A 60's Party makes a great party theme!
Celebrate the decade of the Beatles, Laugh In and Woodstock!
Invitations:
Tie-Dye Paper Designs
Decorations:
Love beads hanging in the doorways
Daisies
Peace signs
Beatles posters and photos
Photos from Woodstock Bands
45 records
Lava Lamps
Colored light bulbs
Incense and candles
Music:
Sixties Music, of course!
60’s Party Games and Activities:
Have everyone dress in 60's attire and award prizes for the best
Apply temporary tattoos of daisies or peace signs
Make daisy chains (necklaces, bracelets and headbands out of flowers)
Pass out flower crowns (use a needle to thread them)
Tie-dye t-shirts
Learn some sixties dances
Play Laugh-In reruns on the TV (or other classic 60’s comedy tv shows – Addams Family, Munsters, Bewitched, Beverly Hillbillies…)
Play Name that tune from the 60’s
Party Favors:
Tiedye t-shirts or other tiedye items
60’s Party Supplies:
Visit our Party Store for 60’s Tie-Dye Invitations and Woodstock Party Supplies.
60’s Birthday Cake Ideas:
Daisy Cake
Peace Sign Cake
Tie-Dye Cake
Thursday, March 12, 2009
50's Party
A 50's party! Let's Rock Around the Clock Tonight!
Here are some great ideas for you to use when planning your 50's party or sock hop! Enjoy!
Invitations:
Cut out black card stock to look like a 45 record. Create a label and put your invitation details on the label. Don't want to do it yourself? Find something similar at our party store...
Cut out a poodle skirt shape from pink card stock, add a black poodle sticker. Write your invitation details on the back.
Decorations:
Use balloons and streamers in Black and Hot Pink. Need more colors? Add Purple and Turquoise.
Cut out card stock in the shape of 45 records, decorate with glitter and hang on the walls or from the ceiling.
Decorate with toy cars that look 1950’s vintage
Decorate with roller skates and soda fountain glasses
Music:
Elvis
American Graffitti Soundtrack
Jerry Lee Lewis
There are some great compilation CD’s available!
Food: (other than the usual chips/dips, etc.)
think...carhops/soda fountains...
If serving a meal, hotdogs and hamburgers (serve in red plastic baskets)
Ice Cream Floats
Activities:
Have guests wear costumes (Poodle Skirts, bowling shirts, preppy) and award a prize.
Hire an Elvis Impersonator (1950’s version Elvis)or have a friend dress as Elivs and perform
Hula Hoop Contest
Bubble-Gum Blowing Contest
I Love Lucy Trivia Contest (Give an I Love Lucy DVD as a prize)
Have a Sock Hop with dancing
Have someone teach everyone how to do the popular dances from the 1950's
Prizes:
I Love Lucy DVD
Happy Days TV Show DVD
1950’s Music CD
Set of soda fountain glasses
Favors:
Fuzzy Dice
Anything with an icon from the 1950’s on it (50’s Elvis, Lucy, etc.)
Party Supplies:
Need Party Supplies? Visit our party store for 1950's themed party supplies, including invitations, decorations, balloons, and favors!
Here are some great ideas for you to use when planning your 50's party or sock hop! Enjoy!
Invitations:
Cut out black card stock to look like a 45 record. Create a label and put your invitation details on the label. Don't want to do it yourself? Find something similar at our party store...
Cut out a poodle skirt shape from pink card stock, add a black poodle sticker. Write your invitation details on the back.
Decorations:
Use balloons and streamers in Black and Hot Pink. Need more colors? Add Purple and Turquoise.
Cut out card stock in the shape of 45 records, decorate with glitter and hang on the walls or from the ceiling.
Decorate with toy cars that look 1950’s vintage
Decorate with roller skates and soda fountain glasses
Music:
Elvis
American Graffitti Soundtrack
Jerry Lee Lewis
There are some great compilation CD’s available!
