My family went on our annual Beach Vacation last week and it completely wore us out. (Why do vacations do that? Just make you exhausted instead of re-energizing you??)
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| This is the beach where we were - totally beautiful?! Seriously - BEAUTIFUL! |
Knowing her full-scale party would be the next Saturday and it was rainbow themed, I figured I could make a run to the local dollar store and turn their supplies into Hello Kitty supplies with a little work.
I purchased:
2 accordion tissue flower decorations
1 pack of (3) hanging flower decorations
1 piece of posterboard
1 bunch of bright pink carnations
1 pk of (8) party hats
1 pk of party plates
1 pk of party napkins
1 set of HK sugar cupcake toppers
*** See Template at the bottom of the post! ***
Sweet Niece sporting her HK Party Hat!
The plain but brightly colored party hats came from Wal-Mart. Less than $2 I think. I made a template of a small HK head first, then a bow template. I laid the bow where I thought it looked best and then made another template that included the edges of the bow on her right ear. This will give you a place to color your bow and not have to glue a bow on. It will be part of your template for each HK head. I place the template face down on the backside of the posterboard, traced and cut it out. Then I used my bow template to lightly sketch in my bow on the front side so I could then color it in with markers. Add some black ovals for eyes, a yellow oval for a nose (I outlined my nose in orange) and a few whiskers on each side and you are done!
Once the marker dried, I put rubber cement on the back of the HK heads and on the front of the party hats, let it dry and then press together. Dried rubber cement is one heck of a hold, so don't think you'll be pulling it off and re-positioning it - oh no, my friend. It's stuck.
The hats are what people have loved the most.
These decorations were from the Dollar Tree. The blue and green tissue flowers were a dollar each. The three posterboard flowers with tinsel and dangling decorations were all three for a dollar. So that's a total of three dollars hanging up there (no bad!!).
The tissue decorations came with a flower you were supposed to put in the middle with a cardboard stick that would run in the middle of this poof thing. But I didn't want a flower - I wanted a HK head. Once again, using posterboard I made a larger HK head template, traced and cut. Colored. Used a drinking straw that I cut about an inch down the length in four places to splay out like four arms. I taped this to the back of the HK head, leaving about 2 inches sticking up and one inch taped to the head. The sticking up part went into the center of the tissue decoration, which let the HK head be flush against the tissue flower. I have a feeling this isn't making sense, let me take a pic and show you really quick.
Does that make more sense now? This nub sticking up will go in the middle of the tissue decoration.
The flat flowers had pictures of flowers drawn onto them. That was so easy to cover up by gluing an HK head right over, making sure I covered up all the flower petals. The dangling butterflies and lady bugs matched the plates and napkins I picked up at the dollar store, so I left those on.
I did try to make a mask with white felt, glued to a party hat, but it didn't start low enough down her face. She ended up looking like a cat unicorn. Cute idea, but not executed well. So that decor was a party #fail. But I still like this cute picture. :)
Lastly, I used another drinking straw and two HK heads, glued together back to back with the straw in the middle to go inside the flower arrangement. I found the carnations in bright pink, pink, and white for $5 at Wal-Mart. Mom snipped a few flowers from her yard that perfectly match and added to it (Daisies, Queen Anne's Lace and Cone Flowers). Sweet Niece enjoyed spotting HK in the middle of the flowers. :)
I didn't take a pic of the store bought cupcakes and the sugar cupcake toppers, but that wrapped up the HK madness. She loved it, I loved making her happy, and there was just enough HK to make it feel like we planned it all that way. :) Hope this might spark some ideas for your own DIY birthday! :)
OK - Because I know folks want a template for Hello Kitty heads and bows, I'm including one here! Feel free to download this picture, and do with it what you will. I left the nose and bow uncolored for you to fill it in. Or, use the bow image for a little "Pin the bow on the kitty." Feel free to share what you make with me - I would love to see it (and feature it here!) beth.covington at gmail.com
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