Making Memories

This year for our Easter celebration I decided to make a simple "photo booth" setting.
                  

This was our backdrop.  The fabric is a painting dropcloth.  If you look closely you can see paint splatters on it!  (I used the kind of curtain rings that pinch on to hang the dropcloth.)  I made the paper wheels and bunting out of scrapbook paper.  The bunting is just triangles stitched onto a piece of ribbon.  Over at The Creative Place there is a great tutorial for making the paper wheels.

Everyone had a great time posing! Most of our props came from the dollar store.  I did print a few mustaches and lips from Accent the Party.  They were a free download.

I think he wore these glasses most of the day!

With a little encouragement, even Grandma got in on the action!

I LOVE this picture!

So full of JOY!

We did try for a few "serious" pictures.

My 2 favorite girls and their Grandma.

Easter 2011

Easter Eggs Everywhere!



Anxiously Awaiting for the Eggs to be Hidden!





Superhero Myles!

 



Princess Bailey



Princess Anna!



Andy's dad and brother hid his eggs in HARD places!



 The teenage cousins hanging out.

 Going through their Easter Eggs!

 Family :)

 Posing with their capes on.  This wasn't so easy because it was windy and they were blowing everywhere!

It was a fun day.  I always wish all of the cousins could be here. 

Easter.....The Preview

I love Easter!  It's the one family get together that I always host.  :) Every year I try and come up with some fun new ideas.  Here is a preview of some of the things I have done this year.

Signs to hang all over the yard!

Easter eggs filled and loaded into color coordinated bags.  Each child has a color so we can hide them according to their ages.

"Peep"er Dolls printed and ready for our 2 youngest girls.  I thought it would be fun for our moms, grandmas and aunts to help cut them out while we visit.  You can find these to print yourself here.

Target centerpieces put together and ready to go for the outside tables. Extra eggs waiting for me to go to the bank and get a stack of dollar bills to fill them.  I love this tradition.  It started when my girls were young.  One suggestion.....Never send your husband to the bank to get these dollar bills.  (He's better off to not know what you spend on Easter.  Tee hee.)

Enough marshmallow shooters for every kid and some of the adults to have one.  Instructions for these are here.

Chip clip favors for the grown ups to take home.

Jewel eggs to be filled with a little CA$H for the teenagers.  They hide the eggs for the little ones for me.  Kind of a bummer to get too old to hunt for eggs.  I like to do something for the bigger ones too.  :)

Well there you have it.  Next on my list is to make my grocery list and get my house cleaned up.  I'm looking forward to Sunday!  How about you?  What kind of fun things are you doing for Easter?

How to Make a Superhero Cape

I first found this idea at oohdeedoh. I am making them for our family Easter celebration.  The way I do our Easter egg hunt is to assign each child an egg color.  That way we can hide the eggs hard or easy depending on the age of the child.  This year I am making each of them a Superhero cape to match their egg color.     

You will need one t-shirt for each child.

First cut the sleeves off at an angle as shown. 

Then cut open the sides of the t-shirt on each side.

Lay open the shirt.

Cut away the front of the shirt about 1/4" away from the edge.

Now you have a basic cape shape.

I used Wonder Under (Iron on adhesive) to attach my decorative shapes.  I used a dessert plate to draw the circle you see and then ironed it on.  Cut around the circle and peel off the backing. 

Iron the circle on to the cape.

I made 5 of these capes so I juggled the t-shirt fabric left over from the front of the shirt to make the designs.

I made my neices "Princess Superheros"!

The boys got a lightning bolt and their initial. 

I took one of the leftover sleeves and made a "mask" for each child. 

I found all of my design shapes on the computer and printed them on cardstock.  Cut them out and then traced them onto the Wonder Under.  Remember if you use letters on yours to turn them over and trace them backwards.  Then when you iron them on you will be right.

I'm looking forward to seeing my Superhero nieces and nephews hunting for Easter eggs in their color coordinated capes!