Listen, when I’m President, I promise to launch a team to investigate the price of fake palm leaves. They look good though so all’s well that looks well.
I made the banner in on the window with footprint cut-outs from Hobby Lobby. I punched holes in them and strung them on twine and it did a body good.
My very first idea for this party was this centerpiece! I saw large dino claws at Big Lots and found them on Amazon cheaper. Those can be purchased here. I was envisioning a dinosaur coming out of the table. I layered palm leaves around the claws and used my son’s Halloween costume mask from 2 years ago in the center. I used a glass bowl and purchased a small mist maker here to make him light up and smoke. I hope this makes your dreams come true like it did mine.
Look at the smoke and the detail in the claws! Is this Disney, because it’s feeling awfully magical in here.
I found this Pteranodon blow up on Amazon when looking for dinosaurs I could hang from the ceiling. I think it is technically for pools, but he has a hole in his head for hanging so one can’t be too sure. You can find him here.
I found this big ole’ fish net and the garland of leaves in the party section at Hobby Lobby. It got the job done and covered a lot of space for just two pieces. I also promise to investigate the cost of decorative fish nets as your president.
The best ever party hack is to buy a pre-made cake and decorate it with candy and crap you already have at home. I literally took a 16 dollars Sam’s Club and start to finish did this cake in under 10 minutes. Now that’s a win.
Breaking news, these are NOT real rocks! These are chocolate boulders that I bought from Candy Craze at our mall. Ere’body thought I put actual rocks on the cake. No, son.
The Dollar Tree has bags of dragon egg gumballs and since no dragon experts were coming to my son’s party, I used them as dino eggs and stuck a T-Rex head out of the middle of the bowl for good measure.
Okay, actually the dino head in the gumballs was actually the lid to the tube that these little dinosaurs came in from Target. Everybody got dino eggs, a mini dino, and a slime volcano with dinosaur as seen below.
I found these gel/slime dino volcanoes in the summer section at Kroger for two dollars each. It was like the party gods shined down and said, “Here girl, take these.”
You know I love to cut edges into my plastic party tablecloths. I made this one really jagged in the spirit of Jurrasic World.
I had 100 water balloons, dinosaurs set up for water gun shooting, and an 18 foot water like thingy all set up. It was sunny alll day, until the party. We got to have fun for 12 minutes though so take that thunder time.
I hope you like this simple Jurrasic World shabang. Pin, share, enjoy! Follow me on Instagram and Pinterest for a good ole’ time.
My new favorite, fast, easy, and cheap invitation hack is to take a picture and use Word Swag or a similar app to add text! I edited this picture and got my “invites” within an hour from Walgreens photo department for a cool 2.50!
So, we just moved into our house 3-4 months ago and we are renovating the whole thing so it’s not near done, but here’s the tablescape in a half done room.
Thirty minutes before the party, my little girl said, “Remember when you did Godzilla footprints for Crosby’s Godzilla party? We should do bunny feet for my party.” I free handed some prints, laminated them, and had them out for the party in 20 minutes. I am so weird. Don’t ask me how I attached them to the floor because when I say hot glue, you might judge me.
Dollar store cups, one dollar bag of cotton balls, and clearance Easter crazy straws equals, heck yes.
Both the plates and napkins came from TJ Maxx on Easter clearance. The plates are Meri Meri brand and if you haven’t seen their stuff, you should totally check them out!
For cupcake toppers, I ordered swirly bunny suckers from Amazon. They were actually pretty yummy and perfect for the party!
The best thing about having a bunny party, is that you can use some of your Easter decorations! I hung up this carrot garland and patted myself on the back for buying it 4 years ago. I knew we had something special between us when I saw it.
You’re only cool if you wear a bunny dress to your bunny party.
I found these rabbit candy dispensers at Easter and bought the only ones they had left. Dang, it wasn’t enough. Luckily, Mighty Dollar came through with these little glass jars for a dollar each and I just spray painted the lid. I bought bags of Double Bubble gumballs from the Dollar Tree and filled em’ up. Someone thrust their hips three times.
