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Star Wars Kids Party Ideas ~ Printable Star Wars Party Labels

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I’m sharing my oldest son’s 5th Birthday Star Wars Party!

I purchased both my boys a Star Wars costume. It was 8 months before Halloween so I figured I would definitely get my moneys worth out of these costumes!

I served hamburgers, fruit tray, chex mix party mix, chips, and drinks. Pretty standard party food, but I wanted to have those cute Star Wars Food Labels. We had Hans Burgers, Jedi Mix, Yoda Soda, and a Wookie Cookie!

I made these fun labels. You can print and use them at your next Star Wars Party!

Free For Personal Use Only: Click on Picture and Save or Print!

Star Wars Party Labels

I used these labels to make centerpieces. Just tape them to a toothpick and place inside a balloon weight.

For the cakes I bought them from the grocery store. We had them write Wookie Cookie on it and placed one of my son’s toy Chewbacca on it! I love Cookie Cakes and have them at every party!

My father in law and brother in law were both just as excited about the Star Wars theme party! They actually volunteered and paid to rent costumes! They are awesome and I didn’t ask how much they cost to rent. I’m guessing $50-$75. I had the Star Wars theme music playing when they made their entrance!

We had so much fun playing with the Darth Vader and Chewbacca mask!

For party favors I bought Star Wars Coloring books and other Star Wars merchandise from the dollar store and dollar bins from Target. I also printed and cut out these free mask from ~~http://starwarsblog.starwars.com!~~ No longer on there but you can get them here now Geek Mom Mashup.

The party was a huge success and lots of fun!

Father’s Day DIY Gift Ideas

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Father’s Day is about a week away so I have planned out a special day for my hubby!

I found free printables to make easy DIY gifts with the kids. You can give great Father’s Day gifts that Daddy will love, without spending much or even better, nothing!

Here’s the game plan: Making pancake stacks with little signs, cupcakes with toppers, a hand print tree art project, and an about Dad questionnaire.

Here are the FREE DIY downloads I plan on using this year.

I will use these signs from Paper Glitter attached to a toothpick and stick them in our breakfast pancake stacks. The boys will help me make the pancakes, they love to bake!

Use these cute signs from Paper Cutz Midland as cupcake topper signs attached to toothpicks.

The art gift from my boys will be handprint trees from The Crafting Chicks. I will do one for each boy and one with all three. I will paint each boys hand a different color to make a colorful tree with 3 different size hand prints! My boys love getting to play with paint, especially when they get to paint their actual hands!

I thought this questionnaire would be a funny and cute gift for daddy also from The Crafting Chicks . I’m sure my boys will have some hilarious answers! This will be a great gift to save and look at when your kids are older!

Here are our finished projects after Father’s Day. My husband loved them, and my boys loved making them!

What DIY gifts do you have planned?

DIY Play Kitchen Oven

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This post comes courtesy of my good friend Sharon. She is a super crafty lady on the cheap! She made this play oven for my niece!

This play kitchen was made out of extra furniture laying around. Super cheap and way easy for anyone to make! Spent total $15 to make this.

You can also get some “junk” stuff people leave on the curb or from thrift store. She is working on a big oven now with a dresser she picked up form the curb!

Basically just sand it down and then paint whatever paint color you want.

You can buy cheap test paints people return at home dept or lowes for cheap. She got this one at home dept for 50 cents!

Then add fabric on the bottom to cover the area. You can get the fabric at hobby lobby or walmart for cheap. They always put the returned fabric on sale, great deal!

Optional, add a wood piece on back for that extra look.

Next, add hard ware. She got hers from home dept for $1.

Last paint circles on the top for the stove top

She added a picture frame from the dollar tree and painted it to match the fabric for a little color.

Super Cute!

Hope this inspires you to do some DIY crafts on the cheap!

Baby Shower DIY Ideas

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For my younger sister’s baby shower I did some DIY projects that came out super cute.

First I made a really simple diaper cake. This was my first one and I used the role and tie with string method. I decorated it simple with pink ribbons and a cute bear on top.

Next, I made baby jane shoes from printed on patterned card stock paper. I glued a button on each shoe too. This was a bit time consuming, but they came out so cute I didn’t care. We put mints in them. When the baby shower was over I I gave them to my younger cousins who wanted them to take home for their dolls!

Here’s the template I used.

Baby Jane Shoe Template

I also made candy wrappers by designing a label on Avery mailing labels. They fit perfect around Hershey nuggets candy.

Here’s the cake we had made by my sister’s friend who makes cakes for a living. The cake came out beautiful and tasted great too!

We put the cupcakes on my cupcake stand. I use this stand at every party. Love it!

I don’t know how your family throws baby showers, but mine always provides lots of food and a nice spread! We went all out for my sister. We had nachos, sausage balls, 3 kinds of sandwiches, veggie and fruit trays!

I love decorating for baby showers! Can’t wait to decorate my other younger sister’s party in July, and then my sister in-law’s later this year! Lucky Me!

DIY Elmo Party with Free Printables

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For my son’s 2nd Birthday we had a Super Cute Elmo Themed Party. I made most of the Decorations myself.

Here’s what I used:

I used a free printable Elmo kit from Sherry K Designs.

Click Here to go to Sherry K Designs.

I also purchased a personalized Elmo Kit from Etsy. The kit I used is no longer available but here is a similar one.

Click Here to Go to Etsy.

I made a custom Sesame Street Signs on my computer and stringed them together. It turned out really cute!

To make a sign like mine use the Free Printables below. Save the file and open it in an editing program. PicMonkey is a great option, it’s a free online editing program and is really easy to use! Just open blank sign file and add your text to the sign. Use Tahoma or Arial font all caps in white.

Click on Links Below:

pdf file Blank Sesame Sign

jpg file Blank Sesame Sign

pdf file Happy Birthday Sesame Sign

jpg file Happy Birthday Sesame Sign

I used Elmo merchandise we already owned to decorate the house.

I had my son dressed in a cute personalized Elmo shirt for the party from Etsy.

Click here to Go to Etsy Shop for Elmo Shirt.

I designed a simple cake and had a cake maker friend make it for me. For th top of the make I purchased an Elmo candle from amazon.

An Elmo pinata was made by myself from a cardboard gift box, tissue and printed an enlarged Elmo face for eyes, nose, and mouth.

It wasn’t the best for breaking purposes but it was super cute and it made for a fun mask afterwards!

If you like this printable you may also want to check out my other FREE PRINTABLES.

All printables and downloads designed by rays of bliss are for PERSONAL USE ONLY. Please do not alter or claim as your own. This file is not intended for resale, nor are the printed versions of this file. Feel free to link back to www.raysofbliss.com if you like our printables.

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