Christmas In July ~ Decorations & Crafts

Last night I hosted my Mom's Group monthly Bunco night-out. The theme was Christmas In July. It was so much fun coming up with decorating ideas that combined Christmas with Summer!

Here is the hall table:
I placed one of my Alpine Christmas trees in a red sand bucket. To stabilize the tree, I filled the bucket with red lava rocks. The garland is colorful leis that I cut and connected to make a continuous strand (leis from Dollar Tree 3/$1). I decorated the tree with paper umbrellas and tropical wood cut-outs hung with pieces of raffia hot-glued to the back. The cute cut-outs are from Joanns and were on sale for 33¢ each! The topper is a pretty shell.

Using the Cricut & scrapbook paper, I decorated another beach pail to hold players' money. Rather than give out a lot of prizes, my Bunco group splits the pot 60/40% between the 2 players with the most Wins. The person with the most losses gets to go home with their $10 and the Hostess provides a gift for the player with the most Buncos. To get a red & green sand pail, I just switched the handles & shovels at the store.

Everyone picked a red or green lei when they arrived.

Each table was decorated with a Christmas tablecloth, Christmas Bunco Scorecards, Christmas pencils and Christmas note paper to keep tallies.

All of the tables had centerpieces consisting of sand scrapbook paper cut to look like a flower, Mylar palm trees (Dollar Tree), table number tent sign & glass bowl.

The table # tent signs have Santa surfing (all made with Cricut) and the glass bowls are sitting on a Christmas berry wreath and filled with sand, 2 shells and a Christmas ball.

The rest of the decorations were kept pretty simple. I put a Christmas wreath on the front door, hung Christmas towels in the bathroom & put out a few Christmas decorations around the house. I didn't want to put too many Christmas decorations out because I knew it would all have to come down and be re-packed the next day!

Check out the party food here!