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How to DIY an angry birds birthday party decoration


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19 december 2012, a miracle was born and my world hasn’t been the same since! Today my first son, Nady, turns four.

Four precious years with you my son, gave to love different meaning and to life new dimensions. You are my joy, my best genes, my faith and my eternity. If the earth turns around the sun, then the sun must turn around you or else where he will get his radiance from….

Nady is a big fan of angry birds, lately everything in the house turned to be branded as angry birds star wars, angry birds space, angry birds go…. We are living in an angry bird world, so it wasn’t unexpected to ask for an angry birds birthday. I guess i said angry birds six times in one sentence, so imagine how many times i hear it in one day !

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I wanted to surprise him with the decoration, cake design, animation… basically with  everything! All i wished for is to see that awesome look on his face when he sees the set up and i believe i succeeded. It was a very nice party, and I would like to share with you some nice decoration ideas that i crafted myself and made all the difference!

Angry birds star wars banner, calling for action!

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Click here to download the high resolution file 2×1.3 meters without the typography, to add your personal text!

Angry birds lanterns! All you need is to cutout the faces i prepared for red, chuck and pig.

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I prepared vector files, easy to be resized without affecting the resolution. To download them, click on chuck, pig and red. Resize it depending on your lanterns sizes.

Angry birds flags, four colors/birds design. Green for pig, red for red, yellow for chuck and blue for jay, jake and jim!

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Click on red, green, yellow and blue to download editable vector files for the buntings!

TNT boxes for more action!

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Very simple, just get some brown boxes and stick TNT stickers, pile them and you get a nice decoration element, to add more fun and action! And here is attached a printable  tnt-sticker. 

Cupcake angry birds star wars toppers! Glue two circles on a wooden stick and insert it in a cupcake to see this beautiful display!

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Click cake-topper and cake-topper-2 to download the printable files.

If you are wondering where i got the display boxes from, you can find them in Ikea!

Here is a nice way to display the marshmallows and pop corn!

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Stick pig face on a bucket and put a catapult!

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To make these TNTs, you need to roll 5 or 6 red cardboard into cylinders and stick them together with black tape. Glue beige thread on top of each to make them look realistic.

M&M bottles as angry birds food!

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Click here to download the high resolution file of the bottle tags!

Angry birds nest!

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A creative and fun way to present the pretzel sticks and nuts!

Angry birds water! Click here for the printable tag design.

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Giveaways bags!

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I chose two characters, red and bomb and stick their faces on the corresponding bag color, red for red and black for bomb. (I’ve attached already the faces printable files in flags)

And finally, the t-shirt design as per nady’s request! Click on tshirt to download the high resolution file to be printed on a white tshirt.

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Advent calendar – Santa claus beard


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Welcome to that time of the year that works magic on my serotonin! They say in each one of us there is a hidden child… mine really likes to have an appearance around Christmas time.

…Everything gets dressed in festive look; windows at the shops are more joyful, same food and desserts taste better, red and green are not just ordinary colors anymore and all eyes are on that enchanting sky hoping to see the red nose between the stars…

It’s the time when we all pause and reconsider our values, belief and attitude.

It’s the perfect quality and happiest time with the family, especially for those living abroad, but unfortunately this year we can’t make it back home for the reunion… It’s sad we are not sharing this Christmas with the family, but thinking positively, Santa got me an early gift this year, I have a new friend. And this is what Christmas is all about; something new and precious is born…

Today is the first day of the festive month and i am aaaaaaall ready for Christmas, this buzzword “Christmas” you will be reading zillion times in my posts during December until we reach the D day. So let’s start the countdown folks!

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This year i have to prepare 2 advent calendars, one for Nady and one for Joud! They are both about Santa’s beard; one is trimming it while counting down to reach Christmas and the other about growing it, since Joud is only 16 months and can’t use scissors, sticking cotton balls on the beard was a good and fun idea for his age.

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If you are wondering about the fun part, the daily sweet or toy, Nady will find it written behind each strip he will cut and Joud will collect it from the christmas tree 🙂

If your kid’s age let you take the advent calendar to the next level, don’t just offer sweets or toys, you can teach them the real meaning of Christmas by putting words of values (such as faith, forgiveness….) instead or along with the daily surprise.

Click here to download the trimming option and click here for the growing one.

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Le plus cool des papas-tie DIY


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Pourquoi tu aimes papa et combien?

Nady (3 years and a half): parce que je joue football avec lui, on s’amuse et rigole, on regarde nickelodeon ensemble, il m’achete des oeufs surprise .. Tu sais maman je l’aime parce que je l’aime beaucoup 🙂 je l’aime a 3 heures et demi et 3 ans et a l’infini 🙂

Joud (10months): dadada dadada (giggles….) mwahh (non stop kisses)

Happy fathers day to the coolest papa Antoun from Nady and Joud (and of course from me), we love you a l’infini, may God bless you and keep you safe.

If you like to reproduce this amazing DIY tie that we made for this occasion, click here to download a high resolution file. You will need a white tie or any other color of your choice for a professional screen printing.

As for the box, it’s an empty corn flour tin, we sprayed it with black. Nady enjoyed sticking golden stars and a big one on top.

 

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father's day-tie DIY | marmite et ponpon

Happy fathers day to all fathers in the world and especially to my hero ❤

أبي هو ذاك الذي اطلب منه نجمتان فيأتي وهو يحمل على ظهره سماء

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Fun straw painting


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Blow the paint with a straw to make spiky hair! Super fun art, doesn’t require brush skills but a straw and lots of enjoyment. It’s an activity that involves humor, your kids will love blowing spiky hair on their own head (image).

All you need is watercolors, straw and a picture of your kid’s face. Drop small amounts of watered paint and let your kid enjoy blowing it into different directions.

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fun straw art | marmite et ponpon

straw art |Marmite et ponpon

The more they blow the longer the line is. Turn the paper in all directions so the hair looks crazy. Use all the colors you have for a beautiful outcome.

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fun straw art|marmite et ponpon

straw art|Marmite et ponpon

There is no time or end for this activity, the more they blow colors the bigger the hair is. Leave them the freedom to choose when to stop. It was really a fun play, there was lots of laughs and giggles. Nady really enjoyed it and loved how his hair looked at the end.

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straw art | Marmiteetponpon

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Artful bread


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Edible art sounds really fun. When i told Nady that we are going to paint the bread he was really excited, i knew that my plans will work. Beside fun, the aim of this activity was to encourage Nady to have his dinner. And it worked 🙂

This edible paint is easy to make. All you need is milk and food coloring. Hand the clean brush (preferably new) to your kid with white bread slices and let him prepare his sandwich.

With this process art activity, the end result was fun too. Do you find difficulty to let your kid eat his sandwich? Try this creative and fun art activity, at least it worked for us, we added cheese and zatar and we all had dinner from Nady’s bread design.

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