Paper Items: Party Necessities Don’t Have to be Boring!

By: Gail Leino
Submitted: 2007-01-17 11:30:22
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Whether you are having a theme party for a birthday, a wedding party, wedding shower, baby shower, a family picnic, holiday celebration, or other get together, you will most likely need paper items such as decorations, games, puzzles, napkins, plates, cups, party hats, favors, and such a wide variety of paper items they are too numerous to mention. Paper items do not have to be boring. They can be based on a theme, they can be plain, or fancy, colorful, or classic white, but every party needs paper items.

Paper items can be ordered online, found in party supply or department stores, but don’t overlook other places as well. Creative use of butcher paper, plain brown paper bag type paper, and old dot matrix printer paper, can all be put to great use, and can be found very inexpensively at craft stores, supermarkets, butcher shops, etc. Consider a brown paper bag party in the park. Use brown paper bags as invitations, by carefully cutting lunch size brown paper bags from the supermarket, you can print the invitation on the paper from the top of the bag, tape or glue the bottom into an envelope, address and send or hand deliver invitations to your “Plain, Old-Fashioned, Good-Time Birthday Party!” Have individual refreshment bags personalized for each guest, and include a plain, brown napkin as well. Have goodie bags made ahead of time, so game winners can grab a bag. If this is a boy/girl party, be sure to have generic bags, or make gender specific bags, and let the boys choose from the boy’s section, and the girls choose from the girl’s section.

Another unique use of paper products is to create an artistic corner for children to play in, when they are “out” of elimination games. By covering the walls in butcher paper as high as the tallest child can reach, you provide an activity to keep the children who are eliminated from group games, entertained. Just use washable markers, or home made washable finger paints. You can even have large grocery bags with arm and neck holes cut in them for the children to wear, so they don’t mess up their clothing when they are eating or creating works of art.

Old Boxes of dot matrix printer paper can be made into great banners. Butcher paper can be made into table cloths that children can draw, or finger paint on when they are finished eating too! It may be paper, but it does not have to be boring!

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