Home girl wanted straight-up box mix cupcakes for her party. What the bday girl wants, she gets. Hey, it’s super cheap so, good job kid. I didn’t have enough suckers for the extra ones so, mind your own business.
For a take home party favor, I used Dollar Tree tin pails wrapped in twine and the annual 10 for 10 succulent sale at Kroger to make individual bunny gardens. You don’t have to water succulents but randomly so I felt like parents would have no pressure from the kids to keep them alive.
I bought little bunny figures and mushrooms from Amazon, and little glass beads from Hobby Lobby. It was fast, easy, and not candy so yay!
Crappy quality picture. Cute kids.
No bunny party is complete without actual bunnies so one of our rabbits made an appearance for the masses. Ladies and gentleman, Kinder (like Kinder Egg), the bunny.
(Before someone sends me a message about trancing a rabbit, he isn’t tranced! He eats like this, lays on the couch like this, purrs and honks, when we hold him like this. I know not all rabbits do this, like this, or can do this. Peace and blessings.)
I hope you got some ideas for a simple and affordable bunny party! Let’s hear it for floppity loppities!
Can I hear it for my daughter’s Target “dollar section” light up board?! I love it when you can use crap from your kid’s room at a party! It looked cute lit up at the party, but you can never see that in pics. Dang.
If you don’t know anything about the game Among Us, it’s sort of like clue but with astronaut guys in outer space. They say people are “sus” for suspicious so I had to use sus in the party because everyone needs a reason to say that.
The little acrylic guy on top was actually a remote controlled light with tons of settings. I used the color strobe setting so the lights were always flashing a different color. I have a clip of it working on my her party pants Instagram, but not on here because technology hates me. You can buy these lights on Amazon for 15 dollars. Click here to shop them.
I bought the cupcake toppers here on Etsy as a printable file for just $2.90! I printed them for under two dollars from Staples using their on-line print ordering services. I picked them up same day and cut them out at home and hot glued them to toothpicks. I don’t know how many times I have said this but, hot glue is the craft medium of the craft gods. I can make anything with felt and hot glue! Bet it!
Hobby Lobby astronaut vibe plates for the party win! I scattered some Crayola star confetti on the tables that I found in the clearance aisle of Meijer. Po’ pimpin’ dem budgets.
I mean, this is what I mean by my site being “realistic Pinterest”. It’s cute, but it’s not over the top. It says, “I like parties”, but also, “I didn’t hire a balloon artist and do a 100 dollar table-scape because this is real life and a two hour party and I don’t own a Fortune 500 company”.
You can buy all of these balloons as a set on Amazon here. Mylar balloons are great and you can deflate and reinflate them to use again! I have Party City fill up the Among Us character balloons and I added a 3 dollar balloon tail that I purchased from there also. Imma save dat tail, too. I have a whole big ole’ collection of things I keep from other parties that I love reusing later.
So, we are renovating our house, and the room pictured here was supposed to be done by the party. Good thing it wasn’t because it rained all day and we needed a safe zone to make these reverse tye-die shirt aka bleaching method. What can go wrong indoors with 10 kids with straight bleach in spray bottles with little ventilation? That’s right. Nothing.
I got some cheap packs of craft stars in different sizes to go with the whole galactic theme since Among Us is set in outer space. It was a cheap and age appropriate thing to do with pre-teens so yay us.
I stretched out dollar store plastic table cloths and labeled each child’s name on a strip of tape next to each shirt. They laid out their shirt design and got to spraying. It’s such a simple activity and I think they turned out really cool!
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To end the party, they all played Among Us in real life. My husband secretly picked two impostors and they roamed about the house figuring out who had “died” and who must’ve been the impostor “Among Us”.
This now concludes the two part series of “parties right after a move that are not as crazy as some parties I’ve done before”. I hope you’ve enjoyed your stay here at Her Party Pants today. Travel safely.
Everything you see in this party, except for the cake (which was dirt cheap) and the candy, was either free from a dumpster (true, read on), or 5 dollars or less. Most things seen in this post were three dollars or less. Come join me on a cavity fun filled adventure!
