Graduation Parties

Graduation Party Ideas

Choose a format:

Decide beforehand if it will be an Open House format, dinner/lunch with a beginning and end, a buffet, or whatever.

Choose a theme:

• School colors
• Something the student was involved in at school
• College major
• Graduation diplomas, hats, robes, tassels
• Pictures of the student and his/her classmates; put a head shot of the graduate on a tongue depressor and give them to the attendees or put them in a flowering plant or a flower pot with dirt in it. Use it as a centerpiece.
• Something the student is interested in (whether it be now or in the future)
• A star theme because your student is the star for the day
• Do an evening party with torches, wave sounds, or instrumental music. Serve a nice meal or just have finger foods passed.

Things to do at a graduation party:

• Play upbeat, fun music &/or music that goes with your theme.
• Give everyone a white t-shirt and have each person sign it; or give them a journal to write notes to one another.
• Divide up into teams and make a rhyme declaring the places the graduate will go. Base it on the Dr. Seuss book, Oh, The Places You’ll Go.
• Roast the graduate – Let people tell stories about the graduate, mostly funny and never vulgar.

Food:

• Prepare food the graduate likes.
• Have food that corresponds with your theme.
• Have fun finger foods.

Be creative:
Try to make it different from what most graduation parties have.