I had such a fun time brainstorming for this party. Figuring out what we should create for the actual reveal was so much harder than we expected, because we loved so many of the options we had come up with. (I think the runner up was a puppet popping out from a warp pipe, done with hydraulics.) The male/female pairing in Super Mario Bros is Mario and Princess Peach, but their colors of red and pink weren't different enough for the color scheme I wanted (and I've always liked Luigi better), so we decided on green and pink. I had some brick fabric on hand, so I cut a large strip and sketched out a question block. (You could print out an image of the question mark and use it as a stencil. I hand-sketched, but a stencil would have made it so much easier.) I let it dry and went over it again, probably about three layers of each color. The nice thing is it is just yellow, white and black. Easy peasy. My delightful husband took the initiative to use up s...