More Party Details

So this is the last day of all things dinosaur party related, I promise.  I have a few more diy party details to share.  You really can do so much with a small budget when you are doing it all yourself and doing it yourself adds meaning and that personal touch that makes a gathering like this special.  It just takes a little bit of time an planning.  All of the things I did I started weeks in advance and just slowly worked on projects here and there.  These projects are super easy and I either used supplies I already hand on hand or bought at the dollar store or the Target dollar section (one of my favorite spots to grab a good deal).  So here we go!

First easy project are these mini chalkboards. 

 I started with dollar store picture frames, separated out the frames and glass and primed both pieces first.

After they were primed the frames received a couple of coats of spray paint and the glass received a couple of coats of chalkboard spray paint.  That was it, simple, easy and cheap.  I used spray paint that I already had on hand (I may be a little bit of a spray paint hoarder I have realized).  These could be cute for any occasion and any color.  

Next up is a little washi tape letter.

I found a cardboard letter in the Target dollar section a few months back.  You can get these at a lot of different craft stores as well.  Then I simply covered it using my washi tape (from Target).  

Washi tape is all the rage right now and it really is easy to use to create something fun.  You can see with my letter that I didn't take a lot of time making it perfect.  It's just haphazardly put on but I kind of liked it that way.  You can washi tape a lot of different things and it comes in all sorts of colors and patterns.  Here's a project I did a while back using washi tape.  Love this stuff.

Another easy project is creating a paper banner.

I just dove into my stash of paper and scrap paper embellishments to make a little banner.  I then wrote my letters with a marker - You could use a stencil, use vinyl letters - whatever you heart desires.  

My time was limited so free hand writing is what I went with.  Use a hole punch and a little twine and your banner is good to go.

Final easy project are the drink labels I made for the little plastic milk bottles.

For this project I used my paper punch that I recently bought on sale for $6 at AC Moore, pretty paper, some letter stamps and dollar store stickers.

Really easy and really cute.  This was a quick project and I love how they all looked together when it was all finished.  Once again, you could do so many variations of this with any theme you can dream of.

I had fun sharing all of our party details with you.  Next week we move on and I have more to share on what's happening outdoors, the status of our backyard shed and another craft project so come back to check it all out! 

I'm off to a retreat this weekend with the ladies from our church!  Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!!

PS - Here is the original dinosaur party post and my post on how to make a painted burlap table cloth.

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Kids Party Ideas - DIY Dinosaur Burlap Tablecloth

Today I have a little dinosaur party project to share with you.  This project actually cost me nothing to make, just because I already had all of the supplies on hand but really wouldn't cost very much at all if you needed to purchase a few of the materials.  I had so much fun making this!  It's simple and easy and so cute.  It only took me a couple of hours one night to complete so if you have a lot going on this is not that a very time consuming project.

Materials needed for the project:

- Burlap cut to fit your size table

- Craft paint in your choice of colors

- Skinny tip craft paint brush & a fatter craft paint brush

- Dinosaur Stencils (you can see how I did mine below)

- Scrap Paper

- Fine tip Permanent Marker (Lighter colors work best)

So I started out by cutting my burlap to the size I wanted and then ironed my burlap on a medium-low heat setting (the steam was the best so if you had a steamer you could use that as well).

Next, I needed a few dinosaur stencils and I knew the perfect place to find a few dinosaurs - in one of Silas' dino books.  So I found a few easy shapes and traced them onto a piece of white paper and cut them out so I could then trace the pattern onto my burlap.

I decided on the placement and chose which colors I wanted to use.

Then I placed a little stack of scrap paper under each dinosaur template and traced around them with a fine tip permanent marker.  Make sure you leave the paper underneath while you paint so you won't get any bleed through on your table.  Also, the paper helps allow you to fill in a lot of the spaces in the burlap itself.  Some of the paper stuck to the back of my burlap when I was finished but I didn't mind because you couldn't tell when it was on the table.

Next I just used my skinny tipped craft paint brush to trace around the outline of the dinos and then used the fatter brush to fill it all in.  I did two coats of paint just to get a good coverage.

And then I had this!  I loved it.

It was ready for our little snack table set up.  

I love the look of burlap and you could do this with any shape, monogram, design that you wanted.  I actually have and idea of what I want to do with the tablecloth now that the party is over so hopefully I will be able to reuse it.

Thanks so much for burlap painting with us today!  Anyone else have any party planning diying going on?  Share with us!!

Dinosaur Birthday Party - Silas is 2!

Where has two years gone? Seriously, I'm not sure if I like my little boy getting older. I'm so thankful for a sweet, energetic and hilarious son - we are so blessed.  We celebrated Silas' second birthday over the weekend with our family and I have some of the party details to share with you.  Recently Silas has taken a liking to dinosaurs so I knew I wanted to do a theme sort of party for him featuring his new found friends.  Silas also has one of the best Roar's I have ever heard in my life so this was a great way to showcase that as well :).

So when it came on how to decorate I knew I wanted to do as much of it myself as possible - and that is just what I did.  This was not a giant party, it was low key but I wanted Silas to have fun and enjoy it so for me, it was all about him.

Today I will give you some of the details shots and then I will give you another post with a breakdown of all the specific projects I did and what it cost and all of that, you know for all of the dinosaur parties you are wanting to throw in the near future- this will be most helpful.

So here's some ideas to get you started...

Lots of diying going on here - mini chalkboards, burlap tablecloth, birthday banners and so on...

I found a lot of the supplies online at a precious little shop called Sweet Lulu here's a link to some of her awesome goodies: Striped Paper Straws

Ok, don't laugh at my dinosaur cake (well, you can it you want, just not to my face).  I totally needed more icing but just didn't have it.  Note to self: if attempting a dino cake in the future, plan for more icing than necessary.  Even though it didn't quite turn out magazine worthy Silas loved it and even knew it was a dinosaur so that's all that mattered to me.

I loved these plastic milk bottles - a great kid friendly (and wallet friendly) alternative to the fancy glass ones. 

Some of Silas' favorite foods, plus cute mini snack cups found at Sweet Lulu.

We served a variety of Silas foods and adult foods (most not pictured) so everyone had a chance to eat something they enjoyed.  We had such a great time celebrating together and watching Silas open his gifts and hear what he had to say or just watch his funny expressions.  It was a special time.  

As always, thanks for stopping by and Happy Wednesday!

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