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8 Candid Photos of your Kids to Capture this Fall

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Happy fall! Fall is such a magical time for kids filled of lots of outdoor adventures, exploring new tastes and flavors, and time with family. While it’s always great to get a beautifully posed shot, those candid photos where they aren’t looking or posing might be ones you’ll cherish for a lifetime. Everyone loves looking back at happy days gone by so check out this list of 8 candid photos of your kids to capture this fall!

Hayrides, apple cider donuts and hayrides are all fun with those staged shots with big smiles but I promise you’ll also love looking back at these candid photos of your kids which usually have their expressions written all over their face! And really take these prompts as candid photos to take every season!

Enjoying the flavors – Apple cider donuts. Pumpkin pie. Take a photo before they dig in but also the aftermath with the messy faces.

At play – Grab a shot of them with their favorite action toys. That look of concentration when doing a puzzle. Excitement when seeing leaves thrown in the air.
At rest – It might seem silly to capture a photo of your child just sitting on the couch watching tv but looking back, you might miss that silly way they cross their legs or the stuffed animals they always had by their side for quiet time. These photos will help you remember these precious calming moments.

Discovering nature – Watching a bug. Building floral crowns. Digging in the dirt. Hiking with a walking stick. In a corn maze. Watch them watch nature.
Laughter – While these might be the blurriest photos you get due to lots of movement, capturing a silly happy moment and laughter is a beautiful thing!

Outfits and hair styles – Plaid button ups. Overalls. Graphic t-shirts with funny phrases. Double French brands for the hayride. Loving their Halloween costumes. Capture their clothes in a non-posed shot that shows their style and nature attitude.
Where are their feet – In a pile of leaves. In a bound of hay from a haymaze. Covered in cute Halloween socks. Do the overhead #whereIstand type photos you see on instagram or just zone in on those little piggies and what they’re doing this fall.

Tag me if you plan to try out this candid photo challenge!

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Kids Craft | Watermelon Paper Plate Gift Tags

Birthday Parties, Crafts & DIY, Kids' Crafts, Party

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As a party stylist and crafty person, I want the actual parties I throw to have the aesthetic I like with plenty of handmade touches. But now that the girls are at an age where they want to help and can do more things, I’m working to find ways to get them involved but still keep my look. Today we’re sharing the watermelon paper plate gift tags they crafted up for their watermelon themed birthday party that we tied to all the party favors!

This was a great project to do one rainy morning about a month before the party. So yes, they are in their PJs in these photos. They were into the project by itself but Brielle, especially was stoked to see it turn into a component of her party!

Supplies to make Watermelon Paper Plate Gift Tags:

White paper plate
Sharpie marker
Pink, green and black tissue paper
Glue stick

First I drew a black circle on the paper plates so they’d know where to place the pieces of each color. We made use of our EZPZ Flower Mats as they are easy to clean off glue stick residue and the little petal cups were perfect to hold these light tissue paper scraps that tend to fly around with the slightest wave of the hand.

This was Hailey’s first time using a glue stick and she was very excited! We love these chunky glue sticks as they go on purple so kids can see where they applied the glue, but dry clear.

Instructions were simple. Stick the pink tissue paper scraps on the inside of the circle and the green ones on the outside. Ball up some black ones and add them on the pink as seeds.

Hailey is still learning her colors so she needed a little extra help but she mostly did the project on her own.

So proud of my crafty girls!

After they dried I cut them into fourths, punched a hole up top and wrote names of the party guests on them slices.

Each watermelon paper plate gift tag was tied to the party favors and ready to be handed out on the party day. This year the girls got Shimmer and Shine Shrinky Dinks and the boys got Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shrinky Dinks. The babies each got a set of these cute animal squirter bath toys.

Tag me if you make these watermelon paper plates with your kids and stay tuned for more posts about the watermelon birthday party!

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Talk like a pirate day gift idea

Crafts & DIY, Free Printables, Gifts and Toys, Graphic Design

Shiver me timbers! September 19th is quickly approaching and in case you weren’t sure what happens on that date, the world turns pirate! It’s Talk like a Pirate Day and never is that the letter R is more used than this date! Consider putting together a little gift to your little buchaneer and create this pirate day gift idea to celebrate this silly holiday!

These pirate goodies came courtesy of Wholesale Party Supplies when I shot a fun Halloween party due out later this month. After the party shoot, I knew they needed to be in the hands of some friends and the pirate day gift idea was born!

In order to help explain the goodies, I created a little gifttag to attach to my skull cups. You are welcome to download the free printable gift tag here! To make it a little more authentic, I ripped the edges, crumbled it up and inked them with a little brown ink.

The tag included a little poem (since they are my favorite style of tags) and with the help of my craft tools, it now looks like an aged treasure map!

This pirate day gift includes: 1 skull cup, 1 pirate eye patch, 1 pirate flag, 1 foam pirate hat, some gold coins and a ring pop, as all pirates need some jewels!

I put all the goodies inside the cup and attached the tag for gifting!

Hope you enjoy all the pirate fun on Talk Like A Pirate Day September 19th!

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Moana Party Printables – Free to Download for Personal Use

Birthday Parties, Free Printables, Graphic Design, Holidays & Occasions, Party

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If the sea is calling for an epic Moana party in your house, look no further for fun ideas that include free printables! When it comes to the desserts, bring on the sweets, whether store bought or homemade and turn them into the Moana theme with the help of free printables like cupcake toppers that look like Moana’s boat. Turn boring paper bags into the evil, yet cute, Kakamora army with free Moana party printables shared in this post.

I recently had the opportunity to style a Moana birthday party for Birthday In A Box.

Since my girls are obsessed with the soundtrack (even more than the movie I think) they were so excited to see a cardboard standup of Moana herself arrive in the mail!

The cutout was staged near the dessert table which hosted a yummy fruit salad, cookies to look like the heart of te fiti, donuts turned pineapples with the help of a little glittered paper and cupcakes that mimicked Moana’s boat.

I designed these as free cupcake topper printables you can download for your Moana party dessert table!

The sheet includes 6 toppers that, when cut out and attached to a toothpick, turn an ordinary cupcake into Moana’s boat!

While no on leaves when living on the island of Motunui in the movie, guests have to leave your party sometime!

When they do, send them home with your Moana themed party favors staged in a bag made to look like the Kakamora characters from the movie.

This evil pirate army dressed like mean coconuts so trim the free printables and add them to a paper bag to thank guests for joining your Moana party and celebrating your big day!

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