Clear contact paper (I found a huge roll at Dollar Tree)
Cutting utensil to cut out your scratch-it piece
Metallic acrylic paint
Liquid dish soap
Paint brush (or one of those $.10 cheapo foam brushes from your craft store)
Scratch-it paper
And time! This isn't an easy project to start last minute.
First, you need to make up what you want scratched and print them. Make sure that whatever size you make them fits with what size of actual scratch-it piece you'll make. For example, I had a 2 inch circle punch so I needed to make sure the scratch-it was big enough so that the pink bow was covered. I designed my scratch-it in Illustrator, but you could just as easily do it in Microsoft Word. And because I love you all so much....I included a free gender reveal printable at the bottom of this post just for my readers!
Spread out your clear contact paper on a flat surface and start painting. Depending on what color paint you use, you will most likely have to do 3-5 coats of paint in order to get a thick coat so you can't see the content below the scratch-it. Don't worry though! That's normal. The soap makes the paint pretty streaky so you'll need multiple coats.
Once you're happy with the paint density and it has time to completely dry (at least an hour after the last coat), then you can start cutting out your circles (or whatever shape you've chosen). I used a two inch circle scrapbooking punch and it worked great!
Then all you need to do is peel off the back part of the contact paper and stick it to your scratch-it and wait until the big reveal!
For us, we didn't tell anyone we had made scratch-its and everyone thought that we were still planning on revealing the gender through the cake. Little did they know we didn't trust people to not stick their finger in the cake so we went to plan B and I think it turned out perfect with a little element of surprise!


Are you planning a gender reveal party for either yourself or a friend? I've included a free gender reveal printable just for you! If you need them a different size or want it personalized, shoot me an email to burlapandbabies{at}gmail{dot}com.
Download It's a Boy scratch-it or It's a Girl scratch-it

If you missed the full gender reveal party post, you can catch up and read all about it here.
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