Ready? Set? Lift of!! Prepare for a joy ride of jaw-dropping cakes, snacks, and decorations Galaxy-themed birthday party. No matter what their age is, kids and adults alike will feel like they just embarked on
Ryan and I love creating and crafting together, and it all started when we were engaged and doing a lot of DIY projects for our wedding. 5 years later, I’m so glad that we are still crafting and…
Explore the most spellbinding enchanted forest theme ideas in this latest roundup of Pinterest's Best. The enchanted forest theme is the perfect choice for a birthday party, for both little boys and girls, and it's
So Parker's first birthday is coming up. Well its really still a few months away but i'm an organizer, and a pinner. So I have actually been planning his first birthday since before he was even born. Being the first kids birthday party that I have ever put together, I thought I would go with a fool proof theme- Construction. Now the back room has been filling up with dump trucks, plates, and decorations for a while so I thought it was time to start working on the photo booth. I decided I want
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20 Fabulous Outer Space Birthday Party Ideas for Kids - From space party games, space party decorations, Printables, Gift Ideas, and Space themed Invites
Step into the Shire for a Lord of The Rings Party! Inspired by the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, this party themes is perfect for birthdays & graduations!
I and the children LOVE these AMAZING trash liner jellyfish. So simple, and yet such an amazing addition to our OCEAN/SEA theme. I have added a Youtube tutorial at the bottom. To make these I used two 10 gallon commercial trashcan liners, the ones for small office trash cans, at a cost of about 5 cents and about 10 minutes of time each. #1 The first liner is opened up, four "corners" [just grab the edge about every 1/4 around] brought together and stapled, then stuffed down into the center of the bag to create a bowl shape. #2 For the second liner, cut off the sealed edge. It is accordion folded in fourths. Unfold completely and fold over once to create a square, giving you four layers of plastic. Cut off the edges and cut into spiral. I did about a 1 - 1 1/4 inch thickness. The wider the strip the shorter the "tentacles." I didn't try to be that accurate or to make a perfect circle. I knew once they were opened out that it wouldn't matter. You end up with a pretty long strip. I folded it in half and cut it to create two strips of equal length. Since it's actually doubled over double layers, this gives you 8 tentacles total. Spread them all apart. \ If you try to attach them without separating them first, they will cling to one another and not fall properly to create the tentacle effect. Once separated, join them all together, placing them randomly together in a circle and stapling together. Since you have two sets of four of the same cut, this is important that they not sit perfectly together or it won't look right. Stick the tentacle staple up against the inside of the bowl shaped bag and push up with your hand. Collect all layers on the top, along with a string to hang if wanted, and staple. You can't see the staple on the ones I have up. The plastic folds over and hides it. The layers are: TENTACLES TOP OF BAG gathered together and folded over [pic below] BOTTOM CENTER OF BAG STRING FOR HANGING All are stapled through at once. I can now make them with just one stable through the whole thing, but it is easier to staple the tentacles first, then the top of the bag, then the combined pieces. These are WONDERFUL!! I'm so glad I came across the idea. I think my process is MUCH easier than the original instructions, which used clear rubber bands. This is an original idea of Casa Haus English that her daughter created for a school assignment. She placed her jellyfish creation on a stick and used it as a movable puppet. Our jellyfish did the same, which is really cool, but with 2 and 3-year-olds, playing with plastic bags just doesn't work. So, ours are hung from the ceiling. TUTORIAL I have received several emails about the bringing the "corners" together step, so have created the following tutorial. A couple of things to note is that for this one I used smaller liners than the ones in this post, and I folded the first liner in quarters rather than opening it out and folding it in half, so the tentacles came out shorter. Only the last staple is necessary. If you are making a lot of these, you'll probably get to the point where you can just hold it all together and only use the one staple. Tags: ocean, sea, theme, unit, preschool, kindergarten, child, care, childcare, daycare, beach, jellyfish, animals, craft, art, decoration, puppet, plastic, bag, trash, can, liner
Looking for some fun construction themed party games for your construction birthday party? Here are awesome construction party games + activities.
