High School Graduation Party

Home >> Graduation Party Ideas >> High School Graduation Party

Hopelessly Devoted to a brilliant fifties graduation party. Have a blast dressed in your favorite fifties clothes being Sandy and Danny for a night full of fun at the Hop.

Search This Site Enter your search terms Web This Site Submit search form __________________ __________________ High School Graduation Invitations Free to use high school graduation invitations, including full instructions on printing, paper, sizing and making your own design. __________________ High School Party Ideas More great high school party ideas and themes. __________________ High School Graduation Gifts High School graduation gift ideas to help the graduates remember their big day. __________________ High School Party Favors Give the high school graduation guests something to remember the party with great favors. They can treasure the favors. __________________ High School Graduation Speeches Free writing tips and techniques for high school graduation speeches. Also delivery ideas, preparation, and free speeches to ensure you get the audience applause. __________________ Free High School Graduation Speeches Lots of Free High School graduation speeches for you to use as a template to create your own. Also speeches submitted by speech givers going through the same experience. __________________ Graduation Songs Every graduation needs great music. It can make the graduation quite special and evoke memories of the graduation for years to come. Choose from a huge list of graduation songs. __________________ Graduate Entrepreneurs I love having my own business and the thrill and freedom it brings. My business adds thousands of dollars a month to our income which helps a lot! Have a look at the details of how I made this possible through a lot of hard work!. __________________ Fifties Table Accessories Rock Around the Clock Napkins and Cola Glasses __________________

Save time and energy and search through the World's Largest Party Superstore

They have a stunning selection of fifties graduation decorations.

I have tried to give you lots of fifties graduation party ideas on fifties invitations, fifties food, fifties decorations, fifties photo ideas, fifties games and fifties favors which will be great for any venue. You may have a fifties Home Party or alternative venue in mind.

Hosting the high school graduation party in conjunction with the school or college are examples are brilliant graduation party ideas. That gives:

• a good size of party with better fifties decorations and a more eye catching fifties venue to get everyone excited


• A budget, perhaps, to hire equipment, buy fifties decorations and fifties hire entertainers. Most graduation party ideas need some budget to help.


• Parents to help organise, raise funds and help at the party


• Lots of party goers to take part in each fifties party game

A big well decorated venue can make a truly exciting fifties high school graduation party.

With lots of fun, energy and enthusiasm your high school graduation party can be a brilliant success.

High School Graduation Party - Themes

This page is all about a fabulous fifties high school graduation party, just like Grease.

There are other fantastic graduation party ideas for a high school party. Click here for lots of other great themes and party ideas..

High School Graduation Party - Invitations

There are lots of great images to use to give fifties high school graduation party invitations a Totally Devoted To You feel from the fifties.

• The film Grease, Pink Ladies and T-Birds


• Elvis, James Dean, Jackie Kennedy, Marylin Munro


• Leather jackets


• Poodle Skirts, Chiffon Scarfs, Cats Eye Glasses


• Diner, Soda Fountain, Sock Hop


• Caddilacs, Cruisin


• Juke Box, Rock n Roll, Vinyl Records


• Coca Cola


• Hula Hoop


• Yo Yo, Slinky


• Juke Box


• Bubble Gum


• Vinyl records


• Hamburger


• Classic cars such as a fifties cadillac

The style of fifties high school graduation party invitations will depend on the exact style of party. There are loads of creative ways of creating a brilliant Fifties party. Amongst them are:

• Diner, a great image of the fifties


• Soda Fountain


• Sock Hop


• Cruisin


• Grease

Wording like "Let's go to the hop", "Shake, Rattle and Roll" can be used anywhere. You may even be able to make those 7x7 record sleeves and enclose the invitations in them.

Brilliant ways to design the high school graduation party invitations are:

Cruisin

Cruisin invitations wording,

Cruise on over to (Name of Graduate or High School) Graduation Hop.
The fun starts at (date/time).
Pink ladies, T-Birds and Greasers welcome!
Let the Band Leader know you are coming (RSVP details)

Cruise on over to Big Als’ (the graduate) diner for a hot roddin good time.
The jukebox starts at (time/date)
Fifties costume required
RSVP (details)

Hopelessly Devoted To You

Hopelessly Devoted to the Graduate Party, fun, games, food and fifties music.

The Juke Box starts at (date/time).

RSVP to

Only Fifties dress allowed!

Record

Make vinyl records out of black construction paper, cutting a circle shape and with a center circle. Use gel pens to write the invite where the record detaisl would have been. The pens will write beautifully.

