For New Year’s Eve this year, I plan to set up a little makeshift photo booth. By this I mean I’m going to hang up a sheet and a banner and put a camera on a tripod in front of it. Super simple. I did it at my Galentine’s Day party and we used a self-timer remote. It was so fun!! This time, I wanted to have some dress up props. Besides the traditional New Year’s hats and party horns, I decided to make a few props from clipart and templates found online.
Supplies needed: wooden dowels, decorative or plain cardstock paper, glue stick, scissors, tape, printer, X-Acto knife (optional).
To make these, first print out the templates you want to use (mine are listed at the end of this post). You might need to do some resizing before you print the images. The printer I was using stopped working randomly so I ended up tracing some of the images straight from my computer screen.
Cut out the objects and glue them to the backside of a piece of cardstock. Glitter is good. Patterns are good. I went with a solid color for the mustache because I didn’t want my New Year’s party to get too crazy.
Then cut the objects out again. I guess you could do all of the cutting in one step. My glitter paper was really thick though so I decided to do it in multiple steps. For glasses and masks, you might want to use an X-Acto knife. I lost mine so I just used scissors.
Break your wooden dowels in half if they’re too tall and tape them to the backs of the props!
Ta-da! Don’t Devin and Chris look so festive? Oh and that dinosaur…he joined in on the fun too.
Can’t wait to use these on New Year’s Eve!
(templates used: bow tie, mustache, heart-shaped glasses, mask)
greciax14 says
Cute! Thanks<3