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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.

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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 graduation party themes..

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

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

High School Graduation Party - Decorations

Entrance

Let guests be in no doubt the Fifties party is here!

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


• 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


• Party Greeters dressed in costume set the scene at your entrance.

Scene Setters

• 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.


• Wall coverings with fifties scene setters, soda shop mural, Drive In Sign Peel N'Place


• 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


• 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.


• Reprinted 1950s magazine, or newspapers, 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.

Simple Decorations

• 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


• Hanging decorations such as Mirror balls and fifties swirls


• 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!


• 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 fifties graduation party themes and getting your guests in the graduation party mood! Have a box of guest decorations and hand them out when guests arrive.

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


• Elvis wigs


• Bright colored socks and scarves

Table Decorations

• Centrepiece, you can use Greatest Hits Ensemble or use a record style centrepiece.


• Table cover could be bright colored check cloth and bright skirting.


• Decorate the table with classic soda glasses, catsup, mustard and relish. You could use sunglasses as napkin holders.

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High School Graduation Party - Costumes

Fantastic to make your own fifties 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!

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High School Graduation Party - Confetti

One of the great fifties 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 - Food and Drink

The simplest way to cater for a fifties 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 party drinks, lots of sodas, malts, milk shakes and of course coca cola and lots of water to keep the party goers going.

High School Graduation Party - Cake

The fifties party cake is very easy to make as all the ingredients are mixed together in the same bowl.

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).

You could decorate the cake in any of the Fifties images you love!

High School Graduation Party - Games

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

A simple Fifties party game is a talent competition. Ask guests to sing a part of their favorite fifties song.

Also you can give everyone a Yo-Yo and see who can keep it going the longest.

The Fifties Party games page has icebreakers and lots of Fifties themed games. Put some rock n roll into your High School Graduation Party!

High School Graduation Party - Favors

Fill Fifties 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.

You 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 photo could be one of the favors.

Give fifties car accessories like flashes.

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 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


• Set up a fashion catwalk and dress some guests in different 1950s fashions. Arrange great 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.
  
  


• You might decide to make the fifties party a sleepover party.


• Each guest must choose a fifties name like Fonz and use it during the party.


• Put a fifties price tag on various items at the party. For example a bottle of coke could have a 10 cents tag.


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


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

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

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