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We offer plastic free, eco-friendly party packs and activities for children. All our activities are
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30/08/2022

Last week of the dinosaur curation at store in Trinity Leeds 🦕

We've loved being included amongst all these gorgeous handmade Dino products for the past 9 weeks. And there's still this last week left to get down there to complete the Jurassic trail, visit the shop and

Have any of you guys visited the trail over the summer? Would love to hear what you thought of it.

14/07/2022

Our Wildlife and Safari party packs now come with our mini DIY seed bomb kits.

The kids will love mixing, measuring and making their very own little seed bombs. Packed full of wildflower seeds for the bees and butterflies.

The full packs also include a reusable organic cotton bag to colour in, sunflower seeds to grow and a seed packet that unfolds to reveal an extra activity!

So much fun for them and no useless plastic waste for the grown ups to deal with!

28/06/2022

🐝New theme!🦋 Mini DIY seed bomb kits for Bees and Butterflies.

I don't know why we didn't think of this soon really!
Our 'Dino P**p' DIY seed bomb kit is a firm favourite with customers. It was originally designed as 'Dino P**p' to fit in with the Dinosaur themed party pack but does just as well on its own.
So, whilst looking for new ideas to add to our Nature/Safari themes, the idea of simply changing the theme of our seed bomb packaging came up...

Seems like a no brainer, yet took us around 2 years to think of!🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️😂

24/06/2022

🦖We're so excited to be part of Dinosaur Curation at this summer!

Got a little dinosaur fan and live up North? Come and check it out! The dinosaur curation has been added to Curated Makers Made Local Pop-Up store to run alongside the Leeds Jurassic Trail.

Between 30th July and 4th September, 12 animatronic dinosaurs will take over Leeds city centre, ready to be discovered and Trinity Leeds will be one of the stops.

So whilst exploring, why not pop in the store to discover some gorgeous dino-themed handmade gifts, treats and activities!
Roarsome! 🦕

17/06/2022

Happy Friday everyone 🥂 We're back off holiday and ending our first week back with a new product drop!
Many people are feeling the pinch at the moment due to inflation and we wanted to create an eco-friendly party bag alternative that doesn't cost the earth but sticks to our brand values.
Enter our Grow Pots! We think these cute little favour pots will keep little budding gardeners happy weeks after the party. A plastic-free gift that keeps on giving...

We've done away with the traditional plastic bag or box here- it only goes straight in the bin anyway! Instead fibre pots are used to hold the contents of this cute little favour, with enough room to pop in your own selected sweet treat, if you choose. Party guests will be delighted to find everything they need to start growing their own seeds. All they will need to add is water.

Each of these eco-friendly favours contains:-

🌻8cm fibre pot. Not only does this hold the contents of the favours but is used to start growing the seeds. Once the seedlings have started to grow these pots can also go straight into the soil outside or in pots. As they are biodegradable, the pots will break down in the soil as the plants continue to grow.

🌻A Coco coir pellet. Let the kids watch in amazement as they add water to the pellet and watch it magically expand. Each pellet is packed full of the nutrients their little seeds need to sprout.

🌻A packet of seeds (Option of Sunflowers/Cactus/Cress)

🌻Unfold the printed seed packet carefully to reveal an extra themed activity- all printed on recycled kraft paper.

🌻A pack of pencil crayons to help complete the activities...and these always come in handy for on the go entertainment, even after the party ends.

Available in sets of 10 or select your own number.

Like all previous products, we wanted to create an affordable favour that has purpose, has no wasteful clutter and most importantly, is super fun. Available in our shops now!

27/05/2022

Sprinkles are on holiday after today! 🏖️

Unlike my 'holiday' last year (when I was still setting up product photos on the beach, still taking orders to come back home to and still answering enquiries) I'm gonna be switching off completely.

Our online shops will open back up again on 10th June AND I'm confident enough to say that we will FINALLY have our new product drop that week!

