Well, my daughter didn't really have a first birthday party, just family and dinner, so when it came time for her to turn 2 we were going to go all out for her birthday. She is totally obsessed with Yo Gabba Gabba, so the theme was easy. We invited about 10 of her closest friends, plus our family to celebrate the big day. She had a blast!
I ordered the digital files for the invitation and character faces off of Etsy at Ry Creations.
This made it easy for me to make most of the things myself and print as many copies as I needed.
The invitations were perfect. |
Birthday banner by the kitchen table |
Outside as people walked up the drive they were greeted by all five of the characters. I used photoshop to crop and size the characters, and had them laser printed on nice paper at Office Max (only $1.25 for an 11x17 print). Then, I glued the characters to matching craft foam for more support and tied them to shepherds hooks that I have lining my front walkway. (These are great to keep handy because you can hang super cute things for any occasion from them.)
When guests reached the door, they saw this great sign that I got off of Etsy at Serendipity Design |
DESSERT/CUPCAKES
FOOD/MENU
The party was from 3-5PM, so the menu was more of an afternoon snack. Each character had its own fruit: Muno-red apples, Brobee-green grapes, Toodee-blueberries, Foofa-raspberries, Plex-bananas, DJ Lance-mandarin oranges. I used the same character shapes as the front walk, but printed them smaller (Office Max, 8x10=$1) This time I glued a wooden dowel rod to the back and stuck them in tiny clay pots that I got 3 for $1 at the Dollar Tree. We also had applesauce packets, juice boxes, Razzle Dazzle lemonade, Sweet Tea, and bottled water.
DJ LANCE FAVOR BOXES
A big, giant Foofa greeted everyone as they walked in. Hanging on the stair case is her birthday banner from birthday #1. I plan to make her a different one each year, and display them all at every party.
Life-size Foofa |
6 Comments:
Hi, I was wondering how you printed the characters at office max? Did you take them on a usb drive? Or a picture and they enlarged them? Where did you get the images so that they weren't distorted and without a background? Sorry I have so many questions, But I loved this idea!
For the characters, I downloaded the "puppets" from nickjr.com (http://www.nickjr.com/printables/yo-gabba-gabba-puppets.jhtml) Then I uploaded this file to the Office Max website and had them print each character onto cardstock paper. Then I cut out the characters and glued them to a piece of craft foam from Michaels and glued a small dowel rod (also from Michaels) to the back of the foam so I could stick them in the bowls on the table.
I hope this helps and let me know if you have any other questions! I loved making all of these things for my daughter's party :)
Okay. Probably a dumb question.. but how were you able to save the puppets ( or Download) off of the website?
Thank you for all of your help!
I'm having a hard time getting the pics without them being distorted... :(
Hi. I am wanting to print the large characters for the yard stakes for my son's birthday party on the 11th. I don't have photoshop so I was wondering if I could possibly use you're photos if you still have them or if you have suggestions on how to crop the photo's without photoshop. Thanks so much!!!
I couldn't download the puppets... anyone have them still that can email them to me for printing?
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