Oh my, it is nearly two years later and I am FINALLY posting pictures! I have seriously got to get a handle on that! We have SO much fun putting together our Epic vacation bible school every year and I wanted to share with you what we have been up to! With it nearing VBS season again I thought I would take a trip down memory lane and share with you some great ideas that you can use for your own VBS! This year (2014) the theme was Wilderness Survival. The vision was to decorate the church with both desert and jungle themes! This was my first time in the role of "lead decor" and I had NO idea what I was doing (picture having to keep this all in fire code, yikes!) but luckily it all came together in the end! I will try to explain my technique for making things as I go... Here we covered the wall in kraft paper (Lowes or Home Depot in the painting section). Using tan wall paint and a large rectangle sponge, we "stamped" the wall to create bricks then went back and outlined sections in dark brown to make them stand out. It goes really fast if you stick to groupings of stone instead of every single one. The "sand" is just tan fabric by the yard from Joann's. I believe we ordered a few bolts online. The camel prop was ordered from the VBS catalog (we have since created out own VBS curriculum). The rocks are painted pieces of styrofoam. Keep going to see how we did the palm trees and vines. This large hallway I wanted to look like a cave! We used brown paper bags (amazingly cheap on dollartree.com) and crinkled them up and stapled them to the wall. WARNING: this took forever so I would suggest you stretch them as your staple to cover way more wall with less bag. And MUCH less staples! The effect in here was amazing! Here are our palm trees! We used pool noodles to create these. Cut a hole in a box a tad smaller than the noodle (so it stands up), cut the bottom off brown paper bags, and string them onto the noodle! I put a large paper plate on top to tape the leaves to. The leaves are just traces and cut from a roll of non-fade green paper. Drape the base in burlap or tan fabric to look like sand. That last picture is of our class photo area! The vines were my favorite craft! We used plastic table cloths from the Dollar Tree in a couple of different shades of green. These were really easy and each table cloth yeilds a ton of vines. Fold your tablecloth the long way a few times will it is about 5" wide. Trim the sides so you end up with long strips. Cut diagonal lines to the middle. TIP: make sure you stagger them so you dont ever cut all the way through! And even if you do you can always use short vines too! We used these EVERYWHERE! They were great fillers and really tied the theme together! As you will see in the second picture, we also used nets and hula skirts (dollartree.com) everywhere! The monkeys were also ordered online and below I will tell you how we made the rope vines... These rope vines were made using cut, twisted and staples brown paper bags. If I did this again, I would use skinny strips of rolled kraft paper instead. If would have gotten done much faster! We stapled leaves (again cut out of the non-fade paper) when we were done. These also went everywhere and were great for covering large expanses like the ceiling in the cafe. We also wrapped them around the check in area. Also on the ceiling you will see colorful paper lanterns. These are from Oriental Trading Company. This giant tree was my biggest project! The frame is made from PVC. It ended up being 12 feet tall! We used the rolls of brown kraft paper here as well. It is simple... roll it out, wrinkle it up, stretch it out, and tape it on top to bottom! The last picture shows you what it looked like from the inside. The branches were made the same way but left wrinkled and twisted. I wanted to add more but we ran out of time! This hallway is always the kids favorite. The black light hallway! Luckily one wall was already dark, the other we wrapped with a roll of black non-fade paper. The volunteers had fun make fish, octopus, turtles and other sea creatures using white paper and fluorescent paint! These were then stapled onto the wall. The floor was covered in clear balloons that we squirted with the florescent paint on the inside. The jellyfish are paper lanterns lightly painted with fluorescent paint, with streamers and white string hanging from them. The ceiling also had streamers and nets. The openeing to this hallways was made to look like a waterfall. We used clear celo wrap, paper bags (done in the same way as the cave hallway) and the flowers were made using more non-fade paper. And because the nursery kids are important too... we gave them a little decor!
If you're throwing a dinosaur party anytime soon, you need the best dinosaur party tips ever! We rounded up dinosaur party ideas that include decorations, snacks and more!
I’ve gotten the chance to plan a few Girls’ Camps for the Church of Jesus Christ over the years. Before we get started with the details about our Military themed girls camp from this year,
Camouflage party theme for the hunter, outdoor enthusiast, army soldier or survivor aka mother of five with twins celebrating their first birthday.
Turning five inevitably means you want a birthday party with the theme of your favorite TV show. I had managed to avoid character parties thus far, but the birthday boy gets what he wants. After all was said and done, Captain Barnacles and I were on pretty good terms! SOURCES: Cake: Common Bond Bakery Backdrop: Sensation Design Co Octonauts Yard Signs: Viola Print Jellyfish Lanterns: Republic of Party Food Tent Cards: Minky Babies Aquarium Plants: Petsmart Gravel: Dollar Tree Fish bowls: Ho
As you might have seen via Instagram, I went back and forth on throwing Walker a true birthday party for weeks. The original plan was to skip a big party and celebrate with the family, but then of course he asked for a ‘big construction party’ about a month before his birthday. We ultimately decided […]
Dragon Party Ideas How to Train Your Dragon to Party! If you’ve seen the movies or series (or even read the books), you know that training a dragon is no easy task... On the other hand, training a dragon to party is a much simpler process! Please note this page contains affiliate links. Any pur ...
An Enchanted Forest Prom theme is the hottest choices for this year's Prom. Here are all the essentials you'll need to create an amazing Enchanted Forest theme.
It was a pit stop at the Cabazon dinosaurs, that fueled the idea of a dinosaur theme for my son's 6th birthday party! This past year, wh...
Do your kids or students love to play secret spy agent or detective? Children seem to love sneaking around spying on people or completing secret missions. Whether it be to save the World, stop a criminal or solve a mystery, pretend to be a secret agent is tons of fun! This detective puzzle for kids is a FREE printable
This post contains affiliate links. Updated June 2022 An excellent Hogwarts letter is the key piece of a Harry Potter surprise treasure box. I knew I wanted to do it up, to make a really cool replica compared to the movie props, so I searched high and low to find the best projects, and I
After our crazy month of August, I am so excited to finally be sharing all the fun from Baby Brother’s 1st Birthday party! Honestly, I had trouble coming up with the theme at first. I almost went with an owl theme and then inspiration struck while reading one of our favorite board books – Baby […]
Planning a Star Wars Birthday? The force awakens with these 27 Star Wars Party Ideas that are out of this world! Star Wars is one of the top party themes this year, and it’s not hard to see why. The Star Wars universe presents so many out of this world ideas that any kid would
Into the woods ... in the classroom!
It's a Safari Party and we need all the Party Animals. I've collected all of my Safari Themed Posts from Cash's 6th Birthday Party into one main post.
The countdown has begun. My big girl turns 6 in March, and she has been talking about her Octonauts birthday party since… last March. The pressure is on. There is a lot of planning, a lot of designing and a lot of crafting to do. But I have the first ... Read More
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Looking for some fun construction themed party games for your construction birthday party? Here are awesome construction party games + activities.
If you have a budding paleontologist in your house, bake him or her a batch of fossil cookies (recipe on Martha Stewart's website) for a special treat. I love how the simple act of pressing a plastic insect toy into the top of a sugar cookie transforms it into something so much more interesting. These would be a hit at a bug-loving kid's birthday party.
