Easy Minecraft Party Decor

We always decorate the house for each kid's birthday. Even though this year was the "small" birthday party (i.e. take a friend to a movie and that's it!) we still decorated the house with my son's latest infatuation: Minecraft.  If you have a boy between the ages 5-12 you know what I am talking about!  But I also wanted to keep it simple!  So here is what I did to make a big impact with little effort.  I am also including the Minecraft faces at the bottom as a free printable so it will be super easy for you! 

I got this party banner at the dollar store and taped Minecraft faces to it.

These swirly decorations used to be angry bird decorations :

I saved them from the angry birds party we had last year, and just removed the angry bird part and taped 2 minecraft faces to the bottom back-to-back. 

My hubby came up with this idea and it turned out so cute.  We taped Steve's face to the school pictures of the kids to turn them into minecraft characters.  My kid LOVED it!

I got some paper plates from the dollar store, (I wanted the green ones to be a square too but they only had circles and it worked out fine) and taped the Minecraft faces to them.  For the spider I draw the face with metallic Bic permanent markers, cut out the legs out of another paper plate and taped them to the back.

I also made this super easy Creeper Shirt.  Just some heat transfer vinyl cut in the creeper face shape onto a green shirt.  I used my silhouette but you could totally cut this out by hand too.   

Here are the Minecraft faces for you to use (PERSONAL USE ONLY!!!))

Just right click and download.

3 Non-Candy Dollar Store Valentines with printables!

This year we are going to give away non-candy Valentines!  I got all my toys from the dollar store and I have provided some fun FREE printables to go with them! 

You got Pumpk'd! - A fun Family Halloween Activity!

Here is fun family Halloween event for the whole family.  

We don't like to do scary... it is just - well, too scary for us! We still like to participate in halloween, so, my sister came up with an alternative to "you got boo'ed"- You Got Pumpk'd!  We liked the idea of having pumpkins on everyone's door instead of ghosts.  My sister and her kids Pumpk'd some friends this weekend and being a good blogging sister she took pictures for me!  

Here is what you do:

Print off the free download (at the bottom of the post!)

Load up a pumpkin or bowl full of candy and fun things.

Dress like Ninja's - this is a stealth mission!

Grab your candy bowl and head over to some friend's house 

Sneak up to their door and ring the doorbell

Race away and hide in the bushes so they don't see you!

Stay quite! 

Wait until grab their bowl of Halloween goodies! 

Here is a free printable for you! 

Download HERE!

Totally fun right?!  What are some fun family things you do on Halloween?

Free Joshua 24:15 Printables

I was playing around with making a printable for Joshua 24:15 today and decided to offer them off to you guys for FREE! 

Just right click on the picture and save as!

Feel free to print off as many as you want for personal use! 

 

Mix and Match Alien Magnets {Tutorial AND Printables!}

Here is a fun Halloween craft!  We like Halloween around here but we do not do scary!  I am a big friady cat {Scooby Doo used to give me nightmares!} so we keep things light and fun!  Here is a perfect non-scary Halloween project with cute and silly aliens!   Here is what you will need:

Alien Printables (available below) Foam Board Scrapebook paper Magnets Marker/crayons/colored pencils Mod Podge Exato Knife/Scissors/Paper Cutter
1. Print off the Aliens.  Here are the alien printables.  Just click on the link to download.  I drew these aliens myself... for personal use only! 

Mix and Match Aliens Printable 1
Mix and Match Aliens Printable 2
Mix and Match Aliens Printable 3
  2. Color in your alien...I did it with marker here... however when I mod podged them later, they did bleed so I suggest using color pencils or crayons.

3. Measure off 3 inch squares {this works with the printables} on your foam board and cut it using  your Exato Knife

You will need 3 squares per alien.

4. Cut out your scrapbook paper into 4 inch squares (you want them bigger then the foam board squares so that we can cover the sides too.)

5. Trace your foam board square into the middle of the BACK SIDE of your scrapebook paper square.  then cut a slit on each corner down to where your traced the foam board.

6. Mod Podge your paper to your foam board. A. Brush mod podge on the back side of your paper and on the foam board. B. Place the foam board on to the middle of your scrapebook paper and fold the sides around it. C. Cut off the extra corner pieces. D. Mod Podge over the top of the edges on the back side to seal it.

7. Cut your alien into 3 parts: Head, Body/arms, Legs.  Use your squares to help you.

8. Mod Podge your alien to your squares.  Mod Podge over the bottom and top to seal it.

Repeat for all the aliens!

9. Attach your magnet to the backside of each square. 

Hang on your fridge and play!

Here they are all mixed up!

We even sorted them into different body parts

These would make a great little gift for your niece, nephew, grandchild, friends...etc!

Just grab a ziplock baggie, one of the printable tags below, and 3 sets of aliens.  Put the alien pieces in the bag.  Fold the tag in half and staple it to the bag.  All set for a cute non-candy, non-scary little Halloween gift!  Click on the links below for the tag printables.

Orange and Yellow Tag
Black and White Tag

Check out this cute block version I made with the same alien prinables:

It is over at the DIY Club... CLICK HERE for the full tutorial







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