Here are 20+ of the Best Graduation Party Ideas. They range from gorgeous flower center pieces, to practical popcorn stands, to fabulous party lighting. Here they are; not in order of greatness, but grouped by party aspect.
Graduation Party Ideas – Decorations
Graduation Party Centerpiece with Flowers
By: Pottery Barn
Graduation Party Ideas for Decoration: Tissue Paper Splendor
Use colored tissue paper to set up the color scheme for your graduation party and add instant dazzle. Here are some ideas for tissue paper tassels on balloons, on banners and a fab piñata-inspired graduation year sign.
By Pottery Barn
Graduation Hat Box – Greeting & Gift Card Collector
Graduation Party Ideas: Jeans Photo Banner and table cloths
One of my readers held a graduation party with a cowboy denim theme. These are her pictures. It was held in a barn, and all the decorations featured denim. I love her denim and bandana strip photo banner, with photos from every school year. It is simple to create once you have the photos selected0. To make the denim table cloths is more involved. You have to cut up old jeans into squares and sew them together into long rectangles. It takes a lot of jeans to cover a table top. Let alone several tables. So, most likely, that project will require visit to a charity shop to pick up a couple of old jeans.
Learn more: Denim Graduation Party
Graduation Photo Wreath
Learn more: DIYbeautify.com
Graduation Party Ideas – Advice Tree as Centerpiece
This advice tree as well as a thoughtfully written greeting cards can make invaluable gifts for graduates that become lifetime keepsakes, and sow the seeds of a successful life and career.
Graduation Party Ideas – Invitation Cards
No graduation is complete without good graduation invitations. Set the party up right by welcoming your guests with these inexpensive, but distinguished cards – fit for a new graduate!
Or, try these Graduation Cards. They are a bit more premium, but still affordable. Decadent and unique. Love the modern designs with polka dot backs of these cards, as well as their old world letterpress indentation, which give the cards a quality feel.
Celebrate with these superb graduation announcements or party invitations
Graduation Party Ideas – Food & Drinks
Graduation Napkins Wrapped as Diplomas
Utensils rolled in napkins and tied with ribbon to look like diplomas.
Popcorn Bar
Make your own popcorn! This will always be a hit.
College Graduation Party Cap Drinks
Make Your Own Banana Pops Station
Diploma Cookies
Milk & Cookie Shooters
Mason Jars with Tags – priceless journey to paradise.
No garbage nor landfill with these! Whoohoo. The jars wash easily in the dishwasher. No thousands paper or plastic cups to throw out after the party.
Write a cute saying on one side and get guests to take their tags home.
Lemonade Stand Graduation Party Idea
By Eeuphoriaa
Festive Healthy Party Food
I love green and red pepper containers as that’s two less bowls to wash and makes for a great display. Grown-upy as it should be, it’s what kids should eat.
How Much to Serve at Your Graduation Party – Chart
By Chickabug.com — also check out there free party printables
Party Ideas for Centerpieces
This can be a fun way to package your gift (card), or this stack of embellished books can be a Graduation Party centerpiece.
By HWTM.com
Festive Graduation Party Outdoor Lighting
Lighting for the backdrop…
Lighting on the tables
I am intersted in the graduation hat box card collector. Do you sell those or have directions for me to make my own?
Hi Cindy, such a graduation hat box card collector is an easy DIY! See the ink below it for details. It’s really a piece of cardboard with a slit, covered in packing paper, fabric or similar. Cover a slightly smaller box with these same fabric. Add a tassel in 2 tones, and voila. You’re done. A very easy, quick DIY idea for a graduation party, if you ask me. And yes, one fo the 20 BEST Graduation Party Ideas as these cards always go ‘everywhere’. But if grandma visits, that card may contain some cash, this is really a jewel of an idea. I hope you managed to make one. Pro-tip: be sure to secure the top cardboard lid on one side to the box, so that it cannot slide off it.