Thomas the Tank Engine photo booth

Hello fellow crafters!

Back on Super Bowl weekend I was talking to my Aunts and they were of course doing the sisterly thing and complaining about the other. Mainly about their Grandson/nephew's 3rd birthday. The one was upset that last year she didn't get pictures of the boy with his friends and the other guests besides family since the Aunt was taking the pictures. Sooo I decided that as a surprise and to make the both of them happy I would make little things for the photo booths that have become  very popular these last couple years.

The party is Thomasa the Tank Engine. I found a couple coloring pages of Thomas, Percy, and James and printed them off. I tried the make your own projector but the magnifying sheet that I bought just wasn't good quality and I couldn't get it to work so instead I eyeballed the pictures and freehand them.

Here's what ya need:

• foam board
• pencil and sharpie
• blue paint
• red paint
• yellow paint
• black paint
• grey paint
• white paint
• scissors/knife
• ribbon or handle of some sort
• hot glue

First draw Thomas onto the foam board then outline in sharpie.

I then painted it but didn't worry about the face since it is being cut out. (I made that big enough to stick an adult size head through.)

Next go back over the lines with a sharpie.

Go ahead and cut it out. It is easier to do with a utility knife then scissors but be careful and know that little pieces of foam will go everywhere.

Next try and smooth out the edges and then color the edges black just to makes it cleaner.

Now I did the same process with Percy and James.

On the back I decided I wanted to put handles so you could hold them up and not see the hands in the pictures. To do this I took coordinating ribbon and cut a strip and hot glued both ends to the board. Do this on left and right side and make sure to leave enough room to fit a hand under it.

Finally I took a sharpie and colored in the edges all the way around the trains and in the face spot just to give it a cleaner look.

Here they are all done and ready to be used at the party.

Hope this helps you if you want pictures of everyone at your party. I plan on taking the pictures next to railroad crossing sign that I made and it would be super cute. Also figured we could make double the copies and send everyone their picture with their thank you card.

Here are just a couple pictures of the booth in action. I was so happy with how they turned out. The colors popped and everyone loved em esp the birthday boy. Bottom right in Percy. He just wanted to wear them around his neck and be a train the whole time. 

Happy crafting Goonies :D