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Please note that we will be closed from 12 noon on Friday 23rd December 2011 through to Tuesday 3rd January 2012 inclusive. Any orders placed during this time will be despatched when we re-open on Wednesday 4th January.
Thank you for your custom during 2011, and we wish you and your family a very merry Christmas and a prosperous 2012.
In our bid to become as environmentally friendly as we can, we are proud to announce that we are now powered by Ecotricity, a green electricity company. Ecotricity invests in clean forms of power and have invested almost £50million in wind energy in the last 7 years. They are recommended by both the Soil Association and Oxfam, and supply companies such as the Co-Operative Bank.
For more information, please visit their website http://www.ecotricity.co.uk – we love the wind-powered car!
If you’re involved in Red Nose Day baking, follow our simple recipe for perfect cupcakes. Perfect for parties or tea-time treats, these delicious buns are so quick and simple to make that children will also love to get involved in baking them.
To make 12, you will need:
Preheat your oven to 200 degrees/180 degrees (fan oven)/gas mark 6.
Put all of the ingredients, except for the milk, into a large bowl and mix until smooth with an electric hand mixer (or if you don’t have an electric hand mixer, you can use a food processor). Add the milk slowly until the mixture is a soft dropping consistency.
Spoon the mixture into the 12 bun cases and bake for 15 – 20 minutes until the cakes are golden on top and a cake tester comes out clean.
Remove from the tin and allow to cool on a wire cooling rack.
Once cooled, ice each cake with white glace icing and stick a red Smartie in the middle for the ‘nose’. Once the icing has dried, use black writing icing to add eyes and a comedy mouth (and anything else you want to add) around the nose to make a funky face.
Enjoy!
Here at SwagBags.biz, we take our responsibility towards the environment very seriously, and throwing things into landfill unneccessarily isn’t in our remit!
We currently recycle 95% of our waste, including any plastic bags, cardboard or paper products that we can’t re-use, through our fantastic recycling partner Shredability – a local company, based in Malvern, that employs staff with learning disabilities, giving them employment opportunities and a profile in their community.
We also offer a free party bag recycling bag scheme, for those plastic or paper party bags that either aren’t required or are left behind. Simply return them to us and we will do the rest for you!
For further information regarding our environmental policy, please contact us.
Happy World Book Day! To help celebrate the event, we are giving you the chance to win a £25.00 National Book Token. Simply visit our Facebook page and review your favourite children’s book in 30 words or less. You can be as creative, witty or silly as you like, and the prize will be awarded to the most original entry. You can also enter as many times as you like, so more chances to win!
The closing date for entries is 31st March 2011, and the winner will be announced on our Facebook page on 4th April. We will post the token out during week commencing 4th April.
Get those thinking caps on and good luck! Oh and if you ‘like’ our page while you’re there, you will also be entered into a monthly prize draw to win a £10.00 Amazon gift certificate.
Happy St David’s Day! There are some great activities to teach children about the Wales & Welsh customs on the Activity Village website. From colouring printouts for younger children to wordsearches and puzzles for older children, there is something to suit every age group.
We particularly love the bunch of daffodills, but it does involve paint and glue, so it’s maybe not for the faint hearted!
Here at SwagBags.biz, we are always looking for ways to improve our customer shopping experience and save you money on your childrens party supplies, and we have now introduced a free 3 – 5 day delivery option on all orders over £10.00. We have also cut the cost of our 2 – 3 day service to just £2.95 for all orders over £5.00, and if you spend over £50.00, 2 – 3 day shipping is free. Next day delivery is also free of charge when you spend over £65.00.
For full details of our new delivery services, please click here.
If you’re planning your child’s party, don’t feel under pressure to invite their whole class or pre-school group. The ideal number of party guests for younger children is generally your child’s age plus one – anymore than this an your child may feel overwhelmed. It will also be less expensive and easier for you to manage too!
Due to the current severe weather, there may be a minor delay in delivery of orders, especially to Scotland and rural parts of the UK. Please rest assured however that our delivery partners at FedEx are doing everything they can to get your goods to you within the best achievable transit times. If you have any queries regarding your order, or delivery timescales, please do not hesitate to email customerservices@swagbags.biz and we will respond to your query as soon as possible.
Thank you for your interest in SwagBags.biz and we wish you a very happy Christmas and peaceful 2011.
With Halloween only a week away, we thought we’d share some ideas for simple spooky party games that your little monsters will love to play, and that take relatively little effort to organise:
Ghost Hunt – cut out ghost shapes from white paper or card (allow approximately 4 – 5 per guest). Hide them around the house and garden and get your little guests to find them. (If you have different age groups of children, you may want to give the youngest ones a head start.) The child who finds the most ghosts is the winner. This is also a great game to play near the end of the party and you won’t have to provide filled party bags either. Stick a small treat to each ghost before hiding, give each child an empty party bag and let them fill them with what they find.
Ten-Pin Pumpkin bowling – part-fill 10 similar size plastic bottles with a small stones and gravel, so that they stand, and don’t fall over too easily. (If you have time, or are feeling creative, you can also decorate them to look like monsters.) Draw a scary face on a mini pumpkin – this will be the bowling ball. Line your bottles up and let the children take it in turns to knock them over with the pumpkin, keeping score as they go. The child with the highest score is the winner.
Yucky Dip – scoop out a pumpkin and fill with cooked, cooled pasta. Add small packets of sweets or wrapped treats and mix well. Invite your little guests to take turns at the yucky dip – be warned this can get messy!
The Haunted Jar – fill a jar with small sweets or toys and shredded white paper (making a note of how many goodies you’ve put in!). Each child then guesses how many items are in the jar and the closest guess wins the goodies!
Musical monsters – put on some spooky music, and get your little guests to move around like monsters. When the music stops they have to stand still – if they move, they’re out of the game. The last monster standing still is the winner!
Trick or Treat – cut up squares of paper. On half of the squares, write ‘treat’. On the other half, write ‘trick’ on one side of the paper and a simple activity (such as ‘cackle like a witch’) on the other side. Fold the squares up and put them all into a bucket (or cauldron if you want to be inventive). The children then take it in turns to pull a piece of paper out of the bucket. If they pull out a ‘treat’, give them a small prize. If they pull out a ‘trick’, they must perform the task written on the back before receiving their prize.
The Graveyard game – this is a great game to play when you want to quieten the party down. Your little monsters lie down in the ‘graveyard’ – the child who stays still the longest is the winner.
And finally, how do monsters predict their future? They read their ‘horror’scope!
There’s still time to order your Halloween party supplies and this week, there’s 10% discount off spooky tableware, decorations and more. Order now at SwagBags.biz while stocks last!
We wish you a safe and fun-filled Halloween.