I talk about some of these individual decor pieces down below, but let me just talk about the rainbow swirl candies here. I bought a 3 dollar pack of dessert party plates from Target and wrapped them in cellophane to make 8 different rainbow striped treats that I used in different ways for this party. Some were taped to the wall….that’s right….taped….just directly on the wall because I hear packing tape is good for paint. The remaining ones I turned into a garland. Wee doggies.
There are the plates I made into a garland. I cut circles out of card-stock from an old garland to add between each plate. Put it on a ribbon and ya done!
TIP: Buy a solid color store bought cake and decorate it at home. This cake was a big size and only 15 dollars from Sam’s. I decorated this one with a sprinkle number topper from Hobby Lobby, candles from Five Below, and candy from the Dollar Tree! It was a twelve inch cake and all in cost me 22 bucks! This is an example of being a winner.
PSA: You can always hot glue anything. This includes large swirly suckers that you drop and break.
Might as well turn the homeschool chalkboard into something.
I know, I know, the balloon backdrop looks so small here. In reality, it was fine, Karen. Moving on, I hand cut a dollar store tablecloth into drips, which coordinated with her invitations that I bought on here on Etsy. If you’ve been around here a few years, you may remember the first time I came up with drip cloths for my third daughter’s chocolate themed birthday party. They are satisfying
I bought plain white paper boxes from Hobby Lobby and decorated them with large patterned letters in each child’s first initial. My daughter decorated each box with puffy sweets stickers.
Buckle up kitty cats because those swirly little fans are straight from a dumpster at Five Below. Yes sir! My mom dumpster dives in retail dumpsters and you wouldn’t believe what they throw out. She found these fans and other party supplies and I’ve kept them in a tote knowing I’d use them one day. Two hours before the party, I thought they would look like suckers on spray painted dowels, so that’s exactly what I did! I added ribbon and that, my friends, is how you turn dumpster finds into basically free party supplies!
The bigger suckers and the wrapped candies in the picture below is just one dollar pool noodles wrapped in athletic tape and sealed with cellophane. For the big suckers, I hot glued them on craft dowels I painted and for the individual candies, I just wrapped the rolled up noodle, and twisted up the ends of the cellophane and tied them tight to make them look like over-sized candies. The handing honeycomb ice creams were one dollar from the Dollar Tree for a two pack. Pimpin’. I hung them and opened them halfway and secured them to the balloon wall for a dimensional look.
They filled them nicely, bro.
So boat loads of candy can get expensive. We found the world’s cutest marshmallows from Walmart for 2 dollars a bag. They were just vanilla flavored marshmallows in cupcake shape with sprinkled sugar on them. They were so cute, cheap, and took up a bunch of space. I also used brownie bites from Sam’s Club that were manna from heaven! I’m not supposed to eat gluten, but I partookth.
Aw yeah, donkey butt, that is one of those cute glass jar gumball containers from the Target cheap zone that sold out super fast. I know a sell out when I see them so I bought one and I sprayed painted the red on the jar yellow to match the table. I bought many of these plastic display containers from Hobby Lobby and they were cracked so instead of 6-7 dollars, I got them for $1.50! When filled with candy, you couldn’t even tell and imma keep usin’ those bad boys until they fall apart or the good Lord comes back, one.
You are darn tootin’ that I used mini boxes of cereal! The mini box backs are cheap and cereal is truly the ultimate of trash foods. Everybody loves cereal AND they take up lots of space!
For the sucker display, Styrofoam can puzzlingly enough, be costly so I bought two circle discs of Styrofoam from the Dollar Tree, stacked them in this container, and stuck carnival suckers in them. It gave some variance to the look of the display and was cheaper than….something witty….cheaper than……I don’t know, Sarah.
Another big table filler: Cotton candy containers from Sam’s! It was really cheap, really. It’s way cheaper than buying smaller candies, like Skittles, that don’t take up much space.
