The Green Party

Ok now as much as I love the environment  and all things green and carbon friendly this is not a blog post about politics - it is about my kids birthday!

My daughter turns seven in a weeks time and I am getting my head around how to hold a less environmentally damaging birthday party. I have booked a Lego Robots party (courtesy of www.fizzicsecucation.com.au) as entertainment which should be educational and fun - the kids get to program lego robots to undertake various challenges!  This may not be the greenest option for a party but it is science related, should get them thinking and will hopefully open their minds to the wonderful world of science.  I do know that the laptops used all run on Windows Vista which I have been told is much more eco friendly than the old system (due to it’s ability to quickly go to sleep!) - That, is a step in the right direction.

Anyway, that said I am now turning my attention to the food, party bags and other entertainment.  I am not working on the day of the party so can definately put in some effort to home make the food - I saw a fantastic article in the Australian Green Pages - www.greenpagesaustralia.com.au about a 100 mile cafe that sourced it’s produce from the local area.  With 100 mile radius of my house encompassing Sydney I am sure I can pull out some local delights!

Party Bags - Now, I am thinking of scrapping this entirely as who needs more plastic?  Our school gardening club had a fabulous idea of cultivating seedlings in newspaper rolls for fathers day. I think that that is a great idea and  I am sure that the kids would love to recieve a little seedling of their own to nurture - I will just have to find a funky looking seedling to wrap!

Lollies and all that junk is a bit of a dilemer - kids love it but I dont! I am going to do my best to get them to eat Fruit Kebabs and a token amount of lollies just to put into the piniata - they can collect them in their hands - no bags required! The Piniata will be hand made as my husband has voulenteered for this task. He is going to lovingly fashion a recycled Lego man out of old cereal boxes only to see it meet a violent death by bashing, When did this become essential birthday fun!

Anyway, I have a week to pull this off. Any other green birthday ideas that I find will be posted here as soon as I have the time.  As always ideas would be welcome!

Happy Green birthday to you!