I just wrote an entire blog post about how to throw a cheap party. You can check it out here. I think we can all agree there is a time and place to throw a cheap party and there is a time when you have to invest a little bit more. Man, do those birthdays add up quickly though! Decorating for parties is one of my most favorite things to do. When Cal turned 3 a couple weeks ago, he wanted a Spider Man birthday. Right now, we are Spidey everything in the household. Surprisingly, there weren't tons of Spider Man decorations out there. There were the typical party-type paper cutouts and frilly hangers, but nothing that was really unique. Ever since Teddy had an Encanto birthday and we hung colored paper decorations from the ceiling, I try to incorporate some type of ceiling hanging to tie the birthday together. That's when it hit me how to do this with Spider Man in a unique and cheap way - SPIDERWEBS. Yep, I invested in some additional Halloween spiderwebs and hung them from the ceiling to make it look like Spiderman came to visit the house. It was a little tricky to hang the spider webs. I actually ended up using clear shipping tape to hang the webs to the ceiling. I had to tape the webs up more frequently than I expected. It's also important to STRETCH the webs quite a bit to make them look real. I spent about $3-$5 on the spiderwebs and it may be my favorite birthday decoration yet! It really tied the theme together and it didn't look junky and cheap like store bought decorations sometimes can. I did splurge and buy a Spiderman giant balloon from Party City and hang him in the corner to look like he was hanging by one of the webs. While the boys and I made our own Spidey decoration too, the store bought one added just the right amount of Spider Man to the webs so people could tie all the components together.
The best part is that we get to reuse the spiderwebs at Halloween too. I am all about reusing and recycling decorations as much as I can! For another example of how I did this with Spiderman, I bought GENERIC spider decorations so we can use them at Halloween. Take a look at the halloween spider table runners. They looked great over the $1 plastic table cloth and they can be reused on Halloween.
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