Short Palm Strips are our smallest palm option for Palm Sunday and are an especially thoughtful choice for parishes serving families with young children. Many churches find that offering a combination of Long Palm Strips and Short Palm Strips helps create a more prayerful environment, as parents appreciate having a shorter palm that is easier for children to hold and less likely to be used distractingly.
These Short Palm Strips are our most economical palm option, without sacrificing quality. They are simply a shorter selection of palm strips, ideal for crowded churches and large congregations. Stripped from fresh fan palm leaves, they arrive ready to hand out to parishioners. Natural variation in length is expected and reflects the organic character of God’s creation. Each bag contains 100 palm strips, serving approximately 100 people. All palm orders are shipped the weekend before Palm Sunday to ensure freshness.
We ship all Palm orders the weekend before Palm Sunday.
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How to Care for Short Palm Strips
- IMPORTANT FIRST STEP- TAKE PALM OUT OF SHIPPING BOXES, but leave in the bag.
- To keep the palm strips fresh, do NOT open the plastic bags until you are ready to hand the palms out to the congregation.
- Keep sealed bags of palms in a cool area until ready for use on Palm Sunday.
- The best temperature to store palm is at 40° F to 50° F but make sure you DO NOT FREEZE!
- People who are not refrigerating their palms should open each box and take three or four UNOPENED plastic bags of palms out of the box. When the palms are enclosed in plastic and packed in a box, heat may begin to build up in the box between the plastic bags. Any perishable plant material will begin to break-down if there is heat present.
- By taking several bags out of each box, you allow the air to circulate more freely around the plastic bags left in the box which keeps the palms cooler and fresher.
- Brownish tips on the leaves are a natural characteristic since drying begins even before the leaf matures.
