Graduation Soccer Theme Party

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Score a goal with a soccer party. Play soccer games, win trophies, wear great soccer gear and represent your club or country, keep fit and avoid a red card!

I hope to give you lots of soccer party ideas, including:

• Invitation ideas and wording


• Costumes


• Food


• Games


• Favors


• Lots more ideas.

A soccer theme party can be simple to do and is very colorful. Imagine the colorful soccer gear, flags, stadium, famous players and trophies! Lots of fun and enthusiasm can make it amazing.

The venue could be at home, backyard, school hall, park or soccer stadium.

Graduation Soccer Theme Party - Invitations

There are lots of great images to use to give graduation invitations, and the graduation party, a brilliant soccer party feel.You can put together homemade graduation invitations, use clipart, photo graduation invitations and brilliant free printables.

Decorate the invitations, and envelopes, with soccer stickers.

Paper

Regular white printer paper is just fine. You can also use any invitations or stationary that a local soccer stadium provides. You can customise the invitation with your own wording.

There is also the option of using white construction paper to create soccer ball invitations. Cut out circles which form the soccer balls. Decorate the balls with black lines to form the detail of the ball, perhaps even putting ADDIDAS on the ball for authenticity. Write your invitation on the back.

You can also use silver construction paper cut out in the shape of soccer trophies. Write the graduation party details on the back.

Homemade Graduation Invitations

Once you have the paper organised you can move on to writing the invites.

Use lots of phrases like:

• Goal


• Score


• Offside


• Red card, yellow card


• Skills, fitness and tactics

Brilliant ways to design the graduation soccer theme party invitations are:

Wording

Come to the High School (name) Graduation World Cup Party and win a trophy.
Soccer gear required, you can represent a club or country.
Kick Off (details)
Stadium (details)
RSVP to (details)

Shoot for Goal at the Graduation Soccer Party.
Win prizes in the penalty shoot out, show off your skills and have fun!
Soccer gear required
Stadium (details)
Kick Off (details)
RSVP to (details)

Come and show off your skills at the Graduation Soccer Party.
Represent a country and wear their soccer gear.
Kick Off (details)
Stadium (details)
RSVP (details)

David Beckham (the graduate) invites you to their soccer skills academy.
Score goals, learn new skills and score goals.
Kick Off (details)
Stadium (details)
RSVP (details)

Join the Brazilian masters (graduates) and show off you soccer skills.
Join in the graduation with a celebration of the best soccer.
Kick Off (details)
Stadium (details)
RSVP (details)

Follow team USA on the World Cup journey at the soccer graduation party.
Support your team and party he night away.
Wear supporters gear like jerseys, scarves, hats and flags.
Kick Off at (details)
Final Whistle at (details)
Venue (details)
RSVP

Join the winning team at the graduation soccer party.
Wear soccer gear, play soccer games and support your team.
Kick Off at (details)
Final Whistle at (details)
Venue (details)
RSVP

Other phrases to use could be, celebrate the winning goal, don't get caught offside, compete against the best, striking fun, and penalty.

Clipart Graduation Invitations

The simplest way to complete the graduation soccer theme party invitations is to use soccer clipart.

• Copy and Past the soccer 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 image and arrows will appear on the corners. Use these arrows to stretch the image to the desired size.


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

Photo Soccer Theme Party Invitations

Also, simply arrange a good quality soccer photograph. Photograph of the young graduates dressed in soccer would be perfect. You can use gear fro a local team, favorite club or country. Fabulous Brazilian, Italian and French soccer gear is very colorful. Just set the scene for the soccer theme party.

Scan it onto your computer.

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

Then simply print onto your choice of paper.

Free Printable Graduation Invitations

Graduation Soccer Theme Party - Costumes

There is a lot of simple and excellent costumes themed on soccer that will add flair and color to the graduation party.

Represent a country and wear a national strip from colorful countries like Brazil, Italy, France, Germany, Holland, Mexico, USA, England, Scotland, and Argentina.

