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Use these inexpensive masks and a permanent marker to invite your guests.

Attach a printed note to  beads and hand deliver or place in a colorful envelope.

Use a black permanent marker and write your invite on the inside of these crowns, flatten and mail or hand deliver.

Mardi Gras Paper Crowns Asst. (12 count)

Costume Contest 

On your invitation make sure to tell your guest to wear a costume. About halfway through the evening announce the winner. 

Now voting can be done by the hostess/host only, or have guest write in their choice, collect, tally and announce a winner.

Select a Mardi Gras term or phrase like "French Mardi Gras", "Fat Tuesday" or "French Quarters".

Give each guest a piece of paper and pen and start a timer for 1 minute or whatever amount of time you think feasible. 

Guest must try to make as many words as they can from the term used.

The guest with the most correct words win. Be prepared for ties, so have a few prizes handy. 

Create a carnival game where you toss doubloons  into shot glasses. Use plastic shot glasses and mark them with colored sharpies or paint.  Mark three cups green, two cups purple and one gold, leave four clear. You may have to tape cups down or fill with a little sand

(or dried rice) to keep from tipping. 

Clear is worth 1 pts.

Green is worth 2 pt.

Purple is worth 3 pts.

Gold is worth 5 pts.

Give each player  6 doubloons  (representing January 6th the start of Carnival Season). 

You can have two guests play against each other. Give winners a prize or beads.

Crown a King & Queen of the Party

How many beads can you get? That's the object of most Mardi Gras parade goers.

Create a game for your guest in which they get beads. The person with the most beads at the end of the evening wins a prize.

Two options are:

1. Start each guest off with 6 bead necklaces.  While talking to another party guest, you try to get them to say the word "BEAD". If you succeed you get to take one of their bead necklaces.   You can choose another Mardi Gras term as well or assign a word to each of the three colors of Mardi Gras.

2. Use this in conjunction with trivia questions. Various times throughout the party shout out a trivia question, whoever gets it right gets a bead necklace.

Create trivia cards and play in teams or play rounds with couples until you have a winner.

You can start with simple trivia questions like:

1. What does Mardi Gras mean?

2. What are the colors of Carnival Celebrations?

3. What item is found in the Kings Cake?

4. What day starts the Carnival Celebration?

5. What is the name given to the private clubs that organize Mardi Gras events?

Then start adding harder ones. Here is a link to some Mardi Gras/Carnival History and terms.

History of Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras Trivia Questions

This can be a fun crowning ceremony in which the host and hostess crowns the King & Queen of the party. 

Determining who gets this honor can be done in conjunction with the costume contest, winners of the Trivia game, the guest who get the cake pieces with the King's babies in it.

You could also do a simple name drawing for the ladies and fellows. 

Create Decorative Mask

 Create A Carnival Float

Pass the Baby 

Using our metallic color mask, have kids create their own wild Mardi Gras Mask. They can add glitter, feathers, sequins and more. I removed the elastic, punched two small holes and attached and hot glued a thin wooden dowel for a handle.

Start with metallic mask and glue dowel in place. Let dry. Then set up a crafting table with glitter, feathers, beads, cording, sequins and craft glue. Let your guest be creative.

Finished Design is

to the left.

Save shoe boxes or ask guest to bring shoe boxes to decorate.  Take the lid off and turn the box upside down to decorate. The lid slips onto side of the box to create the back of the float.  Kids can paint, glue material or colorful paper strips onto the boxes. Provide lots of craft supplies like sequins, glitter, ribbons, stickers, etc for them to decorate with.  Let them dry while you play games and eat. Later have a parade, let the kids hold their floats and parade around the room.  

Like "Hot Potato", using a small baby doll that resembles a Kings Cake  baby.

(Do not use our King Cake Babies they are not recommended for children due to their very small size. Use a larger toy doll for this game.)

Play till there is one player left who is crowned the KING.  Use our Jeweled Crown or Mardi Gras Crown.

Face Painting

Mardi Gras Coloring

 Piñata

Set up a station to face paint on some fabulous designs for the celebration.  

Mardi Gras Mask Piñata

Mardi Gras Jester 10-12

Mardi Gras Buccaneer (s)

Mardi Gras Man Xl

Hats - Sequin Jester, Berets, Derbies Headbands, Royal King or Queen Crowns. 

Mylar & Other Wigs

Mardi Gras Wrist Streamer

2010 Gold Glitter Glasses

Adorn your neck

Beads

Glow Necklaces

LED Necklaces

Boas

Leis

 

Mardi Gras Crown Beads

Mardi Gras Bow Tie

It's a tradition "not" to show your face at Mardi Gras.

Masks

Metallic masks, sequin masks or glasses, and  feather masks for you and your guests. 

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