Since starting to organise children’s birthday parties for my kids (and also taking them to friend’s parties) I felt that the party bags are a real waste of money. Nevertheless kids like them, so about a year ago I had an idea!!!

I purchased some CAFOD gifts from the World Gifts website, made a template for a “party bag” and printed one per child. I basically printed an A4 with two images, folded it in the middle and made the bag.

Then I went onto the “kids zone” part of the CAFOD website and printed some colouring sheets, relative to the gifts that I chose this time. I rolled them up and put one in each bag.

Finally, I added a sweet per bag and… there we go, a nice message, some educational things to do and a reward for coming to the party sharing my child’s birthday with him!

This time I chose a “Vegetable Garden” and “Some Chicken” - see the pdf of the party bag and the one of the colouring sheets that I have used.