Represent a world famous club team like Real Madrid, AC Milan, Manchester United, Boca Juniors, Marseille, Bayern Munich, Ajax, Barcelona, and many, many more.

You could also simply wear soccer gear from a local store. There is too, the option of wearing a goalkeeping outfit or even be a referree.

Of course, you could arrange personalized tops with team, school, guests and graduate names. You may have a local store that can print the names on the tops for you.

Have a unique soccer jersey created for the graduate in their choice of colors and design. Include a logo with the graduate’s own motto. Arrange a jersey for each guest with their name on it.

Great accessories would be soccer balls, face paints, and caps.

Graduation Soccer Theme Party - Decorations

• Announce the graduation party with a soccer theme banner. This can be customized with the school or graduate's name.


• Soccer standin


• Soccer Balls made from white construction paper, with black markings. A very big one, say 5 foot in diameter, would be great as part of the party entrance. Also have lots of real soccer balls spread around the venue.


• Goals can be borrowed to use. Perhaps even drawn on a fence.


• Balloons are very flexible, colorful and cheap. They add greatly to the party feel. You can decorate them with soccer ball markings. Tie them in bunches and fix them to chairs, doors, pictures and light fittings. Hung up on the fence and entrance they start the party feel early. Arrange colors representing the graduate's favorite team, and many other teams.


• Hang streamers everywhere, including the entrance, with lots of colors.


• If the party is at a gym hall or park use balloons and streamers to decorate the hall and eating area.


• Soccer Pinatta


• Find Poster and Photographs of famous soccer players like Pele, Cryuff, Beckham, Rooney and Ronaldo. Also famous people playing soccer and some retro soccer pictures in black and white, from a past World Cup. There are many, many images of teams receiving the World Cup you can find.


• Photographs of the graduate are also needed as it is a graduation party. Include some soccer ones if you have any. If the graduate is a soccer player use any of their soccer gear and equipment as decorations.


• A Soccer Scoreboard made from a poster board and mounted on the wall or fence.


• The backyard can be decorated with lots of balloons and streamers. Also with some white markings you could create a soccer pitch. Use soccer balls and arrange someone to be the referree.


• Soccer team posters such as from Real Madrid, Barcelona, River Plate, Manchester United, LA Galaxy make good decorations.


• Bunting, in the shape of soccer balls, which you can make from card and thread, then hang from light fittings.


• Soccer team gear from famous teams


• Any memorabilia, including trophies


• Lots of sports penants


• Caps


• Show videos of famous games


• For the backyard mark out a pitch and borrow some goals.


• Have lots of World Cup 2010 merchandise including any advertising posters you can find.


• Set the party up as a sports café. Erect large sports screens and show soccer matches. Have a café counter, tables and chairs and also lots of soccer memorabilia.


• If you can have a soccer mural based on the graduate and guests. You could have the scene as a team photo, soccer game or the graduate scoring a goal.


• Set out soccer training cones and put the graduates and some guests photos on them. Use tem to line the driveway.


• If the soccer theme party is also patriotic then have lots of flags, jerseys, pennants, and bunting in team colors.

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For the Table there are lots of great options. Use a green table cover marked out as a soccer pitch using athletic tape. Or, using a white table cover, draw soccer balls, a field and goals. Make soccer place mats, soccer menus and place cards. Borrow some trophies as the centerpiece and also have a photo of the graduate. You can easily put together soccer theme party napkins, plates and cutlery. Use personalized penants on the back of each chair. Also use stadium cups.

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

• Face Paint Sticks painting soccer balls on your guests cheeks. Also can decorate the guests faces with flags of the country they would like to cheer on, example Brazil, just like travelling supporters.


• Funtoos


• 2012 Glasses


• 2012 Beads


• Graduation caps


• Cap Medallions


• Lots of glow sticks and bracelets

A great idea is to have a box of guest decorations at the soccer theme party entrance and hand them out liberally!

Graduation Soccer Theme Party - Food and Drink

Soccer theme party food and drink can closely follow traditional soccer stadium offerings. The graduation soccer theme party may even be at a Soccer Stadium!

