When your son or daughter graduates from high school, you want to throw a party that will stand out in people's memory.
Once you have decided on the menu and the colors you'd like to decorate with, you can decide on party favors.
DIY graduation favors are especially great and can help keep the costs of your party down.
These should be items that everyone will want to take home with them and they should be useful.
Some ideas include: · Personalized favor bags - These come in a variety of colors, so you can choose a color that matches your decorations.
These bags can be filled with candy, such as personalized M and M's, or other bulk candies.
You can also include graduation hat or diploma-shaped cookies, as well as graduation photos of your child.
· Graduation bookmarks - Especially useful for the soon-to-be college students in your child's graduating class, these can be used daily.
· Plantable favors - Whether they're calla lilies, mini roses bushes, or another flower, these favors provide colorful and lasting gifts.
Every time your guests look in their gardens, they will think of the party and your graduate.
Also, they're eco-friendly, which is a bonus if you and your family want to throw a green party.
· Picture frames - These may contain inspirational messages, your graduate's name, or the date of the party.
Craft stores offer plenty of inexpensive small frames and they can show you how to personalize them by using paint, glitter pens, stamps, etc.
You can include pictures of your graduate in the frame and then pass them out.
These pictures can be older, such as from grade school, or they can be from senior year.
You can also line tables with disposable cameras so that guests can take their own pictures with your graduate and replace the original photo.
With these DIY graduation favors, you can throw on a fantastic, lower-cost party that will be remembered.