Until then, take care and hoping you all have fantastic Jubilee celebrations!
🎉🇬🇧🎉

17/05/2022

Great weather today for 🌞

But if even the sunshine doesn't stop your kids from dragging their feet all the way, maybe a scavenger hunt might help?

Making something into a competition or challenge always gets my son motivated 😆

11/05/2022

Sure, it's lovely to receive a seed bomb favour! And fun picking out where you're gonna throw it...

But how about having even more fun? What if you could also make them too?

Our mini DIY seed bomb kits come ready to mix so the kids can make their own seeds bombs. Natural messy play that gives back to nature.
🐝🦋🌷

05/05/2022

Something new! 🎉

To go along side our less-waste party favours, Vic has created a range of digital party invitations!

In themes that match our current party packs, each design can be personalised to fit your child's party.

Available only our Etsy shop now!

27/04/2022

Low Stock Alert!

Our bird feeder kit as you currently know it will soon be out of stock 🥺

Unfortunately, Meridian no longer produces the mini pots of peanut butter and other brands only sell plastic-lined sachets (no thank you!)

During the first lockdown, these pots went temporarily out of stock so we started decanting from larger tubs into our own mini jars.
This is not a fun job...at all! And takes ages.

Given how popular the bird feeder has become, we simply will not have the time to spend waiting for gloopy nut butter to drop into a tiny jar. And let's not even talk about the mess! 🙈

So after a lot of experimenting with different products and packaging, we think we've come up with an alternative solution.

What it does mean is that the 'look' of the kit will have to change and this is where we could do with your help please.

If you check out our poll on stories, we'd love to see which potential look you guys prefer.

Any help and opinions would be greatly appreciated 😘😘

22/04/2022

- Invest in Our Planet

"For Earth Day 2022, we need to act (boldly), innovate (broadly), and implement (equitably). It's going to take all of us. All in. Businesses, governments, and citizens- everyone accounted for, and everyone accountable. A partnership for the planet."
Source: www.earthday.org

One of our aims for Sprinkles of Nature is to create as many products that give back to nature. Seeds, birdfeeders, seedbombs, bug houses... Most party favours are played with once (if at all!) so we think, rather than going into landfill, what if they were left out for nature instead. 🌱

💚🌍

31/03/2022

Day 31: Looking forward

So as we got to day 23 of and I was still posting, I thought "wow, we're actually going to get through the whole of this challenge!" 🙄 Unfortunately, I've been ill and it's involved 'cluster headaches' 😖😖which meant my screen use had to be cut down to a minimum. I might do a 'photodump' post tomorrow of some stuff we missed over the last week.

Anyway, Vic kindly stepped in to write a few words for our looking forward post today.

Looking forward... the big question! We have more products to launch in the next few months.
We have upped our social media campaign and are in the process of streamlining our current products.

Our brand ethos is always central to our decisions and going forward we hope to offer more at a lower budget without compromising on quality and integrity.
Parties are fun, colourful and a time to make wonderful memories and we want to inject that into the very core of Sprinkles.
It would be so easy to offer products that are plastic free but still full of wasteful items but we refuse to go down that route.
We want our customers to know that their money is being spent on meaningful and sustainable party packs and activities and not on wasteful "stuff" that doesn't get used.

So... going forward - we want to grow, develop and streamline so we can reach more customers and offer that much needed alternative.

22/03/2022

Day 22: Mistake/lesson

Pricing! We've made some mistakes with pricing in the past (and some may still not be right with the ever changing costs of materials.)

Last year many people grabbed a total bargain with our soy wax crayons and it ended up that we were actually making a loss with them! We either missed something during calculations or info was lost between me and Vic through messages or not noted down properly whilst having a chin-wag... 😳

Anyway, we have everything on a central drive now and double (... actually, triple) check everything!

18/03/2022

Day 18: Sell yourself.

Look, there are loads of amazing shops out there, physical and online, that sell party favours and kids activities. There are even loads of sellers out there offering lovely looking plastic free and eco-friendly favours and toys. They are great and it feels a little overwhelming at times to break through all these products with what we have to offer. So here's where we hope we are a little different...