Food: (other than the usual chips/dips, etc.)
think...carhops/soda fountains...
If serving a meal, hotdogs and hamburgers (serve in red plastic baskets)
Ice Cream Floats
Activities:
Have guests wear costumes (Poodle Skirts, bowling shirts, preppy) and award a prize.
Hire an Elvis Impersonator (1950’s version Elvis)or have a friend dress as Elivs and perform
Hula Hoop Contest
Bubble-Gum Blowing Contest
I Love Lucy Trivia Contest (Give an I Love Lucy DVD as a prize)
Have a Sock Hop with dancing
Have someone teach everyone how to do the popular dances from the 1950's
Prizes:
I Love Lucy DVD
Happy Days TV Show DVD
1950’s Music CD
Set of soda fountain glasses
Favors:
Fuzzy Dice
Anything with an icon from the 1950’s on it (50’s Elvis, Lucy, etc.)
Party Supplies:
Need Party Supplies? Visit our party store for 1950's themed party supplies, including invitations, decorations, balloons, and favors!
Night Under the Stars Party
A Night under the Stars Party can be a very elegant event and is a very popular theme for prom season and sweet sixteen celebrations.
You can also combines some of these ideas with a campout themed party.
Here are a few ideas to get you started with your party...
Invitations:
Make a star shaped invitation
Include star shaped confetti
Decorations:
Balloons in Black, Silver and Dark Blue
Other decorations (tablecloths, chair covers, etc.) accented in black, silver and dark blue
If indoors, hang metallic stars from the ceiling.
Sprinkle tables with star shaped confetti
Activities:
Set up a telescope for star gazing
Favors:
Star Charts
You can also combines some of these ideas with a campout themed party.
Here are a few ideas to get you started with your party...
Invitations:
Make a star shaped invitation
Include star shaped confetti
Decorations:
Balloons in Black, Silver and Dark Blue
Other decorations (tablecloths, chair covers, etc.) accented in black, silver and dark blue
If indoors, hang metallic stars from the ceiling.
Sprinkle tables with star shaped confetti
Activities:
Set up a telescope for star gazing
Favors:
Star Charts
Around the World Teen Party
An Around the World teen party make a great teen party theme. It is something you can totally customize. Just pick a few countries to help you with your decorating, food choices and activities!
You can also make turn this into other teen party ideas by having an “Around the USA” party if you want to adapt this idea to the USA, you could do that as well – serve Memphis BBQ, Tex Mex, Philly Cheesesteaks, Chicago Pizza, etc.
Here are a few ideas of countries, activities and teen party game ideas to go along with them to get you started!
Italy
Decorate with candles in wine bottles, red and white checkered tablecloth
Too many wonderful food options here!
For a fun activity, try making your own pizza dough – throwing it up in to the air and everything!
China
Decorate with paper lanterns, fans, chopsticks – and use lots of the color red!
Serve food with chopsticks and make sure you include fortune cookies
For an activity, give everyone a cup, a pile of little marshmallows, and a pair of chopsticks. Then let everyone race to see who can get the most little marshmallows into their cup using their chopsticks within a minute.
Mexico
Decorate with paper flowers, jalepeno pepper lights, Mexican blankets, piñatas, sombreros
Have a pepper eating contest
Ireland
Decorate with green, rainbows, shamrocks and pots of gold
Go on an M&M Hunt (rainbows…)
Germany
Decorate with beer steins, cookoo clocks, hummels
Have a German sausage tasting
Learn a German dance
USA
Patriotic bunting in Red, White and Blue
Hamburgers, French Fries, Milkshakes! Yum!
A cute idea would also be too go 1950’s! and then you could have a hula hoop contest!
Another Note:
For all the countries, check with your travel agent our a tourist bureau for that country for free posters!
You can also hang up flags from the countries as a great decoration!