Come to the rockin High School Graduation Party Sock Hop at (Name of High School).

Put on your Poodle Skirt, Leather Jackets, and shades and come on over to the hop at (date/time).

RSVP to Band Leader.

Grease

Calling all Sandy's and Danny's!!

Cruise on over to the High School Graduation Hop at (date/time) for a rockin party.

Prizes for best dancers, best dressed and best singers.

Put on your best fifties party clothes!

RSVP Band Leader

Rock N Roll Band

The band leader invites you to the fifties high school graduation party!!

Get up on the floor and show your best dance moves.

Prizes for best dancers, best dressed and best singers.

Put on your best fifties party clothes!

RSVP Band Leader

Alternatives

The Rat Pack want you to join their gang at the High School Graduation Party.

Bill Hayley (the graduate) and the Comets invite you to rock around the clock at the high school graduation party.

Marilyn Munro (the graduate) invites you to Some Like It Hot for a night of fun. All Marilyn, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemon lookalikes welcome.

Do the Locomotion at the graduate’s celebration Hop.
Twist the night away to great fifties music
Start (time/date)
Fifties costume required
RSVP (details)

Clipart Graduation Invitations

The simplest way to complete fifties party theme invitations is to use clipart.

• Copy and Past the fifties graduation clip art image that you would like to use into your word document. Before you paste make sure your cursor is in the location where you want the clip art placed


• Click on the fifties image and arrows will appear on the corners. Use these arrows to stretch the image to the desired size.


• Then I simply added fifties wordart at the top of the page for a fancy title and added the party details in plain text underneath the graduation clip art.

Using fifties clipart is a great way to make high school graduation party invitations.

Lots more detailed instructions on my clipart page..

Photo Graduation Invitations

Also, simply arrange a good quality fifties photograph. A photograph of the graduate dressed as a Pink Lady, T-Bird, James Dean, Elvis, Poodle Skirt and sunglasses would be perfect.

Scan it onto your computer.

Using photo editing software, change the picture dimensions to the size you need.

Then simply print onto flat card with the printed invitation details on the back. Instant fifties high school graduation party invitations.

Free Printable Graduation Invitations

Here is a fifties invitation you can print off or get inspiration from:

High School Graduation Party - Confetti

One of the great fifties high school graduation party ideas is to have personalised confetti.

The most amazing photo confetti maker can produce confetti using up to 10 fifties style photos and up to 3 accent colors. One color could be pink (for the Pink Ladies) and another black. They have packs to suit your occassion.

The fifties party photos could be of the graduate in various fifties poses. A Greaser, pink lady or rock n roll singer.

High School Graduation Party - Costumes

Fantastic to make your own fifties high school graduation party costumes. Beg and borrow fifties style clothes, perhaps from family who were there!

• Sunglasses, leather jacket, white t-shirt, jeans, hair slicked back and you are James Dean


• Poodle Skirt, Chiffon Scarf and you are in theme!


• Marilyn Munro outfit with glamorous dress and blond wig


• Peggy Sue wig


• Cats Eye Glasses


• Bowling shirt, bowling shoes and pants and you are a fifties bowler


• Wing tip shoes


• Pompadour wig


• Pink Ladies jackets


• Black 'Jackie' wig, become that famous style icon


• Wear the brightest colored socks, scarves, shirts, pants and neck ties.

Of course there is also the Cuban Bandleader look with sharp suit, wing tip shoes and magnificent tie!

Search the excellent selection at this massive costume retailer

High School Graduation Party - Decorations

• Create a Fifties entrance with Grease sign, Soda Fountain Archway, Diner Arch, Drive in sign, Cadillac, Hot Rods or Rockin Guitar sign


• There are great kits such as the Hopelessly Devoted Kit including drive in sign, Couple pedestal, clock, juke box, guitar and coca cola glass


• A soda shop will need a counter, ice cream, stools and pastel colors. Create billboards for the soda fountain with fake menus,


• Fifties diner backdrop


• For a drive in hang up murals of classic fifties cars. Even better if you can borrow a real fifties car for effect. Perhaps in your backyard create a real drive in movie, showing Grease.


