Mickey Mouse 1st Birthday Party

For my son's 1st birthday we had a Mickey party. It was such a fun and easy theme as there is tons of Mickey ideas out there! Here are some pics from his party, complete with DIY!

I made these invitations with my mom who graciously helped me cut one afternoon. Honestly, a Circuit machine would be best for this sort of project, but I don't have one yet. There was a lot of cutting involved here! The red piece on front makes a pocket that the invitation sits in. I had some old buttons lying around that I glued onto Mickey's shirt. I downloaded the Waltograph font from DaFont for the text on the invites. Downloading the font and uploading it into Pages on my Mac was the best because I used that font for many other things for this party. I love these invitations!

This welcome sign was pretty easy to make. I just hand-drew the three parts on construction paper, cut them out, then glued them to a ribbon, spaced apart like shown below. I also used the Waltograph font for this sign.

Hopscotch Paver Path

We have a ton of rocks in our backyard which makes it hard to walk in certain parts barefoot. We were wanting to create a path connecting our patio to the grass area. I decided how cute would it be to make the path a hopscotch path? This project was fairly simple and only took a couple hours. 

We first shoveled the rocks to either side to create our space. We then laid tarp along the path. I am a firm believer that you can never have too much tarp! ;-) Then we laid a thin layer of sandbox sand on top of the tarp and raked it evenly.

Next I spaced the pavers in the path, just eyeballing them to align them evenly, but you could get out a tape measurer if you wanted to be more exact. I bought the 12"x12" pavers from Lowe's for $1.78/ea. They have other color options, but I thought red would add a pop of color out back.