Tutorial: Favor Bag Backdrop

I had the hardest time coming up with a backdrop for the cake table at Camden's Angry Birds birthday party. My idea of using Post-It Notes to create a pixelated backdrop sounded brilliant, but it turned out to be a flop (which was why I had so many Post-It Notes for the neon heart backdrop). Finally, I came up with this 3-D backdrop using the polka dotted bags that were used to hold the party favors. As promised, here's the super simple tutorial to recreate this favor bag backdrop : )

Angry Birds Birthday Party

As soon as I saw this video, I couldn't wait to throw the ultimate LIVE Angry Birds party for Camden's 6th birthday. We rented out an indoor soccer field at the nZone, taped up cardboard boxes to resemble wooden planks, decorated green paper lanterns with pig faces, painted Angry Bird eyes and glued Nerf footballs onto fitness balls, made a sling shot from a cargo net and bungee cords, and it was GAME ON! Get the giant Angry Birds how-to guide from Shine Middle School here.

Plain cardboard boxes were transformed into cases of TNT, just like the ones in the game, with brown and yellow washi tape and TNT labels. The make-shift sling slot was clipped onto two volleyball poles, which were held down by sand bags.