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With my children back in school, my inbox is just flooded with evites for birthday parties. Being the DIYer that I am, I always prefer to have something tangible, something which I can fret over, plan, design and hold.
You too may want an alternative to electronic or paper invitations. If so, how about:
a cookie :0)
These were the little invitations I did last year and handed them out to my daughter’s friends/classmates. The children squealed with delight and were besides themselves! I like giving children an invitation for them to hold – it is their very own piece of “mail”.
I designed the invitations (I blurred out some of the info, so please don’t think it looked like this!) and printed them out on very heavy paper that had a red and green design with small gems. Ugh, and do I WISH I had a boy! I have so many ideas for boy invitations involving dinosaurs, pirates, etc.!
If you can’t tell from the cookie, her birthday is in December; if anyone needs ideas for a December party, let me know and I’ll write a post on what I did for her birthday 🙂
I hope you like my invitation as much as I enjoyed making them!!
A Detailed House 
Did you bake the cookies yourself too? The whole thing is fantastic.
I didn’t – I am such a perfectionist, it would drive me NUTS decorating the cookies!
I’s rather have something tangible.
Cynthia
Why can’t ALL invites include a Christmas cookie?!?! XO
You know, you are on to something! I would love a cookie with every invite!!
Us too!!! LOL! 🙂
What a wonderful idea! You are so right, children dream of getting “mail”, I know I did! 🙂
Agreed! I have to give mine credit card offers to appease them 😉
That is so clever. I enjoyed tangible invitations when my boys were small, too. Your idea would also make a wonderful party favor with a “thanks for coming” tag instead.
Oh! I LOVE doing favors!!! I stockpile favor bags/boxes throughout the year!
In your crafty free time, have fun making tiny gift bags from last year’s calendar or extra gift wrap. It’s simply and fun. Of course, now you have a stockpile, so you won’t need them for some time.
Children’s parties are so much fun. I host a Halloween party every year for the neighborhood kids. We have a blast.
This is adorable! And I totally agree about giving real, tangible (preferably homemade) invitations and cards. They show so much thought and care and are much more memorable than an evite! Great post!
A wonderful idea. I would have expected nothing less!
Thank you so much! I especially love thinking about whimsical things!
Fabulous! So thoughtful 🙂
I am thinking of a pirate theme party for my little boy next may so if you want an excuse to do a post on that theme all ideas appreciated especially as he is only five therefore it will be a mixed party and would love a them for girls to match other than princesses
I agree! I have a daughter (who is 2) and I’m dreading having to host a princess party. I know that I may very well have to, but a pirate party would be so much more fun! Yesterday we made pirate hats from newspaper and walked around talking pirate and looking for treasure.
I think scrolls delivered in bottles would be great for the boy invites and treasure chests for the girls!
So cuuute! Definitely think this is better than just an e-vite!
Now that’s an invite! I love the idea & I’m already thinking of ways to incorporate the idea for “big people” parties. Very creative and fun plus I’m betting the kids have never received anything so special. You’re the best.
Now THAT is a cute idea! It tried Evite once…wasn’t for me. My daughter has an August birthday. I wonder if I could do a ladybug…a butterfly. Something simple as I’m not entirely creative lol!
See one comment down for some ideas that I wrote for someone else 🙂 but flower, butterfly or ladybug cookies would be adorable!! Or not cookies, but little watering cans, sunglasses, bug catcher nets (they sell them at the Dollar Store), flip flops, etc…
Wonderful! I had to pin that!
I am inviting my girlfriends and all my daughters girlfriends with little girls
To a Matilda Jane party at my house
I call those dresses”crack for Nanas”
What should I use with that invite?
Ideas?
So, so fun!!! My head is spinning with the possibilities! Off the top of my head: you could do a version of cookies, but change it to cookies in the shape of dresses or a little box of petit fours! Depending upon the ages of the little ones, you could do flower wands with colorful ribbons streaming down, over-sized crepe flowers (have you seen those? They’re amazing!) or pompoms, tissue flower bouquets, tulle skirts (very easy to put together), big bow barrettes/headbands (easy to make) or flowers on barrettes/headbands. I probably will thing of other ideas…at 3 am!
Or…little stuffed animals, like from Oriental Trading Company or the Dollar Store. At Oriental Trading Company, they run less than a dollar AND so do fabric goodie bags – less than what you can buy paper ones at the store!
adorable…what a good mommy 🙂
Good mommy, neurotic mommy, what’s the diff? 😉
Tactile invites, always better. These are wonderful!
I love the idea of including a treat with the invitation.
Adorable. I too HAVE to send out tangible invites for parties… evites are convenient, but oh so impersonal and special. We sent out ‘Daily Planet’ newspapers for our son’s ‘Superman’ Birthday party this year…Love the cookie idea. tho… I might steal that 🙂
I LOVE that!!! Pure genius sending out the Daily Planet!!!!
I am a papercrafter so ANY project (and any event) that lets me “play” is greatly appreciated! And then I get to teach it. I only had boys (and so many ideas for girls)! Last year I printed party invitations, stamped monsters all over it and watercoloured them. It was fun!
What an amazing idea! My little ones first birthday is in April.. so many ideas are running through my head. 🙂 Thanks for the inspiration!