Here is how I made my own DIY Neverland Peter Pan Party. A lot of work went into this DIY Neverland Party for all my little Tinkerbell. My sweet baby Guine is turning two! I cant believe it! I chose an Fairy Neverland DIY Peter Pan Party to match the popular saying Never Grow 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

Peter Pan was one of my favorite Movies from when I was a little girl. I really wanted to share it with my baby girl. I decided to make a transitional party, where each room is a different scene. My Dining room theme was the Nursery. I bought Pink and Raspberry balloons, Along with matching streamers! It worked out so cute! I wish I had time to make a peter pan shadow. If you throw a similar party please add this extra touch! I found an adorable pink number 2 balloon on wish. ( Make sure if you order from wish, you order with a lot of time to wait for delivery)

Peter Pan was one of my favorite Movies from when I was a little girl. I really wanted to share it with my baby girl. I decided to make a transitional party, where each room is a different scene. My Dining room theme was the Nursery. I bought Pink and Raspberry balloons, Along with matching streamers! It worked out so cute! I wish I had time to make a peter pan shadow. If you throw a similar party please add this extra touch! I found an adorable pink number 2 balloon on wish. ( Make sure if you order from wish, you order with a lot of time to wait for delivery)

My Living room was possibly the easiest to decorate. We are in the process of decorating a big girl room for Guine and she needed curtains. I found adorable pink ruffle ones at Target and hung them up in front of my galaxy tapestry. Taped up some white construction paper as a window frame and whala! The perfect window to jump right into Neverland! Over my couches and bookcases I placed star banners and two balloons. Second star to the right of course!

Through my French doors ( I placed iridescent streamers on the doors) You wanted into Neverland. My Neverland Backdrop was very similar to my Alice in Onederland theme. Three Dollar tree table clothes, braided and topped with pom-pom flowers. I even added some of the left over iridescent streamers from the French doors. It looked beautiful!

I decided to expand my party to out front my home to invite all my guests inside. I have added Neverland Directional Signs to my shop! I think this would be the cutest addtition to any Neverland Party or Nursery.

Table Decorations

It was so much fun to spread my party out to so many different areas of the house. My Nursery table was simple and sweet. Only flowers and display trays were placed there to accommodate all the food for the party.

My Neverland table was more elaborate, I DIY some terrariums for the Pixie Hollow Table, and added an extra Lost boys table to the outside to hold my favors and Crafts. I used props from around my home and special additions bought from stores to make my table a little more Neverland Themed.

For my guest book I decided to pick a non-Disney Peter Pan book. Flying to Neverland with Peter Pan by Betty Comden, Adolph Green & Carolyn Leigh. I had my guests sign the front and back pages of the book. This makes such a fun keepsake for any child.

My Centerpiece

Inspired by a DIY Project from Instagram, I found a easy way to make some DIY Terrariums for my Pixie Hollow Table. I used some gold straws from Target and glue to create a open style terrarium. I bought the flowers from Dollar tree and arranged them myself. I had enough supplies to make a total of three and I think they turned out amazing! SO EASY. Under the Display I placed my wood cuttings and palm leaves. It seemed to all work so well together.

Food

DIY Neverland Peter Pan Party Menu:

• Purple and Green pixie dust Cupcakes (Publix Supermarket)
• Brownie Arrowheads
• Fools Gold rice crispies
• Smees in Blankets ( Pigs in Blankets)
• Fruit and Veggie trays (Publix Supermarket)
• Purple Rose Birthday Cake! (Publix Supermarket)

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 request.

Alphabet Banner . Cupcake Liners . Cupcake Toppers . Food Tents. Welcome Banner . Book Sign . Directional Sign

Custom Printable: Invitation & Thank you Card 

DIY Favors & Gifts:

Favors:

I went a little crazy with my favors and had fun doing it! My favors included Fairy wings and handmade fairy wands. I also wanted to do a Neverland craft which every child got to bring home.

My handmade fairy wands were crafted by me. I took chopsticks and separated them. I then glued bells to the tops of each chopstick along with flowers and ribbons. Guine loved them, and so did everyone else! They matched perfectly with the fairy wings I found at the Dollar Tree.

