Soccer Party
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Invitations for a Soccer Party include: design in shape of a soccer ball or goal, use your favorite team’s colors, incorporate photos of favorite players Decorations for a Soccer Party include: soccer gear (balls, goals, jersey), balloons in team colors, Go Team! or “Great Season” signs and banners, photos of favorite players from magazines or large posters Games & Activities for a Soccer Party include: play a game of soccer, silly soccer drills or obstacle course, soccer trivia, guess the final score of a game you’re watching match soccer stats to photos or names of famous players, design fantasy teams (current pro players or any player from history) show a soccer highlights or bloopers video, have guests sign a ball for the birthday child or coach Arts & Crafts for a Soccer Party include: make a soccer collage using pictures from magazines, make pennants & go team banners Foods for a Soccer Party include: pizza, sandwiches, potato salad, string cheese chips & dips soda, juice or sports drinks, rectangular cake decorated like a soccer field or cupcakes with plastic soccer ball or players. Favors for a Soccer Party include: trading cards, soccer decals and stickers, kids’ sports magazine, Great Season certificates for players, trophies or pins, Framed action photo of each player (take photos at their games).
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Fireworks
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F i r e w o r k s
Fireworks can add an extra sparkle to a birthday. This article will give you some good advice to help the evening go with a bang!
Here are some pyro related ideas to add to the fireworks themselves:
• Indoor fireworks can be fun especially for the older generation who remember them as children. Packs of indoor fireworks have been back on the market since the mid-noughties after a long absence. You can also try party poppers, crackers (homemade ones can be customised for birthdays) and of course indoor sparklers and indoor fountains. Indoor sparklers can be put in the cake, or in the corks of bottles such as champagne. Ice fountains are surprisingly effective mini-fountains that you can use indoors. Of course, always check to make sure that any item you buy is suitable for indoor use.
• Table top confetti bombs are great, a pop then a cloud of confetti. Just watch it doesn’t get in the jelly!
• Light sticks provide up to eight hours of light and are fun indoors with the disco as well as outside during the display. They make a good “lucky dip” or “pass the parcel” prize. Other glow products include coloured necklaces, jewellery and badges! These are good for children’s birthdays.
• Don’t forget sparklers for when you retire to the garden – everyone loves them before a display!
Customising your display
With birthdays it is always nice to customise the display. There are a few ways you can do this with fireworks, here are some suggestions.
Lancework
A 50th birthday celebrated in lancework in this display by Dynamic Fireworks
Lancework or fire writing is normally expensive but you can cut costs and still make an impact by having just the age made up, eg 21, 30 or 50 etc. rather than the full-blown “HAPPY BIRTHDAY”. This is an excellent way to include a customised firework.
Lancework is often best fired at the very end of the display, and it is quiet in operation too, so even if you are restricted to a quiet display it will work really well. In fact just some sparklers followed by lancework makes a wonderful firework-themed gesture and won’t upset the neighbours!
21 gun salutes
Replacing the 21 here with the age being celebrated, find a cake or candle with the same number of shots. Obviously this will only work for popular combinations found in cakes such as 16, 19, 25, 50 and so on. Fire this item in isolation and announce it first, so guests understand the point of it.
Chinese lanterns
These are a wonderful item to use for birthdays. You can write dedications on them with a soft marker pen while the lantern is still folded. Be careful not to poke a hole in them though or they won’t take off! If you are really ambitious you could attempt one lantern for every year.
Of course, even a “normal” display can captivate an audience so don’t worry if you don’t have the time or inclination to take any of these extra steps – your fireworks will do a good job on their own.
Other tips
Firstly an important safety concern: Parties mean alcohol! Drink and fireworks are a very dangerous combination. All firers must remain sober when using fireworks and keep an eye on the audience. Make sure they stay a safe distance from the fireworks.
A few other pointers though for birthday parties:
• Keep the display fairly short (eg. five minutes) to make it high impact. Longer displays can get boring, bear in mind many guests may have other priorities such as getting back to the food or drink.
• Keep the firework area supervised at all times, vital at a party if people are nipping out into the garden for a smoke, or children are running around. Guests must not be allowed near the fireworks.
• Do not be hassled or pressured – by others or yourself – into taking short cuts or risks. Do not be afraid to tell the guests to move to the required safety distance and do not start your display until it is safe to do so.
• If guests bring fireworks – and some will – don’t feel obliged to use these. Having to make last minute additions if you have planned your display can cause problems. It is recommended that you specifically note on your invitations not to bring fireworks or you could end up with dozens of selection boxes and hundreds of tiny (useless) fireworks.
• Check the area is safe after the display and all the fireworks have gone off.
