Gaming DIY Ideas: Mario

Piranha Plant Wine Glasses

What you'll need:

• Red, Green, and White Acrylic Paint
• Wine Glasses

How you'll do it:

1. Clean the outside of the glasses with alcohol, then soap and water.
2. Paint your ravenous plants!
3. Let them dry completely.
4. Place in oven, heat to 350 degrees, and leave them for 30 minutes. 
5. Let cool and you're done! 

If done correctly, your new glasses will be hand wash, and (top rack) dishwasher safe!

Mario Coin Block

What you'll need:

• Cardboard
• Tape or Glue
• These PDF Image Files: 1, 2, 3

How you'll do it:

1. Print out your Mario PDFs.
2. Cut your cardboard into 6 equal squares.
3. Tape or glue the sides of the cardboard pieces together.
4. Tape or glue the PDFs to the outside of the box. 

It's that easy ladies and gentlemen! Once your done you can hang them up, or just put them on display on your desk or shelf. If you're feeling really creative, you can even leave the top open, and use them as storage!

Hanging Boo Lamp

What you'll need:

• A White Paper Lantern 
• Black and Red Sharpies

How you'll do it: 

1. Get your hands on a white paper lantern, (there's a handy link above).
2. Spend a half hour harnessing your inner Michelangelo, and draw Boo's infamous face on your lantern.
3. Hang it up wherever you want your friends to be jealous!

Bob-omb Lamp

What you'll need:

• Round Lamp Base
• Black, White, and Yellow Spray Paint / Acrylic Paint
• White Lampshade
• Wooden Circles 
• Hot Glue Gun

How you'll do it:

1. Get your round lamp base and paint it black. 
2. Carefully paint the white eyes after the black is completely dry. 
3. Paint your wooden circles yellow
4. Use your hot glue gun to glue the completely dry feet to the base of your lamp.
5. Plug in your new lamp, and show it off!

The white lamp shade is completely up to you. To add a bit of your own pizzazz, you can use a black or yellow lamp shade. If you're feeling particularly artsy, you can even paint a lit fuse on your white lamp shade or add a traditional "wind-up" back to your lamp. 

You can also paint the Chain Chomp and add a little chain to the back, too!

Mario-Themed Dresser

What you'll need:

• Old Dresser
• Red and Blue Spray Paint
• Various Acrylic Paints and Paintbrush 
• OR Super Mario Stickers

How you'll do it:

1. Remove the drawers (and knobs) from the dresser, and spray paint the dresser and knobs red.
2. Take the drawers and spray paint them blue.
3. Once the spray paint dries, paint various Mario images on the front of the drawers.
4. OR, if you're not a distinguished artist, get some Mario-themed stickers to stick on the front, (like these).
5. Place the drawers back in the dresser!

You can honestly do all kinds of things with this! If you find larger stickers, you can place them on the sides of the dresser. You could also go even further and paint the dresser light blue and decorate the whole piece like a Mario level! 

This is great to do with old pieces of furniture, or a cheap dresser easily found at Goodwill!