|
|
|
Product Categories
|
|
|
|
Other
Sections
|
|
|
|
|
Whether you are planning a party for an adult or child, large
group or small, dinner party or BBQ the Party Planner can help
you with all of the details for an exciting New Orleans style
event!
Children’s Party
Adult Party
Children’s Party
Children can also enjoy the Carnival style atmosphere of New
Orleans! Encourage kids to dress in costume, provide masks
to play dress-up with, or tie in other themes.
Decorate
To make your birthday boy or girl feel extra special let them
wear a crown to be King or Queen of Mardi Gras for the day and/
or get them fancy Mardi Gras beads
like the blinking jesters
to wear!
To achieve the Carnival style atmosphere for the party, decorate
with beads on table or arranged as centerpieces. Also decorate
with purple, gold, & green streamers, balloons, and confetti
everywhere. Click
here to check out our decorations page!
Additional theme ideas:
Swampland
If you want to have an outdoors party or a pool party, consider
incorporating the Swampland theme. Decorate with tropical plants
and spanish moss. If it’s a pool party, get an inflatable
alligator float for the pool. Don’t hesitate to use touches
of purple, gold, & green with balloons, streamers, and pool
toys! Children will love imagining that they are swimming down
on the Bayou!
Masquerade Party
Children are always looking for an excuse to play dress-up. Now
you have a reason to let them! During Mardi Gras, almost everyone
dresses in costume. To keep with the Louisiana theme, suggest
costume ideas like a jester, swamp creature, or Mardi Gras King
or Queen!
Activities
Now you need to keep those kids busy! Play the usual children’s
games and award beads,
cups, or other "throws"
as prizes or make up special New Orleans party favor bags (See
Below).
Some traditional games with a New Orleans twist:
- Musical chairs with jazz music
- Pin the hat on the jester
- Scavenger hunt for doubloons-whoever finds the most wins!
- For older children, scatter doubloons at the bottom of the
pool and let the kids collect them. Have scuba masks handy for
them
Cake*
- Order a King Cake
with the purple, gold, & green Carnival colors or special
order it with your child’s favorite colors
- Frost cup cakes with purple, gold, & green icing (vanilla
icing can be dyed with food coloring) or sprinkles
- A three layer cake-either white cake with each layer dyed
purple, gold, or green with white icing and sprinkles on top
OR white cake with alternating colored icing between layers.
(Green and yellow inside and purple icing covering the outside
or vice versa)
*Unfortunately our King Cake season is over, but you can
make your own with our easy to make King
Cake mix. It comes with everything you need to make your own
delicious king cake!
Favor Bags
Fill bags with a strand of specialty beads
(medallion of a crawfish, alligator, and/ or carnival mask), doubloons,
a plastic Mardi Gras cup,
candy (such as the chocolate coins wrapped with gold foil), a
small stuffed animal, hair accessory, or toys in purple, gold,
& green. Toy ideas: parade floats often throw stuffed animals,
small Frisbees, and bouncing balls.
Goodies can be placed in clear cellophane and tied off with purple,
gold, & green curly ribbons.
Adult Party
Decorating Ideas - Click
here to check out our decorations page!
- Purple, gold, & green is the color scheme, so get decked
out with balloons, streamers, and confetti!
- Scatter doubloons on tables
- For a more formal party, make centerpieces from beads, doubloons,
and feather
masks.
- Make street signs from famous French Quarter locations such
as Bourbon Street and Jackson Square to hang throughout the
house.
- Over the bar or drink station, hang a Pat O’Brien’s
Sign and serve hurricanes,
& cyclones,
and daiquiris in our festive Mardi Gras cups.
- For an extra twist, you can ask guests to attend in costume
or with masks
for a French Quarter style Masquerade Party.
Drinks and Food
Serve up Pat O’Brien’s famous Hurricanes,
& Cyclones,
in our festive Mardi Gras cups!
If you decide to serve food, keep with the Cajun theme and serve
up gumbo, shrimp, crab cakes, and crawfish. Based on the number
of guests and your party style, decide if you would prefer a sit-down
dinner, a buffet, or finger foods.
Activities
- Get your guests really into the New Orleans spirit with jazz,
cajun, or zydeco music!
- Costume contest
- Trivia contest-Ask questions pertaining to New Orleans, Mardi
Gras, and Louisiana. Questions can be based on history, geography,
or tradition!
- Award beads
to winners!
Birthday Cake*
A King Cake, of
course!
Other desserts: brownies, petit fours, and/ or cookies with purple,
gold, & green icing or sprinkles.
*Unfortunately our King Cake season is over, but you can
make your own with our easy to make King
Cake mix. It comes with everything you need to make your own
delicious king cake!
|
|
