Wednesday, August 17, 2011

All About Homemade Party Favors

Having a party at the weekend? Or need to celebrate kids birthday party in the next month? Are you running short of ideas for giving party favors? Here are few things which can help you in thinking uniquely and doing things differently.

The best and the most inexpensive way of giving party favors for your celebration is going for homemade party favors. With little interest and a plan to execute things well you can make some interesting party favors with your own hands and can make the guests surprised.

While trying to choose party favors go for the things which are useful for your guests. For now lets take the example of kids birthday party favors. Think about the things which are helpful for the kids. In general most of the kids favors are candies and chocolates. Instead of giving them the same old stuff, it is better to put some crayons, drawing books, water colors and so on, which helps them to do some creative work. At this point what you need to do at home is create some nice goodie bags using some hand made paper or some fabric and place those things in them. They can use both the bag and the favors present in it.

If it is for girls your thing behttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifcomes so easy. Get some accessories like nail polishes, hair clips and so on which are the all time favorites for girls. Place them in handmade goodie bags and they will be surprised to have those things.

In case of adults you can use some hand painted wine glasses and martini glasses. You can use your party theme in your painting and make it even more special. Homemade party favors can be created totally by you or you can customize the things using your creativity. One more interesting homemade thing is candle making. Different molds of candles are available in the market and it is very easy to make candles using things.

Use some creative ideas and themes when making homemade favors. They will definitely reflect your interest and the way you respect your guests.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

What is the Working Mechanism of Glow Sticks?

Having fun in dark is possible by the use of glow sticks. They are the best items for recreational purposes. You might have seen people using different forms of glow sticks like glow necklaces, glow bracelets, glow earrings, glow rings and so on. People of all ages including kids, adults and teens love to use glow sticks at night parties. Apart from the recreational and entertainment purposes, they are even used for emergency and safety purposes.

A glow stick is a plastic tube containing a glass vial. The glass vial contains one chemical compound and the plastic tube has another chemical. When you bend the plastic tube, the glass vial inside it breaks combining the two chemicals. A chemical reaction between them releases energy in the form of light. This process is termed as chemiluminescence.

Glow sticks generally contains three different chemicals. Two of them are responsible for the chemiluminescent reaction and the other one is generally a fluorescent dye which imparts color to the glow. The color of the glow sticks, therefore, depends on the color of the fluorescent dye. The energy released by the reaction of the two chemicals excite the electrons in the fluorescent dye. This makes the electrons to jump to the higher energy level. When they fall back down, they release light. Hydrogen peroxide and phenyl oxalate ester are the two chemical compounds used most commonly in glow sticks. The former chemical oxidizes the latter one resulting in a chemical called phenol and an unstable peroxy acid ester. This unstable compound further decomposes to form phenol and a cyclic peroxy compound. When the cyclic compound decomposes to carbon dioxide, the energy released makes the electrons of the fluorescent dye to jump to higher level. Then they fallback giving light. This is the chemical reaction behind the colorful glow sticks which you enjoy in night parties.