Name badges: This one is one of my favorites. The best part about these is that they work for party favors as well.
- Blue, Light Yellow, Gold, and Silver Cardstock (I had this at home but you can buy it for less than $0.99 per sheet)
-No heat/machine laminating paper ($6.99 at Joanns Fabric and Craft Store, sometimes you can find half off coupons in the Sunday paper.) OR if you have a laminating machine use that
- Craft Glue
- Black Silky Cord (Around $3 or $4 at craft store)
- Lanyard Hooks (I bought mine in this assorted pack for $5)
- Hole Punch, Scissors, Fine tip sharpie
1. Measure out blue (or desired color) card stock We cut ours 3 inches tall and 2.5 inches wide.
Next find a picture of a police badge clip art online with an easily traceable shape. We cut ours to be just under 2 inches wide and 2.5 inches tall. Print it out and trace it onto some sturdier card stock to be a template. Trace the template onto the back of the silver and gold card stock and cut out.
We then cut out the name pieces like this:
Our top one (for the title) is about 1.5 inches wide by 1 centimeter tall and the bottom one (for the name) is about and inch wide by 2 centimeters tall. We positioned them with the top curving down like a frown and the bottom curving up like a smile. Write the corresponding names and titles on them and glue them to the metallic cardstock. They don't stick super well so you will want to carefully laminate them. If you are using the non machine paper, place the badges carefully on the paper with the backing off. Try to lay them as straight as possible. Leave half an inch of space on either side to make sure the laminate can stick to the second piece. Leave 1 inch on top to have room for the hole. Place the second piece of laminating paper on top as straight as possible. we used a ruler and pushed down as we laid the second piece on top to avoid air bubbles. You may need two people for this.
Once everything is laminated, cut out your badges leaving a little space on either side so it stays laminated. Leave 3/4 of an inch on top and punch a hole through the center of the left over laminate. Add your lanyard hook then string the black cord through it. I made the cords around 2 1/2 feet long since they were for adults. We used a sliding knot to make it adjustable. I used this tutorial to learn how.
Mugshot Background: This one was a huge hit with our guests. Last year was the first time we did a photo booth area. This was super easy to make, it was just really time-consuming
What You Need:
- 4 cardstock poster boards (I believe these we either 2 for $1 or $1 each at the Dollar Tree)
-A couple Sharpies (I would buy some cheap ones since I ran at least 2 out of ink)
-A Ruler/ yardstick
- Masking Tape
- White Out
1. Tape All four pieces or cardstock together to make one big sheet.
2. Take the height of your tallest guest and add 6 inches. Out tallest guest is around 6 feet. So we went 6' 6" for out top height. From that inch height (6' 6" inches for us) measure down to the next foot marking each inch on the side of the poster. This will be the bottom of your inch mark. Make a thicker line (leaving a big space for the number) for the foot mark. Continue down to 3 or 4 feet (wherever you run out of paper). We went down to 3 feet since our shortest guest was under 5 feet tall. Keep in mind that the thicker lines are an inch thick on ours so the top of the line for example would be 5' 1" and the bottom on the line would be 5' 0".
3. Use the ruler or yardstick to draw straight lines across the poster. I recommend marking each side then drawing the line straight across to make sure it was straight.. I actually did the left half of the poster first then drew the lines on the right half to keep things even.
4. If you mess up any of the lines (and trust me I did) go back and use white out to fix it/ Make sure you leave space on the left side of the poster without lines at each foot mark. I chose to cut out big numbers from cardstock and glue them onto the space. You could also draw them on.
5. The last thing I did for our photo shoot was the board that I'm holding int he above picture. I simply cut out the letters and numbers on white cardstock and glued them to a piece of black cardstock. The numbers I picked were actually just the date of the party. 10/24/14
Masking tape body outline: I don't have a picture of this but I'm sure you get the idea. Basically we couldn't use chalk where we were at but we had some masking tape. So John laid half on the ground and leaning on the pool table in the position we wanted our imaginary victim to have died. I then taped around him with the masking tape and we had our body outline. For an added touch I had some window clings that looked like blood spatter from the dollar tree so we placed those around the outline.
*Just on a side note if you have electronics for music or your camera you can make little tents by folding paper in half and writing "Evidence Please Do Not Touch" on them. We did this for our laptop so people wouldn't mess with my playlist and for my little camera. We also had some evidence markers from a kit with numbers on them and they were plastic but you could just fold yellow cardstock and make cut outs of numbers.
So that's all I have for this one. Feel free to make suggestions in the comments!
until next time,
John and Courtney
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