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Name: Thin Mint Sprinkle Sandwiches
Prep time: 5 min
Yield: 16 sandwiches
Ingredients: Thin Mint Cookies; White Icing; Rainbow Sprinkles

Football Snack Stadium

Host an epic football party with this Football Snack Stadium.

With the playoffs almost over, it’s time for the championship game. Are you hosting a party this year? If so, then you need to make this Football Snack Stadium. It’s easy to make and you can fill it with whatever snack foods you want.

This stadium is created using white foam board. I sketched out a pattern on graph paper to create a pattern for the foam board. The pattern was drawn onto the foam board. Then I used a box cutter and large straight edge to cut the board into pieces.

It is held together with white utility tape. It went together quickly and was easy to make. The stadium can be saved and used over and over each year.

DIY Football Snack Stadium

This year’s stadium is filled with a variety of snacks. The football field has mini cupcakes in two colors to represent the team players.

Stadium sides were divided to hold regular and cheese popcorn. End zones are full of colorful Skittles candy.

I hand dipped pretzels in team color candy melts covered with sprinkles and placed them in two of the corners. The other corners held beef sticks and cheese sticks.

The stadium is a great centerpiece for a party table. I have mine on top of a football field table cover.

It is flanked by a football pizza, peanuts in football glasses, water bottles with football labels, and chips & dip in a football tray. You can find directions to make the football pizza here. Football decor printables can be found here.

Does that look festive and fun? Customize your football snack stadium with food bearing your team colors.

You can get the full directions, pattern, and the stadium decor printables here.

Who are you rooting for? The outcome doesn’t matter to me, I just like to host parties and watch the funny commercials.

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posted 17 Jan 2017

How to Host a Baseball Party

Throw a baseball party to cheer on your favorite team or to celebrate a birthday. This post contains free party printables.

My beloved Chicago Cubs are onto the next round of the playoffs and I am beyond excited. We have been cheering them on throughout the entire season, but now that they are in the post season it’s time to host a party. Last week I showed you how to make a Baseball Snack Stadium. This is how I used it for our baseball playoff party.

How to Host a Baseball Party

The centerpiece of the party was the snack stadium. After I created the stadium, I made some printables to decorate it with. I created blue and red strips with baseballs to adorn the outside of the stadium and the back of the bleachers. While this is not a replica of Wrigley Field, I did print out copies of ivy over brick to place on the outfield wall. I also created a small W flag to fly over the stadium. The link to the snack stadium decorations is near the bottom of the post.
I filled the infield with guacamole and placed salsa in the bases. Tortilla chips made up the outfield. Popcorn and peanuts filled the outfield bleachers.
You can’t go to the stadium without having a hot dog, so they were included in our party. Condiments were served in shot glasses. There were veggies and dip in a baseball mitt dip tray, water bottles with cute baseball labels, sunflower seeds, candy, and cupcakes with baseball picks in them.

Free Baseball Party Decor

Decorations included many of our Cubbie decor. The party was laid out on some old baseball fabric I have. I grabbed the free baseball banners here and created the water bottle labels and food picks myself. You can download those here and the baseball stadium decorations here. The baseball plates were created by drawing red stitching onto a white paper plate.
Are you a baseball fan? Which team would you celebrate with a baseball party?

Girl Scout Tie-Dye Meeting + Printables

Hold this colorful Girl Scout Tie-Dye party at your next meeting.

The new year of Girl Scouts is off and running and our troop just had our first meeting. Our girls love to do crafts and wanted to make a troop t-shirt, so I planned this awesome Girl Scout Tie-Dye meeting. See how to do a meeting or party like this yourself. Free party printables are available at the bottom of the post.

Girl Scout Tie-Dye Meeting

I had each girl and leader bring a washed white t-shirt. When they arrived I had the tie-dye station set up. Shirts were immediately dipped into a tub of water mixed with soda ash and then wrung out for the girls to tie. One table had rubber bands set up on it for the girls to tie up the shirts with. That table had instruction for various tie-dye techniques. I told the girls they could tie and color it however they want, but that they had to use all three colors provided. I wanted the shirts to have some uniformity to them. My daughter has done a lot of tie-dying with me, so she was able to assist other girls who needed help.

