Get some fun ideas for your church or school's Fall Festival with these party decorations and craft ideas. You can see exactly how I did our festival and what activities we had planned with these easy to follow ideas and DIYs.
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Showing posts with label fall. Show all posts
Having a Chili Cook Off at your Fall Festival? You Need these Printables
Make your Fall Festival just a little bit easier by letting the guests bring the food. With a chili cook off, they can eat, vote, and everyone wins with these Chili Cook off printable voting cards.
How to Make Fall Leaf Garland Lights
Bring the color of fall into your home with these beautiful fall leaf garland lights. You can easily make these yourself in just a few minutes and have a lighted fall leaf decoration to celebrate with at Halloween or Thanksgiving this year.
When I made my Fall Floral Arrangements (see the beautiful wall décor above?), I knew I wanted to create some lights and pennant banners to tie the arrangements together along the wall at our Fall Festival party next month. (Yes, I'm getting a jump on them early this year! Go me!)
Plus, don't you just love lights? And fall leaves? And fall colors?
So of course, we needed to add some fall lights to our decorations. And of course, they needed to be cheap and easy since we are planning to make a bunch of them to add to our Fall Festival party at church this year.
These Leaf lights fit the bill beautifully. And they look so amazing over my door while I wait to take them to the party next month.
- Fall Leaves
- Christmas Lights
- Hot Glue Gun and glue sticks
- Scissors
If you were lucky enough to find a bag of fall leaves, like those here, you can skip this step. But if you had to buy a floral arrangement to get your leaves, then you'll need to cut your leaves off the stems at the base of the leaf.
Add a tiny bit of hot glue to the top of your light and quickly place the top of the fall leaf on the glue. Allow to dry securely.
I admit I was worried about the glue gun, the leaves, and the heat of the lights, but so far everything has been working perfectly and there has been no troubles. But be sure to use with caution and at your own risk.
Hang your fall leaf lights over a door or along your wall for some beautiful fall decorations.
Once it gets dark, turn on your lights and enjoy the wonderful fall glow coming from your DIY Fall Leaf Lights!
If you are looking for more fun Thanskgiving party ideas, check out these great ideas.
Beautiful and Easy Fall Floral Wall Arrangment for your Fall Decor
Wow. I am so in LOVE with these fall floral arrangements. They will be perfect for my fall festival wall decorations at our Halloween party...and they were so easy and cheap to make. I'm going to make them for every room in my house!
I showed you earlier this week some of the ideas I gathered for fall wreaths for our church's fall festival. Even with keeping them simple and cheap, I decided I needed to have some other decorations on the walls.
So I decided to try and go with fall flower arrangements.
If I do a wreath, and then further down the wall, a fall flower arrangement, and then another wreath, and then another fall floral arrangement, I think I can get some of the pretty fall decorations and theme that I'm working for without too much expense.
Especially if I add some pennant banners and lights to tie the wreaths and arrangements together. (More on that next week so stay tunedt!)
But I did want to show you how beautiful and easy these floral arrangements were to make. I am in LOVE! I think I've decided I'm going to make some to frame my bed and match my Fairy Tale décor in my bedroom next. It will certainly add some beauty to the Thomas Kinkade Disney pictures that I have in there now.
But for the fall festival, these floral arrangements will be perfect, especially since Hobby Lobby has their floral décor 40% off this week.
To make your fall floral wall decoration, you'll need:
- Fall floral arrangement (I got mine for $5.00 at Walmart)
- Ribbon
- 8 1/2 x 11 inch Colored card stock
- Glue gun and glue or strong tape
- Wire cutters
- Scissors or Paper Trimmer
Start by marking the back of your card stock into halves. You'll need to know where the middle of the paper is on each of the sides of the paper. I drew a big + sign on the back to make it easy.
Cut off the corner of the bottom of your paper by lining up your paper at the horizontal cross mark on the side of the page and the vertical cross mark on the bottom of the page.
Using your center line, fold the edges into the center (much like you would for a paper airplane.) The center pieces will touch.
Add a bunch of glue to one side of the back of your card stock and lay the other side over on top so the back two edges (the colored side shown in the picture above) lay on top of each other.
Turn the paper vase over and use a pencil or something to push the glue together and help it seal.
Using matching ribbon, tie a bow and glue it to the top front of your paper vase.
You will want to check on the size of yours, but all my floral arrangements were too tall for the vase that I created, so I used a wire cutter to cut off the bottom edge of the arrangement. Since I have no skill in floral arranging, I kept the upper part of the arrangement together.
Simply slide the arrangement down inside the vase and enjoy.
To hang my floral arrangement vases, I took out the flowers and stuck a sturdy thumb tack into the backside of the vase into the wall. Then I added the flowers back in and the weight hung without a problem.
I admit that I am super excited with how beautiful these arrangements turned out and how easy they were to make. The hardest part was cutting the end of the floral arrangement off and it took me a total of 5 minutes to make each one.
I think they will be perfect for the walls at our Fall Festival! (And in my bedroom!)
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