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Decorating Ideas and Party Activities: Fortune Balloons

Category:  New Year's Eve

Occasion New Year's Eve Description This is a fun way to wish friends and family good luck in the year ahead. Instructions As a decorating idea/party favor, write fortunes on slips of paper and put them in balloons before inflating them with helium. Party guests pick their own balloon and pop it to find out their fortune.

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Beginning of a Decade New Year's Party

Category:  New Year's Eve

It's 2010-the beginning of a new decade! Celebrate the last 10 years with friends or family and make this New Year's Eve Party 10 times more exciting than in years past. Just add some decade-related twists for a great start to the New Year and next decade, while sharing fond memories of the past. Invitations Make your invitations read like mini tabloid newspapers. Include some of the most bizarre headlines of the decade - election upsets, celebrity divorces, and so on. Search the Internet for inspiration. Then, write out your party details, photocopy your mock-up and insert in envelopes filled with glittery confetti. Costumes Ask guests to come ...

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Ring in the New Year Right!

Category:  New Year's Eve

Get out the bells and whistles - it's time to ring in the New Year right! Say goodbye to the old and hello to the new with family and friends, fun and games, and food and favors. Happy New Year! Theme Consider choosing a theme for your New Year's Eve party, such as a Black and White Ball, a Pajama Sleepover, a Costume Party or an allnight Movie Marathon. Or, make it a Nostalgia Night and go back to the crazy 80s, the swinging 60s, or the fabulous 40s. Invitations Match your invitations to the theme, with black and white cards, toothbrushes, costume suggestions or request ...

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Decorating Ideas and Party Activities: Midnight Mystery Kiss Activity

Category:  New Year's Eve

Occasion New Year's Eve Description This activity is more suitable for an adult party for singles or good friends. Instructions 1. Before inflating your balloons, write the names of your guests on pieces of paper and put them in the balloons. (Use two balloon colors, one for the women and one for the men.) 2. When your guests arrive, have them choose a balloon of the appropriate color. 3. At the stroke of midnight, everyone pops their balloons to find out whom to kiss for good luck in the new year!

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Decorating Ideas and Party Activities: Confetti Balloons

Category:  New Year's Eve

Occasion New Year's Eve Description At the stroke of midnight, you and your guests can pop the balloons to ignite a confetti explosion! Instructions Prior to inflating, put some foil confetti inside each balloon. For the balloons to float, you have to use less than a 1/4 cup of confetti inside each one. However, if you use more than 1/4 cup of confetti, you can set the balloons upside-down on a flat surface, and they will stand up and still look very festive.  

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