Our little Florence’s first birthday is fast approaching and now that I am back at work, spare time to get ready for her party is at an all time low! So whenever I get a spare moment I am making sure i’m prepping for her birthday. Today that included making a small prop for the table for her party. I have seen a few of these on Pinterest so after a trip to Spotlight I was ready to go.
I’m slightly obsessed with Pinterest by the way, especially for birthday party themes. You just type in ‘unicorn party theme’ of ‘first birthday unicorn theme’ and you have millions of options from the ‘smallest touch’ to some ‘out of this world amazing I don’t know how they do it or afford it options’.
Whenever the girls have a party, after choosing the theme I pretty much work out table decorations and that’s as far as my ‘theme’ goes. I find if you just put together a gorgeous table it creates the centrepiece for your party.
So the first item I am creating is a ‘ONE” table piece. I picked up most of what I needed from Spotlight. The paper mâché letters were about $4.99 each, I got a unicorn headband, I needed the gold paint as I didn’t have any in my stash. I did have the pink and purple. I got some white paint to add to my colours to help make them look a little more pastel. I then got a bunch of fake flowers to add the find touches.
I also had a glue gun from home, which is the best option for this project as everything sets quickly which is what you need.
To start with I painted all letters with 2 coats of paint. The middle gold letter would love great with glitter but I didn’t have any so I just went with a metallic gold. Then I cut the unicorn headband to get the horn and ears. I then pulled all the fake flowers off the stems.
Painted Letters
Once the paint had dried, I got my hot glue gun and applied the unicorn horn and ears to the letter ‘O’. Once they were set in place I got the flowers and one by one glued them around the horn and ears. I also decided to place one on the letter ‘E’ to balance it out. And there you have it, I am SOOO not a crafty person but this was super easy and I’m sure it will look great on the party table. Be sure to come back and visit our blog to see the party blog x
Unicorn Horn and Flowers