• Banners to announce the graduation and the fifties graduation party theme. The banners could say welcome to Big Als Graduation Diner, "Let's Go To The Hop", "Sock Hop", and "Shake Rattle And Roll". Whatever the fities look you want to create, simple banners announce the fifties graduation party


• Balloons in black, pink and other great bright colors. Also shaped as guitars, saxophones and classic cadillacs. Hang lots of them to create a great look and feel of the fifties. The balloons can be on the floor too! You could create a balloon arch with white, black and pink balloons. Balloon are great when tied in bunches for visual effect. They can be on the back of chairs, tied to light fittings, and fixed to doors.


• Streamers in teal, pink, black and bright fifties colors, hanging from light fittings, on doors, walls, on the back of chairs and on your fence.


• Musical themed decorations with fake vinyl records made from black construction paper, guitars and pictures of musical notes


• Wall coverings with fifties scene setters, soda shop mural, sock hop mural


• If you have an artist friend ask them to draw a giant mural which the guests can color in, add drawings and leave messages on it for the graduates. They can use classic fifties themes, idols such as James Dean or images such as a sida fountain


• Hanging decorations such as Mirror balls and fifties swirls


• Pictures of James Dean, Elvis, Jackie Kennedy, Marylin Munro, Sandy and Danny, Pink Ladies and T-Birds. Also of Cadillacs, and Hot Rods


• Juke Box, fantastic if you can find a working model


• Make up signposts with the High School name


• Fifties images like a classic coke bottle, fifties prices for burgers, hots dogs and coke.


• Create a dance floor with black and white poly vinyl for the checkboard fifties look.


• Sunglasses, including cats eye ones


• Find any fifties items your family may still have. Great stuff would be cameras, televisions, newspapers, pictures of the cars, even pictures of parents and grandparents at the time. A real bonus would be family home movies made in the fifties!


• Find 1950s items like TVs, record players and radios to display.


• Reprinted 1950s magazine front pages like Time showing the key events of the 1050s like Korea, Presidential elections, Oscar winners, Superbowl winners, World Series winners and other sporting triumphs.


• Do the same with newspaper headlined to capture the mood of vaious points in the 1950s.




• For a Home party you can decorate your fence with fake vinyl records, balloons and banners

Decorate your guests, this is a brilliant way to add to the graduation party ideas and getting your guests in the graduation party mood!

• Sunglasses
• You might have someone who can help your guests with a fifties hair style


• Funtoos


• 2010 Glasses


• 2010 Beads


• Graduation caps


• Cap Medallions


• Lots of glow sticks and bracelets

One of the great graduation party ideas is to have a box of guest fifties decorations at the party entrance and hand them out liberally!

Great Decorations at the World's Largest Party Superstore

High School Graduation Party - Food and Drink

The simplest way to cater for a fifties high school graduation party is to emulate diner and drive in food.

• Burgers


• Hot Dogs


• Onion Rings


• Fries


• Pizza


• Tortilla Wraps


• Onion Rings


• Popcorn and movie candy


• Put out lots of dry snacks, and fruit


• Ice cream, all kinds of it! Haagen Dazs ice cream is a 1950s delight.


• Ritz crackers


• Cream of mushroom soup or onion soup


• Pizza Hut (unbelievably from 1958)


• Kentucky Fried Chicken (1955)


• Ice Cream floats


• Pretzels


• Corn chips


• Grilled cheese


• Tuna fish sandwiches


• Melon balls and sorbet

For the fifties high school graduation party drinks, lots of sodas, malts, milk shakes and of course coca cola and lots of water to keep the party goers going.

For the high school graduation party Cake, there are many, many brilliant decorations which will thrill the graduate. Including Elvis, a vinyl record, Pink Ladies and Cadillac.Once you bake the cake it can be frosted, decorated and cut to the shape you want. A cake is a fantastic way of celebrating graduation.

The next section gives the full cake making instructions.

Graduation Cake

The Graduation Cake page gives full details on the recipe, cooking tools, ingredients and cooking times for a great cake. Great ideas on cupcakes, cap cakes, decorating ideas, using fondant to create designs and lots more tips and techniques.

Graduation Cake Decorating Idea

1) Cover the sides of the cake with white frosting. 2) Add some black food coloring to the frosting and spread it smoothly onto the top of the cake. 3) Use a fork to trace circular marks - the idea is to make it look like a vinyl record. Like a record, make the label using a different colored frosting. Pipe a message on the top of the label – something like “Congrads (name of graduate).

High School Graduation Party - Games

A fifties high school graduation party offers the chance to play some fantastic fifties games.

