Here is how I made my own DIY Doctor Who Party. A lot of work went into this DIY Doctor Who Party for all my little Doctor Who fans. This party set up was a future party in the making! Little Eliza just turned one and came to visit us here in Florida! Sadly the party wasn’t ready for her so I made it for her 2nd Birthday! I chose a Galaxy theme for my DIY Doctor Who Party to add a little Whimsy and color to the set up.

This post will be an overall summary of what went into designing and making the party come to life. If you have questions or want me to go into more detail on specifics, let me know in the comments and I would be happy to make a blog all about it. There will be another post showing where I got everything for the party so you can find it too.

Decorations

Backdrop

The Backdrop of my party set up has been the easiest so far! While party supply shopping I found these wonderful Galaxy tapestries on amazon and it was perfect! I was able to attach it to the wall using push pins. I added adorable yellow gold star garland. They were long so I only used two out of the three I purchased. Very Simple! I loved the effect it had with the Tardis cabinet. The most important part of the backdrop was the Printable Banner you can purchase in my online store.

Tablescape

This DIY Doctor Who Party table was also the easiest I have had yet. Simple yet effective. The Table was topped the table with three different table cloths from either Dollar Tree or Target (Party Section) topped with silver star confetti from the Dollar Tree. I used my party dishes and found a very pretty mirror plate to add some gold to the table while thrift shopping the weekend before. While doing some party shopping I found this throwback from when I was young, Gold Small Star Garland. I wrapped the garland around some of the display plates and to the area around the Tardis Cabinet. It was a nice easy way to make your dishes look themed.

To hold the cutlery I used the recycled vegetable cans from my last party because I feel they still fit the theme. If you didn’t already know this about me, I am an UCF Alumni with a bachelors in Fine Art and Animation. So of course I have a Human Skull model on hand. So I threw that on the table to highlight a few episodes of Doctor Who. I used the Navi Lights from the Legend of Zelda set up to wrap around my Tardis with some fabric I had on hand. Just scraps of clear shimmer fabric from when I made Tinkerbell wings for Dapper Day.

Food

I usually only do about 6 different party foods to show off (and fill) the table but for some reason we ended up with 8. I wanted something easy and simple to eat for the main dish. Of course! Pizza. I’m going to make a pizza and decorated it like a Tardis, or a Dalek or something. Yeah right.. Turned around at it was time to set up the party. Frozen Pizza it is I chose a 5 cheese plain pizza and opted to add the pepperiness in a “spacey” pattern. It ended up being a spiral. Oh well.

Next fun thing were the DIY Doctor Who Party Vortex cupcakes. They were originally meant to be beautiful galaxy cupcakes. But for some reason (I totally learned why just this past weekend) my frosting keeps falling flat. So thats why they are now Vortex cupcakes. Still cool with the sprinkles and still tasted really good. I chose Blue velvet cake mix to add a little more space to them. Those were the main events for the party and I’m going to make making a Cooking with Me video on the making of all this party food.

The Drinks on the other hand, worked really well with the display. My Husband collects decanters and I decided to borrow them for the table. They paired so well with the fancy plastic cups from the Dollar Tree.

DIY Doctor Who Party Menu:

• Spiral Pizza– Frozen 5 Cheese Pizza with double layer Pepperonis placed in a spiral.
• Vortex Cupcakes- Galaxy Cupcakes failed and turned into vortex cupcakes
• Chocolate Dipped Bananas– Frozen Bananas dipped in chocolate topped with blue and gold Sugar Gel
• Fish sticks with Custard– Snickerdoodle Cookies with Banana Dream Pudding
• Galaxy Lollipops: Sparko Sweets Galaxy Lollipops Spiral Designs with Space Foil Gift Pack, 10 Lollipops, Handcrafted in USA, 1 Pound
• Chocolate Stars: I used a star silicone mold and Milk Chocolate chips
• Jelly Babies: Jumbo size Gummy Bears (Dollar Tree)
• Drinks: Blue Hawaiian punch

Artwork & Invites:

All the artwork was created by me to show off for this Party Set up and everything is printable and available in my shop or as a bundle on my Etsy.

