PARTY ITEMS
If you know you'll be celebrating a certain occasion while
on your adventure, bring a few appropriate decorations along. Any trip should also include some basic
creative materials for making decorations.
The following is a list of suggested party items, all of which are
lightweight and can fit in a backpack, pannier, on a boat, or tucked into
the corner of a car.
Fill plastic eggs
with nuts, dried fruit or candy for Easter.
Use cardboard cut-out hearts for tracing and making Valentines. Paper,
pencils, scissors and tape can be made into signs, cards pictures and
invitations. One of Tristan and Colin's
favorite touches for any event is cutting up pieces of colored construction
paper to make confetti. This always gets
swept up afterwards and recycled at the next party. Celebrations need hardly be
the costly, well-orchestrated affairs some parents make them.
When children are
involved with preparation, they could care less how expensive and fancy things
are.
To them, nothing is more beautiful
than what they themselves have created.
Children don't have very discriminating taste, as any parent who has let
their young choose something from the store knows. To them quality means big and bright. So be prepared for an inundation of brightly
colored party decorations. Children can
never have too many decorations and will continue to produce them until the
event finally takes place. Store-bought
items will hardly be needed other than what you brought with you plus perhaps a
surprise present or two
.
Things children can do: Make invitations, Decorate, Make
presents, Prepare refreshments, Perform music, Organize games, Perform a puppet
show, Perform a play, Children can make presents themselves from materials at
hand and things they've found along the trip.
Favorite presents that surface at our celebrations are collected shells
and rocks (all carefully washed), boats made from sticks and bits of cloth,
homemade books, drawings, paper airplanes with messages written on them and
pieces composed by the children and performed on the violin. If celebrations
are something that usually end up giving you a tension headache at home, let
the children take over on a trip. Before
you know it, all you'll have to do is produce refreshments and find the scotch
tape. They'll have the rest under
control and be enjoying themselves more than they ever did before.
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