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Showing posts with label graduation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label graduation. Show all posts

10 Unique Graduation Party Themes

Throw a unique Graduation party that will stand out from the sea of parties your graduate and their guests will attend this year.  With these 10 unique graduation party themes, you'll throw a fun party that will have memories for years to come.
Throw a unique Graduation party that will stand out from the sea of parties your graduate and their guests will attend this year.  With these 10 unique graduation party themes, you'll throw a fun party that will have memories for years to come.

Social Distancing DIY Photo Congratulations Banner

Send a social distancing Congratulations to your favorite graduate or amazing person with this photo Congratulations banner. Find complete directions on how to make a mail this by clicking here!
Send a social distancing Congratulations to your favorite graduate or amazing person with this photo Congratulations banner. Find complete directions on how to make a mail this by clicking here! #socialdistancing #graduationbanner #congratulationsbanner #diypartymomblog

Easy Graduation Party Favors

Whether you need a graduation gift for your student to give to their fellow classmates, or a quick and easy graduation party favor, this cute bear screams "great job!" and is the perfect answer to your graduation party needs.
Whether you need a graduation gift for your student to give to their fellow classmates, or a quick and easy graduation party favor, this cute bear screams "great job!" and is the perfect answer to your graduation party needs.

Graduation Party Lights


Shine some light on your graduate with these fun Graduation party lights.  The fun faces will happily show through your graduation party and make everyone smile.
Shine some light on your graduate with these fun Graduation party lights.  The fun faces will happily show through your graduation party and make everyone smile.

How Well Do You Know? Quiz Party Game

This party game is a great addition to a birthday or graduation party. With fun questions for your guests about the party girl or boy, everyone will show off their knowledge and enjoy getting to know the honoree.
This party game is a great addition to a birthday or graduation party. With fun questions for your guests about the party girl or boy, everyone will show off their knowledge and enjoy getting to know the honoree.

Printable Graduation Kiss Labels

Add some sweet fun to your Graduation party with these printable graduation kiss labels.  These labels are a quick and easy addition to your dessert table or to your party favors.  Your graduate and your guests will love the chocolate fun!
Add some sweet fun to your Graduation party with these printable graduation kiss labels.  These labels are a quick and easy addition to your dessert table or to your party favors.  Your graduate and your guests will love the chocolate fun! #graduation #graduationparty #hersheykiss #kissprintables #diypartymomblog

The Places You'll Go Party Favors

Whether it be for kindergarten graduation, high school graduation, or college graduation, Dr Seuss' Oh The Places You'll Go is such a fun graduation party theme. While the party decorations and ideas flow easy, the party favors are a little harder to travel with.  Here are some great Oh The Places You'll go Party favor ideas to get you started.
Whether it be for kindergarten graduation, high school graduation, or college graduation, Dr Seuss' Oh The Places You'll Go is such a fun graduation party theme. While the party decorations and ideas flow easy, the party favors are a little harder to travel with.  #partyfavor #theplacesyouwillgo #diypartymomblog

May Reasons to Celebrate and Decorate with iPhone Wallpaper Freebies

There are so many fun reasons to celebrate in May.  So celebrate and decorate to your heart's content, but be sure to use these iPhone wallpaper freebies to decorate your iPhone for all of May's special moments and parties.
There are so many fun reasons to celebrate in May.  So celebrate and decorate to your heart's content, but be sure to use these iPhone wallpaper freebies to decorate your iPhone for all of May's special moments and parties.

My Favorite Pins of the Week 4.12.16

Looking for some great party ideas? These are my favorite pins from the hundreds that I pin and repin every week.  Check them out for some great ideas to enhance your next birthday party, gift giving, or just make today a little extra sweet.

Looking for some great party ideas? These are my favorite pins from the hundreds that I pin and repin every week.  Check them out for some great ideas to enhance your next birthday party, gift giving, or just make today a little extra sweet.


