{"id":3902,"date":"2015-07-10T00:54:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T00:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artofproductions.com\/?p=3902"},"modified":"2025-05-09T14:00:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T14:00:30","slug":"birthday-in-a-box-fun-frugal-gift-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.artofproductions.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/10\/birthday-in-a-box-fun-frugal-gift-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday In a Box (Fun &amp; Frugal Gift Idea)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9829703 skip-lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artofproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Birthday-in-a-box-DIY.jpg\" alt=\"Birthday in a box DIY\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">If you have boxed cake mixes and frosting in your stockpile, consider&nbsp;creating a Birthday in a Box! This fun and frugal gift idea is not only fun for birthdays but could also be created simply to brighten someone&rsquo;s day! In fact, I have a friend who makes these boxes with her Girl Scout Troop and then donates the boxes to a local children&rsquo;s shelter so this can be a fun service project as well.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9829704\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artofproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/celebration-in-a-box.jpg\" alt=\"celebration in a box\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">To make your own Birthday In A Box, just gather one boxed cake mix, a tub of frosting, greeting card, candles, sprinkles, cupcake liners, napkins, noise makers, and anything else birthday related. Many of these items can be found at your local dollar store.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9539469\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artofproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/collin-birthday-balloons-hip2save.jpg\" alt=\"hip2save birthday &mdash; collin with balloons\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Is there anything else you would add?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h6 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&nbsp;Lina (lina@hip2save.com) loves cooking new recipes, thrift store shopping, and DIY home decor projects.&nbsp;<\/span><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have boxed cake mixes and frosting in your stockpile, consider&nbsp;creating a Birthday in a Box! This fun and frugal gift idea is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3902"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3909,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions\/3909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}