Mario - Arrived and Awaiting Coins
As I said in an earlier post, the little ones love an arrival activity that they can use at the party. So for the upcoming Mario Party party at my house we will have coin collectors that guests can decorate as they arrive. These will be used to hold coins that are collected after each mini game. Below are photos along with a short tutorial.
**Note - You'll of course need coins to fill up the coin collectors. You can find plastic gold coins as well as both chocolate and gum gold coins at Oriental Trading Company. You can also make your own by painting any kind of circle you have in abundance with gold paint. Our gold coins are painted Bingo markers (which we can still use as Bingo markers after the party).**
First I printed off coloring sheets.
This one can be printed here.
Or you can print this one out here.
After I printed out the coloring sheets I cut out each little item individually. Then I decided they needed to have a little container so I made little overalls.
For my overalls I first made a template with printer paper. First I folded the paper into quarters.
Then I folded one quarter in half and cut out the overall template.
Next I cut one of the quarters in half, folded, and cut a pocket template.
I traced the overalls and pocket templates onto blue construction paper and cut them out. Then I put glue around the sides and bottom of the pocket and put onto the overalls.
I added on "stitching" witha blue marker and then added two buttons. I was lucky enough to find little foam circles for buttons but you can just cut out small circles from yellow construction paper. Or if you happen to have a button stash, paint them yellow and glue on! When the overalls are complete, fill the pocket with Mario cutouts.
I also found pictures of all the Mario Party characters online and printed out one of each. They will be displayed so that each child can choose one. This is the character they will be during the games.
I covered 2 liter bottles with printer paper for the coin collectors.
The tops of the bottles can be painted different colors to represent teams. Just make sure you remove them first so the lid doesn't get painted on. They will need to remove the lids later to retrieve their coins.
To cut the hole for the coins I removed the lid and squeezed one side of the bottle. Then I poked a hole through with a nail, then cut out a kind of oval shape with scissors. I saved the cutout piece from the first bottle as a template for the rest.
Here is one of my birthday boys' decorated coin collector.
Items Used and Total Cost of this activity -
Coloring sheets printed from internet - $0
Construction paper - (already had) $0
Foam circles - (already had) $0
2 liter bottles - (already had) $0
Printer papter - (already had) $0
Total cost - $0
**Note - You'll of course need coins to fill up the coin collectors. You can find plastic gold coins as well as both chocolate and gum gold coins at Oriental Trading Company. You can also make your own by painting any kind of circle you have in abundance with gold paint. Our gold coins are painted Bingo markers (which we can still use as Bingo markers after the party).**
This one can be printed here.
Or you can print this one out here.
After I printed out the coloring sheets I cut out each little item individually. Then I decided they needed to have a little container so I made little overalls.
For my overalls I first made a template with printer paper. First I folded the paper into quarters.
Then I folded one quarter in half and cut out the overall template.
Next I cut one of the quarters in half, folded, and cut a pocket template.
I traced the overalls and pocket templates onto blue construction paper and cut them out. Then I put glue around the sides and bottom of the pocket and put onto the overalls.
I added on "stitching" witha blue marker and then added two buttons. I was lucky enough to find little foam circles for buttons but you can just cut out small circles from yellow construction paper. Or if you happen to have a button stash, paint them yellow and glue on! When the overalls are complete, fill the pocket with Mario cutouts.
I also found pictures of all the Mario Party characters online and printed out one of each. They will be displayed so that each child can choose one. This is the character they will be during the games.
I covered 2 liter bottles with printer paper for the coin collectors.
The tops of the bottles can be painted different colors to represent teams. Just make sure you remove them first so the lid doesn't get painted on. They will need to remove the lids later to retrieve their coins.
To cut the hole for the coins I removed the lid and squeezed one side of the bottle. Then I poked a hole through with a nail, then cut out a kind of oval shape with scissors. I saved the cutout piece from the first bottle as a template for the rest.
Here is one of my birthday boys' decorated coin collector.
Items Used and Total Cost of this activity -
Coloring sheets printed from internet - $0
Construction paper - (already had) $0
Foam circles - (already had) $0
2 liter bottles - (already had) $0
Printer papter - (already had) $0
Total cost - $0
1 comments:
Mario is one of my favorite characters, love to play the game and it does look amazing and easy task. Thanks for sharing it..
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