My wonderful friend Lauren was turning 11 and honored me with the job of planning her birthday party. For the invitation I used wordle.net. Check it out -- fun to play with.
Lauren is a budding enviromentalist and chose "go green" as her theme. I found some very cute green (the color) decorations. 
Dinner was a pasta bar where the girls got to choose their pasta toppings.
For dessert we had a strawberry cake and homemade ice cream (ice cream flavors added by Lauren).We did several green (as in re-use) crafts. As the girls arrived we created button flowers with old buttons, floral wire, and floral tape.
Next was designing a "sculpture". We used empty plastic containers which once held rice and salsa, all the junk from the bottom of the toybox, and a glue gun. The girls were very creative.
After dinner we made a tote bag out of an old t-shirt. After sewing the bag the girls used fabric paints to further decorate their bags.
Party favors for the girls included pots that Lauren and I filled flowering plants, button flowers in their plants, t-shirt bags, and sculptures.I had a wonderful time with my favorite 11-year-old and her lovely friends.
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