You can also make turn this into other teen party ideas by having an “Around the USA” party if you want to adapt this idea to the USA, you could do that as well – serve Memphis BBQ, Tex Mex, Philly Cheesesteaks, Chicago Pizza, etc.
Here are a few ideas of countries, activities and teen party game ideas to go along with them to get you started!
Italy
Decorate with candles in wine bottles, red and white checkered tablecloth
Too many wonderful food options here!
For a fun activity, try making your own pizza dough – throwing it up in to the air and everything!
China
Decorate with paper lanterns, fans, chopsticks – and use lots of the color red!
Serve food with chopsticks and make sure you include fortune cookies
For an activity, give everyone a cup, a pile of little marshmallows, and a pair of chopsticks. Then let everyone race to see who can get the most little marshmallows into their cup using their chopsticks within a minute.
Mexico
Decorate with paper flowers, jalepeno pepper lights, Mexican blankets, piñatas, sombreros
Have a pepper eating contest
Ireland
Decorate with green, rainbows, shamrocks and pots of gold
Go on an M&M Hunt (rainbows…)
Germany
Decorate with beer steins, cookoo clocks, hummels
Have a German sausage tasting
Learn a German dance
USA
Patriotic bunting in Red, White and Blue
Hamburgers, French Fries, Milkshakes! Yum!
A cute idea would also be too go 1950’s! and then you could have a hula hoop contest!
Another Note:
For all the countries, check with your travel agent our a tourist bureau for that country for free posters!
You can also hang up flags from the countries as a great decoration!
Celebrity Twenty Questions
Celebrity Twenty Questions is a great party game that is easy, fun and thought provoking!
This game is fun to play at Oscar or Hollywood themed parties.
To Play:
The person starting the game will think of the name of a famous person. The other guests can ask up to 20 "yes" or "no" questions to try to figure out the name of the famous person.
Play continues until each person has had a turn to field twenty questions.
The person who correctly guesses the most names is the winner.
Alteration:
Give the initials of the celebrity as a clue at the start of each round - this will make the game a bit easier.
This game is fun to play at Oscar or Hollywood themed parties.
To Play:
The person starting the game will think of the name of a famous person. The other guests can ask up to 20 "yes" or "no" questions to try to figure out the name of the famous person.
Play continues until each person has had a turn to field twenty questions.
The person who correctly guesses the most names is the winner.
Alteration:
Give the initials of the celebrity as a clue at the start of each round - this will make the game a bit easier.
Talent Show Sleepover Ideas
The idea of a Talent Show Party is to let everyone get a turn – everyone who wants one that is!
If someone doesn’t want to participate, that is fine. You need good audience members too.
And don’t forget to video!
Talent Show Invitations:
Make a billboard flyer telling about the upcoming talent show. Tell guests to come prepared to do some sort of talent (and give them some suggestions).
Make sure that your guests know that they can help “judge” the event, even if they don’t want to participate.
Some guests may want to team up and come up with "new talents" on the spot!
Decorations:
Hang metallic stars on the walls and from the ceiling
Set up a stage area that will give the performers plenty of room
Talent Show Suggestions for your guests:
Tell a joke
Sing a song
Do a dance
Recite a poem
Do air guitar
Whatever you can think of!
Variation:
A fun variation…instead of a Talent Show…
Have a No Talent, Talent Show! Have a pretend talent show to see who has the least talent! Some ideas are telling (bad) jokes, reciting a (bad) poem, playing with a band (badly – maybe on kazoo’s?), singing (badly) karaoke, magic tricks (badly done), dancing (bad), etc. You can team up players so they can work together if this wish. Give awards for the worst!
More Party Activities:
Play the TV Talk Game. Before the party, record actors on TVS shows. Play the tapes at the party and let your friends try to guess who the voice is.
Learn a new talent! Use a flashlight to make shadows on the wall with your hands in the shapes of animals.
Play Celebrity 20 Questions
For a Slumber Party or Sleepover:
Watch reruns American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, America's Got Talent or other talent shows. Let everyone vote for who like like best.
