Simple Birthday Decor for a Pre-teen Boy

I had been away on holidays and came back with only a couple of days to prepare for my grandson's 12th birthday so it had to be fast and simple. Here is what I came up with:

Pre-teen birthday decor

I started with black and white photos from all my grandson's previous birthdays.

Birthday picture wall

I reused the banner from here and covered the puppy pics with smaller versions of the birthday photos.

Snack boxes were from Michaels. I used 2 tablecloths and attached ribbon down the middle with double sided tape.

 I put "Munchies" in the boxes because it is one of my grandson's favorite snacks

The happy 12 year old!

I hope this gives you a few ideas for your celebration.

Inexpensive gifts

Silhouettes

Here is something that anyone with a camera, computer and printer can do and makes a nice present for parents.

In any photo application you can probably fill in the profile pictures you take with black and make the background whatever colour you like.  I used photoshop elements and the pages app to set up my pages.

My grandkids were very cooperative in letting me take several pictures of them until I got the ones I wanted.

I then had each of them write their names and ages,which I then took pictures of as well. In pages it was easy to make it look like a label. 

I did not take a picture of the final framed product but a simple black  frame seemed best.

The only cost for this present is a little bit of ink and it is so easy to find nice inexpensive frames.

Why not try it yourself?