I love coming up with neat ways to give a gift card and I made this large clear candy ball with an ornament and twisted and glued cellophane hot glued to each end. I got confetti from the Dollar Tree and cut it up to use as a filler. I mean, I love these like chocolate cake after midnight in my pajamas.This gift card was the prize for the ice card scratch off games. I found the scratch offs in the “dollar” aisle at Target a few years ago and bought a few packs to use at different parties. The ice creams went perfect with the theme. Here are the scratch-offs below. I love adding a gambling flair to elementary school parties. It just feels so right.
And the winner was…..Mrs. Emie!
I did this whole party for 12 kids for 100 bucks! That includes EVERYTHING! It was simple and fun. 5 stars. Highly recommend.
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Yes, in real life. We did this tonight. And for the love of everything, please note that Legend the guinea looks like she is smiling in the above picture.
One of my daughter’s guinea pigs turned one today and she wanted to do a celebration and in just 15 minutes, you too can create a guinea party just like this. ! I know you are in desperate desire to.
My child bought them edible flip flop chew toys for guineas and wanted them to have a cake. When she ran next door, I made a veggie cake for the birthday pig with a candle and cupcake stands with sides of veggies for the other two guineas. You should also note the heart shape hay chews for the guest pigs. Those treats were also a gift from my 10 year old to her pigs.
I hope everyone enjoyed this segment of “Yes, we really did do that”. Other names for this segment that were considered: “I better be your favorite parent” and “Oh, Santa is so nice that he got you the guinea you wanted that I never would? Think again. Ho ho ho, player.” That was too wordy though. Enjoy your night.
Follow me on social media, if you are into things like…..this.
This city-scape spanned 6 feet wide and about 4 ish feet tall. When I finished just the city on the wall, I asked my husband, “What do you think about my night city sky line?”. He said, “Oh, I just now realized what that was!” He almost caught a punch to the jugular.
I made the city using yellow construction paper and two rolls of 2 by 12 bulletin board paper. The whole wall only cost me 7 dollars so it was a big impact for little bucks!
The white city buildings on the table were just spray painted food boxes with black construction paper windows. I was SUPPOSED to have dry ice under each building with holes cut out to release the smoke, but sometimes, we run out of time and let our party dreams shatter.
I found these super hero napkins at the Dollar Tree and they worked well with my black and white with pops of color, color scheme. Plus, I figured Godzilla “pows” and stuff too so, why not?
Naturally, the black cobwebs I used for a buffet cover got messed up and I didn’t realize it when I was taking pictures. It’s like these kids don’t care about a nice set-up or something……
Nothing like a party that you can use your child’s toys as decor for! I hot glued blue raspberry rock candy inside of Godzilla’s mouth to make it look like he was shooting out his atomic breath like he does in the movies. I haven’t seen the movies, but my little boy keeps me up to date on the Godzilla information.
I ordered these old Godzilla movie wrappers from PartyTimeLabels on Etsy and they shipped with the foils too! Hershey bars are my son’s favorite so we dressed up a dozen bars to go with his theme and personalized the backs.
We told the kids that Godzilla sprayed the cupcakes with his fire breath and lit them on fire. I don’t know if they believed us, but if not, they really missed out on a great opportunity to use their imaginations. Kids these days…
Poster board plus scissors = Godzilla prints on our floor.
I took an up close picture of my son doing his best Godzilla roar and blew it up at Walgreens. I cut around his profile and hot glued it to a piece of Dollar Tree poster board. The city is construction paper and black dollar poster board. Super easy! I hot glued my son’s picture to a shoe box that I put between the skyline to give it dimension. The atomic breath he is spraying out of his mouth is a plastic tablecloth that I duct taped to death.
This set up was also supposed to have dry ice behind it, giving it that extra umph. Let’s just pretend you see a bunch of “smoke” billowing out in this picture.
I call this Godzilla City! I was supposed to have a cool banner hanging above the box city that said that, but again, time…. We can’t have it all, folks.
Knowing I wanted to do this, I saved boxes for the past month and then I wrapped them with reverse side of wrapping paper that I had laying around. I used a Sharpie to draw on windows which was actually easy because the white side of the paper had grid lines! I added some toys all around it and the boys had their own little city. I’m actually going to save it for a little bit because the kids liked it so much!
