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Your
guests received the party invitations youve sent out and are looking
forward to coming. Even if all of your guests know each other and theyll
spend the whole time chatting and enjoying the company, its not
always a bad idea to have a few 1950s theme party activities on hand available
for those that are feeling the itch to do something. Here
are some ideas that will fit great within your 50s party theme. 1950s Theme Party Activities #1: Teach your guests to do the Hand Jive. If your hand jive is a little rusty, borrow the movie GREASE from a friend or your local library. They do it at the dance. Kids especially LOVE doing this over and over!
1950s Theme Party Activities #3: This is a GREAT idea for kids: Take the kids to a drive-in movie in your own home! LCD projectors and screens can be rented at your local stage light and sound center. Project the image on a large screen or the side of your house in the backyard. Purchase the red and white popcorn bags at your local restaurant supply store. You can also rent a popcorn machine for the day, if you anticipate several guests. This is especially great because of how wonderful those popcorn machines sound and smell when the corns are popping! Of course you could also opt to make a whole concessions stand (candy, soda, nachos, the works!) If this event is a fundraiser, this is a great way to make some peripheral income. Make a large sign out of cardboard with the name of your drive-in Smith Drive-in, etc. For a special touch, decorate the sign and surrounding entrance with Christmas lights! Decorate the entrance with old movie posters and cardboard, life-sized actor cutouts. Of course make sure that you are playing an appropriate movie such as GREASE or Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Do your best to get the best sound system/stereo you can. It can get pretty noisy with all the chatter, not to mention the horrible acoustics being outdoors. Mark off parking spaces using masking tape and applying it to the floor (assuming it isnt on grass or other non-hard/smooth surface.) Be sure to play a cartoon beforehand. By visiting a larger video store you can often find some older, vintage cartoons such as Woody Woodpecker, Popeye and Bugs Bunny definitely Drive-In movie favorites! If children will be sitting in tables, watching the movie while they eat, you can decorate the tables like different cars (putting wheels on the sides and fun license plates on the backs of each of the chairs.)
1950s Theme Party Activities #6: This is a great game that can passively last throughout the entire party. Create several records to post throughout the party area out of paper or cardboard. However, do not place all of them in easily found locations. Some of them can be in plain view (so that everyone can find a few) but most hide a bit out of site. On each of the records, write a famous 50s decade song along with its corresponding musical artist. Provide for each of your guests to have a copy of a list of all the songs to find. Next to each of the songs, they are to write the artist who wrote the song. Now, many of your guests might be able to write in several of the answers without having to find the records, which is fine. The goal is to be the first to fill out all the artists names by either knowing them outright, finding the record or combinations thereof. You can also instruct them that all completed sheets can be turned in to you by a certain time, then a raffle can be held among all those that are turned in for a prize. A third variation would be to offer a raffle ticket for each correct answer (the more they answer, the better chance theyll have to win a prize at the raffle.) Other 1950s Theme Party Resource Articles1950s Theme Party Decorating Ideas
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