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DIY Ball Toss Game

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Make a ball toss game! Here's the tutorial... (Btw this thing ended up being about 5'5" and AWESOME) You will need: 5 large boxes (I used 4 lrg 1 med. I wouldnt recommend it) 4 White Poster Boards Pencil Scissors Exacto-knife Duct Tape Hot Glue Gun Paint Step 1:  A.) With ONE of the large boxes, lay it flat and cut it at the creases on each side so you have two flat square pieces like this one. These pieces are going to be your slanted bottoms inside the game and your "scrap board".   B.) Fold the other boxes so they are up and ready to be used (like a normal box).  C.) Set one of the boxes on top of each square piece (from step A) and draw a line following the bottom edge of the box going the whole length of the square. This line is going to show you how wide the inside of the box is. Though the width should match the inside of the box, the length should me much longer so that the only way it fits inside the box is

Baby's First Birthday Party!!

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         My son's birthday was a few weeks ago and since it was going to be my first rodeo at this type of thing I really wanted things to go as smoothly as possible. I have a lot of nephews and nieces and there were a few of my friends and their kids that I wanted to invite so the attendance list was HUGE. Of the 31 that were invited 25 showed. That is a lot of people for me and probably a bit overboard for a first birthday, but who cares right? I dont think there's a rule book on first birthdays... Is there?          If you're like me you may have an enormous Pinterest collection of projects you only dream of doing. Well no more! I made some of the decorations I pinned a while ago and used them for the party. I also wanted to be able to focus more on my child and taking pictures rather than sort of conducting the activities and whatnot, so I thought what better way than to set up activity booths and let the kids just go at it? I think it went pretty well. Here's what