Friendly Monster Boxes

We made several of these friendly monster boxes to house the utensils and napkins at our friendly monster-themed birthday party!

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All you'll need:

• an empty tissue box
• spray paint
• assorted scrapbook paper, stickers, or whatever else you'd like to decorate your monster box with
• scissors
• paintbrush
• your trusty Mod Podge

Step 1: 
Spray paint your monster box.  Note: some colors, like red, have notoriously bad coverage, so keep that in mind if you are using a patterned box like these ones.

Step 2:
After the paint has dried, cut out the monster box's "mouth" with scissors.

Step 3:
Decorate your monster box!  Adhere teeth and eyes with Mod Podge.

And you're done! Fill with supplies for your friendly monster party -- forks, spoons, knives, napkins, ketchup packets, whatever! :)

Colorful Plastic Bag Dispenser

No more unruly plastic bags! :)   

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All you'll need:

• an empty, clean antibacterial wipes canister with the label removed
• paper trimmer or scissors
• scrapbook paper
• paintbrush
• your trusty Mod Podge

 

Step 1: 
Trim your scrapbook paper to the correct size.  If your canister is a perfect cylinder, this will be very easy -- but if it tapers, this will require some extra thought! 

Step 2:
Apply a thin layer of Mod Podge with the paintbrush; then attach your paper.

Step 3:
Apply a thin layer of Mod Podge over the entire canister to seal the edges and give it some shine!
 

Let it dry, add your plastic bags, and you're done! Voila!

Pirate's Treasure Chest

I created this treasure chest to fill with small toys, treats, and stickers for my speech therapy clients. :)
 

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All you'll need:

• an unfinished wooden box (this one was $5 at Michael's)
• a ruler
• a pencil
• sandpaper
• paint (I used brown, black, and metallic gold)
• assorted paintbrushes
• a brown Sharpie (not pictured)
• your trusty Mod Podge

Step 1:

Using a pencil and ruler, sketch out the treasure chest design you are going to paint.  For mine, this meant creating wooden slats and three gold bands to encircle the chest.

Step 2:

Paint in your brown!  The edges don't have to be perfect yet.

Step 3:

Add the gold paint!  Create nice, even edges against the brown sections.

Step 4:

Add your details.  For mine, this meant a little bit of black paint between the slats of wood and small circles drawn onto the gold bands with brown Sharpie.  Then I roughed up the edges a little bit with sandpaper.

Step 5:

Cover the entire thing with Mod Podge to seal it and give it some shine!

Let the Mod Podge dry, fill this bad boy up with prizes, and you're good to go! :)