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Movie Night Party Ideas and DIY Director’s Clapboard with Cricut

January 25, 2017 by girlinspired 1 Comment

As you know, I love a good party!  As the kids get older, I find I have much less control in the party planning, and even in the party preparing.  When my oldest daughter came home from school and said that she and her good friend were both planning to have an outdoor movie party days apart for their birthdays, the girls were ecstatic to plan the party together.  Today I’m sharing some of our movie night party ideas as well as a fun director’s clapboard DIY.Movie Party and DIY Director's Clapboard

This theme was so much fun – the bright cheery colors and the easy food preparation made it a blast.  Even more fun, the girls did the bulk of the party preparation and decorating themselves.  Us moms just had to set up jars of candy and roll out the red carpet.
Movie Party and DIY Director's Clapboard

Since my interjections in the party decor were minimal, I focused my efforts on making a director’s clapboard for the kids to use as party decor.  They ended up working it into most of the events of the evening and it has been such a fun addition to our make-believe toys.  It was actually really simple to make using my Cricut Explore and I’m going to show you how in just a minute!

Movie Party and DIY Director's Clapboard

I also got to help my daughter make the popcorn cupcakes.  These were AWESOME!!  So easy to make – just bake cupcakes in perfect little striped baking cups (I got mine from Sweet Lulu). Add a layer of frosting – I used white mountain frosting, recipe here.  Buy a big bag of white mini marshmallows and several bags of the pastel mix mini marshmallows – separate out all the yellow ones!  Now, snip one end of most of the mini marshmallows into four sections so they look like popped corn.  Mix the yellow and white marshmallows together and mound them on top of a blob of frosting!  Presto!  Tweens can make these all on their own!
Movie Party and DIY Director's Clapboard

Candy table – easy peasy!  Popcorn popper?  Absolutely!  I purchased some craft box tray things (also from Sweet Lulu) and the party girls glued a little ribbon and punch out onto the front, which I downloaded from Etsy.

Movie Party and DIY Director's Clapboard

Party gifts of caramel corn, packs of gum, and hand sanitizer were packed into little red boxes and tied with a ribbon and tag (also downloaded from Etsy).

Movie Party and DIY Director's Clapboard

Olivia and I made a bunch of little tissue tassels and then the party girls put them on a string and hung them across the concession table.Movie Party and DIY Director's Clapboard

Alright, so let’s get to the director’s clapboard, because it was one of the favorites!

Supplies:

  • plywood, scrap wood, or foam-core poster board – at least 13″ x 13″ so it can be cut down to size
  • white paint
  • black vinyl
  • white vinyl or white cardstock
  • Cricut Explore and Cricut Design Space software
  • Mod Podge – matte
  • small hinge
  • chalk pen

Movie Party and DIY Director's Clapboard

How to Make a Director’s Clapboard:

  1. Cut a piece of 3/4″ plywood, scrap wood, or foam core poster board to an 11″ x 9″ rectangle.
  2. Cut a second piece of material to an 11″ x 1.5″ rectangle.
  3. Paint both sections of the clapboard bright white.  Repeat 2-3 coats on all sides and allow to completely dry.
  4. While the paint is drying, open up your Cricut Design Space software and open a new project.  Go to “Insert Image” and then search the term “Movie.”  When you see the director’s clapboard image, insert it into design space and resize it to 11″ wide.Cricut Design Space screen shot
  5. You do not need to cut all the layers of the clapboard.  You will need to cut one layer, the full design of the front that is all black.  Cut this layer from black vinyl and set aside.
  6. Next, cut just the layer of white parallelograms that run along the top edge of the clapboard.  Cut these from heavy white cardstock or you could instead use white vinyl.
  7. When the paint is dry on your boards, carefully place the black vinyl designs over the wood pieces.  Smooth it down completely, working out any air bubbles.
  8. Use Mod Podge to glue the white parallelograms into place over the vinyl.
  9. Coat the entire project with 1-2 layers of Mod Podge and allow to dry.
  10. Screw on a small hinge on the inner edges of the clapboard to make it swing up and down in true director’s style!
  11. Use a chalk paint pen to fill in some fun and applicable words for your event!

Movie Party and DIY Director's Clapboard

Movie Party and DIY Director's Clapboard

Movie Party and DIY Director's Clapboard

Hope you loved these ideas for a Movie Party – what kinds of parties are you planning this year?

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Cricut. The opinions and text are all mine.

