Birthday Party Fun: Goodie Bag Alternatives
If you're looking for alternatives to pricey goodie bags, here are a few ideas that will make your guests--and wallet--happy. Any Fun Party:Take Polaroid photos of each guest with the birthday child, and decorate cardboard picture frames, or make frames with popsicle sticks.Dance Party:Let the birthday child create a mix CD of favorite music. Burn copies for everybody (and play it at the party too!).Hawaiian Party:Decorate inexpensive plastic sunglasses with artificial flowers. String together more artificial flowers for one-of- a-kind leis. Royal Party:Decorate paper crowns and make scepters from wooden dowels and plastic jewels.Sleepover Party:Decorate plastic light-switch plates with stickers.
Allow your young guests to embellish white pillowcases with fabric paints for a take-home sleepy surprise.Spring or Garden Party:Paint flower pots and include a pack of flower seeds for children to grow at home.Survivor Party:Send the children on a scavenger hunt equipped with compasses and trail mixes that they can make before the hunt. The compass will become a new favorite gadget, and the trail mix is a lot healthier that candy treats.Tea Party:Let the girls decorate straw hats with artificial flowers, which they can wear for the party, and later take home. Complete the party with candy necklaces.Have fun!.
Deborah Shelton the author of "The Five Minute Parent: Fun & Fast Activities for You and Your Little Ones." Visit Deborah's website for more family-friendly ideas: http://www.fiveminuteparent.com Subscribe to The Five Minute Parent email newsletter mailto:Five_Minute_Parent-subscribe@yahoogroups.comdeborah@fiveminuteparent.comEnglish Has Come A Long, Long Way...
I often wonder what would happen if Shakespeare were to be transported in a time machine to our world today.
What would he think?
How would he react?Yes, Willie would probably tell me "thou hast too much time on thy hands if thou spendeth it wondering about such flights of fancy."
But only after he found his feet.You see, Willie would be blown away by some of the comforts we take for granted.
For instance, that box we walk into.
The doors close all by themselves...just like magic.
When they open, we are magically in a different place."What callest thou this contraption?" Willie would ask in utter amazement.An elevator.
You would think nothing would phase a man who just landed his time machine 400 years into the future."Ah, I see.
It was not magic after all.
It elevated us, because it is an elevator."This Willie guy is pretty handy with his English, isn't he?
But that won't get him far these days...
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What Halloween Candy Ranks #1 This Year?
In a shock to chocolate lovers everywhere, candy corn tops this year's list as the most popular Halloween candy.Hundreds of people from all walks of life have responded to ExtremeChocolate.com's new Halloween candy survey, which asks: "What Halloween candy is your favorite?" Reese's Peanut Butter Cups is currently in the #2 position.Previous studies from other sources have found Snickers to be #1 -- but Snickers ranks third this year."I'm stunned," says Dr. Audri G. Lanford, head chocoholic researcher and author of a new ebook called "Chocolate, Chocolate, and More Chocolate: The Ultimate Chocolate Lover's Guide For Enjoying, Cooking and Making Chocolate!" "The idea that candy corn is more appealing than chocolate amounts to sacrilege to real chocolate lovers. It's true that we didn't distinguish between plain and chocolate candy corn in the survey, but still..."This study provides three kinds of important data:1) Suggestions (based on real data) for what to buy for the trick-or-treaters'...
What Halloween Candy Ranks #1 This Year?
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Room Candy Inc. Announces the Launch of Poop Culture? Poop Tees, a Dog T-shirt Line With Funny Sayings Inspired By Doggy's Doo
San Marino, CA
February 28, 2005 -? Pet lovers who know the messy business of cleaning up after their pets can now have a little laugh at the things they do for their beloved pets.
Room Candy Inc. announced the formation of a new pet accessories label, poop culture?, a funny and light-hearted pet accessories line that is inspired by all things related to dog poop.
After all, you can't spell "pooch" without "poo"!The launch collection from poop culture? features a line of Poop Tees ?a series of dog t-shirts with sayings such as "Poopstar", "Poop, I did it again!", "Just doo it", "10% Dog; 90% Doo!", and "I Poop; U Scoop".
The sayings are available in pink, grey, red and black colored shirts.
The shirts have a suggested retail price of $18.
Room Candy president Linny Cendana got the idea for the poop culture line after spending one Sunday afternoon cleaning up after her three dogs.
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