Thanksgiving Napkin Rings

Thanksgiving napkin rings you and your kids can make. These are so simple and easy to make. You will make a memory that will last for years. You will need pipe cleaners, beads (indian corn colors), raffia, hot glue and a napkin ring. You take a pipe cleaner and cut into three pieces, one piece in the middle should be slightly longer than the other two pieces. Twist the three pipe cleaners together, there should be some leftover and sticking out at the top. You will then put the beads onto the three pieces of the pipe cleaner, looping the bottom of the pipe cleaner around the first bead or twisting it to ensure the beads stay on. Once you have the three strands beaded and secure tie a raffia bow around the top of the pipe cleaners as shown. Then hot glue the napkin rings to the Indian corn. I purchased my napkin rings at the dollar store (they were fabric covered). We made these years ago and get them out every year-merry memories :)

Wii Sports Party

This year my daughter had a Wii Olympics Birthday Party. I tried to look up some ideas for my party on the internet and it was very hard to come by. So I decided to just use my imagination and come up with ideas all on my own. My daughter was turning 11, she is very much into sports and her birthday falls in December so we are somewhat limited to the activities and locations of her party. This year was a little tough in agreeing on a theme. But eventually the Wii Olympics was the "winner." I started out with making the invites. I searched the internet for pictures of Wii Mii's until I found the one I liked the most. I then did a play on Words:
Wii are having a Party!
Please join us for
food, fun and Wii Olympics
when we celebrate
NAME AGE Birthday
DATE
at
TIME
Address and phone number for RSVP
I added the Mii picture at the top of the invitation and Olympic Rings at the bottom of the invitation.


There are lots of mii pics to choose from the picture here is not the one I used but for idea purposes.

I had a large whiteboard that wii used to keep "scores." I had a craft table set up so that when the kids began to arrive they would go and make their "country" flag for the Olympic procession into the "coliseum" aka the living room. Wii downloaded the Olympic theme onto the computer and used it for the procession. The kids really got a kick out of this. Wii used pencils, tape and construction paper to construct the "flags" and markers and stickers to decorate. Wii then started the Wii Olympics. Wii only have one Wii therefore the kids were broken down to play against one another in twos, teams cheered on teams and so forth. We actually have the Wii Sonic and Mario Olympic Games, that we used to play a few of the sports and then we also used Wii bowling and Tennis from the Wii Sports. You can use any variation of games that you wish. The kids thought that the winner would be the one with the highest score but I decided to actually give them medals for "other" categories. Example: My daughter got the Birthday Girl Medal-she stood on the podium and her guest filled in around her wearing their award medals which consisted of; Best All-around player, Most energetic, Most Outrageous, Best Dressed player,Most enthusiastic and so forth. We then rose up the flag of the birthday girls country and played the US National Anthem. Wii then had cake and ice cream and opened presents. The cake was decorated red, white and blue that read Wii wish you a Happy Birthday Alexa! Wii also had cupcakes that had sports picks in them to coordinate with "Olympic sports" theme. The kids really enjoyed it!