. Then I glued the cut out template to the lovely hand-made paper.
The red flower box was made using another version of the original template and glued to the back of gift paper. It can be quite tricky the first time to “close” the petals, so I suggest you just print out the template on white paper and experiment before you make the boxes to use as party favours.
If you want the party guests to make these boxes themselves, just print out a template for each guest, provide enough pretty gift wrapping or paper, scissors and glue. Also provide some ribbon, lace or other embellishments they can use to decorate their flower boxes with.
Download the PartyFavourFlowerBoxes templates and save the file in your download folder or on the desktop. Please note: You will need Winrar to open the zipped folder. If you do not have it on your computer, you can download it here
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Have fun planning your kid’s birthday party and making the flower boxes.