More Slumber Party Games
Favors:
Autograph Books
If someone doesn’t want to participate, that is fine. You need good audience members too.
And don’t forget to video!
Talent Show Invitations:
Make a billboard flyer telling about the upcoming talent show. Tell guests to come prepared to do some sort of talent (and give them some suggestions).
Make sure that your guests know that they can help “judge” the event, even if they don’t want to participate.
Some guests may want to team up and come up with "new talents" on the spot!
Decorations:
Hang metallic stars on the walls and from the ceiling
Set up a stage area that will give the performers plenty of room
Talent Show Suggestions for your guests:
Tell a joke
Sing a song
Do a dance
Recite a poem
Do air guitar
Whatever you can think of!
Variation:
A fun variation…instead of a Talent Show…
Have a No Talent, Talent Show! Have a pretend talent show to see who has the least talent! Some ideas are telling (bad) jokes, reciting a (bad) poem, playing with a band (badly – maybe on kazoo’s?), singing (badly) karaoke, magic tricks (badly done), dancing (bad), etc. You can team up players so they can work together if this wish. Give awards for the worst!
More Party Activities:
Play the TV Talk Game. Before the party, record actors on TVS shows. Play the tapes at the party and let your friends try to guess who the voice is.
Learn a new talent! Use a flashlight to make shadows on the wall with your hands in the shapes of animals.
Play Celebrity 20 Questions
For a Slumber Party or Sleepover:
Watch reruns American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, America's Got Talent or other talent shows. Let everyone vote for who like like best.
More Slumber Party Games
Favors:
Autograph Books
Makeover Sleepover Ideas
Having a makeover party or spa party is a great teen party theme. It is frequently found on lists of teen slumber party ideas.
Here are some ideas for you!
Take before and after photos of your guests
Give each other manicures
Give each other pedicures
Have plenty of beauty items on hand - facials, masks, cucumbers, moisturizers, etc.
Do some yoga!
Watch some beautiful movies...you know, the true chick flicks...Sleepless in Seattle, Breakfast at Tiffany's, whatever your favorites are!
Play some fun teen party games with a "makeover" theme:
Makeup Artist - You’ll need makeup: lipstick, loose powder and blush. Stay away from things that could injure an eye, such as eye shadow (unless applying with a cotton ball) and no mascara (too scary to try to do!). Divide players into teams. One player is the model, and their teammate is the make up artist. The makeup artist has 2 minutes to put makeup on their model. But must do it blindfolded! The other players who aren’t taking their turn can give out directions on what to do – “higher, lower, over to the left,” etc.!
Suitcase Relay - Who says that a makeover should be limited to your face. Wardrobes can be fun too!
Off Limits - Play this game with words that you would use while doing a makeover...
And most of all, enjoy being with your girlfriends!
Here are some ideas for you!
Take before and after photos of your guests
Give each other manicures
Give each other pedicures
Have plenty of beauty items on hand - facials, masks, cucumbers, moisturizers, etc.
Do some yoga!
Watch some beautiful movies...you know, the true chick flicks...Sleepless in Seattle, Breakfast at Tiffany's, whatever your favorites are!
Play some fun teen party games with a "makeover" theme:
Makeup Artist - You’ll need makeup: lipstick, loose powder and blush. Stay away from things that could injure an eye, such as eye shadow (unless applying with a cotton ball) and no mascara (too scary to try to do!). Divide players into teams. One player is the model, and their teammate is the make up artist. The makeup artist has 2 minutes to put makeup on their model. But must do it blindfolded! The other players who aren’t taking their turn can give out directions on what to do – “higher, lower, over to the left,” etc.!
Suitcase Relay - Who says that a makeover should be limited to your face. Wardrobes can be fun too!
Off Limits - Play this game with words that you would use while doing a makeover...
And most of all, enjoy being with your girlfriends!
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