Angry Birds Party!

 

"One day?" you ask, "That seems to be cutting it a bit short.  Why would you leave yourself so little time?"

Well, friends...I had planned on a birthday party for my big 6 year old to be a lovely outside pool party.  It was going to be really fun, really wet, and really easy.

The whole week before the party I kept looking at the forecast.  It was 95* when I sent out the party invitations.  However, as the time got closer I could see it was becoming very clear that this water party was not going to be in the cards with 60* weather, raining and windy like crazy.

So the day before the party I got BUSY with plan B.

I checked out the good old pinterest and conferred with the six year old and we decided together to plan a quick Angry Birds Party!

So we planned out 4 games:

1. Life-sized Angry Birds Game.

We had to make a life-sized Angry Birds Game.

 I started with the balls.  I had spent two days that week looking around at Toys-R-Us; so I knew they had these great balls that would be perfect for my game.  They were only $1.99 each.  Score! I grabbed three.

Here's how I made my angry birds and king piggie balls:

All done. The balls turned out just as I had planned and they were really easy.

(Ps. I took these pictures, below, two weeks after I made them...so they're a little worse for the wear.)

What's that birdies?

We'll be moving soon so we've been saving boxes for weeks now. So that made an easy way to set them up and make piggie towers from.

We scored the game as follows:

Knock down a box: 1 point

Knock down a piggie: 10 points

Knock down the King Piggie: 20 points.

The kids remembered their own scores.

We planned on playing out on the grass....but them it started getting super windy and then raining, so we moved under the cover of the garage.

2. Angry Bird Tag.

Um...we didn't exactly play this game (Hello! It was raining-- Darn weather). But, if we had it would have been really fun and have gone like this.  I made tons of balloons with birdie or piggie faces drawn really quickly on them.  I would have divided the party goers into two teams-- Piggie team and Birdie team, holding their balloons.  The birdies chase the piggies.  If a piggie gets tagged he has to sit down until all the piggies are tagged.

3. Piggie Stomp!

After tag I planned on all the kids sitting around on the grass and letting them stomp on the piggies until they popped. (This activity was postponed- due to weather too).

 4. Angry Bird Flipper!

Thankfully I had planned this nice indoor activity, since being outside was no longer an option.  Basically I brought those pom-pom balls, googlie eyes, construction paper, string, and glue and let the kids make their own angry bird or piggie.

Look what they came up with!

One piggie was given his own lego ship-- lucky piggie.- Ha, ha.

  After they were made we had everyone flip their birds, trying to get that King Piggie.

5. Angry Bird Cake

My new favorite way to make cakes is to cook them in two round pans and then have fun frosting them.

My son mentioned he wanted the cake to have an oreo frosting.  So I crushed up some oreos and mixed it in with the frosting for the inside layer and the sides of the cake. It was yummy.

Happy Birthday, Son, We pulled it off!

Sewing up your Bow Tie

Good morning, readers. 

A while ago I shared this post with U Create. So I thought I'd repost it here, too. 

Today I'm so excited to share a tutorial of how to turn your traditional bow tie into a velcro- easy to use bow tie.

What inspired me? Well, I excitedly made my boys bow ties from this tutorial (but I made them smaller and shorter)...a week later, I could Not figure out how to tie them...so Easter day they went in their normal church ties.  I knew something had to be done.

Enter this Project.

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. Traditional Bow ties

2. Velcro

3. Normal Sewing material

STEP ONE: Fold bow onto self  and pin.  Cut bows off the tie.

STEP TWO: Make a pleat with the top piece of the bow and sew down. Repeat for other side.

STEP THREE: Place the bow together, facing each other and sew together.

STEP FOUR: Now we're making the loop to go over the bow.
Cut out a rectangle (about 4" x 3"), fold in half and sew.
Flip inside out (I like to use crochet hooks) and press.

STEP FIVE: Fold in half and sew together.
Pull bow inside loop.

STEP SIX: Cut out velcro pieces (about an inch long).
Place velcro on the bow tie end, fold ends in, and sew in place.
Trim off any extra velcro that may be sticking out.
Repeat on the other side, on the other end.

Optional: If needed add extra material to one side to add length

STEP SEVEN:
Pull strap through the backside of loop.
Hand sew bow tie strap onto the loop to stay straight and tight.

Lastly, try 'em on.

BONUS: Use extra material to make a dress for the 1 year old.

Apparently I should have watched this video on How to Tie a bow tie (P.s.- I made this bow tie, too).

Freshly Featured # 8

Today I'm featuring the blog:

Naptime Review

Chosen from my list here, she's the latest one to become my new follower:

Grab a Freshly Featured Button.

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HERE IS MY FAVORITE 5: 

1. To get to know more about Naptime Review, I started over in her "About Me" section and read this:
"Naptime review will give moms the latest information on products that I LOVE or not so love.  The products I find are chic, unique, healthy and educational. I have a Masters in teaching and a BS in marketing and sale. I created this blog to incorporate both passions, consumer reviews and things for moms to do with their children."

Isn't that great?
2. This is such a fun blog to explore around with.  Be sure to check out all her fun reviews like this one about DeLish cupcakes (found at Walgreens, of all places.)

3. She hosts 3 blog hops. Wow, that's a lot! On Monday she hosts a mingle to meet new bloggers. One of hers is a blog hop that features favorite products to review.  What a great place to find reviews of fun products! She also has a facebook hop to increase 'likes'.

 4. Up top you'll find the Current Deals button, a great places to find great deals,

5. Before I finished my tour around her blog I had to check out her Ultimate Fishing Giveaway.  Know someone who loves to fish?  Father? Husband?  Then, you've got to check out this giveaway.

I had a great time exploring around Naptime Review.
Be sure to pay her a visit and say hello and get some great reviews.

Peg People Superheroes

Did you read my comic yesterday?

Good.

Now we're onto the how and why I made these little guys.

 

Five days before my son's birthday I read this post by A Girl and a Glue Gun and reminded myself of, "Oh, yeah, I wanted to do that for my son's birthday."  Luckily for me I had that sweet reminder and was able to head out that day and started this really fun project.

She gives a great tutorial on the how-to so I didn't take any pictures of my process because you can get some good ideas from her.

Besides if I did do a tutorial it would go something like this, "Open google to find image inspirations, Draw on your peg dolls, paint them, outline them with a Sharpie Paint pen, and seal with Mod Podge."  That pretty much sums it up.

This little pen turned out to be quite the time saver and gave everything a nice finished look.  If you buy one be sure to get the extra fine point.

I wanted my heroes to have a pretty specific accurate look so to do this I pulled up a couple ideas from pinterest to see some peg dolls, but ultimately I just pulled up images from google of how the real superheroes looked to get their look just right.

For example for Thor I was looking at this picture:

 

Here's some other great resources for Peg Superheroes:

Homemade by Jill

Crossing the Bugger Dixon Line

Pegged

Here's a look at our heroes.

A Comic by Freshly Completed

STAY TUNED tomorrow for more...