For some end of party fun, I took Godzilla City outdoors and let them each take turns “Godzilla-ing” the thing down. It was some boy fun, let me tell you!
Here I am with my little man and he is wearing a shirt from Etsy at LittleMamaShirtShop and the Godzilla on the front was drawn by a little boy!
And no, I didn’t brush my hair from when I woke up, lol. I feel like you knowing that brings us closer together. Friends forever….
Hope you liked the party! Pin, share, enjoy and follow along all of the unique parties I create that you can realistically and affordably recreate yourself! Peace out, players.
This was my first attempt at a balloon garland. Other than when I got dizzy, saw stars, and had to sit down from blowing them up so quickly, t’was good. You can buy balloon garland strips at Hobby Lobby or on Amazon for under 5 dollars. You just blow up your balloons and they pop into the garland strip securely.
I wanted big old Frappucinos down the table and made these guys super easily. The cups are one dollar silver plastic ice buckets from Dollar General that I spray painted white. The brown balloons came in a one dollar pack from there as well and the stuffing “whip cream” came in a 3 dollar bag from Hobby Lobby. The drizzle is fo’ shizzle puff paint. I’m sure you have figured out that the straws are spray painted toilet paper rolls. WRONG! I made those from wrapping paper rolls all cut up. Tricky, tricky.
This is the cake that I made from all store bought things, including the cakes themselves, and the icing! The logo is edible and I ordered that off of Etsy from GlamourGlove and was very pleased! She is offering a discount code for you guys too so you can choose from many options an edible cake/cupcake image for your next party! Just use code BLOGTOPPER10 at checkout! Thanks, GlamourGlove!
You already know I made a coffee filter garland.
Everybody got to order any Starbucks drink of their choice and I had my hubs pick-up and deliver them to the par-tay.
These little bags were cute, but plain on my simple table set-up, so I had to spice them up a bit. I bought Happy Birthday bottle label from Hobby Lobby to put on each bag and then used Starbucks straws and tissue paper to make them look drink-ish. The tissue paper is supposed to be the whip. Work with me here.
I put Starbucks/party themed gumballs in mini frap cups to send home in said bags with each kid. It was a cheap thrill and cute little detail. The main favors are below.
Aw yeah, boyzzzzzz! I ordered these Starbucks scrunchies from A Stitch Ahead Bowtique on Etsy. The shop is owned by a 10 year old little girl, which is cool, and the fabric and work was really good quality. The girls loved them! The only way to get a Starbucks scrunchy is to have them made so they were unique too. Bonus points…..
To say that I loved this take home craft, would be a drastic understatement. But first, I must tell you how I packaged it.
I’m a sucker for clear boxes. I bought a digital file on Etsy of Starbucks labels that I had customized to say DIY Frappucino. I printed them out at Staples, my jam, and hot glued them on. Inside I added paper shred, which you can by from dollar stores, and added in all the supplies needed to make a mini frap for each girl. Yessssss!
Oh my gosh…..using silicone, glue sticks, puff paint, communion cups, ornament halves for the lids, toothpicks, glass beads, mini Starbucks logos I printed off Pinterest, and Starbucks straws, you can make American Girl sized Starbucks frappucinos!!! I can’t. I love them. I made 3 for myself. That’s not a lie either, lol. I made a cool time lapse video of me making one that will be on my herpartypants Instagram account. Totally Rudy on YouTube has a whole channel of mini doll accessory DIYs, including these little drinks.
I will probably do a post on making these mini drinks, because I think everyone should make them at least once in their…..week. Weekly. They are the best.
They got to take home their creations in the little clear boxes I had at each place setting that originally held their supplies.
And a merry Starbucks time was had by all! Pin, share, and enjoy! Hope you liked it!
How is this old general store for a piece of Americana?! My Jersey born and raised OBGYN just retired and I was asked to do her retirement party! I know she won’t always live here in KY so I wanted to give her a solid and unique Kentucky party to remember all of her years here by. Meet Boyce General Store! Boyce Store is a running restaurant out in the county that is run by The Pie Queen. She has her pies in some Whole Foods locations and ships all over the nation! She gets the name honest and you should check her out. I literally….literally….ate one whole pie by myself the day after. Sad times. Great pie.
