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DIY Loot Bags For Birthday Parties

As you all know, I stay away from plastic as much as possible, not the person plastic OK.. plastic as in plastic bags and the likes. So when it comes to birthday parties, I always use brown paper bag for the loot bags instead of plastic bags.

Last January 20 was my nephew’s birthday but her mom forgot to buy brown paper bag (for the freebies) the day before his birthday. We were left with PR materials and some creativity to make paper bags for the birthday party. This is what we got after an hour of paper crafting:

Here’s a step by step guide on making Paper bags perfect for Birthday Party Loots

Materials:

scratch paper (other side must be clean)
transparent tape
scissor
crayons

Take two papers and tape it on the cleaner side.
Tape the other end of the paper together.
Fold about an inch on the other end.
Open the fold and press it until the two sides forms a triangle. Fold the paper end about half an inch, do it again on the other paper end.
That’s how it should look.
Tape the part where the two paper ends meet. Start doodling using your crayons and create crazy patterns then put your hands inside the opening to form a paper bag like the one below:

And voila, you got an artsy craftsy paper bag perfect for your birthday party loot bag. You can go crazy on the patterns. You can also put a tag on the paper bag with a Thank You note from the birthday celebrant.

Hurray For New Toys!

It’s been a while since I last doodle, well except for a few weeks ago while we waited for our turn at the scanner.. which resulted to this:

its fun to discover that I can still doodle! after all these years, so when I had the time (and the funds needed), I went straight to National Bookstore to buy the much needed toys, er, supplies:

I am not planning a mural or a landscape or a self portrait or paint on scrubs… not sure if I can do those things again.. just a simple ABCDs and numbers for Sati and Chico, Holidays for the big boys and some other educational that we can place on their play area.

Cabinet For The Kids

Remember I was planning to give away my precious Mega Bloks collection? I am trying to clean the other room and make more space so we can use it as the boys’ bedroom. My sister object on the idea and said that the bloks got so much memories on it. I have to admit that she is right. It’s one of the first toy we got for our first born. From there our collection grew and the kids had so much fun building castles or robots or anything they fancy. Indeed those colorful bloks holds a lot of memories.

A great idea crossed my mind, why don’t I build a small cabinet using their mega bloks? I can use it to house their other Mega Bloks toys and some of their stuff too. Of course I will have to buy cabinet for their books and other personal belongings. As of now, they are sharing closets but that will have to change as soon as they have their own room. I will have to give them a cabinet of their own as well as a bed of their own too.

I realized that giving them their own cabinet (as well as their own bed) will teach them a lot about independence. It will also teach them how to respect the privacy of each other and respect our privacy too. It will also help them in being more responsible with their belongings.