Once the shirts were tied, they moved to the dying station, which was a table covered with plastic and cardboard. I purchased two dye kits that contained purple, lime, and turquoise. The girls took turns with the bottles and came out with some great designs.

Girl Scout Tie-Dye

I had gallon sized zip top plastic bags ready with the girl’s names written on them. Each shirt was placed in its respective bag and zipped shut. Each girl took their shirt home at the end of the meeting along with instructions for rinsing and drying. I also included a troop iron on transfer to be put on the shirt once they are washed and dried. Here are my daughters and my shirt before we added the iron on.

Our meeting also included some colorful snacks and decorations. My daughter and I made Thin Mint Sandwiches, which are super easy to make. Just take two Thin Mint Cookies, place icing between them to form a sandwich, and then roll the frosting edge in rainbow sprinkles. These disappeared quickly. We also served colorful crackers, a rainbow fruit arrangement, and water.

Thin Mint Sprinkle Sandwiches

Diana Rambles

Yields 16 sandwiches

Thin Mint Sprinkle Sandwiches

5 minPrep Time

5 minTotal Time

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Ingredients

Thin Mint Cookies
White Icing
Rainbow Sprinkles

Instructions

Take 2 Thin Mint Cookies and place approximately a tablespoon of icing between the cookies to form a sandwich.
Roll the outside end of the sandwich in rainbow sprinkles so they stick to the icing.
Serve and enjoy!

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Free Girl Scout Printables

I created some fun party style decor to match the Girl Scout Tie-Dye theme that I am sharing with you. These printables include the Girl Scout Trefoil on a tie-dye background. These freebies include a troop banner, water bottle labels, food labels, and gift bag labels. You can download these printables here.

Each girl received the badges, patches, and other goodies they earned in a white gift bag. Each bag had a name tag that was attached with a decorated clothes pin.

It was a great meeting that was actually a party kick-off to the new year. The girls are very proud of their tie-dye creations and can’t wait to wear them together while camping next month. They said it was their favorite meeting we’ve ever had.

What sort of fun has your troop done lately?

Check out this great printable that will help your troop learn the Girl Scout Law. I have other Girl Scout printables and ideas here and on my Girl Scout Hang Out Board at Pinterest.

Angry Birds Party with Printables

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Have an Angry Birds party or family movie night with these free party decorations and recipes.

Last week as we were picking up another Walmart Family Mobile cell phone for my daughter, we noticed that Angry Birds was part of the display. We decided to have a Family Movie Night Angry Birds Party. Since we all have a different favorite Angry Birds character, I decided to have a red, black, yellow and green party to represent Red, Bomb, Chuck, and Leonard and the Pigs. Host your own Angry Birds party with these recipes and free printables.

Host an Angry Birds Party

We decided to start our party at dinner time, so we had a balanced menu. Our main dish was Black Bean & Veggie Lettuce Wraps. The sides included vegetables and dip, fruit, and eggs. We enjoyed a popcorn snack mix during the movie and cupcakes for dessert.

The Black Bean & Veggie Lettuce Wraps was a stir fry made with black beans, red peppers, yellow squash, and green onions and served on lettuce leaves. This delicious meatless dish goes together quickly and is surprisingly hearty.

The sides really enhanced the overall look of the party. I cut thin strips of celery and yellow pepper and placed them in small dessert glasses with ranch dip and grape tomatoes and black olives on toothpicks. The four fruits were strawberries, blackberries, pineapple and green grapes. They were arranged on a tray with a fruit dip in the middle. Colorful crackled eggs were a cute addition. These look complicated but are relatively simple. First, you hard boil eggs and let them cool. Then, you crack the shells but leave them intact. Soak the cracked eggs in food coloring for approximately 10 minutes each. Peel the shells and your cracked design will be revealed.

Chocolate Mint Popcorn Mix

I created a chocolate mint Angry Birds Popcorn Snack Mix with chocolate and mint candies, popcorn and pretzels. This tasty snack mix would be great for any movie night or party.