(source firework-review)
Jungle Party
• If you’ve always had a hankering to grunt, “Me Tarzan, you Jane,” or if you grew up wanting to live with gorillas like Dian Fossey, indulge your fantasy by throwing a grown-up Jungle Party. Use decorations to set the rainforest tone, serve food and drinks to get everyone in a tropical mood, and let your inner animals out to play at a party your guests will be talking about for a long time to come.
Decorations
• Jungles are green, so use as much of that color as you can in your decorating. Green crepe paper strung with abandon is a good starting point, especially if you drape a few streamers down the walls and over the windows and doorways. Add vines made of raffia or twisted brown paper; if you have stuffed animals (like monkeys or tigers), pin them to the vines. Party stores sell cutouts of palm trees and tropical flowers, or you
(photo: thelotustile.tumblr.com) can make them from crepe paper. Bring all the houseplants you have or can borrow into the party room—the leafier, the better—and keep a CD of jungle sounds playing in the background. Trade your white light bulbs for green and blue ones to give the room a tropical glow. Food • Serve huge trays of tropical fruits, like pineapple, bananas, mangos and pomegranates. Finger-foods are good also, such as shrimp kebabs or chicken skewers. If your guests are particularly adventurous you can buy edible insects, like chocolate-covered crickets or BBQ-flavored worms. Another idea would be to serve “regular” food but give it jungle-sounding names like “monkey burgers” or “tiger tots.” For dessert, serve fruit-flavored sherbets or ices with coconut macaroons. Drinks • Almost any mixed drink that can be served in a coconut shell would be appropriate to serve at a jungle-themed party. Try whipping up a pitcher of frozen banana daiquiris or fill a punch bowl with Tropical Sangria (your favorite sangria recipe filled with sliced pineapple, mango and cherries). Mai Tais or Mimosas would work too, and Pina Coladas and Rum Punch are both good jungle drinks. Activities • Greet your guests by throwing a couple of leis over their heads (you can obtain inexpensive silk leis at party or dollar stores) and announcing that for the duration of the party the word “birthday” (or “animal,” or “drink,” or whatever fits your party) is off limits. If someone catches them saying the word, they will have to give up a lei to the person who caught them. Whoever has the most leis at the end of the night is the winner. Assign a few guests to be judges and have a Tarzan Yell contest. Wrap things up with Safari Karaoke, performing jungle-themed songs like Guns-n-Roses’ “Welcome to the Jungle” or “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” by The Tokens. (source ehow)
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Watermelon Party
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Fun ideas for a Watermelon themed birthday party. Do it yourself ideas for invitations, decorations, games, activities, food, party favors and goody bags.
A watermelon theme is a perfect birthday party idea for a summer party.
Watermelon Invitation Ideas Glue a wide piece of green and white striped ribbon to the top of pink note cards for a fun and easy watermelon invitation. Glue pink patterned scrapbook paper over 1/2 of a note card - and green patterned scrapbook paper over the other half. In the center, where the papers come together, glue a piece of black and white polka dotted ribbon.
Watermelon Party Decoration Ideas
Green and pink party supplies in any pattern. Green and white checkered tablecloth with hot pink plates, cups and flatware. Wrap pink flatware in green napkins and tie with a black polka dot ribbon. Or decorate party area in a traditional picnic theme with red and white checkered tablecloths, picnic baskets, fresh flowers and blankets on the ground for guests to picnic on.
Watermelon Party Craft
Watermelon Flip - Flops
Make funky flip flops for the guests to wear during the party. Buy green and pink material and tie on to flip flops. Complete directions for our flip flop craft.
Watermelon Party Games
Traditional picnic games
Set up traditional picnic style games for the guests to play such as a three legged race or tug of war.
Watermelon Seed Hunt
Before the party cut out teardrop shapes from black poster board for the watermelon seeds. On some of the seeds write a number - this number will correspond with small gifts or candy. Hide the seeds around the party area and ask guests to try and find all of them. When all the seeds have been found let them turn in the seeds for small gifts or prizes.
Water the Melon Relay
This is a fun relay and kids love it … careful, they can get wet! You will need Two large tubs filled with water and two smaller containers that are equal in size. The idea is to get water from the larger containers, run across an area (more then 20 feet) and put the water into the smaller containers. The team that fills their container first wins. There are several ways to do this - you can transfer the water using spoons, sponges or, our personal favorite, plastic cups with a few holes punched in the bottom. Divide the guests into two teams and have them line up behind one another. One by one they take their “water carrier” and dip it into the big bucket - run across the play area and then put the water into the smaller container. Then they run back and hand off to the next player on their team. This continues until one team has filled their water container to the top - or to a pre-determined mark.
Watermelon Eating Contest
Cut slices of watermelon in equal sizes and place on paper plates. The guests then place their hands behind their back and on “go” start to eat their watermelon slice as quickly as possible. The first guest to finish wins a small prize.
