Homemade Graduation Favors

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Make the graduation party special with your own graduation favors.

I love making things and if you do too then I have a few great projects for you to choose from that would make great graduation favors.

I just love the sense of pride and accomplishment that goes with making things even if it's the same thing over and over again as perfecting it even more with each attempt is all the more rewarding.

I also think that homemade graduation favors are appreciated far more because of the creative thinking that has gone into the project, the skill in making something (which not a lot of people can do) and the time taken to make everything because lets face it, these days there is nothing more precious than time.

Homemade Graduation Favors - Considerations

To make your own graduation favors may be great fun if you have the time. You do need to be sure you can complete the favors all ready for the party. The exact homemade graduation favors you can make will depend on the talents you have and those of your helpers. You may have a person skilled in wood crafts, a photographer, a baker or a chef for example. In that case you could choose favors the group can make on time.

Homemade Graduation Favors - Ideas

There are endless things you can do to create homemade graduation favors. Some ideas that may help you are:

• Bake a cake which is big enough to give everyone a piece to take home.


• Bake cupcakes for everyone.


• Make up little containers of candy or jelly beans. They could be multi colored or even in the party colors.


• Paint mugs with a personalised design.


• Create a caricature of each guest.


• Create recipe cards with the graduation party food and perhaps each guests‘ favorite recipe.


• Paint plates with a personalised design.


• Make lollipops.


• Make cookies


• Make muffins in lots of different flavors


• Make homemade jam and give everyone a jar.


• Give each guest a small plant pot with a seed and soil in it.


• Make potpourri, potpourri sachets make ideal giveaways and are very simple to make on your own. Choose your material such as satin, choose the potpourri or the essence of lavender to fill them and sew them shut. Guests can use them in their closets, dresser drawers or cars.


• Create coloring pages. The images could be the graduate, a graduation cap, a graduation scroll or something in keeping with the party theme. Perhaps the graduate has a favorite car that you could draw.


• A small bag of sugar almonds tied with a ribbon.


• Make diplomas using a full sheet of white paper. Using a calligraphy pen write congratulations to each graduate and a thank you for coming on the ones for other guests. Put each name on the outside, roll up and tie with a ribbon.


• Make a bookmark from construction paper with a hole punched out at the top. Tie in some ribbon and decorate the bookmark.


• Create a flower arrangement for each guest.


• Design and decorate t-shirts and baseball caps. Just buy cheap, plain ones in the color you need and decorate to your design.


• Design and decorate sunglasses


• Make joke cards with the graduates favorite jokes.


• Sometimes the graduates family love certain foods. They may have family recipes handed down over generations. Create cards with these family recipes on them.


• If the graduate is having a vacation then you can make favors based on the destination. You can make your own guide book with the graduates itinerary, a map and notes on places they will enjoy.


• Make fudge in various flavors and create little bags with a few pieces for each guest.


• Create Origami shapes which can be completed in advance of the graduation party or made to order at the party. An example could be a bird.


• If you are skilled at pottery you could make some pottery items for guests with the graduation details on them.


• Similarly if you are good at knitting then you could make each guest a scarf, for example.


• You might like some Green ideas. You could plant seeds in little plant pots for guests. You could grow your own plants and flowers in advance of the party and gift wrap them for guests.


• Particularly for younger guests it is good to have things to make or decorate at the party. These can make great favors for the kids to proudly take home. You can arrange for guests to decorate hats, baseball caps, t-shirts and kites. Guests could also paint clay models and make pottery if you have the facilities. They could also make jigsaws by drawing a picture and working with an adult to cut out the pattern. Also flower arranging, taking he best photo at the party and making their own pot plants.


• You could of course use your own design to have t-shirts, baseball caps and perhaps sports jerseys made up. Your design may be something totally unique.

Homemade Graduation Favors - Projects

Now for the more actual projects:

Homemade Graduation Favors Personalized CD Holder

The Tin CD Holder below is begging for some creative personalization. Add some bling to it with these lovely crystal star stickers. Joanne has lots of stick on jewels - search on “star stickers” to find these lovely ones. These Rub-On Transfers are also perfect for adhering to metal an again, there are lots more designs available.

Of course you could always choose the less involved option of getting the following CD case personalized for you.

CD Holder with Photo Cover

With either of these options you could take it a step further and insert you very own CD inside it. Just download some songs and burn them on to a CD. I have listed over 100 graduation songs to choose from. You can download them all from itunes and most PCs or laptops these days have the ability to "save to a CD". If you are not that technical then I'm sure a friend or colleague will be only to happy to help you out. You can also purchase CD markers to let you further personalize the present and prevent it from being mixed up when taken our of the case to play. Or, you could copy the music to these blank personalized Cds.

Imprinted CD'S

The resulting CD would be perfect for playing at the graduation party - don't you just love dual purpose party ideas! That way whenever guests play it in the future it will conjure up memories of the wonderful times they had at your celebration - music has a way of jogging your memory like that.

Homemade Graduation Favors Bubbles

You can get these in bulk and really cheaply from Shindigz. The labels come separately for you to apply yourself. Why not ditch these rather boring ones and add your own personalized ones. You could design your own using some graduation clipart and some fancy text with whatever wording you choose - just print them off on an A4 sheet with sticky address labels or you could personalize the sticky address labels by adding some sticky stars to them and any message you like written with a gold or silver pen.

Bubbles are loved by everyone - old, young, boys and girls and they are cheap enough to add to a favor bag along with other goodies. You can even have them around you party venue to allow guests to enjoy and play with them.

Homemade Graduation Favors Candy Tins

Decorate little tins and fill them with candy. These cute little tins are unusual and also perfect as a favor if you personalize them with all sorts of stickers, stick on gems or even mosaic stickers in all sorts of colors and then fill them with your candy of choice. I am sure they will still be used long after the candy is finished which also makes them the perfect memento.

Homemade Graduation Favors Party Bags

Homemade Graduation Favors - Sharing

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I hope your homemade graduation favors are a big success. Guests will appreciate the personalised touch and the effort you have put into making homemade graduation favors.

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