My favorite part of the party with the interactive Neverland Craft! I found sensory bottles and the Dollar Tree and corks that fit perfectly. I spent a while collecting little “lost things” to put inside. I was able to find Fairy Confetti, Alligator erasers and other Neverland themed items. This is such a fun idea for a young/ Toddler party! This project was such a crowd pleaser. Totally recommend!

For Neverland Baby Showers I recommend my Neverland Milestone Stickers to be the perfect gift that keeps on giving. If your planning on taking monthly photos of your Lost boy or girl I recommend these Fandom Stickers to help you show the progress your lost child is making. <3

 Fashion

Fashion is always my favorite Subject. Nerd fandoms make it so much fun to dress up. What makes it better is when there is a Fandom event where you can go to show off your Nerd Fashion. If your not already following us on Instagram and Facebook you know that were expecting a little boy in June! We are over the moon excited! I made it my goal to find the perfect Wendy dress for the party. It was harder then I thought. But I found the perfect maternity dress from H&M. I didn’t even know they had a maternity line. Its safe to say I was pleasantly surprised.

Guinevere looked adorable in her Tinkerbelle inspired dress. I found the perfect dress on Amazon. I paired it with little green wings and a green handmade wand. Just Precious!

Thank you so much for joining me for my Neverland Birthday Party. Let me know in the comments if you are planning a Neverland Party. Did my ideas help you out? I sure hope so! Photos were taken by Lalalu Photography!

Other Shop Products used:

• Cake Topper
• Captain Hook Tee
• Flying to Neverland with Peter Pan Book

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Here is how I made my own DIY Sailor Moon Party. A lot of work went into this DIY Sailor Moon Party for all my little Moonies. This party set up was a Little something special for one of my best friends! I chose an Ice Cream theme for my DIY Sailor Moon Party to match the popular Sailor Moon Ice Cream shops.

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

Sailor Moon is one of my favorite Cartoons from when I was a little girl. My favorite scenes were always the magical girl transformations! So I channeled those scenes in my background set up. To start I used the space tapestry from my doctor who party to set the scene for my DIY Sailor Moon Party. I draped (Dollar Tree) Light Pink Streamers on the sides to represent the Sailor Moons ribbons and Layered on my gold Star Banner, also from my Doctor Who Party (Wish). I finished off everything with a sweet little Sailor Moon Happy Birthday Banner.  It was simple but effective in giving off the overall ascetic I was looking for.

Party Table

Working from the Bottom up my DIY Sailor Moon Party table scape was small but effective and SO EASY! anyone could DIY this is a matter of Minutes. I started with a round white tablecloth (Dollar Tree). Using a rectangle royal blue table-cloth (dollar tree) I cut it in half (Hamburger style), then draped each side on either side of the table. Once they were equal on both sides I brought them together and lightly tied them. I made a simple bow out of red wrapping paper (Dollar Tree) and taped the bow to the knot. If you would like a tutorial on the wrapping paper bow, please to not hesitate to message me :). Under the white table-cloth I added royal blue tulle to make a skirt. I’m not sure how it looks to be honest, but if you had more tulle and made a more volumes on tulle I imagine it would look pretty awesome. I topped the table off with a sequins gold table runner that I borrowed from my Doctor Who Party.

Table Decorations

My table decor is a fun collection of Sailor Moon items that I either got for my daughter or had on hand. Everything was printable or had a purpose. From the right, lets start with my Luna P Piñata. This piñata is a DIY project that will hopefully be added to this blog very soon (link here), it was very easy and cost-effective, considering it only cost me $1 in extra supplies. Sitting nicely in front of Luna P are my homemade Macarons <3 these are my pride and joy! Thank you Todd for helping me make them. To the left are my matching Luna & Artemis stuffed cat toys (Wish) I got them for Guine so she can be a huge nerd just like me.