I came up with this wording two years ago when I was first asked to do this retirement party. The wording never gets old. Go-vary….the phrase of the future for all of your reproductive party needs.
These AMAZING truly vintage tablecloths are owned by the Boyce Store and can be used at your event. This store basically decorates itself. There isn’t a more charming venue in town!
I had no idea that sunflowers were my doc’s favorite flower. I just took a guess. Something about the way she gives a pap smears made me think, “Sunflowers. This woman loves sunflowers.”
Those little tiny purple flowers are called wax flower and I love them around a pie and back.
FUN FACT ALERT: The square cake stand to the right was literally Duncan Hines’ cake stand!
We had a mix of homemade pies served with coffee and lemon and lime water. Chess, pecan, derby, brownie, chocolate silk, coconut cream pie, we had them all! They were yummy in my tummy.
“A Sweet Ending” over the pie table and “To A New Beginning” over the drink and scrapbook table. Swoon.
And the ovary puns just don’t stop……
In my hometown there is a bakery that has been here since the 40’s. Their most popular item are their famous tea cookies and they just so happen to be my OB’s favorite. These were supplied by a patient and co-worker who, like all of us, loves her dearly.
I hired a friend of mine to use her machine to cut these Kentucky shapes out of scrapbook paper for me. Also by hired, I mean for free.
I have something cool I’m doing with these now post-party that I will share in a different post.
I created a Facebook group and requested people send me pictures so that I could hang them up at her party.
These pill bottles make my heart soar on the wings of a hundred doves. These were grab and go favors and filled with those little tea cookies I talked about above.
The labels I customized on Etsy from the shop Bsquared and printed them at Staples where I do all of my party printing.
There are very few doctors on planet earth who have patients who love them enough to host a party for them. This woman is one of the finest doctors to practice medicine. She served us all with as much expertise as she did time and empathy. She comforted us through infertility, through loss, and through the magic of delivering our children. Dr. Kasica deserves a hundred parties for every late night call, 2 .am. delivery, thoughtful question, and for every treat she kept for my children and other’s in her office. Twenty five wonderful years of a career and dear lady we got to call our doctor. We love you, Dr, Kasica! Thank you for caring for and loving us well all of these years!
Listen, I am going to start off by saying that a rap party is my dream party. I wanted to throw myself a rap party for my birthday but couldn’t so, rap Christmas was born! Ho ho ho, players.
Few people love rap as much as me. I’d play some Christian rap at my funeral in a heartbeat. Tell me I’m lyin’…. Some of y’all are gonna want to come to that party too now. Everyone’s invited.
I hope that Biggie, Pac, and Jay really get your heart in the Christmas spirit. Merry Christmas, y’all. It ain’t nothin’ but a Christmas party.
What would you do if someone handed you one of these guys to invite you to a party? I handed them to myself a few times to act like someone was inviting me to my own party because…..I mean…..rap Christmas.
They are actually rapper Christmas cards that I used as party invites and they were everything I wanted! You can find them here:
Number one: Did I wrinkle this red paper runner in to lines on purpose so I could write straight? Answer: No, my 5 year old stepped on the roll of paper and it was all I had left. See, now you know why I call Her Party Pants “realistic Pinterest”. In real homes at real parties, kids be ruining your set up and all that mess.
Number two: Couldn’t you have just gone to the store and bought more? Answer: This is getting really personal.
Number three: Tupac had a song called “Dear Mama” that said, “Dear Mama, You are appreciated.” That’s the last thing I have to say about my serving table runner.
These amazing cupcake toppers came from JazzNJayCreations on Etsy and I was so excited about getting these! They are one of my favorite things that I used for the party.
I’m real happy to see you in my dessert, Jay Z. 90’s and early 2000 Jay Z is probably my favorite rapper ever. Good job, Jay.
