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Back To School Party

Posted on August 24th, 2009 by Brenda  |  Comments Off

Back To School Bunco with my Moms group was a lot of fun. There are so many ways to celebrate the Back To School theme and all of them can be incorporated into a small celebration with your family to a big party with friends.

I made the wreath with items from the craft store and a hot glue gun. It is a wreath I can leave up all month and will take out year after year.
Each table had a school bus centerpiece with mini chalkboard, a colorful bowl of M&M's & a school themed piece of scrapbook paper.
Food was served on divided Styrofoam trays that resemble cafeteria trays. To stay on budget, I purchased the trays 10 for $1 at Dollar Tree. An alternative would be colorful re-usable hard plastic trays, but the least expensive ones I found were $1.27 each.
Water bottles were covered in school themed scrapbook paper.
My husband wrote out the menu board for me.
Mini Club Sandwiches topped with decorative picks.
Mini bags of chips.
Pretzel crayons served in a pencil box. I found this idea at Gourmet Mom On The Go.
I fell in love with these hamburger cupcakes & sugar cookie fries from Bakerella & knew they would be perfect for the Back To School theme! I served the cookie fries with a side of strawberry "ketchup" (strawberry jam).

For the Bunco prize I assembled a gift bag of grown-up school supplies (forgot to take a picture). I filled a school themed gift bag from Dollar Tree with decorative plaid pencils, notepad & mini notebook from the dollar section of Michaels & made a kitchen chalkboard with a silver tray & silver easel from Dollar Tree & chalkboard spray paint from Home Depot (directions here).

Back To School ~ Tallies & Score Sheets

Posted on August 9th, 2009 by Brenda  |  Comments Off

Since I couldn't find any Bunco tally sheets and score cards with a Back To School theme, I decided to print my own.

I used School Script Dashed font from dafont.com (downloaded free) and printed the tally sheets on notebook paper.

I found a back to school image I liked online and used it to make some colorful score cards.


I'll be back from vacation in one more week and will be back to regular posting then!
 

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