Homemade Fudge Striped Cookies
Homemade Fudge Stripe Cookies
Soccer Pinata Cake
Soccer Pinata Cake


When You Thought I Wasn't Looking Quote
When You Thought I Wasn't Looking Quote

Minnie Mouse Hair
Minnie Mouse Hairs
Star Wars Light Saber Motion Lamp
Star Wars Motion Lamp


Minecaraft Candy Bar Wrapper
Minecraft Candy Bar Wrapper

How to Avoid Long Lines at Disney World
Avoid Long Lines
Teacher Appreciation Free Printable -- Thanks for Sticking With Us This Year
Teacher Appreciation Printable
Batman Themed Wedding
Batman Themed Wedding

Beauty and the Beast Rose Tealight
Rose Tealight
Star Wars Printable Masks
Star Wars Masks
Superman Bookends
Superman Bookends

Divergent Kit Kat Cake
Divergent Kit Kat Cake
Harry Potter Snitch Graduation Cap Decoration
HP Snitch Graduation Cap
How to Make Candy Clay
Make Candy Clay

If you are looking for more great party ideas, be sure to follow me on Pinterest to see everything that I pin.


5 Graduation Gift Ideas and Dare to Share Blog Linky


Fun Graduation Party Guest Book Idea


Throw your graduate a fun graduation party with a themed guest book that's as unique and fun as they are.  By adding sentiments from guests in attendance and those who live afar, this book will be a great memory for years to come.
Throw your graduate a fun graduation party with a themed guest book that's as unique and fun as they are.  By adding sentiments from guests in attendance and those who live afar, this book will be a great memory for years to come.

Great Finds for your Graduation Party


All you'll need to throw a fun graduation party for your favorite Senior from the small businesses of Etsy. There are decorations, party treats, favors, cookies, desserts, printables, and so much more.
All you'll need to throw a fun graduation party for your favorite Senior from the small businesses of Etsy. There are decorations, party treats, favors, cookies, desserts, printables, and so much more.

Awesome and Unique Candy Graduation Party Favor


Celebrate the End of School or your child's Graduation with an awesome and unique candy party favor.  This graduation gum head will be the life of the party and add a little bit of fun and sweetness to the end of school.

Celebrate the End of School or your child's Graduation with an awesome and unique candy party favor.  This graduation gum head will be the life of the party and add a little bit of fun and sweetness to the end of school.

Keep Calm and Graduate Free Printable and Dare to Share Linky Party


Hi Friends!  It's been a crazy week here and I've been out of it for way too long!


My family surprised me by all 35 of them showing up for Drama Queen's graduation last Saturday.  We had a crazy week of fun, excitement, crazy weather, and celebrating.


The weather got so crazy we ended up having to change her Graduation Mustache Bash inside right after setting the whole thing up.  It made for some sad pictures, but a wild party tale.  Check out the recap at our Mustache Bash Party round up here.

My fellow co-host for Dare to Share, Pam from Pam's Party and Practical Tips shared some great tips this week from last week's Dare to Share party.  I'm so sorry I missed all the fun, but looking over the links, you had some great ideas and projects that you shared.  Thanks.


I know I definitely want to take a moment and check out Pam's perfect Bacon recipe.  We always have waffles, french toast, bacon, and sausage for Sunday lunch after church, so making bacon easily and perfectly will really come in handy this weekend.


 

What have you been up to this week?  I can't wait to see!


Mustache Bash Graduation Party


Well, she did it.  There were moments in the past thirteen years when I never thought we'd get here, and moments in the past week when I wish we never had.  But this past week Drama Queen graduated high school.


We were so excited and thrilled that we decided to throw her a Graduation Mustache Bash...in the middle of a hurricane.  Okay, maybe not, but as upset as I was, it sure felt like that.

We live in the Banana Belt of Colorado.  There are 360 days of sunshine here.  It really never rains.  Well, this week, it's poured, hailed, snowed, and thunderstormed (is that a word, because it should be after that experience...) almost every single day.  What the heck?!?!

