Mickey Mouse Party ... Mickey Hats & Food Labels

On to our next items made for our famous Mickey Mouse Party (yes it's always fab and famous in my head go with it!).    I wanted to make some hats and food labels but NOT break the party budget doing so.  So instead of buying them I made them using items I had at home and hitting up the Dollar Tree.  If you don't know by know I have stock and I mean piles of card stock paper at the house in all colors!  I always hit Michael's when they have a sale or use a 40% coupon to store it because I seem to use it a lot.

Here is what I made:

I wanted to make party hats but I refuse to buy the expensive ones that I knew most would end up in the garbage at the party or as soon as the people got home.  If you are looking for a great tutorial check out Megan Kunkel's Mickey Mouse Party Hat Tutorial.  I decided to take hats I bought at the dollar tree and add ears to them!  YUP I'm cheap and crafty like that!

Mickey Mouse Hats

What you need:

• Party Hats (I used Gold (closet thing to Yellow) and Red) 
• (Bought 2 packs $1 each pulled out the colors I wanted.)
• Ears (Cut on my Circuit) 
• Heavy Red Card Stock
• Heavy Black Card Stock
• Hot Glue Gun
• Scissors

I cut a small hole in the sides (one on each side trying to make sure at the same height) of the party hats.  I cut a set of Mickey Ears on my Circuit using my Mickey Mouse and Friends Cartridge (only doing the ears not the full head).  I also cheated and used the ones that had been cut off of our count down to the party (yup I'm all about the reuse).  I then slide the bottom part of the ears into the slit I made.  I then took my hot glue gun and glued that little piece of paper down on the inside.  I did a step by step in photos below.

Mickey Mouse Food Labels

What you need:

• Heavy White Card Stock Paper
• Heavy Red Card Stock Paper
• Heavy Black Card Stock Paper
• Paper Cutter (I used my cutter from Creative Memories)
• Printer / Word

Last on my list was Food Labels, I found a few free ones I could download but most I found were pay for ones.  So I downloaded a Mickey Mouse font on font space and typed up my food names I wanted into a word document (I tried to be cute and funny and play on words). I printed on a heavy white card stock.  I then cut them out trying to keep them the same size.  I then made a tent out of red heavy card stock.  I hot glued the white down onto the front of my red tent.  I then went back to my Mickey Mouse and Friends Cartridge on the Circuit and cut out mini Mickey Mouse heads.  I then added a little glue to the back of the head and glued it onto the top corner of my red tent!

I'll show the food more in detail on a different post 

but here is how it looked with the labels.

So there you have it a few more things to try out for your Mickey Mouse Party.

Mickey Mouse Projects Done:

Mickey Mouse Invites
Mickey Mouse Invites #2

Mickey Mouse Head Treat Bags

Mickey Mouse Rice Crispy Heads

Mickey Mouse Crayons
Mickey Mouse Cupcakes
Mickey Mouse Cookies
Mickey Mouse Party Count Down Chain
Mickey Mouse Utensils
Mickey Mouse Ears
Mickey Mouse Cake

Don't forget to see the parties I link up to HERE.