80’s PARTY IDEAS

80's PARTY INVITATION IDEAS:

• Use a picture from the 80’s of the guest of honor as the cover of your invite

• For the RSVP put “For a good time call 867-5309 – no not really – call this #....” (like the song)

• Popular 80’s lingo to use on your invite wording: Totally Tubular, Radical, Rad, Bogus, Gnarly, Bodacious, As-if, Awesome, Bad, Barney, Cool Beans, Dude or Dudette, Gag Me with a Spoon, Gross Me Out, Killer, Psyche, Bitchin,

80's PARTY DECORATION IDEAS:

• Decorate with old posters of 80’s music or 80’s movies

• Use decorations that are bright in color, animal prints and/or geometric shapes

• Use a disco ball in your main party area

• Have a table out with 80’s memorabilia on display

80's PARTY GAME IDEAS:

• Ask everyone to wear their 80’s gear – big bangs, lots of hairspray and mousse, leg warmers, side ponytails, glittery makeup, cut sweatshirts that fall off the shoulder & rubber bracelets, pastel-colored suits with t-shirts under

• Have an 80’s celebrity look-a-like contest

• Download some 80’s trivia questions on the internet or play the 80’s version of Trivial Pursuit

• Have 80’s karaoke party playing music like Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, New Kids on the Block, Duran Duran, Paula Abdul, Wham, Prince, Michael Jackson, and Outfield • rent a local skating rink and have the dj play 80’s music all night!

• Have guests bring pictures of them from the 80’s and have other guests try to guess who’s who – hang them on the “wall of shame!”

• Have all 80’s music playing

• Buy or borrow the classic Atari game system (reissued everywhere in stores for a good price) and let everyone play games like Pac-Man, Frogger, Asteroid, Donkey Kong

• Lay out several rubiks cube for people to work on and the first person to solve the cube wins a prize

• Have a breakdancing contest

80's PARTY FAVOR IDEAS:

• Rubiks cube

• Bangle bracelets or jelly bracelets

• Miami Vice sunglasses

• Hubba Bubba or Bubbalicious bubble gum

• Aqua-Net Hairspray

• Cabbage Patch Kids or Garbage Pail Kids

• My Little Ponies or Strawberry Shortcake

• CD’s or cassette tapes with 80’s music