Oliver's Party DIYs

I made a few decorations for Oliver's party that were pretty easy and made the table look fantastic. In fact, I'm thinking of doing a Mickey themed birthday party for Hudson next year so I can re-use all of the cute things I made. :)

To make the centerpieces, I bought tin pails for a few dollars at Ikea. I then wrapped them in Mickey themed washi tape. It only took a few minutes and transformed the pails. My mind began spinning with ways to use these pails for other centerpieces. I also bought styrofoam balls from Michaels and painted them black. Then I stuck a wood rod, with more washi tape around it into the balls and the pail (I placed styrofoam in the pail as well) and secured everything with hot glue. Then I cut a circle with construction paper and placed it in the pail to cover up the styrofoam. Lastly I cut some strips of construction paper and wrapped them around a pencil to curl them and placed them on top as the final touch. This project was so quick and easy and made adorable centerpieces. 

I also used some washi tape to make little flags for my hot diggity dogs. I cut strips of tape about 2-3 inches in length. I wrapped each strip around a toothpick then cut a triangle out of the end. These were also super quick and easy to make and really made the pigs in a blanket look cute!

To make the banner, I just used my cricut to cut a bunch of circles and letters. I also used the cricut craftroom to design and cut the Mickey shape. Then I glued everything, hole punched the sides, strung ribbon through, then tied extra ribbon in-between each piece for decoration.

As a gift, I also made the boys autograph books for their first trip to Disneyland. I combined ideas I found here and here. I found images of each character on-line. Then imported them into Creative Memories Storybook Creator. I made my template to size 4x6 to fit the picture book. Then imported a picture and made a title for each page. I printed them out, cut them to size and wallah, the boys had adorable autograph books. My favorite thing about this book is that I can take each autographed page out and use it on a scrapbook page with the photo of Hudson and the character when we get back from our trip.