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The invitations set the tone for the party. Make sure you include all the relevant information, including the time, venue and whether parents need to pack additional gear for their children, such as a swimming costume or closed shoes.
For a green option, print invites on biodegradable paper, with embedded seeds that you can plant afterwards.
Some ideas: Build an invite around a photo of your child. This works especially well with electronic invites, which you can create on smilebox.com and other sites. Make mini beach balls for a pool party. Buy inexpensive watercolour paints and paste the invite inside the cover for an artist’s party.
Create rock star lanyards if your pre-teenager is having a disco or rock party.
Make a puzzle invite. The pieces come in a bag, and have to be put together to read. Put a message in a bottle for a pool or beach party.
Send a fortune cookie that has the invite inside.
Personalise invites with the hungry caterpillar.
For a secret agent party, write in small text that can only be read with a magnifying glass, which you include with the invite, or with lemon juice as “invisible ink�, that can only be read when held up to the light.
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May 2013
magazine cape town