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Brace yourself for this blast from the past. Our New Fifties Themes include the "Greatest Hits" or "Rock-n-Roll" party tableware. Add our colorful Jukebox table centerpiece to your table and your set.
For a little bit of the old chrome feel use our black & white check pattern or mix silver and black table cover.
For buffet tables, use the black and white check table cover with our rock and roll table skirt(9').
Scatter a few Pom Poms or plastic 9" records around a buffet table.
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Balloons are the cheapest way to decorate a room. Use the following colors: Add a few 50's mylars:
Make a balloon bouquet using several solid color balloons
and adding one mylar in the center. Use a
Juke Box Balloon Weight
to hold down your bouquet.
Bring back the
memories of
Add a Rock & Roll Door Curtain between party rooms or at the entrance to main party room.
A must have for your party room! Create a a photo op corner with our new soda shop scene setter or just go with our Rock & Roll border and Checkered wall look.
Blow up some 48" x30" Inflatable Jukeboxes to place in the corners of your party room.
Hang inflatable guitars or guitar piñatas from the ceilings.
Add music note lights or rock n' roll lights to your bar area or outside your front door to greet guest.
Finally, add some cutouts around the party room.
Rock & Roll Cutouts
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Serve up some great food in our rock and roll trays and bowls.
If having a band or setting up a karaoke corner, use the above rock and roll border to create a great backdrop.
Create balloon columns to corner out an area for a dance floor or photo op corner. Here are some tips to create balloon clusters.
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Blow Out! |
Name That Tune | Who Am I? |
Give each participant a Bazooka bubble gum, give them time to chew it. Then have two or three guests compete. At the same time, have them blow the biggest bubble they can. Through the process of elimination you get the winner. |
Divide your guest into teams. Use our Hand Clappers and give one to each team. Play a short tune the 50's the first team to clap their clappers gets a chance to "Name That Tune". Award points. You can set up your tunes in categories by type of tune or by musician or band. Play several rounds and add up the points to determine the winning team. |
Assign each guest a 50's famous person (music, movies, politics, etc.) by taping a small index card to their back. The guest must go around the room asking other guest "Yes" and "No" questions ONLY. The first person who guesses who they are and tells the hostess or yells it out loud wins. |
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Sock Hop Game |
Rock & Roll Trivia |
Piñata |
As each guest arrive they are handed a single sock. Don't tell them what it is for. When your ready to play tell your guest they must mingle around and find the other matching sock to make a pair. The first pair matched wins and ends the game. Another version is to set a time limit on finding your match, this is usually done when there is a large number of guests. All that find their match at the end of the time limit wins a small party favor.
You can find inexpensive socks to use for this at Dollar Stores, Good Will, Resale shops or Garage sales. Just make sure you wash them! |
Divide your guest into teams. Prior to the party prepare trivia questions about the 1950's for your guest. Go round-robin asking each team a question, giving each team at least 5 questions to answer. You can assign points to each correct answer or per round like round 1 they get 1 point, round 2 they get 2 points and so on. The team with the most points at the end of all rounds! Give each winning team member receives a fun party novelty.
Variation: GREASE movie trivia game. |
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Twist or Hand Jive Dance Contest |
Best Dressed Contest |
Photo Opportunity |
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Twist or Hand-Jive Dance Contest For the Hand-Jive contest don't forget to give your guests a hand clapper to cheer on their favorite couple.
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On your invitation, ask guest to dress in their best 50's costume. Have a ballot box somewhere in the party room with small pieces of paper and pencils. Have guest vote for the best dressed couple or individual guy or gal. Sometime in the middle of the party, announce the winners and present a prize.
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Set up a corner of your party room or gym for a photo opportunity. This photo-op corner was done prior to Rock & Roll Scene Setters being available. Now it's much easier to create a great photo-op corner. Don't forget the sticky tack! Use a digital camera or Polaroid to print off pictures. For a kids party you could set up a table for your guest to decorate foam or cardboard frames for their photo. For a school sock hop, you can use a digital camera and set up an area to print them for guest. Use this as a fundraiser and charge per copy of photo. Photos are also great for yearbooks! If having a home party, you can also email or mail a photo back to your guest. |
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Crown A King & Queen |
Elvis Impersonator |
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Crown King and Queen of the Party/Dance with a Purple Queen and King Crown.
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Tell guest on Invitation that you are having an Elvis Impersonator contest. Get a Karaoke machine with Elvis songs and let your guests try their hand on being "The King". |
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For the Ladies Wear your poodle skirt, bobby-sox, scarf and saddle shoes. Add a white or pink light sweater or your honey's letter sweater or jacket. Pull your hair up in a pony tale and tie with a scarf. For a hot look, go with black stretchy Capri pants, a tight sweater (yellow or pink), a scarf around your neck or tied around your waist. Don't forget your bright lipstick. |
For the Youth Girls, poodle skirts are a hit! Wear your poodle skirt with white bobby-sox, scarf and saddle shoes. If you don't have saddle shoes, flats or white sneakers will do. Add a white or pink light sweater. Don't forget your cool glasses.
Boys, jeans with a white t-shirt and hair slicked back. Cuff up the bottom of your jeans one or two times and don't forget your black comb. |
For the Guys Wear high school letter sweaters or jackets, jeans (rolled pant legs) and sneakers. Or how about wearing jeans or leather pants (black), a white t-shirt or tank and your hair slicked back. Don't forget to carry your comb in your back pocket. Or go for the preppy look with slacks, short sleeved dress shirt and bow tie. |
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For the Ladies |
For the Youth |
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| From Pink Ladies to 50's Scarlet view our full line of costumes for ladies. | Pink Poodle Skirt Xs2-4 | T-Bird faux black leather jacket |
| Pink Poodle Skirt L10-12 | Danny T-bird Plus | |
| Poodle Skirt Set Xs 2-4 | King Pin Bowling Shirt L | |
| Poodle Skirt Set Ml10-12 | Blk/wht Bowler Shirt Xxl | |
| 50's Poodle Dress S 4-6 | ||
| 50's Poodle Dress M 8- | ||
| 50's Poodle Dress L12-14 | ||
| Leather Jacket 10-12 |
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PARTY PHOTOS |
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Gifts from the 50's |
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Fill with some of our fun 50's party decor and favors! |
Fun 50's Sites to Visit
The Fifties Web : http://www.fiftiesweb.com/
Rewind the Fifties: http://www.loti.com/
Make this chart topping record cake: Top 40 Cake
Nostalgic Candy! Shop for old time candies at Candy Warehouse!
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