Diana Rambles

Chocolate Mint Popcorn Snack Mix

Enjoy this sweet and salty snack mix that is made with a candy coating.

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Ingredients

1/2 cup dark chocolate covered mint candies
1/4 cup each of red, green, and yellow candy-coated chocolate candies
16 cups popcorn
2 cups pretzel sticks
package of almond bark

Instructions

Break the pretzel sticks in half.
Place the popcorn, pretzels, and candies into a large mixing bowl.
Mix all the ingredients in the bowl.
Melt the almond bark according to the package directions.
Pour the melted bark over the ingredients in the bowl.
Stir until everything is coated.
Pour the mix onto a lined cookie sheet.
Place in the refrigerator to harden the candy coating.
Break apart the snack mix, place in a bowl and serve.

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The Angry Birds Movie Chocolate Mint Popcorn Snack Mix

Our party also included bottles of water with Angry Birds labels, mini cupcakes, and colorful candies.

Angry Birds Party Free Party Decorations Download

In addition to the food and movie, we had a Who’s the Angriest? contest. We each picked our favorite Angry Birds character and put on our angriest face. This created a lot of laughs. Who do you think won the contest?

Who is the Angriest Contest - Throw an Angry Birds Party or family movie night with these recipes and free party decorations. These free party favors will help you throw the best party.

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Free Angry Birds Party Decorations

Want to throw your own Angry Birds party? Click here or the image below to download the free party decorations for your own celebration.
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posted 8 Aug 2016

Rainbow Tie-Dye Party + Printables

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Have some rainbow fun with a tie-dye party that includes free decor printables.My daughter has been missing her friends since school ended and wanted to have some kind of get together with them. I suggested that we tie-dye and she readily agreed. She still wanted a theme, so we decided on Rainbow Fun. In addition to creating colorful clothes to wear, we enjoyed many rainbow snacks.A few weeks before we had the party, I asked people to bring the clothing they wanted to tie-dye over. Since many of these items were new, they needed to be laundered. It’s important to wash out the softeners and stiffeners that come in new clothes so that the dye will properly adhere to the fabric. I labeled each garment and then washed and dried them. I also prepared the dye squirt and spray bottles and had a bath of soda ash ready.

Rainbow Fun Tie-Dye Party

Our party snacks were a lot of fun. We had a rainbow of fruit, colorful crackers, frozen rainbow ice pops, water bottles with rainbow labels, and colorful candy. It was all pretty easy to set up. The rainbow was created with chopped strawberries, peaches, pineapple, grapes, blueberries and blackberries with clouds made out of sliced bananas. I created the frozen rainbow ice pops with strips of rainbow candy and lemon-lime soda. I just had to open the crackers and place them in a bowl, print water labels and tape on water bottles, layer the colorful candy in a glass and display the rainbow lollipops in a foam base.
The snacks were set up against a colorful background with a rainbow fun banner strung on ribbon. I am offering them as free downloads for you to print for your own colorful party. You need to add your own lettering to the lettering. Grab the rainbow party printables here.
The kids had a great time tie-dying. I set up stations in the backyard for them to make their creations. Step one is to soak the fabric in soda ash. This helps hold the dye. Step two is to tie the fabric. The kids did a great job of coming up with their designs. They also enjoyed some snacks at the tying table. Next, it was off to the dye area. I have this set up on the grass.
I have a table set with the dyes. The younger kids put on plastic gloves to keep from dying their hands. The dying itself was done on an old screen set up on saw horses. It’s great for letting excess dye drip through to the ground. I keep a hose nearby to wash off the dye between dying sessions.My son joined the party and created some wild shorts. My daughter sprayed her shirt while it laid on the ground.When the kids were done dying, I placed each item in a plastic bag. I wrote their names on each bag and sent them home with them. I instructed the families to let them sit 24 hours before rinsing thoroughly. I like to rinse my tie-dye outside with a hose. I rinse and rinse until the water runs clear. Then I wash the colorful clothes separately in the washing machine.
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