Youth group – The Zig Zag game

I often play games with the youth group kids and the zig zag game went down very well. Its quite a simple game to understand with simple rules.
 
To play the game you have cards with words that match up on the back. Lay them on a table or the floor and go round in a circle to pick up two pieces of card. Each card has a pair for example zig and zag, daisy and chain, banana and split. The winner is the person with the most pairs at the end!
 
I thought of this game from my head but my inspiration for the game was paddy Mcguisiness TV show – take me out! He has catch phrases which I copied some and thought of other pairs from this source. This is the link to the tv shows home page.... http://www.itv.com/takemeout/
 
These are the words I ended up using....

Zig -Zag
Belly - Button
Monkey - Nuts
Lolly - pop
Treasure - Chest
See - Saw
Cat - Cream
Bubble - Bath
Apple - Crumble
Prawn - Cracker
Whoopee - Cushion
Toad - Hole
Banana - Split
Daisy - chain
Happy - Birthday

 

Barbie Party – An unusual theme; making it work as an adult theme!

For all you party planning fanatics, you may be familiar with hostess a party theme blog. I was browsing this blog and came across a Barbie themed party. 

I used to love Barbie’s and embarrassingly had a couple of Barbie parties (no not barbecue!). On the link I was looking at, they had turned a simple kids party theme; Barbie! And made it into a Hollywood, classy and cool party for adults!

(image not mine, it is from hostessblog.com) 

I just love the way the theme has been executed with lots of style. Please feel free to follow the link for a look in! .... In addition check out the hostess blog, there’s lots of cool ideas!

http://www.hostessblog.com/2009/03/barbie-party-recap-part-1-tips-from-colin-cowie/#more-5206

http://www.hostessblog.com

Gift bags - Happy Easter!

These Easter inspired gift bags are great to give to friends and family. I was inspired to make these from some fancy chocolates I saw at the supermarket.

To make them, I used transparent bags so the sweets could be viewed before the bag is opened. I used simple ribbon and curled it with some ribbon. I went for yellow and gold ribbon to emphasize sunny Easter colours.

I bought some lovely confetti online, with bunny rabbit heads, eggs and spring flowers. The Easter themed confetti worked really well, and sparkled with the different coloured chocolate wrappers.

Materails: 

Transparent bags from Partybox.co.uk £1.85 for 30
http://www.partybox.co.uk/children-party-products/Loot-bag-Cellophane-with-tie-Clear-bag-of-30_110393.htm

Easter confetti also from Partybox.co.uk £2.20
http://www.partybox.co.uk/easter-party-products/Confetti-Easter-Mix-Triple_507643.htm

Chocolates and Chocolate egg selection for the Co-op supermarket.

Happy Mother’s Day – Just for you, Mum

I gave my Mum a clothes hamper for her mother’s day present. In the hamper, there was a zebra bag, a black purse and a pink and grey zebra print scarf. I bought them from the peacock’s website online.
 
I was given an old shoebox, which I decorated. I used a large purple plastic bag and lined the box with this. For the cover, I used light green flower wrapping paper by Rachel Taylor, an interesting surface pattern artist, who sells products/cards/wrapping paper etc with her art on.
 
I love recycling old boxes, for example shoe boxes and packaging that comes through the post. I think reusing things is also more eco friendly!
 
My Mum loved her gift, she particularly liked the scarf, and she said it was her colours!

 

Materials
 
Purple plastic material – recycled packaging
 
Rachel Taylor wrapping paper - http://rachaeltaylordesigns.blogspot.com/ also originally bought from http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/
 
Zebra bag, zebra scarf and black purse all bought from http://www.peacocks.co.uk/