Holiday Guests: Creative Thanksgiving Favor Ideas

Season inspired cookies

Trust us, you can never go wrong with leaf, pumpkin or turkey shaped cookies. Use a cookie cutter and then frost them with colored icing. If preparing for the Thanksgiving dinner is already too much for you, go ahead and purchase cookies from a local bakery and pack them in little pouches. Guests will be so happy to receive this pretty gift that they won’t care who made it.

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Chocolate gold coins

Well, a bag of chocolate gold coins might sound very boring and usual. But, it gets very different and special when you attach a card saying, “If you want to feel rich, count all the blessings money can’t buy!”

DIY Thanksgiving favors

Spray paint mini pinecones in a metallic gold or silver color and fill a small glass jar with them. Place them at every setting for your guests to take home as a holiday decoration. Alternatively, fill small mason jars with a tea light candle and glue ribbon around the rim. Double them as a decor for the Thanksgiving table and have your guests take them home post dinner.

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Mini cookbook

As the holiday season is almost upon us, why not create a mini cookbook with your favorite recipes? You can browse Stagetecture for tons of ideas and print them for your guests. Although there are a lot of cookbooks available that you can buy, we think there will not be any that will be filled with more love and comfort than the one that you will make by yourself.

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Thanksgiving favor is a way of showing your loved ones how much they mean to you. Use these ideas to create lovely presents that can double as party decor and thank you gifts at the same time.

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Summer Weddings: Thoughtful Wedding Favors

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Spell Love With Sunglasses

Summers are shining bright and so is the summer sun. Your guests will love favors that can save them from the summer sun and let them enjoy the wedding. Sunglasses make up for a perfect choice if you are planning on an outdoor day wedding. You can tag the sunglasses with your name labels and a short catchy note too!

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Little Potted Friends

Plants and flowers bring life into the dehydrating outsides. Giving your guests, little potted favors, is a wonderful way of saying thank you. Not only will the potted blooms bring color into the life of the receiver but also decorate a corner of their home with the sweet memories of your wedding.

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Culinary Delights

This one is the best option for food lovers. You can fill little glass jars with jams, spreads, honey, sauces ,etc. It would even be better if these culinary delights are homemade or special to the particular region that you belong too!

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Beauty Hampers

The ladies at your wedding will love this one. You can have sunscreens, lotions, balms and gels ready for your guests. Easy DIY tips and tricks can help you personalize these beauty accessories. If your budget does permit then instead of giving single items you can go in for full basket beauty hampers for your guests.

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Fan Favors

This one is another summer favorite. Whilst you will be busy taking your wedding vows and won’t worry about the heat too much, it is certainly going to affect the wedding guests. Thoughtful wedding favors like hand-held fans, hats ,etc. can catch your guests happily surprised.

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Flip-Flops Really?

Yes, of course and why not? This is probably the best wedding favor one can think of. Think of it, everyone will come to your wedding in their best attire and shoes. It’s not necessary that the shoes they wear to your wedding are comfy enough to dance. So if you want to see a crowd on the dance floor present them with flip-flops!

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Wedding is the most important and happy time in the life of a bride and a groom. The idea is to make the wedding as memorable in the eyes of the guests too. And why not, happiness shared is happiness multiplied. So get some awesome wedding favors for your guests and make your wedding a truly memorable affair! Do share your ideas on wedding favors.

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Who would of thought that wine glasses and votive candles could make such a decorative element to your dining room table or wedding! Today’s DIY Saturday will show you how to create these lovely lampshades that can be customized to your decor or event.

Note: Make sure you use battery operated votive candles and not real candles to prevent a fire.

Video – How to Make a DIY Votive Wine Glass Lampshades

Link to video —> How to make a DIY Votive Wine Glass Lampshade

Materials:

• Wine or champagne glasses
• Wine glass lampshades
• Battery operated tea light candles (LED tea lights)

There is a great variety of lampshades available for purchase. So, if you buy the shades, the only thing you will need to do is to assemble them and put the lamps together. If you’d like to make the shades by yourself, just follow these simple instructions.

To make your own shades, you will need:

• For the shades: Vellum, cardboard, fabric, tracing -, wrapping-, tissue-, scrapbook or any other patterned paper, fabric. Anything can be used, as long as it can hold its shape. Also, keep in mind that the type of material you choose will affect the amount of light it will let through.
• Wine glass lampshade templates (there are a lot of different templates available online for free)
• Hot glue pen, glue stick or double sided tape, depending on the lampshade material you want to use
• Scissors
• For decoration (optional): decorative scissors, decorative paper punch

Directions

1. Print and cut out the template you chose. Try it out to make sure it fits on your glass. Adjust the size if necessary. Using the template, trace it on your material and cut the shape.
2. Use the decorative scissors and/or the paper punch to decorate your shade.
3. Secure the ends of the shade, by gluing them together

Now, place a tea light inside the glass. If needed, you can use some decorative sand to stabilize the tea light. Finally, put the shade on the glass. Done!

These easy to make lampshades are great for décor, but they can also make a wonderful gift for your guests to take home.

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Happy DIY Saturday! Thanksgiving Day is approaching and everything is planned in detail, from a great menu, beautiful tableware and up to an amazing table setting. The one thing you could add to make this Day even more memorable is to offer your guests a little, yet meaningful gift, which you or your family can prepare with care and love. It doesn’t need to be something fancy or extravagant. Only a small token of your appreciation of your guests and something for them to take home, so they can prolong a little more this wonderful Thanksgiving celebration. Some of these favors could even serve as placement card holders or for decoration until your guests are ready to take them home.

Thanksgiving DIY Favors For Your Guests

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Mini Pumpkin Candy Basket

These are so cute and simple to make. Use some beautiful mini pumpkins and bendable branches or some vine for making the handle. Empty the inside of the pumpkins, pierce small holes to push the branch through and add some nice candies for your guests. They are so adorable that they are easily used as decoration until the feast is over!

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Rosemary pots

A clever way to upcycle your soup cans and displaying your recycling spirit. Just wrap some clean soup cans in burlap or upholstery tape, and tie it with some twine. Next, place small rosemary plants in the cans and ready are these eco-friendly favors! The plants can be used either to flavor your guest’s food over the coming days, or to be planted in another pot or their garden. Using different sizes of cans, they could even be a centerpiece for your table or you could use them as placement card holders!

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Felt Cutout Coasters

So nice looking and easily personalized! They need a little bit of preparation, but your guests are going to enjoy them for a long time. To make, use some rectangle shaped felt in colors that will match the rest of your home’s decoration. Cut out on one end of the felt a little thumb notch and a small window, in any shape you like. Then, fold the rectangle so you have a square and stich or glue the sides together. Next, print out some words or images, or even your guest’s names on some matching card stock, and cut it to fit into the coasters, while your design will show in the window you made. Slide the printed cardstock into the coaster and you have a wonderful favor for your guests, which can be used perfectly as placement cards.

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This Thanksgiving show your guests how much you appreciate them with these creative holiday favors. This can start becoming a new tradition in your Thanksgiving holiday home!

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