Party favors are how a party host thanks her guests for coming to her party, especially for parties to celebrate gift-giving occasions such as birthdays and weddings. Thank guests for attending your party by making your own inexpensive sliding party favors with drink packets and inexpensive supplies from the craft store. Make the favors to suit any occasion by altering the color of your materials.
Instructions
1. Measure the height and width of your drink packet.
2. Cut a piece of card stock that is the height of the drink packet plus 1 inch and twice as wide plus 2 inches as the packet. For example, if the drink packet is 3 inches tall and 2 inches wide, cut a piece of card stock that is 4 inches tall and 6 inches wide.
3. Lay your drink packet in the middle of the piece of card stock and mark where the sides of the packet are with a pencil. Don't mark the top and bottom of the packet, just the sides.
4. Vertically score the paper at your pencil markers using the scoring blade of a paper trimmer.
5. Fold the outside edges of the piece of card stock in toward the center along the score lines. The edges will overlap. Crease the folds with a bone folder to make them crisp.
6. Attach a strip of double-sided tape to the very edge of one of the side flaps. Fold the other flap down---over the drink packet placed in the middle section of the card stock---and then fold the flap with the double-sided tape down to close the favor with the drink packet inside.
7. Slide the drink packet out of the tube of card stock. Punch a hole in the card stock about 1/2 inch down from the top, in the center of that edge, using a hole punch. Punch the hole through both sides of the card stock.
8. Cut the end of your ribbon at a 45-degree angle to give yourself a point for threading the ribbon. Thread the ribbon through both holes you punched.
9. Pop the card stock tube open by gently pressing in the sides of the tube. You will see the ribbon threaded across the top of the tube.
10. Slide the drink packet down into the tube, which will push the ribbon down with it, until the packet is about 1/2 inch from the bottom edge of the tube.
11. Cut the ribbon from the spool so you have 6-inch tails of ribbon on either side of the tube. You may need to pull some ribbon through to achieve this.
12. Tie the ribbon ends together in a bow against the top edge of the tube.
13. Pull the bow to slide the drink packet out of the tube. Push the drink packet back down, and the ribbon will go with it. Now you have a sliding party favor.
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