DIY NFL Football Birthday Party Invitations

Football is a very popular sport amongst boys of all ages. If you are planning a football themed birthday party and need some invitations to go with the theme a great way to assure that you get the invitations that you want at a reasonable price is to make them yourself. These DIY NFL football birthday party invitations can be created by you and your son for his upcoming birthday party. They don’t cost much to make and you’ll likely have many of the necessary materials to make them right in your craft box. Have fun making these DIY NFL football birthday party invitations that the kids will think are just awesome!

Items Needed to Make the DIY NFL Football Birthday Party Invitations:

Heavy weighted Cardstock

Envelopes

Football Stamps

Team Name Stamps

Letter Stamps

Leather String

Fine Tip Markers

Team Color Acrylic Paints or Ink

To make the DIY NFL football birthday party invitations you will first need to cut the cardstock down to the size of the envelopes that you purchased for the invitations. The invitations can be any size that you choose for the DIY NFL football birthday party invitations but it is recommended that they be at least the size of half of a standard sheet of paper or about 4 by 6 inches. This will assure plenty of room for decorating the DIY NFL football birthday party invitations.

Use team colors to stamp the names on the envelopes. Each recipient can have a different team’s colors or all of the envelopes can match with the same team color. If you son likes more than one NFL team then he can use as many colors as he wishes.

Allow the envelopes to sit aside and dry while you are making the DIY NFL birthday party invitations. The paint or ink should dry within about an hour.

For the DIY NFL football birthday party invitations, begin by stamping a football in the top center portion of the cardstock. This football should be rather large (at least 3 inches) as it will later be threaded with the leather string for an added effect.

Next, stamp the words “You’re Invited” or “Birthday Party” on the top portion of the cardstock just under the football. These words may be stamped in team colors using stamp ink or paint or you can stamp them in standard black ink and then later allow the children to color the letters in with markers.

Stamp another football on the very lower portion of the DIY NFL football birthday party invitation and allow all of the stamped ink to dry on the DIY NFL football birthday party invitations completely for about an hour.

Allow the kids to color the invitations with markers. Write important information about the NFL birthday party on the invitations with a fine tip pen.

The last step of the DIY NFL football birthday party invitations craft is to use a hole punch and punch holes in a staggered X across the football on the top of the birthday party invitations. Use the leather string to thread through the x to create a realistic football look which completes the DIY NFL football birthday party invitations.