Watermelon Roll Relay
Divide party guests into two teams and give each team a large watermelon. The object of the game is for the teams, one by one, to roll the watermelon across the playing area to a set mark and then back so that the next person in line can go. The first team with all of their members to complete the relay wins. Variation: After kids master rolling the melon with their hands have them roll it with their noses or without hands.
(source //birthdaypartyideas4kids.com/)
Oktoberfest
Celebrate your birthday with a funny Oktoberfest Party !
Oktoberfest is the perfect party to sample various beers, listen to fun upbeat music and to enjoy good food with family and friends.
The first Oktoberfest actually began as a wedding celebration for Crown Prince Luitpold I and Princess Theressa of Bavaria on October 17, 1810. A large meadow in Munich was taken over as the royal reception site and featured a horse race, music, dancing, singing — and lots and lots of beer drinking.
Food and Drinks: Your menu should include, beer (!), German sausages, German potato salad, of course Sauerkraut, sweet and sour cabbage, German-style chicken, and black forest cake.
Pretzel Bar - Satisfy those looking for a snack by offering a soft pretzel bar with an assortment of dipping mustards from a grainy brown to a honey mustard.
Simple German Words for your Party:
“Prost” – Toast!
“Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!” – Happy Birthday!
“Willkommen!” – Welcome!
“Wie geht es dir?” – How are you?
“Sie sind herzlich eingeladen” – You are cordially invited.
Oktoberfest Party-Game: “A what?”: This is also a great game for when festivities are well underway. After a couple of beers, guests won’t know their “whits” from their “whats”. All that’s needed for this game is 2 small objects, for example a knife and a fork. Guests sit in a circle, and the two objects are given out randomly. The game starts by one of the players holding an object passing it to the person on their right, saying “This is a whit”. The person on the right replies “A what?” to which the first player responds “A whit”. This question-and-answer routine continues halfway around the circle, at which point the second object – a “watt” – is added to the circle and sent around in the opposite direction. Anyone who confuses their “whits” with their “watts” or their “whats” must leave the circle. The last 2 players left are the winners of this hilarious Oktoberfest party game.
(source //partysupplieshut.com/)
POLITICAL PARTY
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POLITICAL PARTY:
Build your own party, celebrate your date of birth political. Be the president of your party and direct your voters (guest) through the night with:
* speeches
* your legal campaign gifts
* special Party flags
* may be your guests have to wear the colors of your party ?
* affairs (drugs, sex, illegal campaign gifts …)
* appointements (name your ministers: who have to do something funny things …)
* and on and on …
Naked Birthday Party
Why not having a “Naked-Birthday-Party” ? …
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… or was your coming on earth with a jeans ?
So … every good party is a kind of loosing control, a kind of therapy, isn`t it? Let`s call it “Naked Therapy” and try to find out what it is:
” P o w e r t h r o u g h A r o u s a l
Naked Therapy is a form of talk therapy in which the therapist and/or the patient get naked in an environment in which arousal (physical, emotional and/or intellectual) is encouraged and utilized to arrive at unique self-discoveries.
Why is that arousal important?
First, a bit of history…
At the end of the 19th century, Sigmund Freud revolutionized the way we think about ourselves by basically discovering that our dreams actually contain information about us that we can use to gain more personal power so we can become freer, happier, and healthier.
Certainly, before Freud people talked about and analyzed their dreams, and there were various theories about what “dreams mean,” but until Freud made the simple claim that dreams tell us something about ourselves (not about the past or the future or the Gods, etc.), it was all just a lot of nonsense.
After Freud, patients started diving into their dreams (in collaboration with a therapist) to discover what their dreams were telling them about their childhood, their relationships, their desires, their sexuality, their conflicts. In short, dreams all of a sudden MEANT something “personally relevant,” and voila! Psychotherapy…and the 20th century concept of the human personality…was born.
S o h o w i s t h i s h i s t o r y r e l e v a n t t o N a k e d T h e r a p y? I will assert (somewhat humbly) that Naked Therapy has made a discovery that is to the 21st century what Freudian Psychoanalysis was to the 20th century. Simply replace “dream” with “arousal” and you will start to see what I mean.
By most cultures in most eras the act of being aroused has been clumped into one category: sex. The reasons for our seeking it have generally been mundane and tautological: it’s in our nature, we want to procreate, we crave it biologically. But what has been largely ignored are the psychological reasons we seek arousal, and what happens to us psychologically when we are aroused. Perhaps the closest we’ve come to explaining that is the tantric philosophy, typified by such books as “From Sex to Super Consciousness” by Osho. And while it respects and gains some impetus from this spiritual approach, Naked Therapy is a more “Western” analytic approach that is both informed by 21st century realities (such as the Internet) that encourages and utilizes in a therapeutic context the psychological causes and effects of physical arousal. ” (…)
(Text: http://sarahwhitetherapy.com/naked-therapy)
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