My son is nuts for football so this year his party had a fooball theme.
Invitations: I went to the local scrapbook store and was able to cut out my own die cuts in the shape of footballs, helmets and (for the girls) cheerleaders. We glued these to postcards (we are Steelers fans at our house so the colors were black and yellow)and then used computer printed labels to layout the who/what/where/when.
Decorations: I painted our backyard to look like a football field but smaller using field marking spray paint. I then hung multi colored string pennants along our fence and swing set to give our yard more of a stadium feel. I also posted the string pennant in the front lawn to mark our house as the party place.
Activities: The kids each received a football tattoo and then everyone was able to decorate a wooden peg board shaped like a football.
Games: We played football toss on the field, hot potato football and as a finale for the games the children divided into two teams on each side of the football field and kicked a football pinata back and forth. The football pinata was homemade and very tough to crack open! The kids had a blast with this.
Food: We had cake from the local grocery store and they drew a football player on the cake holding a football. For ice cream I pre-scooped into muffin cups and put back into the freezer, this made serving time super easy.
Favors: Each child received a plastic cup with footballs on it, and inside was a whistle shaped like a football, a tootsie pop sucker, spirit beads, a football pencil and some halloween stickers since it was almost halloween.
Homemade Backyard Football Field Ideas
May 31, 2007 Major League hopefuls must validate themselves at every level before getting to 'The Show,' proving just how difficult the game of baseball is to play. Experts claim it takes 10,000 hours of game play to master America's pastime. You, your friends and family can build those hours of mastery with access to a backyard baseball field. Take a look at these pics from the Larragansett field built in Joe C’s best-friend’s backyard for her son. Named after her husband’s grandfather, Larry, who was a big fan of our beer and who originally cleared the land 30 years ago. They had a scoreboard made with the field name as a take off.
Some people have swimming pools in their backyards, others have tree houses or swing sets. But in SEC country, people have homemade football fields.
Des Williams, who played fullback at Georgia from 2003-07, made a replica of Sanford Stadium — complete with hedges — in his.
Williams has a 3-year-old son named Braylon, who he says “may be one of the most passionate football fans you have ever met.” So after seeing how much his son loved the game, specifically the Bulldogs, Williams, who is a high end landscaper, built this incredible football field in their backyard.
Homemade Backyard Football Fields
Williams told For The Win this project cost $15,000 and took him three months to complete. But, he wanted his son to have his very own Sanford Stadium.