Basketball STATE Tournament Crafty Projects!

What a basketball season! Us 8th grade moms thought for sure it was going to be a "learning year" this season due to so many phenomenal players graduating last year. Our team was really young, but believe it or not, we got into the State Tournament earlier this month! That means out of 245 Lutheran grade schools in our state, our school was one of the 16 to be there!! It was quite the accomplishment.

Since it was such a big deal, I had to arm the families with Superfan kits at State! These included basketball-shaped paddles, felt flower mom pins, clapper noise-makers with players' #s, inflatable fingers, pom-poms, and tattoos (the last 3 ordered through Oriental Trading)!

We were definitely SUPERFANS!!

Hotel Mini Welcome Basket at Tournament

Recently my daughter's basketball team played at a tournament that was far enough away that we stayed at a hotel. So, I thought it would be fun to make mini welcome baskets for them to have at the hotel!

Each dollar store mini basket contained Bath & Body Works (BBW) "Carried Away" lotion, BBW Mint Glass lip gloss, BBW "Island Breeze" anti-bacs, dollar store mints & a mini tissue pack wrapped up in a cello bag given to me by BBW at my purchase.

I used Cricut Lyrical Letters font cartridge to personalize each basket with vinyl. I also attached a computer-generated tag and tied it with ribbon that BBW gave to me and bakers twine from Scrappy Moms. The sentiment on the tag tied in the goodies.

The girls loved them! Thanks for looking, Happy crafting!

Blow Them Away! Tournament Blow Pops

My oldest daughter's team is playing in another bball tournament this weekend, so I added bakers twine & tags to some Charms Blow Pops to pump the girls up for Day 2!

GO EAGLES!!

Tournament Pretzels & Hair Ties!

To keep with tradition at our basketball tournament, I covered pretzel rods with white, light and dark chocolate and decorated them with blue sprinkles in our school color- blue! I also printed the tournament logo out in cardstock and cut tags for each pretzel package.

And for a fun display, I used my Cricut and some outdoor vinyl to decorate dollar store buckets. One bucket was for the team with their coaches (+lollipops for a gluten-free teammate). The other bucket was sold at the concession stand. The pretzels were a big hit and were almost sold out the the first night of the tournament!

While I was working on the pretzels, my daughter assembled hair ties with ribbons for her and her teammates! They looked fabulous on the girls!

Making things for the tournament was fun, but having our team take the 1st place trophy was the best part of it all- GO EAGLES!!

Basketball Tournament Decorations

This weekend was my daughter's basketball tournament at her school! The parents provide the decorations, so my Cricut and I helped out by making a banner, basketballs, and locker decorations!