Handmade Mardi Gras Party Favors

It’s easy to buy the standard shiny bead necklaces that everyone uses for Mardi Gras, but for your next Mardi Gras party, try making your own homemade party favors by using different colored beads. These can be huge, or tiny, depending on how much work you want to put into it. The material you use to string them together can be wire, which makes every size bead easier to string together. Or you may decide to use elastic thread, which makes it much more fun.

Try putting together handmade party favors in the form of chokers, in addition to the long beads, to give out at your Mardi Gras party. The beads can be solid colors or wild prints to make your party really rock. Long necklaces with elastic thread can also be wrapped around the wrist several times to make a beaded bracelet.

If your homemade party favor jewelry comes out good enough, your guests will have souvenirs of your party to last them a long time. They may even use these jewelry items for work or play.

Your homemade party favors can take things to the next level, when you create handmade masks for your guests. They can be made of a simple paper or plastic plate with a wild face painted on. Or they can be enhanced with paper mache noses, horns, warts, or big eyebrows. Paper mache can be shaped any way, so use your imagination. It only takes a mixture of flour, water, and newspaper. Mold it into the shape that you want, attach it to your mask, let it dry, and then paint it for a very scary effect.