Decorate for a softball party without breaking the bank using this party hack! Learn how to create a cute, colorful, and dimensional photo backdrop using paper plates following this tutorial.
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Longtime followers know that I LOVE me some paper plate party decor! They’re affordable, colorful, lightweight and the circular shaped can be a million different things.
I’ve shared LOTS of paper plate party backdrops here and on this follow up post. Well I’m with a new theme using the same idea of mixing paper plates in dessert and dinner sizes.
When a fellow softball family planned to host our 10U/12U pool party, I offered to make a fun party backdrop for the players to use as a selfie station and knew paper plates would be the perfect piece of decor.
DIY Paper Plate Softball Party Backdrop Supplies:
- Foam Board
- Zip Ties
- Yellow dessert plates
- Blue dinner plates
- Foil fringe curtains (Dollar Tree!)
- Adhesive Vinyl (white, red)
Since we had so much success quickly and easily putting up the Kentucky Derby backdrop by building them on cheap foam boards, I went that approach again. This is how I cut up the single piece of foam to include holes for the zip ties.
Zip ties inserted with some sketched notes on where I’d put the blue plates and yellow plates (which I added stitches on with red vinyl and my Cricut machine).
First I hot glued the blue plates on plus wood blocks in the open areas.
I attached the yellow plates to these wood blocks so they’d give a riser affect over the blue plates.
To complete the “all star” look, I added stars with vinyl adhesive vinyl.
On party day, I attached the foam pieces to my backdrop stand using the zip ties, taped foil curtains on the back and our softball photo backdrop was complete!
I also worked my DIY foam board and napkin magic to create a large letter R to mimic one component of our team’s/town’s logo. It was a fun photo accessory the girls could hold in photos or held behind the team gift bags.
This party was for our all star teams which included goodie bags for each teammate and personalized gifts inside. I added my Eat Sleep Softball Tags on the front so we could tell which of the 24 bags was theirs.
We made white visors with our town name and their jersey number, softball keychain chapstick holders with their numbers and an assortment of snacks and Gatorade for our athletes.
Tag me if you end up trying this softball party photo backdrop or make these party favors!
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