When we headed to the park to start setting up for the party, it was overcast, but we thought the weather would go around the mountains and hit to the east of us.  We went ahead and set up anyway...

 We started with a green tablecloth in neon colors and added the sucker tree that Dear Hubby built for me a few summers ago.  To spice up the sucker tree, we added blue, green, and mustache washi tape to the sides of the arms.  I really love how it turned out and wish I had gotten a few more pictures of it.

On the sucker tree I put the chocolate mustache suckers that I made and some brownie pops.  Couldn't not have brownies at our dessert table with Daredevil's brownie store dream still looming over our baking ideas.


On the outer ends of the table, I set up two Wilton 4-Tier Stacked Cupcake Tower.  To decorate the stands, we put alternating green and blue washi tape on the edges and used some mustache wrapping paper to line the inside of the stands.

In the background, you can just barely view our mustache table.  We decorated it with a white tablecloth covered by a mustache overlay table cloth found at Hobby Lobby.  Then we added kindergarten and senior pictures of Drama Queen and my graduation subway art photo.  This was the greeting table where guests could gather their tattoo mustaches for the party and pick up the How Well Do You Know game quiz.  We also invited guests to sign her Mustache book as a memorial they were there and to give her advice and fun wishes.


We died the cupcakes blue and frosted them with green frosting on half, and alternated the colors on the other half of the cupcakes.

We wanted to find mustache cupcake toppers, but they were all too dang expensive at the party stores for just a few, so instead we purchased a Mustache punch and used green, blue, black, and white card stock glued to toothpicks to make mustache cupcake toppers.

Surrounding the sucker tree, we placed the mustache truffles that we made.

as well as chocolate covered bacon, mustache chocolate oreos, and sugar cookies purchased from Walmart for variety.

We scattered the Reese's Graduation caps all over the tables and used the mustache place holders and table cards to tell the guests what each of the desserts were being offered.

We offered Cherry Limeade, Lemonade, and mini water bottles dressed up with Mustaches Printed Duct Tape to drink.

Once we got everything all set up, the wind and rain started up.  We tried to stand and block the wind to be able to get a few pictures taken, but everything kept trying to blow away.  I can't tell you how frustrated I was, but finally we called it and moved the party back to our house.


We tore down the party and reset it up with all the guests hovering over all shoulders in about 10 minutes time.  Once we got home, we had so many guests and family in the house I'm sure the fire marshal would have been having a heart attack.

But we went ahead and played our games, enjoyed some great sweets, and celebrated our Drama Queen in full stash style.

Sometimes you just have to roll with the weather, despite three months of planning and plotting for the perfect party.  We still had a good time and she loved it.

Easy Reeses Graduation Cap Candies

With all the mustache items that I have going on at our Mustache Bash, I thought we needed a little bit of graduation poking it's head into the party.  Plus, I really love Reese's peanut butter cups, and I couldn't find a way to turn them into mustaches, so instead we created these easy Reese's graduation caps.



Since Drama Queen's party colors are blue and green, we collected all the Reese's minis on clearance after Easter.  I really wish Hershey's would start making the different colors of Reese's and Hershey kisses in colors available all year long for parties and weddings, but when we went to the Snack and Candy Expo a few years ago and brought the idea up to them, they didn't take us up on the idea.  Hello Hershey, still waiting!!


I didn't want to make the all chocolate Reese's graduation caps that I've seen around since the party is outside and I didn't want a melted mess on my hands, so instead I used the Reese's mini for the base, some card stock for the mortar board, and Confetti Hearts Mulit Colored Sprinkles for some pizazz on the top of the hat.


I used my Fiskars 12 Inch Portable Scrapbooking Trimmer to cut 1 1/2 inch squares out of blue, green, and gold card stock.  Then I glued them all together to form graduation caps.

I scattered the caps all over the table to bring in a little graduation to the stache bash in a fun and easy way.