I wanted to share 2 ideas that were used at our college’s homecoming tent this year. They can easily be used to decorate your own football game day.
The first one: creating a football bouquet from a clay pot that is painted with brown craft paint – several coats. Once the paint is dry, blue painters tape was used to mark off football lacing, white craft paint is used in between the blue tape lines or if you have a steady hand, this can be done freehand. A styrofoam ball will be needed to sit on top of the painted pot. The size will depend on your size of clay pot. Then lollipops were inserted into ball. I found some green grasslike plastic at the thrift store and we tucked in around the top of the pot.
Inspiration came from 2 sites I found on Pinterest (one doesn’t have a link so unfortunately I can’t give credit). But here is the picture.
Here is the other idea that was utilized – lollipop bouquet (this is a much smaller clay pot than I used and dum dum lollipops were used. Our bouquet used tootsie pops.) Besides we are Arizona State University and I couldn’t use lollipops called Dum Dums – so wrong.
The second idea is an inexpensive way to create a football garland. It is a free printable from Centsible Life Download, Print on color printer, cut and glue or tape.
It is fun to find ideas to create a fun atmosphere as we gather to cheer on our favorite team and create memories.
