For my recent birthday I wanted to create my own photo booth with an 80s theme. Ordinarily, we’d go out to a safari park or similar for a birthday outing, but since 2020 is the year of “different”, I chose to embrace different! So, I planned a day of eighties silliness that included a photo booth (and loads of school disco worthy tunes!).

So, I searched Etsy for a sparkly backdrop and quickly found a cheap one (£6.49). Since I was going with an 80s theme, my son and I set about making some posters – I did go all out and buy new stencils and day-glo paper, any excuse to get more stationary, but these are an optional extra! We had great fun making the posters….I may have spent too much time enjoying it!

I set my camera and a flash up properly, but it could easily be done with a phone and some window light. I believe you can get photo booth apps, but a filter and frame in the Instagram app would do the job really well. I edited my photo in Snapseed, which is my preferred phone editing app.

Set up the self timer, grab a silly inflatable accessory (less than a tenner for a set of 5 brilliant ones on Amazon – guitar, sax, microphone, keyboard, ghetto blaster!), dress in ridiculous clothes and shimmy on back to the decade that fashion forgot 😂

Find an excuse and set up you own photo booth. Fun for all the family and really easy to do.

Thanks for reading. Let me know if you give it a try. Daft clothes optional.

Clare x