When you buy from us, what you'll get will be entirely plastic free! No plastic in our products or packaging. It will come in a recyclable cardboard box (often a reused box for our bigger orders) paper tape and no jiffy bags!

It's something handmade and totally different to what you find on the hight street. We design and hand-make the majority of our products so you're not just getting bulk-bought, ten-a-penny nonsense.

It's not just something for your kids to HAVE, it's something for your kids to DO! Colouring, making, planting... we aim to encourage kid's creativity, imaginations and curiosity for nature.

It's clutter free! CLUTTER FREE!! 😆
I know we've already banged on about this for 'Brand Values' but we really pride ourselves on coming up with products that are all either reusable, recyclable or give back to nature. As mothers who hate clutter, we really didn't want to add to any parent's problems by filling their drawers and toy boxes with useless tat. (And yes, even plastic free stuff can be tat! We're talking about you, shaky bug in a wooden shell...👀)

So if you're looking for activities or party favours that are a little different from the mainstream, we're here for you! 😘

Have a fab weekend everyone 💚

17/03/2022

Day 17: Sneak Peek (mixed in with Day 16: Goals)

For our sneak peek, I've picked to show a bit of what we're currently working on. It's still in the prototype phase with tweaks to be made but it also prompts us to talk a little about a couple of goals it works towards.

The first, a short-term goal; to create some new products! I've explained in previous posts why we don't always find this an easy thing to do when sticking to our brand values. We've had many ideas that have been worked on and scrapped over the last year!

The second, one of our longer term goals; is to make meaningful, plastic free party packs more accessible.
We totally get that after forking out for everything involved in a kids party, there's a very limited budget on party favours for many people. And that (like me 🤦🏻‍♀️) a lot of people will think about this last minute and need it asap! So the 3-5 business days required to hand-make everything can definitely be off-putting.

This sneak peak is at a new pack that we hope can make very affordable and put together quickly.

Hopefully coming soon.... 🤞

09/03/2022

Day 9: Hands at Work.

We currently print and hand-make all of our products. And like a lot of handmade things, it doesn't always turn out perfectly.

I've shared a photo of when one of my screen prints doesn't go right- sometimes I don't get the ink through in places. But with a steady hand and a fabric ink pen, I try to salvage a finished product ☺️

I've also shared some little hands at work with our products. Because this is the most important part of course!

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Tomorrow's prompt, Storage... There's just no way I can make a photo of that look interesting and grid worthy so ducking out of tomorrow's post.😳 Our stuff is stored in boxes and draws in our houses.

04/03/2022

Day 4: 3 things...
..about the bird feeder

🐦Gemma got the idea of the bird feeder kit off Monica in Friends.
🐦It's our current best seller!
🐦To keep all elements of the kit together we tie them together using one piece of twine and a piece of recycled Kraft card as the packaging. That piece of twine is also what hangs up your finished bird feeder.

03/03/2022

On I wanted to share one of our Wildlife facts from the foldout seed packet activity.

This year's theme for World Wildlife Day is "Recovering key species for ecosystem restoration" and you can find loads more info about the event on wildlifeday.org
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I have done today's for Day 3: Planning. But rather than posting a picture of our weekly planners and to-do lists (they really aren't that interesting!) I've done today's post on stories.

Working 230 miles apart, Vic and I would be completely lost without WhatsApp for our planning! So on stories today is a snapshot of just a few minutes of our planning for a new theme.... There's still a long way to go with this one! 😆

01/03/2022

You & Your Work

Hey! For those that don't already know, we're Gem and Vic. Gem based up north in Bolton. Vic based down south in Fleet.

So I'm Gemma and I take care of our Insta account. I intend on doing these challenges every time but just never get round to it. In fact today I decided last minute that we would participate and had Vic rushing around to find a photo she was happy for me to use 😬

I came up with the idea for Sprinkles of Nature when my son kept coming home from parties time after time with plastic bags filled with plastic tat. All of which ended up in our bin within a day.

