How to Personalize Party Favors

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It’s Easy to Personalize Children’s Party Favors…You Just Need a Few Instructions

Children’s sand pails, lunch boxes, plastic cups, hats and more all  look adorable as birthday party favors, especially when you personalize them with the children’s names. Birthday Party Kidz has a nice selection of both personalized and non-personalized sandpails. These make great party favors. I’ve even used them to hold potato chips, macaroni salad, sand cakes and more. It makes a colorful summer-inspired table decoration as well as a useful tool to hold food items. You can even use the pail as a serving utensil. They’re fun and easy and inexpensive too.

The trick really is to use the right type of markers and use some fun, easy to draw embellishments that will make you look like a pro.

1. Use simple child-like writing (or font) in a variety of permanent markers. To make it straight, use scotch tape and measure about 1 /3 from the top of the item that you will be personalizing.

2. Use the tape as a level, and write above the tape. Remove the tape and add some simple circles along the end points of each of the letters.

3. Finish off with a simple curved line beneath the name. Here are some simple but pretty choices.

Note: Practice makes perfect. So make sure you practice drawing the line on some paper before doing it on the finished product. You can accomplish the squirly brown double line by using a calligraphy type marker that has different tip styles built into it, such as:

4. Your item will look really nicely decorated and feel free to stop here.

5. However, if you want to go a step further, you can add some flowers for the girls. Just simple easy to draw flowers like these work well. Because you are going for a kid-like look, the more simple the better. Think of your favorite flower you drew in 1st grade and you’ll be spot on.