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

Attach a printed note to  Purple/Green/Gold Mardi Gras 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)

Large Event Decor

 Mardi Gras Ball Oval Mask

Accent your Mardi Gras dance floor with this Mardi Gras Oval Mask. Each free-standing cardboard Mardi Gras Oval Mask is 7 feet high x 5 feet wide.

 Custom Creation Circle Arch Mardi Gras

 This Mardi Gras Custom Creation Circle Arch will make the perfect entrance at you Mardi Gras Celebration. Each cardboard arch is 8' 6" high x 10' 5 1/2" wide x 1' deep and is printed on one side. Assembly required.

 Mardi Gras Madness "float" Kit Set/3

Create your own New Orleans parade-like setting with our exclusive custom "Float" standees! Each set includes a Rebel Fish Biker standee (5 feet high x 9 feet wide), Jester standee (8 feet high x 9 feet wide) , and an Imperial Dragon standee (8 feet high x 9 feet wide). Standees come with purple, gold and green fringe. Free standing. Easy assembly.

  Mardi Gras Mask Photo Background Illustrations 48"x134"

Personalized Vinyl Photo Mural

Decorate your your French Quarter themed event with our Mardi Gras Mask Photo Background Illustration. Simply choose the material you would like your Background illustration printed on and choose the size of your illustration from the sizes available in your material. Illustrations are available in cardboard, heavy mural paper, or vinyl. Vinyl illustrations come with grommets for easy hanging, and printed board illustrations require easy assembly.

 Mardi Gras Fabric Bunting Each

 11" Mardi Gras Mask Around Balloons Pkg/100

  Mask & Coins Personalized Banner 24"x72" Attach N Go Banner

Prices as low as $14.99 Quick & Easy to Create Over 1,000 designs to choose from Our exclusive customizing tool allows you to move, rotate and size. Order one, ten or 10,000. Weather-resistant Vinyl Banners Printed on durable 10 ounce white vinyl Includes metal grommets for hanging 7 sizes available.  Also available are Attach N' Go Banners, they are easy as 1, 2, 3! Peel, Place, Enjoy! Printed on safe, low-tack material Perfect for anywhere, no cords or tape needed 3 sizes available.

 Sax Balloon Arch

The Sax Balloon Arch features two cardboard saxophones accented with Marid Gras masks, beads and Bourbon Street signs along with, 6 dozen latex balloons in gold, green and purple. The Sax Balloon Arch includes our Jazz Trio Sound Chip which makes the sound of a jazz band playing a tune. Each of the saxophone balloon arches measures over 9 feet high x 8 feet wide and is perfect for entrances, pictures and more. Helium (not included) required to inflate the balloons to create the arch.Jazz Sax Player Standee and Jazz Trumpet Player sold separately.

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 gold 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 piece with the King's Baby 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 masks, 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 or QUEEN!  

Face Painting

Mardi Gras Coloring

 Piñata

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

 Mardi Gras - Gold and Purple Mask Pinata

  ardi Gras Mask Pinata

Mardi Gras Queen Adult Costume

Mardi Gras King Adult Costume

 Mardi Gras Jester Parade Costume

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

 Mardi Gras Jester Hat

Mardi Gras Hair Extensions

Adorn your neck

Beads

 Glow Jewelry

 LED Necklaces

 Boas

Mardi Gras Crown Beads

  Jumbo Mardi Gras Glitz 'N Gleam 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. 

Purple LED Sunglasses

  Mardi Gras Feather Tiara

 Purple Kings Crown

PARTY  MUSIC

PARTY MENU

Kings Cake History & Recipe

Cajun Recipes

Low-Fat Tuesday Recipes

Adult New Orleans Beverages

Hurricane Drink Ingredients

Mardi Gras Deco Pics Pkg/24 - Decorate your cupcakes Mardi Gras Cake Deco Pics. This package of 24 includes pink, purple, yellow and green see-through masks with Mylar on each side.

Mardi Gras Food Picks

  Fleur De Lis Drink Stirrers