Moving on to the show stopper. The confetti pink cupcakes (Publix). The cupcakes turned out so bright and colorful that they brought the set up together! I must say that they really made my Sailor Moon Cupcake liners and Cupcake topper really stand out and steal the show. Sitting high above the rest of the Sailor scouts are my Tuxedo Mask Strawberry Roses (super easy party dish, heathy too). The intended main event of my Sailor Moon Party are the Sailor Moon Ice Cream cones. These printable Cone Liners turned out so cute and perfect! The cones I bought at the store were too small for the liners, but it worked out that the liners made the cones look bigger. Everything works out in the end. Each Ice cream liner and Cupcake liner comes with optional Sailor Scout bow stickers. I added mine and it just pushed them over the top in cuteness. To hold the silverware I brought out my white rabbit from my Alice in wonderland party. Perfect for Usagi (Sailor Moons real name) meaning Rabbit.

My Centerpiece

Inspired by a DIY Sailor Moon Party baby shower featured on my Instagram, I decided to mimic one of their gorgeous simple centerpieces. All purchased from the Dollar Tree, this was such an easy center piece to make. Using a skinny vase and hot pink vase gels, I was able to create the base. The perfect flowers turned out to be yellow and pink, and I was able to find these adorable light pink glitter berries that I think added the perfect amount of sparkle. The top held a gold glitter crescent. I had the gold glitter paper on hand, but here is the Crescent template I used. I just printed the template, cut it out, and applied the glitter. SO EASY.

Sailor Moon Cresent Center Piece.jpg

Food

DIY Sailor Moon Party Menu:

• Hot Pink Confetti Cupcakes (Publix Supermarket)
• Homemade Strawberry Lemonade Macarons (Recipe)
• Tuxedo Mask Rose Strawberries (Tutorial)
• 3 types of Ice Cream (Publix Supermarket)

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 . Food Tents. Cone Liners

Custom Printable: Invitation & Thank you Card 

DIY Favors & Gifts:

Favors: I found these adorable moon and stars tulle favor bags on Pinterest and knew I needed them. I was able to find them on Wish in a bunch of colors! You might remember my Royal Blue set from my Doctor Who party. Well here they are again in Pink! I tied off each one with a Bow favor tag and placed a set of Mix and Match Sailor Moon earrings from Cute Panda Co. These little stud earrings are so cute! You can Mix and Match your favorite characters and each one is topped with a bit of glitter to really bring out your Magical Girl.

For Sailor Moon Baby Showers I recommend my Sailor Moon Milestone Stickers to be the perfect gift that keeps on giving. If your planning on taking monthly photos of your Sailor Scout in training I recommend these Fandom Stickers to help you show the progress your Magical girl is making. <3

For older sailor scouts in training I recommend Tea Cup Castle on Etsy. I found the cutest Sailor Moon Tiara ring from there are was able to get Sailor Moon jewelry for my friend who is a huge fan of Sailor Moon for her birthday <3. My Sailor Moon Tiara ring was customized with the color stone I wanted. Purple for Guines’ birthday.

 Fashion

Fashion is always my favorite Subject. Nerd fandoms make it so much fun to dress up. What makes it better is when there is a Fandom event where you can go to show off your Nerd Fashion. Lucky for me Regal and Fathom events was doing a summer showing of the Sailor Moon Movies! Lucky me! I put on my Sailor Moon Shirt (Forever 21) and my red tulle skirt (Torrid), found my Sailor Venus Handmade Bow (me) and set off! I felt so magical!

Guinevere looked adorable in her Sailor Moon bodysuit, which is available in my shop for a limited time, and Sailor Moon kicks from Sasi Shoes! Use code Mynerd15 for a sweet sweet discount on your own pair of Nerdy Shoes! Guine loves LOVES! her Sailor Moon shoes. I have to hide them to keep her from carrying them around the house with her. I can’t wait for our next pair!

Thank you so much for joining me for my Sailor Moon Birthday Party. Let me know in the comments if you are planning a Sailor Moon Party. Did my ideas help you out? I sure hope so! Photos were taken by Cute Panda Co at CutePandaco.com  Please follow her on social media and love her as much as I do.

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Here is how I made my own DIY Harry Potter Party. A lot of work went into this DIY Harry Potter Party for all my little wizard in training. This party set up was a future Baby Shower in the making! My Friend since Disney is having a Baby! I have the honor of decorating for her Harry Potter theme Baby shower.  I chose a Hogwarts theme for my DIY Harry Potter Party to play of the idea of the primary colors and the Kiddy Crests.