Filed Under: Cake Decorating, Crafting, Inspiration and Ideas, Parties Tagged With: director's clapboard, easy party ideas, movie night, movie party, outdoor movie night, party ideas, popcorn cupcakes

22+ Spectacular FROZEN Birthday Party Ideas

June 27, 2014 by girlinspired 33 Comments

SO Many Amazing FROZEN Birthday Party Ideas!!!!It’s time to wrap up the Frozen Birthday Party with a few of the extra components that made this party come together.  It was another really fun party, both to throw and to attend.  In the links below, you’ll find additional resources for party invitations, printables, activities, favors, and food ideas!  Many of these pictures and ideas are from our Frozen party and a number of them are from the amazing creative minds that have shared their ideas across the internet.  I’m still planning to do a few of the projects that I didn’t get to before the party – like the Olaf hooded towel and the adorable little Elsa and Anna peg people….please enjoy this roundup of Spectacular Frozen Birthday Party Ideas!

DIY Olaf Cupcake Toppers for Frozen Birthday Party

Find the full instructions for these DIY Olaf Cupcake Toppers!
Elsa Dress for Frozen Birthday PartyElsa “Summer Dress” Tutorial

Table Display for Frozen Birthday Party

I purchased this Olaf 8×10 printable from splendidINK on Etsy – quickest DIY decor ever!

Food Ideas for Frozen Birthday Party

This was our party food table – we kept it really easy with sandwiches, carrot sticks, dill dip (recipe here), Jello Ice (see recipe below), and Frozen Snack Mix (see recipe below).

Make Snow GAK for Frozen Birthday Party

My kids absolute favorite takeaway from the party were the jars of GAK – I labeled them SNOWK because I have no imagination and snow+gak=snowk.  I added peppermint extract, blue and clear glitter, and blue food coloring (in some).  Big hit, BIG!!  I never knew how easy GAK is to make – get the GAK recipe here.

Olaf Labels for Frozen Birthday Party

Other party favors included shimmery blue gumballs from Target and white Mentos = Snowdrops.  I made 2″ circle labels and printed them out onto Avery glossy white round labels – template 22807.   Here is a FREE downloadable Frozen Party Favor Jar Labels file to print your own labels.  They fit perfectly on top of the jar lids and pretty good on top of the little candy containers.  (Be sure to uncheck “Fit to Page” in the print dialog box.)

FREE printable labels for Frozen Birthay Party Favors
Queen Elsa Ice Castle Cake for Frozen Birthday Party

Queen Elsa’s Ice Castle Cake – get the how-to!

"Snowflake" Water Bombs for Frozen in Summer Birthday Party Ideas

These “Snowflake” water bombs made out of sponges were such a huge hit at the party!!  Adults and kids loved them.  I found the instructions and inspiration here.

Frozen Inspired Snowflake Cake

You won’t believe how simple it is to make this gorgeous Frozen inspired snowflake cake!

DIY Necklaces for Frozen Birthday Party

So pretty!  Make these Frozen Party Favor Necklaces for all the little guests (and moms!)

Frozen Birthday Party Cupcake Toppers - simple and lovely!

Fun and festive snowflake cupcake toppers!

And here are some more AMAZING ideas from across the internet:
frozen22

Olaf floating in a bowl of Jello!

disneyfrozensnackmix2

Frozen Snack Mix

frozen-party-melted-olaf-wm

Melted Olaf Yogurt Cups

frozen-ice-jello3

“Frozen” Jello Ice Cubes

olaf fluff cupcake

Olaf Cupcakes

Frozen-themed-birthday-party-via-Karas-Party-Ideas-KarasPartyIdeas.com-frozenparty-Disney_-8

How cute are these moose cupcake toppers?

Frozen Birthday Party Ideas

Iced Snowflake Cookies

Frozen Birthday Party Ideas

Olaf Graham Cracker SnacksFrozen Birthday Party Ideas

Free Coloring and Party Activity Printables

Frozen in Summer Birthday Invitation

This is the invitation (sample pictured) that I purchased for our birthday party – from AMD Designs on Etsy.  Super quick turnaround from the Etsy shop owner and really vibrant colors – she has the same invite in a pink colorway and a variety of other Frozen invites/printables.  You just give her your details and she sends you the file the next day – print, cut, (pass out in a last minute scramble on the last day of school 😉  )Frozen Birthday Party Ideas

Anna Cloak Tutorials

frozen peg people

Painted Peg People – Anna and Elsa

Olaf hooded towel tutorial

Olaf Hooded Towel Tutorial

frozen free party invitation template olaf elsa anna sven #frozenmovie

Free Templates for Frozen Party Invitations

Elsa and Anna Bead Necklaces for Party Favors

Elsa and Anna Bead Necklaces for party activity or favors

so many FROZEN Birthday Party ideas - you've got to see these!Disney Frozen Birthday Ideas

Pretty spectacular Frozen Birthday party ideas, eh?

Filed Under: Crafting, Food and Recipes, Parties, Roundup, Sewing, Sewing Ideas and Inspiration Tagged With: birthday, Frozen birthday party, party ideas

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