Alphabet Banner . Cupcake Liners . Cupcake Toppers . Favor Tags . Food Tents

Custom Printable: Entry Sign . Invitation & Thank you Card . Tardis Invitation & Thank you card

DIY Favors & Gifts:

DIY Sonic Bubbles

I had a lot of fun with favors to say the least. If you have been to the dollar tree recently (Spring 2018) they have these small bubble vials with little circle stickers on top. I snagged a few of those to make some custom stickers for Favors.  You can also get them from this Amazon link (Bullet Bubble Tube (1.4 x 5.1 x 1 inches) (Orange)I present Sonic Bubbles! this Printable comes with three kinds of sonic screwdriver stickers to apply to your bubble tubes. I originally tried it with my sticker paper but it had a hard time sticking once the bubbles started to get used so I coated the whole sticker in clear packing tape and it worked! so cute! I love them!

DIY Toy Blocks

For this party I decided to make a little DIY gift Idea using this DIY Toy Blocks Printable. You just need 8, 2 inch wooden Blocks (I found mine at Michaels) and some Modge Podge. The printable has a tiny bit of wiggle room to make them line up. The Blocks turned out so cute! Im going to be making a little tutorial for everyone so don’t you worry! This was a easy and adorable little gift idea for the new Timelord in your life. Here is a Amazon link for 16 blocks! enough to make two set! (WOOD BLOCKS (16PCS. WITH FREE COLORED MARKERS), 2″ WOODEN CRAFT BLOCKS, HARDWOODS, MADE IN USA, BY CROSSROAD SALES)

Fashion

DIY Doctor Who Party fashion is so much fun to play with. My fashion was a little casual for this party. I wore my new favorite “The Stars, cant do it, not today” tee from Nerd Under the Stairs. Paired with a mid length yellow pleated skirt, WITH POCKETS!.

Over that for my cooking and most of my set up I got to wear the beautiful Tardis Apron from Made from Oz on Etsy! Both of these shops are so amazing and I feel you should totally go check them out!

My Guinevere had an equally casual outfit for the DIY Doctor Who Party. I found these adorable puffy Royal Blue top with Gold spots at my Local Once upon a child. The yellow shorts were also found during that shopping trip too. So many fun possibilities for a little Timebaby. I topped off the whole outfit with a hat of my very own. It’s a little Tardis top hat that Bought maybe… 5 years ago. The light still worked and everything! I attached it to a elastic and placed it on her head. With some back and forth I finally achieved some photos. She’s starting to get into that always moving no matter what phase. Does anyone know how long that lasts or how to pause it for a second to take a photo? let me know!

Thank you so much for joining me on my little Wibbley Wobbley Timey Whimy DIY Doctor Who Party.

Let me know in the comments if you are planning a Doctor Who Party. Did my ideas help you out? I sure hope so!

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Here is how I made my own DIY Legend of Zelda Party. A lot of work went into this Legend of Zelda party for all my little Legend of Zelda fans. I found this wonderful couple (now engaged) who had just announced that they are having a little girl by the cutest means. They had made an adorable purple stuffed rupee and revealed the gender to everyone by opening a little chest. My heart stopped.  This post will be an overall summary of what went into designing and making the party come to life. If you have questions or want me to go into more detail on specifics, let me know in the comments and I would be happy to make a blog all about it. There will be another post showing where I got everything for the party so you can find it too.

Decorations

Backdrop

All of the Decorations were made by me doing DIY projects or online video tutorials. You can find all of my printable products in my store and DIY Tutorials on my YouTube… eventually. Lets start with the backdrop. I wanted something really themed after Legend of Zelda and decided to make a Great Deku Tree. I thought it could do double duty and hang in a nursery. I used brown construction paper for the trunk and black construction paper for the face. The entire thing was attached to a Dollar Tree round light blue tablecloth. I attached roughly 6 packs of light green pom-poms (cut in half) to the table-cloth by Staples. I tried taping first but that failed horribly.

