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For the invites:
Send a trained themed email invite to all of your guests. Go to http://www.evite.com/app
For the decorations: You can make train signs (like railroad crossing signs) and post them around the party area. You can even put down train tracks that you can make by using black electrical tape or cut out tracks from brown paper grocery bags. If you want to decorate, think about using things that your child can continue to love and play with after the party. Or buy things that have staying power, like a reuseable table cloth, birthday banners that you can use over and over, etc. There are several online resources that sell environmentally friendly party goods, too. Here are just a few:
http://littlestarcreativepartie
For the Activities:
*You can hand out train tickets to all the guests upon arrival. Have your little one decorate or create the tickets that you precut out. Place a star on the back of one ticket and who ever has the star, gets a price.
*Have everyone decorate the train. Use a recycled appliance boxes and precut out holes for each passenger and then use the circles for the wheels of the train. Each guest can decorate the train with poster paints or whatever craft tools you supply.
*Play a trivia game about the
places you can go by train. Depending on the age of children, ask question
in regards to things in you can do in each state. For example, you can
phrase the statement like this: I want to take a train to Southern California
to visit a very famous mouse. Where do I want to go? Disneyland.
For the cake: Use a cupcake pan and you save a lot of waste. You can
simply serve each train piece on a 100% recycled paper
towel and avoid
the use of disposable plates and forks.
For the favors:
A train whistle would be a great take-a-way. Go to http://www.greenpartygoods.com
Have fun celebrating!