Loot Bags To Go
So you hate stuffing loot bags for kids’ parties? Join the crowd.
It might be fun the first time (isn’t everything?), but eventually you grow to resent the need to shop for a vast selection of cheap plastic items that will last for maybe a week before they fall apart and end up in bits under the seat of the car and the cracks of your sofa (and eventually a landfill somewhere).
Enter The Loot Bag Lady, Ottawa’s own solution to the perennial dilemma about what to send home with pint-sized party-goers. The most wonderful thing about The Loot Bag Lady is that you don’t have to make your own loot bags anymore. The next-best thing is that the loot bags she makes are full of items that are actually worth having. And finally, you don’t even have to leave your house—they’re delivered to your door.
Kathy Patterson, the woman behind the business, is a mother and former teacher. She says after teaching hundreds of kids over the course of a decade, she knows what kids find fun. And after making enough of her own loot bags in recent years, she knows what parents want too—and it’s not chocolate, suckers, bubble gum and plastic.
Instead, Kathy’s loot bags emphasize play, discovery and creativity. You can choose from six themes, or you can make a special request if you have something in mind. (There is never any food in the loot bags.)
Check out The Loot Bag Lady website for photos and more detailed descriptions of what each different theme includes. The six pre-packaged themes include the Jungle Jim, the Builder Boys, the Surf’s Up, the Princess Poppy, the Craft Corner, and the Nelly Nature.
Loot bags are $10 each, and items are packaged in theme-related, reusable containers. For example, the Nelly Nature contains items like gardening gloves, seed packets and a magnifying glass artfully arranged inside a clay pot decorated with a raffia bow. The Princess Poppy contains everything your aspiring princess needs, and arrives in a fluffy pink satchel. The Builder Boys loot bag comes with a tape measure, flashlight and tiny woodworking kit, among other things, all assembled in a reusable metal container.
Buying, wrapping and stuffing wasteful items is not a way to save money. So why not give your guests a break from the onslaught of sugar and plastic. Maybe some day they’ll return the favour (pun intended)!
The Loot Bag Lady
www.lootbaglady.com
(613) 730-6909
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