I hope you guys really like the cassette tapes on this tree because some real-life 90s karaoke tapes of mine were painted for this event. I added gold chain, which I bought by the roll at Hobby Lobby. I bet you didn’t know Hobby Lobby had some gangster in it’s life but, you’d be real wrong.
I added the Busta ornaments because nothing screams I love 90s rap and Christmas like Busta Rhymes. If he doesn’t make you holler “Merry Christmas and I love this rap party”, then you probably hate the holidays. It’s a guess.
I made this ornament by ripping one of the heads off of my cupcake toppers from JazzNJayCreations on Etsy and then hot gluing some string on the back.
I made this ornament by ripping the face off of one of my rapper cupcake topper sticks that I had in the desserts I served. I saved this rapper for the tree to spice things up a bit.
Yes, your eyes do not deceive you. These are called Hiphopsicles and they are as magical as you are feeling like they are right now.
This is how I decorated myself. This is a real gold chain. You are so welcome. I ordered this shirt from Zazzle and if you don’t know where this wording comes from….you might not like this party near as much as me.
That’s right. Happy HOLLABAES. This is getting wonderful. I bought the card stock and had my friend use her machine to the cut the letters for me. I jumbled the letters all up so she wouldn’t know what I was spelling so she couldn’t guess the theme lol. Surprise you stinkin’ little hollabae cutter!
This picture is missing two, but these are some extra special homies who I invited as people who would appreciate this kind of 90s rapper’s dream come true.
I used stiff felt and a big ole’ one dollar ornament from Mighty Dollar to make these holly and berry pieces. They were so easy and I loved them big time.
Garland I already owned? Check. A pack of hunnit dolla bills for one dollar? Also, check. Easy table centerpiece? You bet your momma check.
I made all of these mugs myself and everyone got to take one home! I got the mugs from Mighty Dollar and they are actually heavy and substantial!
Using an oil-based Sharpie marker, I whipped up these up. (Any by “whipped” I mean like an hour and a half of wiping them off with alcohol and starting again.
Started from the bottom now we deer... That is a phrase from one of YeaOhGreetings cards where I bought two of my “invites” from.
“Help you with your cuh-reer” I made up and it was one of my favorites. Get it…Mrs. Clause….with Santa….Lizzo….help you with your cuh-reer….
All the Jingle Ladies I have seen before and Beyonce isn’t a rapper, but her husband is soooooooooo I’ll take it!
Will I live to be twenty fo’? The way things is goin’, I don’t know. I also came up with this scene of the snowmen falling down and with the help of these Coolio lyrics, all was right in the world.
fa la la OKURRRRRR..….Well, I didn’t invent fa la la and Cardi B says OKURRR, but I put this together as a fun holiday recipe.
Snow Torious….that’s obvious right? Please say yes….
I’ve been wanting to use a gold chain necklace for two years now. Welcome home, friend. You’re safe now.
I added a dollar sign that I cut out of glitter card stock because it needed that extra-baller flare. Flare is a word all the rappers use these days.
If you need a chain link balloon in your life, they aren’t cheap because they are purchased link by link, but you can find them tons of places on Etsy.
I bought these cheetah cuffed stocking from, drum roll please…..Dollar Tree. Sorry if that threw someone off with the Dollar Store bit and my parties. Below is what all I put in them.
You read those chips right: Rap Snacks. It’s like the universe was saying, “Hey, I want you to really do this party.” I got them on 70 percent off clearance from Spirit Halloween for 50 cents a bag! I walked up to the counter with a big arm full and said, “I bet you were wondering who was going to buy all of these. It’s me.” True story.
Fun fact: They are actually really stinkin’ good. I legit may order some more of the the Little Yachty’s Hot Cheese Fries.
You can get the chocolate money bars from lots of places. I got these from Hobby Lobby, but I also saw them at the Dollar Tree.
I made these ornaments for each friend at my party and took a home in the winter and the word homie and just really had a time with it. Yee haw. I thought they turned out cute though.
Fun Fact: I threw one in the trash because I didn’t like the way it turned out. Then, I used it anyways. Calm down, calm down, it was on the top.
Each chalkboard ornament came from Michael’s and they were half-off for 2 dollars each!