• Pizza of various types.


• Burgers


• Hot Dogs


• Nachos


• Pretzels


• Sandwiches


• Ice Cream


• Popcorn


• Bowls of fruit, including grapes, strawberries and kiwi, for example.

Good drinks at a soccer theme party are lots of sodas and water.

Graduation Cake

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

The Graduation Cake page gives all the details you need on the recipe, cooking tools and ingredients. Also great ideas on cake toppers, cupcakes, cake decorating and lot, lots more.

Simple Decorating Idea for Your Graduation Soccer Theme Party Cake

1) Decorate the cake with green frosting. Using white frosting decorate the cake in the style of a soccer pitch.

2) Decorate the cake with a colored frosting, say green. Using white frosting decorate the cake with a soccer ball, then add black outline for the detail on the ball.

3) A more ambitious design would be of a soccer player.

Why not use a soccer cake pan!

Graduation Soccer Theme Party - Games

• If you are using a gym or park, have a 5 a side tournament.


• Have a penalty contest. Choose a goalkeeper and give each person say 3 penalties. Have prizes for the winner. A twist is to play blindfold.


• Set out lines of 5 cones, or even people or chairs. The aim of the game is to dribble the ball around the cones to the end of the course and back. Time the guests to decide the winner. You could blindfold the players and have a helper call out instructions from the side.


• If you have a talented group of soccer players, play soccer volleyball. The players must keep the ball off the ground and not use their hands.


• Pin the ball in the goal. Make a ball from card and add bluetack to the back. Draw goals on a fence or on a large piece of paper hung on the wall. Blindfold the players and have them pin the ball on the goal. Give points for putting it in the corner, and more in the middle.


• For younger kids have soccer coloring in. Just buy coloring in books and pens, setting up a table for them.


• Training camp, have a soccer coach run a mini training camp with skills and fitness tests. This could have a warm up, jumping jacks, shuttle runs, ball skills and shooting practice.


• Color Your Own Sports Paddle Ball. Or you could provide card with pens and stickers so everyone could design their own soccer ball. Prize for best soccer design.


• Face Paint Sticks, paint a country's flag or teams colors to get that soccer fan feel.


• Treasure Hunt, first make soccer balls with white construction paper. Next cut them up into identical pieces which are hidden around the venue. Teams must find the pieces and assemble their soccer ball. First team to complete wins the prize.


• Decorate a soccer t-shirt. Provide a t-shirt and t-shirt pens and ask each guest to make their own soccer design. Prize for best design.


• Keep the ball in the air. Give each guest a soccer ball. The object of the game is use your feet and head to keep the ball off the ground. The player who has the most touches wins.


• Soccer pinatta


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


• Observation test - discretely display 6 to 10 pictures of soccer stars (Kaka, Ronaldo, Henry, and lots of others), or soccer balls with names on them, around the venue. Near the end ask guests to complete a sheet on what they observed. Ask for the people in the pictures and location of the pictures. Have prizes for those getting all answers correct.


• What Happened Next. Line up a series of videos with the most amazing and amusing moments in soccer. The idea is to show guests the footage in the short period leading up to the amazing event. Then they guess what happened next. Lastly you run the video on showing them what happened. Try and have incidents such as where the player completely missed an opn goal, the keeper threw the ball in their own nets or knocked out the referee. You should be able to get amazing incidents. Perhaps there is time to show 3 or 4 of these.


• Guess the Star, cover large photos of well known soccer stars 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 with say a wig, beard and sports glasses. Video them playing soccer for 2 minutes. Show the part of the video at the party. Guests must guess who they are. First to guess wins the prize.


• Ask a local professional goalkeeper to keep goal and guests must try and beat them with a penalty.


• Set up a target just like an archery target. Guests must shoot at he target, getting points for hitting the inner circles just like archery.

