RED CARPET event - Movie Night / Oscars Theme - fancy party ideas - decorations, favors, treats, photo booth, awards, dress - PHOTOS

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Last Sunday was our Red Carpet / Movie Star themed bingo at our local retirement residence.

I had the best time planning this fun event and loved seeing all the smiles.
Everyone was over the top thrilled with everything.

 Here are some ideas for decorating, party favors, photo booth, treats and more. Links to tutorials at the bottom of the post.

A couple weeks before all the residents received invitations to the event. I also printed a few larger copies for the elevators.

I had 4 large plastic popcorn buckets. Two filled with popcorn and two with yellow and white tissue paper for table decorations. Such a cute and easy idea.

Red carpet leading to the photo booth area. It came already pre-taped but we added extra at the ends for people with walkers.

I had a totally different photo booth area planned but last minute found this photo backdrop at Wal-Mart in the wedding section.

Gold glitter!!!

The weekend before I saw curtain lights for a backdrop at an event and they looked amazing.
I ordered warm white but they come in bright white and blue as well.

TIP: They arrive with each strand in a small bunch. Leave them attached while hanging. This will save you time untangling.
I might use them for our outside screened in porch. They have different settings to blink, alternate, fade, solid light plus a couple more. I kept them on solid light.

I used plastic red table cloth to make the "draped material" look.
Very lightweight and super easy to hang.

I ordered black bow ties for the boys to make it look like they were wearing a tux. We did the same backdrop for our New Years picture and the boys wore gold bow ties. Not sure which I like better.

 I absolutely LOVE my dress. I thought for sure it would be a total fail but it was stunning!!! 

For the tables I found red star decorations at Dollar Tree. I added a personalized clapboard with the date and event.

I painted wooden dowels red and attached the clapboard with hot glue.

I covered the tables with sequin material from Wal-Mart, two red and two gold. I originally wanted all gold but couldn't find enough material. I actually liked it better with the combo.

 Added two glass candle holders with flameless LED gold glitter tea light candles.

I had to keep the table decorations small to save room for the bingo cards.

I thought about making my own chandelier but I found this one at Michael's and used a 50% off coupon. Worked out being way cheaper than making one. See it hanging from the light in the photo above?

Used painters tape to hang 12" gold stars around the room. From Oriental Trading but I didn't need anything else so it was easier to order from Amazon.

On the back wall I setup a concessions table.

I raised the concessions sign but didn't take a photo of the whole table after I fixed it. :(

 The sign was a great addition to the table and super easy to make.

Concession sign tutorial and downloadable letters HERE

I found these super cute award statues and personalized text and date. Attached tag with double sided tape.

 They turned out so cute and everyone received an award. Room full of WINNERS!!!
We may have called certain numbers to make the last two people in the room win but I'm not confirming that. :)

Made personalized tags for every single resident!!!

I originally started making all the lanyards but I had too many to make. I order red lanyards to match.

We have our regulars that play bingo with us weekly but wanted to make any new players feel welcome. I told everyone they were on our "VIP LIST." 

VIP pass download HERE

Movie candy idea and tags HERE

Cupcake toppers and table confetti HERE

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PARTY FAVORS

VIP PARTY PASS

MOVIE CANDY TAGS

DIY CUPCAKE TOPPERS/TABLE CONFETTI

DIY CONCESSIONS SIGN 

BLING TREAT STICKS

SNACKS & SWEETS

April Fool's Day pranks/jokes - EASTER fun!! Sushi, ice cream sundaes, empty eggs - FAKE OUT FOOD

April Fool's Day is one of my favorites!! BUT THIS April Fool's Day was the best!!!! This year Easter and April Fool's day were the same day!!!! Oh the possibilities!!!

Started the day with an egg hunt ....and all the eggs were empty. SO FUNNY, well for me it was. They opened every single egg hoping one had something. All empty!

To make it even better, I filled smaller empty eggs inside the larger eggs so it felt and sounded like they had candy in them. NOPE! 

I told them, "I thought you guys just enjoyed finding the eggs. We always have candy in the house so I didn't think it was a big deal I didn't fill them. Plus, the dogs kept messing with them and I thought they would eat the candy and get sick" {{academy award goes to me!}}

Ah, but I did have a REAL egg hunt. We have a small workout room in the garage and I hid all the eggs out there.

The challenge was to get them to go to the garage. First, I asked one of the boys to feed the dogs and even insisted it be now and before breakfast! He went into the garage but didn't see them!!!!! Next, I told my other son it was his turn to take out the trash. He did it and STILL didn't see them. Finally, I told them I had a new orange juice in the garage fridge BUT nope, there was still a tiny bit left and the other one didn't want any. UGH

 I didn't want to make it more obvious that I needed them in the garage so I was just going to let it play out. After breakfast we started talking about this older game for the old Xbox. That Xbox is in the workout area. FINALLY!!!

We had such a good laugh after thinking back during the morning egg hunt with all the empty eggs. Huge success!!!!

I did some of the usual tricks from years past just to see if I could get them again. Here are links to past posts for more ideas.

2017 April Fool's Day Ideas
2015 April Fool's Day Ideas
2014 April Fool's Day Ideas - Dinner
2014 April Fool's Day Ideas - Breakfast and Lunch

Next was dinner and I told them we were having ice cream sundaes for dinner and sushi for dessert.  :P

Dinner:

Ice cream sundaes were pulled pork and mashed potatoes layered with gravy.

I layered the mashed potatoes with an icing tip so it looked decorative.

Topped with a little cherry tomato and red and white striped straw. The straw sold it from a distance when I was walking to the table. The boys loved it!

Dessert:

Sushi was made from Rice Krispies Treats, Fruit Roll-ups, Swedish Fish candy, and sour gummy worms.

I didn't make the Rice Krispies Treats since I wasn't sure I could it without them noticing. The store bought ones are all the same size so it worked so perfect.

I cut one treat into 3 pieces.

Placed a Swedish Fish on top and wrapped with the Fruit Roll-Ups. The Fruit Roll-Ups are sticky so nothing extra is needed.

For the other ones, I cut one treat into two pieces with one larger piece.

I pushed the corners in to make it more round. Then used a large icing tip to remove a circle from the middle.

Then filled with cut sour gummy worms and wrapped the edge with Fruit Roll-Ups.

I love all the colors and so fun to make. I used the left overs in their lunch for school Monday and Tuesday and all the kids ooooh'd and ahhhh'd. I was named best Mom ever. :D

At this point it's hard to fool them but the sundaes were pretty convincing. Next year I should actually do what I say we're having and not switch it up. Lol!

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