
My little guy had his birthday this weekend. I tried my best to improve my approach to the typical kid party. I was more green than I used to be, but nowhere near perfect.
We had just a few friends celebrate with us at a local playground. It was morning, so we served bagels, fruit, coffee, juice, water and cupcakes.
The things I did to try to be more green were:
- had a big compost bag to collect used paper goods and food scraps
- used recycled paper napkins (not cute party ones)
- used biodegradable plates made from sugarcane
- served drinks from large containers in compostable paper cups (no juice boxes)
- used a marker to write names on the cups in hopes of reducing quantity
- chose a durable, reusable party favor (found cute little lunch containers at the Daiso store and put a homemade cookie inside)
- reused the '3' birthday candle we saved from previous use
- made organic cupcakes
- reused large, heavy paper from a project to be table covers on the picnic tables
- online invitations
- beeswax birthday candles (regular candles are often a petroleum based product)
- brought cloth napkins and 'real' plates and dishes
- brought cloth table covers (wouldn't need to be fancy - just reusable)
- bought a mylar balloon to decorate
- also decorated with some streamers, but they are old rolls that have lasted us years and are still not used up!
- bought store cupcakes in plastic containers after the organic ones I baked failed miserably (I baked them in ice cream cones to be cute, but the cones fell apart in the oven)
- offered Wet Ones wipes to help keep hands clean
- took plastic bags at the store to carry my cold, heavy bags of ice to the car
2 comments:
Awesome! Sprout has a birthday coming up, so thanks for some ideas I had not considered. Happy birthday to your little guy!!
I wish you had known about Echoage. I used this site for my daughter's party and she got one great gift instead of 20 smaller ones wrapped in packaging and plastic. I highly recommend you check out www.echoage.com for a green party that works. So proud of my daughter for doing it.
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