We make kids party bags, favours and activities that are designed to be either reusable, recyclable or give back to nature.

Our intention is to make MEANINGFUL products, aimed at encouraging kid's creativity and imagination, whilst giving back to nature. And I'll explain that further tomorrow for 'Brand Values'

Currently all our products are printed and handmade by us. I'm the screen printer and Vic cooks up our amazing soy wax crayons.

And when it comes to the accounting, the admin, the marketing, the selling, the customer service, the new ideas, the research, the sourcing... Yep, we're both on it!

That's all for today. We look forward to sharing some more BTS of Sprinkles over the next month. Enjoy your pancakes 😘

23/02/2022

Let's keep it simple...

What if just the bag alone was the party favour? Just an organic cotton, reusable, colour-in bag.

Just pop in their piece of cake and send them home happy. 😌

14/02/2022

Love to all you lovely lot 😘

11/02/2022

Crafting without the clutter...

My boy is really into cutting, sticking and making things lately. And I love seeing his imagination come to life. (➡️ for the awesome sea monster I currently have to display! 😆)

But what do we eventually do with all of these creations? They can't all go in the 'keep forever memory box'. As sad as it seems now, a lot of this is going to end up in the bin.

I would never want to discourage my child's creativity and discovery of using different materials, textures and methods to bring his ideas to life. But seeing the waste that can come from crafting is part of what spurs us on to come up with they types of products we make. Meaningful and clutter free with minimal packaging and where all aspects are either reusable, recyclable or give back to nature.

Take our bug house kit for example. The kids can cut out all the little bugs, mix up a natural glue mix and create their hotel scene however they choose. And once all the bug house materials are collected, they can construct the inside of the house however they like.

Once this craft set has been made up, where does it then go? Outside! No cluttering up your mantels with this one.

And bonus, when it starts to weather away, plant the seed paper to grow beautiful wildflowers 🌸

Fun and flowers AND no landfill waste!

The set is available in our shop now.

02/02/2022

If you want to get a closer look at the birds in your garden, a bird feeder will help attract them!

Our super fun DIY bird feeder activity is not just a pass time for the kids. It's an especially great activity for the winter when birds are having to work harder to scavenge for food.

Suitable for all age groups- even adults love this! So if you're looking for a lovely little half term activity that has the kids entertained, gives back to nature and doesn't leave any clutter in the house (our minimal packaging is all reusable or recyclable) then we have got your back!

26/01/2022

Sorry for the silence so far this year. We've been busy restocking, planning and we're hoping to bring you something new soon...

21/12/2021

Well, that's a wrap!

Eat, sleep, pack orders, repeat. That's how life has felt over the last few of weeks.

During the stress of getting on top of orders last week, I looked around the two rooms that our stock had taken over and seeing all the packed boxes mount up, I had to take a moment to take it all in. How far we've come since last year... How much busier we are than last year...

We want to say a massive thank you to everybody who has supported us and bought from us over the last year. Thank you so much for shopping small and choosing our products for your children.

And Merry Christmas to you all...♥️ Gem & Vic ### 🎅

09/12/2021

📮 Order cut off dates!

We will be processing orders that are needed before Christmas until 14th December.

Any orders we receive between 14th & 18th December will still be sent out before Christmas but we cannot guarantee a 'before Christmas' delivery.

Orders received after 18th Christmas will not be processed until after Christmas.

So if you're still looking for some fun, eco-friendly stocking fillers, you have 6 days left to guarantee delivery 📦

03/12/2021

🎨Give the kids a fun and creative activity to do...

💝Let them give out two meaningful cards to somebody special to them...

🌺After Christmas is over, those special people can plant their cards and give back to nature.

T'is the season for giving after all 😘

01/12/2021

8 Plantable seed card sets left! 🌱

Over the last few weeks people have been loving our Soy Wax Crayons and Bird Feeder kits as stocking filler gifts! At the end of the day we're even dreaming that we're still making them!

And because there are only so many hours in a day we decided that we would only make a limited number of the seed paper card sets and once they're gone, they're gone.

