Breakfast in Bed Happy Birthday Tray

When we have birthdays at our house, I always try to make them be a special day. I always pull out all of my birthday decorations, the banners, the blocks, the gifts, and even the sign for the front door. At times, we’ve blown up a bunch of balloons or hung crepe paper across their door for the birthday boy to wake up to, but we haven’t done that for a few years. There are so many fun, simple, and inexpensive things you can do to make a birthday be special. A new tradition that I am starting with my family is breakfast in bed. Now, I realize that this is going to take some dedication on my part, because that means I have to not only be out of bed before my boys on their birthdays, but I also have to be cooking early in the morning. Both are things that never happen at our house. I usually don’t get out of bed until at least a couple of kids are up! How about you? Do you get out of bed before your kids? Anyway, since I’ll be serving breakfast in bed, I decided that I needed a way to serve said breakfast without spilling it all over, so I decided to make this fun Breakfast in Bed Happy Birthday Tray.

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Breakfast in Bed Happy Birthday Tray Supplies:

Bed Tray (I got mine at Ikea for around $10)
Holographic Vinyl
Transfer Tape
Cut File
Cricut Explore Air 2 or Cricut Maker
12 x 24 Standard Grip Mat

Once I had all my supplies together, I uploaded my file into Cricut Design Space. I measured my tray and sized the cut file to be the size I needed for the tray.

Then I clicked Make It. I placed a 12 x 24 sheet of holographic vinyl on the mat and started cutting the design.

Once the design was cut, I used the weeding tools to weed the design.

Once weeded, I applied transfer tape to the top of the design.

I figured out where I wanted to place the design on the tray.

Then I peeled the backing off.

And placed the design on the tray. Then I used my Cricut scraper to smooth it out.

Once I had it all smoothed out, I carefully removed the transfer tape.

Then it was done! Start to finish, this project probably only took me about 20 minutes, and that included designing the cut file. I love how fun and simple it is to add vinyl to something to make it the project I want it to be!

I just missed one of my sons birthdays at the first of October, but I’m looking forward to January when one of my boys has a birthday and I can use this! I’m pretty sure they’ll be excited about it!