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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Here is little post on how to make DIY Fairy Wings. I wanted my Baby to dress up for our little Legend of Zelda Table scape as something a little different then the typical Link or Zelda. so we picked Navi.

For those of you who don’t know who Navi is, Here is a little Navi History Lesson.

Navi (pronounced NAH-vee) is a character in Ocarina of Time. She is a Fairy who serves as Link’s companion in his quest to save Hyrule.  Since Link is not a real Kokiri and does not have a Fairy to call his own, Navi is summoned by the Great Deku Tree to go with him on his quest. Throughout the game, Navi provides Link with a variety of clues to help him solve puzzles and progress in his quest. Navi also helps Link learn the controls in the game, such as teaching how to open doors or how to push and pull blocks. She is most popular for her line “Hey Listen” from the game.

Normally she looks like a small blue glowing ball, so I found the perfect blue dress while I was shopping at Once upon a Child. (if you don’t know them, look them up! it’s an amazing store) We had the bow already at home from my baby shower. Put it all together and Tada! Little Princess Navi. All we needed were the wings. Below is the video on how to make DIY Fairy Wings. Theres also a little story in there on Guine meeting the easter bunny for the first time and getting that little red spot on her forehead. We’re also going to the renaissance festival this weekend and taking our DIY fairy wings with us. If you want to join in the fun please follow me on Instagram. Thank you!

Materials:

• Dollar Tree Fairy wings (the ones with the tights on them)
• Scissors
• Glitter sticker paper (I get mine at Hobby Lobby in the scrapbook area)

Introducing Princess Navi

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