Initiation Gifts

[Thetagirl218]

So I haven't read this thread in quite some time (A few months at least). I again laughed profusely at the DZ Turtle ornament! Its scary looking!!! This is the first time I have seen the badge ornaments....I think the Gamma Phi and KDs are nice, but am I the only one that this the Pi Beta Phi one looks odd? It just looks poorly done to me. The greek life adviser at my university was a Pi Beta Phi and I always loved looking at her badge! It is so beautiful! I hope they don't attempt to do Theta's badge after the way they did the kite.....

[Senusret I]

New initiation gift ideas as inspired by the APO store at national convention:

APO now has Forget-me-not seeds for sale for only a dollar each! (per packet) So what you could do is decorate a flower pot and give the pot and the seeds to the new initiate. FYI: I'm sure you could get regular packets of seeds for less, but the APO ones have the APO logo on them.

APO has a candy jar with the coat of arms -- fill it with blue and gold jelly beans. (I'm currently on the lookout for CHEAP jelly beans in bulk. I love Jelly Belly but dammit they're expensive.

From Family Dollar, I recently bought some nesting baskets without the handles. I realize they aren't the best quality baskets, but I like them for non-permanent use. I plan on spray painting them and using them as containers for the gifts I give out.

At the APO store they made me take old convention shirts as a free gift at check out LOL..... I absolutely hated this particular design, but I took one for my "AI."

I basically got everything I could possibly need for my honorary initiate for under $60. Anything else I get will most likely be handmade and personalized somehow.

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

New initiation gift ideas as inspired by the APO store at national convention:

APO now has Forget-me-not seeds for sale for only a dollar each! (per packet) So what you could do is decorate a flower pot and give the pot and the seeds to the new initiate. FYI: I'm sure you could get regular packets of seeds for less, but the APO ones have the APO logo on them.

APO has a candy jar with the coat of arms -- fill it with blue and gold jelly beans. (I'm currently on the lookout for CHEAP jelly beans in bulk. I love Jelly Belly but dammit they're expensive.

From Family Dollar, I recently bought some nesting baskets without the handles. I realize they aren't the best quality baskets, but I like them for non-permanent use. I plan on spray painting them and using them as containers for the gifts I give out.

At the APO store they made me take old convention shirts as a free gift at check out LOL..... I absolutely hated this particular design, but I took one for my "AI."

I basically got everything I could possibly need for my honorary initiate for under $60. Anything else I get will most likely be handmade and personalized somehow.

Well, my honorary initiate crossed this weekend! I spray painted a basket metallic blue and used gold tissue paper to line it. I ended up getting him everything I listed above, plus:

APO license plate frame
APO note cube
A personalized wooden picture from from greekgear.com
And because he is an educator, a blue plastic pencil box which I decorated with an APO sticker and put the following items in: APO pencils, APO pens, a blue protractor, APO shield pin, lanyard keychain, and blue and gold smiley face stickers.

He loved it!

[honeychile]

Surprise your little legacy with this (and the proceeds go to breast care research!): Princess Crown