• Hula Hoop contest, longest time in the air wins the prize


• Trivia, based on fashion, films, cars, famous people, news and events of the fifties


• Charades based on fifties films, film stars and film lines


• Pinatta


• Have a Dance Competition, this will take some preparation including choosing the dance, music and judges Have the Twist, The Mashed Potato, and The Bop.


• Karaoke with fities songs


• Name That Tune using fifties songs


• Jump Rope contest, the longest continuous jumper wins the prize


• Guess Who, take photos of some of the well known guests in fifties disguise and ask everyone to write down their guess.


• Have a Talent Competition. Ask the graduates to put on a talent show in fifties style. They can sing, dance or act out a scene from a film or show


• Name that fifties song. Play a few bars of classic fifties songs. Give your guests pens and paper and ask them to write down their answers, with a prize for most correct.


• Have an Air Guitar contest to classic fifties tunes.


• Have a Dance Competition, this will take some preparation including choosing the dance, music and judges


• Match of the Year This is one of the more appropriate high school graduation party games. What you do is try arranging lots of pictures of the graduates at various periods throughout their school years on a table. You could turn this into a competition by asking guests to specify which photo belongs to which year.


• Rogue’s Gallery Set up a table with paper, crayons, pencils and pens. Everyone has to draw a picture of themselves in fifties style, and write their name at the bottom. When they are finished they are pinned on a board. Everyone gets a prize.


• Have a singalong to classic music. Everyone will be able to sing Hopelessly Devoted To You, Suspicious Minds and Hound Dog.


• Pin the wig on the fifties character, just like pin the tail on the donkey.


• Decorate sunglasses and cats eye glasses, just give guests the glasses, stickers, pens, paint and colored paper.


• Have a Car Hop. Have the contestants carry a tray with coke, burger and fries as fast as they can from a door to a car and back. Prize for the winner.


• Hula hoop contest


• Pass The Orange No hands are allowed. The orange is held in your neck using your chin. Arrange teams of 4 to 6. First team to successfully pass their orange from neck to neck is the winner


• Observation game - there are a few ways of having an observation game. You could discretely display fifties rock n roll artists pictures around the venue, say 6 to 10 of them. Near the end of the high school graduation party you can give the graduates pen and paper and ask them to write down the location and names of the stars' pictures. You could disply say 10 graduates' photos, dressed up in fifties clothing and hairstyles.


• Have a fitness exercise. Ask a qualified fitness instructor to put volunteer guests through a genuine dancers warm up and fitness routine.


• The Next Line - Line up the Grease video at more famous moments. The idea is to show guests the footage for a minute or two and ask them what the next line is. Lastly you run the video on showing them what happened. Perhaps there is time to show 3 or 4 of these.


• Guess the Star, cover large photos of well known 1950s star almost completely except for say a distinguishing nose, their eyes or even a tattoo. Guests must guess who they are, and again prizes for getting them all right.


• Disguise a guest in rock n roll outfit with say a wig and sunglasses. Video them singing an Elvis song for 2 minutes. Show the video at the party. Guests must guess who they are. First to guess wins the prize.


• Have some old style fairground activities like throwing tennis balls at stacks of tin cans, standing behind a line say 6 to 8 feet away. Also a penny roll.

Lots of fun and enthusiasm can make your fifties high school graduation party outstanding.

High School Graduation Party - Favors

Fill Fifties high school graduation party favor bags with lots of favors.

You can give a fake vinyl 45, balloons, musical balloons, streamers, sunglasses, scarfs, wigs, confetti, pictures of Elvis or other famous fifties celebrities, cake, toy 1950s cars, furry dice, clock, classic fifties car stickers, coke glasses, cats eye glasses, pom poms, yo, yos, slinky's, bubble gum, hula hoop and even a mini juke box.

Also you could give fifties music CDs with Elvis, Buddy Holly, and Bill Hayley.

Yiu can also find black and white signed photos of the stars of the time from movies, music and TV. There are also great posters of these stars too.

If you took a photo of each guest at the entrance or perhaps posing beside a genuine 1950s car, the phto could be one of the favors.

Send the high school graduation party goers home with a great bag of memories.

High School Graduation Party - Music

Just find lots of fifties soundtrack music and play it! The soundtrack to Grease is a must!

Also lots of Elvis, Buddy Holly, and Bill Hayley.

The right music makes a party fantastic. Make sure the graduate gets a say in the choice of music.

