Ramadan Joy

Money Envelopes as Decoration

Choose some pretty envelopes, add a note and some cash.

Add some ribbon or raffia under all the envelope flaps and then seal the envelopes closed.

Eid Money Envelopes

Giving Eid money can be made a little prettier by adding decorative paper bands around a plain white or colored envelope.

Tissue Favors & Paint Chip Tags

If you have any paint chips laying around they an be reused to make colorful tags for gifts and favors.

Materials

• tissue
• paper towel rolls
• ribbon
• paint chips for tags or decorative papers
• scissors

Directions

Fold the tissue in half and then center the roll on the tissue

Placing the tube close to the edge of the tissue roll the tissue tightly around the tube

On one end stuff the tissue up into the roll. Flip the tube around and add candy and small treats in to the tube.

Tie a ribbon to seal off the candy right at the top of the tube. Add name tag to the favor.

Felt Favor Bags

These wool felt favor bags are nice and easy to make for EId goody bags. They can later be used for the little ones treasures.

Materials

• All you need is: a little felt, thread, needle & scissors
• sewing machine optional

Directions

• Cut 2 - 5" x 5" pieces of felt for the bag
• Cut 2 felt strips, for the handles
• On one of the 5" x 5: pieces you can sew decorative stitches, glue or sew on shapes like stars and moons or leave plain.
• Pin the bag pieces together on three sides and sew, either by hand or machine.
• Trim close to the sewn edge.
• Sew the ends of the strips on to the top of the bag, one strip for each side.

The handle on the red bag is braided. To braid the handle cut thin long strips of felt, braid and then sew onto the inner sides of the bag.

 

Favor Garland

Favor Decoration

I'd initially planned to create something a little more elaborate but as I started it seemed that less would be more and the graded tones of paper make this a doubly sweet favor hanging.

Northstar Eid Party Gift Baskets

Natural Gifts

In putting the little gift baskets together for the kids I wanted to gather classic kids toys to give. The contents included bubbles, knitted ball, jump rope, wooden top, and wooden bird whistle.

 

Ilm Tree Eid Favors

Ilm Tree had a family picnic in Montclair to celebrate Eid so I made these candy bags for the children. The children also had a gift exchange and games.

Kids Favor Bags

Quick and Easy Favors

Iftar in the Tenderloin

Seventh Annual Iftar of the Tenderloin District

This year the event will be held on the 29th of September, at the Tenderloin Children's Playground at 570 Ellis Street.

Invited to this event are over 100 families from Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Iran, Pakistan, India, Bosnia, North Africa, Afghanistan, Sudan, and Egypt living in and around the Tenderloin District of San Fransisco. The event sponsors will host a dinner for the families with games and gifts for the children. The families are also given gifts and food and as the sponsors say  "All leave with hearts full of gratitude and arms loaded with gifts." Last year there were more than 340 people in attendance, including 154 children/youth. To me one of the proof's of the goodness of this project is the volunteers alone, last year there were over 100.

The Tenderloin is often described in some of the guides as  "the worst neighborhood in San Francisco," As one writer put it "Sure, there are loads of drug dealers, addicts, prostitutes and mentally unstable street people, but if you can get past that, you'll find it is also one of the city's most exciting and diverse locales."

It's not too late to give your tax deductible contribution. One way to give is by giving Safeway or Albertsons Gift Cards. This is a great way to give as you know that your money will go directly into helping and feeding a family. For more information please contact Nabila Mango at nabila@sbcglobal.net

This is my 3rd year supporting the good work of this organization, my small contribution is the favor bags for the kids. This year I will be creating large star cookies for them. The king size cookie bags are all attached to a ribbon which makes a very sweet garland that is festive to look at and yummy to eat.