You can sew the vests easy enough if you want to buy fabric but we didn’t have THAT much time and I don’t have ANY sewing skills. I wanted to make the vests and some power disks though and to have at least 3 games or activities to discover a creature power and use that power to complete a mission. I decided not to make gloves as that would have been crazy expensive and time consuming.
I had barely a month from my daughters Loopsy birthday to make everything though so we started with the vests.
When the Gentleman wanted to have a Wild Kratts birthday party I knew I HAD to have suits and disks. Kid loves his animals…The decorations were over all very quick, cheap and easy! He had more but I didn’t want to name them ALL. The last touch was taking all of my son’s stuffed animal friends like the Walrus, Dolphin, Spider, Parrot, Tiger and Monkeys and placing them around the house. Then I simply put painters tape on them and stuck them on the wall around the party area. You can find Wild Kratt pictures online easily enough so I printed some in Square shapes about 6 inches in size and glued them to black paper also cut into squares about 6.5 inches in size. I found green and blue zebra striped streamers so we put that up all around the kitchen and living room where most of the party takes place. Well his name but you figured that out I’m sure. About 5 ft wide and 2 ft tall but it had both Brothers Kratt on it and said Happy Birthday Gentleman. It was only $16 do it was pretty cheap actually. We broke down and purchased a Happy Birthday Banner from PBS. I will break down each part of the party as best as I can by now you should know I bounce back and forth and around. The disks each have a symbol of an animal that they have or are learning about on it to show which one it is. The large circle on the vest is where they put their Creature Power Disks to activate it and transform their suits into that creature’s likeness. They have these Creature Power suits that consist of a vest with a paw print symbol, gloves, boots and sometimes helmets. The animal information is all fact but how they brothers Kratt obtain the info is sort of science fiction.
They travel all over the world learning about different animals and their Creature Powers. The Kratt brothers, Chris and Martin, are creature adventurers. You can find it on PBS and even watch some episodes on PBS.org.
#Recordit button hobby lobby full#
I am not saying that I am going to keep a full art studio with me in my car at all times, but I learned today that it is a good idea to keep a drawing pad, HB pencil, eraser and pencil sharpener in my car so that if a moment of inspiration hits me I am able to stop and record it with out having to run home to my studio or go to an art supply store in order to get the stuff needed to record it.Birthday party that is! My son absolutely LOVES this show! If you are not familiar with it set your DVR to record it or check it out on Netflix. For what you might ask? In this case, moments of inspiration, and secondarily not having to buy more supplies than I already have when those moments of inspiration hit me. I am an Eagle Scout and in Scouting we were always taught to “Be Prepared”. This was in spite of the fact that I have stacks of all of these at home, because I did not want to lose the inspiration for the cartoon before I could make it home to draw it. Thus I found myself stopping at Hobby Lobby to buy a drawing pad, pencils and an eraser. I was downtown, didn’t have any drawing materials with me and was afraid that I would lose the idea by the time I made it home several hours later. I was watching a video of a friend on Snapchat and it gave me the idea to do a cartoon. I learned a very valuable lesson this afternoon about being prepared.
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