We now have only 8 of these left so if you'd like to purchase one then just hit the link in our bio.

Not only does this set come with two plantable seed paper cards, but the kids will also get 4 suprise festive soy wax crayons to colour them in with. Which shapes will they unwrap... 🎁

26/11/2021

How gorgeous is this Dinosaur themed advent calendar, put together by 😍

📷 Photo credit

We're loving the idea of these calendars which can be reused year after year, mixing up themes, random suprises or even ➡️ making it a calendar where the little ones give back each day! (Check out their free download of '24 Acts of Kindness' on their site).

And if you're looking for ways to fill a DIY calendar with plastic-free, eco-friendly treats, our soy wax crayons, seed packet activities and mini DIY seed bomb kits, could be the perfect fit!

25/11/2021

Exclusive first dibs to our followers!

As a small business that hand makes all of our products, participating in Black Friday sales and discounts is just not sustainable for us.

However, we do have a bit of a offer for you...

Never a fan of waste, we wanted to offer some of our less than perfect, misprinted stock at a discounted price.

Nothing is broken, the kids will still get the same amount of fun, they just won't look perfect (but I bet the little ones won't mind! 😁)

We're offering each set for £5 (including pp)

Here's what we've got and you as followers will get first dibs today before they are put up in the shops tomorrow:-

2 x seed paper bug hotel kits (one with faded colour print, one with a double print over some of the ants) Usually £7.50 +pp.

2x Dinosaur cotton drawstring bags with 4 shaped crayons (some crayons double layered for two colours) and a cress seed pack.

1x Wildlife drawstring bag with a mix of 4 soy wax crayon shapes and a sunflower seed pack.

1x safari drawstring bag with a mix of 4 soy wax crayon shapes and a wildflower seed pack.

If you'd like to grab one any of these sets, then feel free to message or comment. It's first come, first served.

🇺🇸 Also, Happy Thanksgiving to all our US followers!

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Sorry for the silence so far this year. We've been busy restocking, planning and we're hoping to bring you something new soon...

Sorry for the silence last week. We've been very busy, making, printing, folding, sticking, packing and most importantly, partying!! 🎉🎉

Packaging- No plastic here! Since coming up with our bird-feeder idea, the design has been tweaked a couple of times to get it to a point where we can keep it all together, yet have as less waste as possible. There are 5 elements to our bird-feeder kit:- 🐦 Instructions Card 🐦Pinecone 🐦 Peanut butter 🐦Wild bird seed mix 🐦Twine I wanted to make sure everything was kept together, as one unit, rather than the kids looking into their party packs and picking out a random pinecone or jar of nut butter! But, I didn't want to add extra package bags or boxes... So, using the twine, instructions card, a single hole-punch and some creative threading, here you have it! Our bird-feeder kit (that I wrap in tissue paper for gifts) without any glue, tape or plastic required. Make the bird-feeder, reuse the mini jar for all kinds of purposes and pop the instructions card and seed envelope in the paper recycling! ♻️

We made a Bug Hotel!🐛 (Sorry we couldn't share with the background music like on Insta) My 4 year old had a blast on Monday making his very own bug hotel. Mummy was his cutting-out assistant and scavenger hunt guide and he loved mixing the glue and creating his hotel scene with the seed paper! We'll be out inspecting the residents with his magnifying glass later. Then in a couple of weeks, the next activity will be planting the seed paper and watching it grow 🌱 An activity that just keeps on giving to nature 💚 #bughotel #buildabughotel #seedpaperactivity #ecofriendlykidsactivities #plasticfreekidsgifts #easteractivitiesforkids #easterholidayactivities #givebacktonature #seedpapercraft

And here's the step-by-step video for the sock bunnies

Coming soon in your activity packs... Yep, once the kids are back at school and chief crayon maker (Vic) is back in the lab, we'll be swapping out the mass-produced paraffin wax crayons for hand-made soy wax cuties. A much better fit for our plastic-free activity packs!