Tablescape

Table decorations I made myself. The Triforce shelf was made by me. Super Proud! I love things that have multiple purposes. Here you see the Triforce as a cupcake stand but now its a shelf for my husbands amibos. Heres the video of me making it (coming soon)

In my party stash I happened to have a bunch of wood cuts to display food on, (borrowed and had). I love the wood texture for the Legend of Zelda Party and paired them with moss I bought at Hobby Lobby and Leaves and Acorns from my Where the wild things are baby shower. I got some yellow and white flowers to help stabilize the Triforce. I made the shelf pretty deep but I wanted to make sure it wouldn’t fall over during the shoot.

Another fun party of the display was my Navi Pinata paired with my little lighted fairies that I DIY. You can follow these directions to make them yourself.

Things you need:
Small Jars with corks (I got mine at the dollar tree, but I know hobby lobby has them)
Candle holders (Dollar Tree)
Pink or blue air dry clay
Glitter Sticker paper (hobby lobby) its in the scrap book aisle. or clear packing tape
Fairy Lights (amazon or department stores during spring)
hot glue
wire or paper clip

1. Hot glue jar to candle stick(s)
2. roll air dry clay into small fairy balls
3. fold over your tape/ glitter paper to create a clear square, cut butterfly pattern from tape to create wings
4. Once the clay is dry hot glue wings to ball
5. unfold paper clip and insert one end into the clay ball and hot glue the other side to the underside of the cork to the top of the jar.
6. once everything is dry, insert fairy lights and place cork.
7. optional (hot glue cork to jar)
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A cute little addition to my little Legend of Zelda baby shower were the Koraks masks. I didn’t want to have little hide in seek printables (because that would be too simple. Instead I printed out masks and got Guines Stuffed animals involved in the fun. I’ve hidden them all over the display. (6 total).

I wanted a center vocal point for the table so I created this Gold foil triforce table-cloth. Heres the video to create your own (coming soon). I also recommend layering your table cloths. If your like me you get the cheap dollar tree ones and I think they look much less cheap when you layer them. Here is the light green rectangle table-cloth from Target and a dark green from Dollar Tree.

Food

I made a simple dinner menu for my husband and I since this was a stage table (aka an elaborate dinner) I like to typically stick to six menu items to display all my food tents. So here we go.

DIY Legend of Zelda Menu:

• Lan Lan Milkshakes
• Rupee Cupcakes
• Cucco Wings (Chicken Wings)
• Cucco Puffs (biscuits)
• Navi Cookies
• Fishing Hole Jello Cups

Artwork & Invites:

All of the art was created by My Nerd Nursery and is for sale on Etsy in a bundle or individual sale in the shop. This staging was for a mock baby shower for Baby Evangeline. I like to have a themed baby book, but since there is no real children’s book for legend of Zelda I made a sign poster with the Great Deku Tree, This is a custom product. I also made the entry sign as a custom product with some embellishments.

Favors & Prizes:

Favors consisted of these adorable burlap pouches with Rupee Gift Tags. Inside each bag I put homemade Rupee Candies as a thank you for all my Mock Guests.

Games

Since this was a Baby shower mockup i wanted low-key entertainment. I made the Great Deku Tree Sign in poster for cute messages and well wishes. I also make printable koraks masks to put on stuffed animals for your little ones to play a little search and find game. Sweet and Simple. Another fun game for all the kids you invite to your DIY Legend of Zelda party would enjoy this adorable DIY Navi Piñata, I used it as a table decoration until we got to smash her. Sorry Navi.

Fashion

Fashion is almost my favorite Party topic! I found this Etsy seller who makes adorable Nerdy themed Aprons!!! We’ve started a collaboration project featuring her aprons every month! (p.s. if your interested in collaborating with me please email me @ mynerdnursery@gmail.com. Anyways here is a link to her Etsy! I got the wear my super cute apron all during my cooking and table segments. it was very comfortable and was perfect for my Legend of Zelda party.

Guine got to dress up too, I wanted her to be something simple and comfortable so I picked Princess Navi! I found the perfect blue dress to represent the fairy Navi at a local Once Upon a Child. and I actually had a matching headband from my baby shower. I made some little DIY Fairy wings and IT WAS PERFECT! Here is the DIY Fairy wings video to make your own

Thank you so much for joining me on my little DIY Legend of Zelda Adventure.

Let me know in the comments if you are planning a Legend of Zelda Party. Did my ideas help you out? I sure hope so!

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Rebecca, My Nerd Nursery

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