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

For this party set up I decided to go with color blocks of Blue, Yellow, Green and Red, to represent the Hogwarts houses. I bought (Dollar Tree) table clothes in the correct colors and cut them to size. I hung them from my usual curtain rod. The Harry Potter Banner is available in my shop. The Kiddy Crests are available in my shop at well. I happened to have extra large construction paper, which i cut to make the banners. I glued the crests to the Banners. Worked and looked great!

Tablescape

This DIY Harry Potter Hogwarts Party table was also the easiest I have had yet. Simple yet effective. The Table was topped with (in this order) a cheap yellow table cloth, Harry Potter Banners from Target, and Ripped pages of a old destroyed book. I used a small desk to display everything on, and I liked this for a small amount of food I had to display.

For the main decor I borrowed some Harry Potter theme items to really pump up the nerdiness of the display. From Bottom to top: The Mirror is borrowed from a friend of mine and the Books we had on hand of course! The Nursery frames of the Houses are from my shop (Link) and the treasure chest (wizard Chest) is from a previous party. I filled the Chest with wands and a giant snitch fold out (Borrowed from a friend). The Chest Also held my custom made Invitations. Moving up the Dougie Banner is from the Ravenclaw Banner set, which matches the top banner. To display the food I used wood cut pieces (which i DIY into a cupcake stand from my Where the Wild things are Baby Shower) and several glass display wear I have on hand. Behind the Sorting hat cupcakes I put Potion Bottles ( You can download the potion labels here) in different colors to make them pop.

My Centerpiece

My main Center Piece is the Hogwarts house cups. Each tall hurricane vase is filled to various hights to show which house is winning. In this set up its a tie between Ravenclaw and Gryffindor. I filled the vases with un-popped popcorn cernals (that I had dyed with food coloring) and found the perfect ribbon at the Dollar Tree. Carefully I tied a cute little bow around each one and topped them with the small version of my Hogwarts Crest (which can be found here in my shop). The Dollar tree has a large assortment of different flowers so I was able to find different color flowers, I think each one describes a different part of the Hogwarts house its representing.

To the far right are some other perfect props I borrowed including a small stuffed owl, a crystal Ball (That Lights up) and a Ravenclaw Tiara. I also included a dragon egg?, Mostly because I really liked it and I feel it really balanced the Wizard chest on the floor.

Food

DIY Harry Potter Party Menu:

• Sorting hat Cupcakes- Jumbo Chocolate Cupcakes with M&Ms in the center, Topped with Fudge Frosting.
• Honey dukes Candy- Chocolate Frogs, and Every Flavor Jelly Beans.
• Butter Beer pudding- Butterscotch pudding, with caramel sauce and Whipped cream
• Lily’s Lemon Bars- Delicious Lemon Bars topped with Powdered sugar.

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: Invitation & Thank you Card 

DIY Favors & Gifts:

For Favors I decided on Potions. I found these adorable colored Hand Sanitizer bottles. 1$ for a pack of three. I created custom potion labels (which you can download here). Perfect for a baby shower. Another possible favor would be the Honeydukes candy. Either a Chocolate Frog or the Every flavor jelly beans would be so much fun to get. I found my free, so I’ll give mine for free. You can download the Jellybean box Here and the chocolate frog box Here. I hope you enjoy!

For Gifts I wanted to share my Nursery prints with the new mommy. They make the perfect gift for a new baby wall. I am also planning on giving my new wizard mom a set of Harry potter milestone stickers. So she can celebrate Harry Potter every month with her new baby.

Fashion

This baby Shower is going to be so much fun for us fashion wise. I have a brand new shirt from Nerd Under the stairs! It says Swish and Flick on it with a feather! How cute is that! I’m pairing it with my black gold dust skirt and some simple black flats. I really wanted the shirt to pop.

Guine is wearing a dress inspired by Hermione Grangers winter dance dress. I found it at my local Once upon a Child. She looks so cute!

Thank you so much for joining me on my little You’re a Wizard Baby, Harry Potter Baby Shower Party.

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

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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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