High School Graduation Party - Ideas

More great high school graduation party ideas:

• Have a talent competition, giving the graduates 2 weeks to prepare a fifties song, dance or comedy piece


• Have a Caricaturist draw the graduates and guests in fifties style


• Take an entire group photograph


• Play pass the guitar. Line up the guests into lines of say 10 people. Have a large balloon guitar. Pass the guitar over your head to the person behind you, once you have passed the balloon run to the back of the line. Complete 3 passes.


• Set up a fashion catwalk and dress some guests in different 1950s fashions. Arrange geat 1950s music and let them strut their stuff on the catwalk.


• Have a 1950s dancing demonstration.


• Rent a real 1950s jukebox.


• The fifties party can be based on the stars of the era. The high school graduation party can even be a tribute to the star’s work, including any movies they have made. The musical stars of the time include The Coasters, Elvis, Bill Hayley, Fats Domino, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra and the Everley Brothers. The movie stars include John Wayne, Marylin Munro, Grace Kelly, James Stewart, Doris Day and Deborah Kerr.

  This opens up a lot of possible areas for guests and you:

  • Guests can dress as any of the fifties stars or even their famous movie roles.
  
  
  • Guests can perform a routine as their favorite star. They could even form a band and sing as a fifties band at the high school graduation party.
  
  
  • Have a Glee style performance of a fifties hit. Appoint a director who can work with a group of guests to produce a production of one or two fifties songs. Perhaps they could rehearse for a week or so before the high school graduation party.
  
  
  • Alternatively you could set the performance up as American Idol or Americas Got Talent. The latter one would be good as all the contestants could put their unique interpretation on the fifties hits.
  
  
  • Create a fifties word search with a prize for the quickest solution.
  
  
  • Play fifties themed charades using TV shows, famous fifties people and fifties movies.
  
  
  • The decorations can include photos and posters of the famous stars, their best movie roles and their movies.
  
  


• There will be lots of high school graduation party gifts for the graduate. Thank You notes written by the graduate are the best!


• Write out rough timings for the party, including expected games times and when you want to serve the food


• Talk to your neighbours in advance. Car parking, loud music, movies, party games and very excited guests may be hard to bear. At least if they know it is on they can choose to go out.


• Save money and have a joint party with other graduates.
  This can give excellent cost sharing, lots of people to do the work and help find items at cheaper costs.


• Save money and Buy Bargain Supplies!


• Save money and book venues for the cheaper weeknights, perhaps giving more money to decorate your high school graduation party.


• Think about the high school graduation party venue and the likely weather. A tent, YMCA, local park or school gym can be great alternative venues.

For high school graduation party favors, prizes and party supplies see the World's Largest Party Superstore

Good luck with your fifties high school graduation party. A fifties theme will make a fantastic high school graduation party.

High School Graduation Party - Self Contained Party

Some parents like the idea of a self contained high school graduation party in one venue. The primary reason may be safety. The graduates can be dropped off at the high school graduation party venue where they will stay till pick up time. Professional security would be hired to ensure no one crashes the party, the party goers behave responsibly and the graduates will be safely collected when they leave. Inside the venue there are no illegal substances. There will be other safety and security issues to address but the organising team should be assessing all risks and their solution. You can also have those security wristbands as proof of entry.

The huge positive is the whole group of graduates are attending what should be a fabulous venue to have an outstanding party. Examples of the venue could be a Recreation Center, Entertainment Complex with cinema, theatre and Hard Rock Café. Also a Shopping Mall with live entertainment. The venue can be decorated in line with the theme of the High School Graduation Party. There can be a live band, DJ, and you can work with the venue to ensure enough of it is open for the graduates throughout the High School Graduation party.

You can arrange wandering magicians, ventriloquist, hand writing analysts, caricaturist, and palm reading. Also you can have temporary tattooists, face painting and table games.

You should try and have a secure coat check for coats, bags, prizes and gifts. A good high school graduation party idea is to have a quiet area with seating and water for time out.

These ideas can give a great high school graduation party.

Share Your High School Graduation Party

To help inspire your family, friends and other visitors please take a moment and submit your party ideas.

If you would like to share your complete high school graduation party with us send us your graduation party story and photos and we will create your own party page and photo gallery hosted on our site. (Family and friends will be able to find inspiration from your graduation party and comment on your ideas.) If you share your complete party details you will be automatically entered into our next contest. This year we are having a bumper $300 prize fund. There will be an overall winner and runners up prizes. The winner will be the best overall graduation party story and photos.

Return from High School Graduation Party
to the Graduation Party Ideas Page


Return from High School Graduation Party
to the Home Page