To give the soccer party some extra fun try some traditional graduation party games:

• Blow and Suck

  The first of the team graduation party games is an old faithful that can be enjoyed by people of any ages.
  All you need is a pack of straws, a ping pong ball or card and two teams of people. You simply pass the ball or card from the front of the team to the back using only the straws.
  



• Balloon Hockey

  A great competitive graduation party game. Each player has a round balloon and a long ballon to use as the hockey stick. Set up a goal which can be a large box on its side. Players take turns to try and score by hitting their balloon from a set distance into the goal. Give each player say 5 attempts, with the winner scoring most times.
  

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A soccer theme party needs great music to make it come alive. Get a soccer stadium play list and replicate the music.

Graduation Soccer Theme Party - Favors

• T-shirts with a soccer design and the graduate's name (or the guests name)


• Soccer stickers


• Soccer badges


• Soccer water bottles


• Soccer key chains


• Mini soccer balls


• Fun stuff like glow bracelets and glow necklaces


• Stadium cups


• Tickets for a soccer game


• Whistle


• Using a digital camera, photograph each guest in their soccer gear and make up a soccer card with their name and team.


• Give everyone a soccer medal.


• Personlized vinyl penants


• Mini soccer balls

Perhaps a local soccer team has merchandise that can be used for the soccer theme party.

Graduation Soccer Theme Party Preparation

The soccer theme party day does need a good schedule of events. You will need it to get through everything.

• Plan the start of the soccer theme party, when each game will roughly occur, when the food will be served and when the party will start and end.


• Know exactly which soccer theme party games will be played


• Have the soccer theme party music, prizes, helpers and materials ready in advance.


• Each soccer theme party helper should know exactly what they have to do.


• Have the graduation party favors ready in advance, and in running order.


• Know exactly who is helping to clear away afterwards.

Graduation Soccer Theme Party - Ideas

More ideas to make the graduation soccer theme party just brilliant:

• Make sure everyone has their photo taken, especially if you have a giant soccer ball entrance


• Using a karaoke machine have an announcer call out the names and provide commentary on the activities. Give them some fun information on the guests at the soccer theme party.


• Hire a stadium announcer to MC the party, and in particular the games.


• Hire cheerleaders or ask some guests to play the part of cheerleaders.


• Ask a local soccer star to attend the soccer theme party. They could mix for a while, pose for photos, sign autographs, make a motivational speech and present the game prizes.


• Use a referees whistle to signal the start of the soccer theme party, the start of the games and the time for food, for example.


• Have some soccer coaches at the party to help with the team and individual games.


• Hire the mascot from a local soccer team to entertain the soccer theme party guests.


• Have soccer jokes on the toilet wall.


• Video the soccer theme party


• Have a coach for those who are playing soccer for the first time.


• The World Cup 2010 is a great source of ideas for any graduation party. You can set your party up to support the USA team by putting up posters, photos, merchandise, newspaper and magazine articles. Your guests might like to be dressed in team USA jerseys and hats. You may have the soccer theme party on at the same time as one of their matches and can show it on a TV monitor. You can feature each player and have player facts on information sheets.


• There are great DVDs you can also show which have best World Cup moments, most valuable players, best goals and the winners at many of the tournaments.


• Have a historical area at the soccer theme party with all the past USA World Cup teams, their photos, books on their experiences and newspaper clippings.


• Display amazing soccer facts with best ever penalty taker, best ever player (Pele), best team, player who scored the most goals, goalkeeper who saved the most penalties and longest serving player, for example. A soccer theme party can celebrate all that is great in the game.


• Save money and have a joint soccer theme 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 use Bargain Graduation Party Supply Ideas!


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


• Play any one of the computer soccer games. If you have a small party you can have a computer soccer game tournament.


• For younger kids have soccer word search, jigsaws and coloring in.


• Split guests into teams and have them build a soccer theme party Puzzleball.

Share Your Graduation Soccer Theme Party

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If you would like to share your complete soccer theme party with us send us your graduation party story and photos and we will create your own soccer 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 soccer 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.

Good luck with your graduation soccer theme party. A soccer theme party will make a great graduation celebration.

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