Looking for ways to keep coworkers and customers engaged during the busy summer months? Support your community and promote your business by getting involved with parades, family carnivals and other community events. Check out these simple, fun ways your workplace can be a part of patriotic summer celebrations.
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The 4th of July is a great time for family and friends to enjoy a warm summer day and come together as we celebrate America’s birthday. While patriotic parties are perfect for laid back fun, it can be stressful if you’re the host. Follow these easy tips and you’ll enjoy your party as much as your guests.
Planning a Valentine’s Day party for kids, whether at home or in the classroom is a piece of cake with this easy guide. Check out the following ideas for decorations, games, activities, party favors, and food.
Everybody loves to throw the perfect party, from birthdays and baby showers to holiday get-togethers. With so much to do, sometimes just knowing where to start can be the hardest part. If you follow this simple timeline, including helpful hints and ideas, planning your party will be a piece of cake!
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Written By Penny Warner.
A tropical luau makes a great theme for any type of party – birthday, reunion, housewarming, clambake, barbecue, or even a bridal or baby shower.
By Penny Warner
Start your holiday celebrations with cheer! Choose a distinctive theme, then personalize the party with your favorite traditions.
TREE TRIMMING PARTY AND ORNAMENT EXCHANGE.
Have guests bring ornaments to exchange, then trim the tree over hot cider and munchies.
Invitations: Buy inexpensive ornaments, attach a card with party details written with glitter pens, and mail to guests. Ask them to bring a wrapped ornament to exchange.
Decorations: Choose an ornament theme, such as snowmen, Santa, stockings, stars, or snowflakes. Or try a whimsical theme, such as bags of St. Nick’s Coal (black bubble gum), pink flamingos, seashells, funny frogs, or rubber duckies. Decorate accordingly.
Activities:
Food: Serve an “Appetizer Tree” by sticking cut-up veggies into a Styrofoam cone covered with lettuce. Cut tree-shaped sandwiches using cookie cutters. Serve a tree-shaped cake sprinkled with green tinted coconut and tiny candy ornaments.
Gifts: Buy or make personalized ornaments, tuck them into tiny stockings, and send them with the guests.
By Penny Warner
Host a holiday party for the kids with a cool kid theme, such as Snowmen, Santas, Elves or Reindeer. Then plan the food and fun around it.
Invitation:
Advent Calendar. Make mini advent calendars by cutting small “windows” in a sheet of red paper. Glue sheet onto same size of green paper (except for windows), write party details in each of the windows, secure windows closed with holiday stickers to match the theme. Add a few candies to a large envelope, decorate with stickers, and mail to guests.
Of all the traditional Chinese festivals, the New Year is perhaps the most elaborate, colorful, and important. It is a time for people to congratulate each other on having passed through another year, and as they finish out the old, they welcome in the New Year. Here are some traditional ways Chinese New Year is celebrated:
By Penny Warner
It doesn’t have to be Fat Tuesday to host a Marvelous Mardi Gras Party. Choose a “Bon Temps” theme for a birthday party celebration, baby shower, wedding reception, prom night, or even a simple dinner party. You can order a complete Marti Gras party kit, with hats, horns, balloons, beads, and carnevale masks, and then add your own special touches to personalize it for your friends or family. Turn up the Zydeco music and laissez les bon temps rouler!
Written By Penny Warner.
Your child's first birthday is a once-in-a-lifetime occasion that you'll want to share with family and friends. Here are some tips for celebrating this special event, with ideas for two complete party themes!
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Party favors are a great way to thank your guests for coming, and favors leave them with a memento of a great time. For a special touch personalize them to coordinate with your party theme. Here are some suggestions for matching party themes and favors.
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Treat the birthday girl like royalty at a Princess Birthday Party! For added fun, make it a slumber party and create a night in a fantasy castle.
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For a cool and creative birthday party theme, host a Crafty Kids Party! It's a fun, easy, and inexpensive way to celebrate the Birthday Honoree while engaging the guests in creative hands-on activities. Simply provide a variety of art materials and inspired craft kits, set up some easels and tables, and let the budding artists put their imaginative energy to work. Everything from the invitations to the party favors are sure to be priceless!
By Penny Warner
Turning sixteen is an exciting rite of passage celebrated around the world. This milestone event signals that your little girl is growing up. Help her celebrate her Sweet Sixteen, Bat Mitzvah, or Quinceanera with a sweetheart party that commemorates this special time.
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By Penny Warner
Thanks to state-of-the-art TVs, pay-per-view, and DVDs, the Movie/TV Party has become a popular way of entertaining friends. It’s also an easy party to plan when you follow this simple how-to guide and use your choice of over 125 time-saving party theme packs from Oriental Trading Company.
By Penny Warner
You can turn your child’s birthday into a treasure chest of fun and surprises with this loot-loaded party idea! In fact, you could pack a whole party in the treasure chest!
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Hosting a Do-It-Yourself Wedding reception is more personalized and a piece of cake when you add the right party details. You can hold it anywhere such as your home or backyard, a local community center, church meeting room or banquet hall, country club, school auditorium, museum, restaurant, or winery. Here are some tips for planning the perfect wedding reception, shower, or rehearsal dinner.
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Today anyone can host a baby shower, and anyone can be invited, including men. Simply choose a time that's convenient for the expectant mother, and host a brunch, luncheon, afternoon tea, or dessert shower.
Written By Penny Warner.
Yo-ho-ho, it’s a pirate party for ye swabs! Climb aboard the Jolly Roger Pirate Ship – we're headed for Pirate's Cove for a hearty party with our mates.
By Penny Warner
Put the “Boo!” in your Halloween bash and create your own hip and happening Haunted House.
Invitations
Ransom Note: Glue colorful foam letters on a sheet of gray foam cut like a tombstone to make a personalized ransom note. Place in a large envelope, along with creepy tattoos, fake scars, plastic body parts, glow in the dark snakes or other scary stuff and mail to unsuspecting guests.
Trick or Treat Bags: Write party details on trick or treat bags using glow-in-the-dark markers. Place inside a large envelope, along with Halloween candies or costume accessories. Write “Open in the dark!” on the outside of the envelope, decorate with stickers and mail to guests.
Surrounded by grave coworkers? Want to bring your business to life? Halloween is a great opportunity raise employee spirits and have a little workday fun! Halloween promotions can draw traffic to your business and leave customers, employees and the community with a haunting good impression. Check out these fun ideas for celebrating Halloween at work.
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By Penny Warner
Hosting a final farewell to school days doesn’t require a lot of pomp and circumstance. Just follow these easy tips to make your graduation celebration the top of its class.