I also made the tags on Zazzle. It’s a Jay Z line from a song.
I put both of these games together and it was so much fun! Below, you see some rappers laughing during Scattergories. Not posed. Rap Scattergories is just that fun. Rap and Scattergories merge my two favorite things!
Also, my handwriting on those posters are booty. Again, my website is “realistic Pinterest”. In real life, people have crappy handwriting. Be encouraged.
The winner got a gift card to Starbucks. See what I did there? Do you know what made her win the whole game? Well, it was the best answer in Scattergories history. The letter was M and the field to fill out was “line from a rap song” and she put, “Mind on my money and my money on my mind”. Mic drop. That’s a lotta Ms y’all.
That’s a wrap! I hope I made your Christmas just a little more gangster….
the way it should be.
Merry Hollabaes, friends!
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This party was really soooooo cheap. Most of the decor was from toys he already had and his outfit is made up of a dollar hat embellished with a 2 dollar sticker hat. The vest he is wearing is from public school and is the safety vest they make the kindergartners wear, haha. You can recreate this party so very easily. Links and sources are in this blog!
If the wrinkle in this runner hurts your feelings, it does mine too. Let us all try to look passed it and focus on the picture at hand.
This is a pre-made plain cake from Kroger’s bakery that I took home and decorated. The cake cost 13 dollars and fed 15 people and the only things I bought to make this was the “3” candle and a box of 2 dollar chocolate rocks. The rest of the decor is just from my son’s toy box and a few left over candles from another party.
The caution tape came from Hobby Lobby, however, you can buy real caution tape from Amazon in big rolls for 6 to 8 dollars if you want the real deal or if you need a lot it!
I don’t want to make you lose sleep at night with joy, but the crane moves up and down and all around.
What is a construction/digger party without a truck dumping out a party detail? The answer is: not a party.
Stop it with the crane. I bought a paper mache three for a few bucks at Hobby Lobby and used white duct tape and black paint I had at home to make it look like a road. I suspended it with fishing line that was looped and hot glued to the top.
Yes, these are spoons and yes, they are shovels. Shovel spoons. I bought them here on Amazon. I also used these in my party favors that you will see in a little scrolly scroll.
By a massive landslide, the most expensive part of this party was Dippin’ Dots for 9 people. It cost just shy of 30 dollars. My son loves them though so it was my one splurge and if the most you spent on one thing was 30 bucks, you are doing good, Bessie.
Plus, I’m sure Dippin’ Dots really needed the money since they are probably bankrupt from selling millions of package a year of ice cream priced like gold. This picture makes it all worth it.
Do you know how much dirt by the bag is? 11 dollars. Do you know how much dirt costs from a construction site? Zero dollars. We put out some of his toys and some orange caution cones that were two for a dollar and here we have some theme appropriate, dirt cheap fun. Pun intended? I’ll never tell.
I know everyone would think that these 3 2 foot by 2 foot photographs were so expensive, but I got all 3 for 11 dollars after tax! I also just used my iphone to take the pictures so it was so easy. They are my favorite unique detail because you never see this and it is so unexpected!
What’s the trick? Print photos on to engineering paper aka blueprint paper at Staples. The paper quality makes it so cheap! These were originally going to be black and white, but they printed color and I’m so glad they did. They only charged me for black and white so the color version of these 3 huge prints would’ve been more around 10 dollars a piece. Still, in the scheme of parties, what’s ten bucks?
Oh my, these are my favorite party favors I’ve EVER made! They are so, so cheap to do and so versatile. I had the idea from Crosby’s favorite toy which is a mini-sandbox. I thought, “Why can’t I just make individual take home mini-sandboxes myself?”. I am doing a post for my favors category on these with a price breakdown. They are so cheap!!!!
I wrapped each sandbox aka disposable cake pan with duck tape and added a sticker from a pack from Hobby Lobby. You can’t beat a fun, non junk, imaginative play, cheap, theme based favor, if you ask me. This is a favor a kid will actually use and really enjoy! Now the moms….they will have to get over the sand….or let them play outside, homies.
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