Sororities have been an integral part of college campus life for generations, so coming up with something fresh and original for party ideas is anything but easy. But if you look hard, you'll find some ideas for parties that are a little bit out of the ordinary and a lot of fun. A lot of these ideas are simple and inexpensive as well.
Considerations
Pick an unusual theme for your party. Have a Catholic School theme where everyone has to wear plaid jumpers and skirt and black pants with white shirts and jackets. You can have a Mother Superior for the principal who gives out penances for punishment...you must say something crazy three times if you're found running in the halls by the hall monitor. Try a TV show theme like "Green Acres" or "Little House on the Prairie," or do a "Murder She Wrote" party complete with a scarecrow cadaver. Have everyone get an envelope with clues to who the murderer is and how it was done.
Significance
Try out a place-themed party. Have a beach party where grass skirts and Sex on the Beach cocktails are served. Have a Martgueritaville party and play Jimmy Buffet songs and drink frozen Margueritas. Try an another planet party where everyone dresses like aliens and you make drinks that are green and the best costumes get the prizes. You could choose a Mexican, Caribbean, Roman Holiday or Aussie Outback party theme. Choose costumes that fit the place and serve food and drinks from them. Make sure everyone knows the colors, the foods and something of the culture when you invite them--put a little letter in the invitations with the information.
History
Plan a period party. Choose a Roaring Twenties theme where gangsters and molls dress up and have a Charleston contest, or or have a Woodstock Festival party from the 1960s. Along the same lines, you can also have a characters party, such as Edgar Allen Poe or Mark Twain, where people dress like their favorite characters from stories. Have a party game planned where everyone has to talk like their characters and the others have to figure out who they are. You can use a favorite movie for the characters or a favorite 1970s or 1980s singer.
Types
Host a ghost party where invites are sent out anonymously and the guests have to hear personal information about those who invited them and guess who they are. Everyone could wear white shirts and draw a clue or write a word or two about the party with markers. Although Sadie Hawkins parties are not a new idea, you can make it new by having each girl invite two guys who then have to fight to win their date with speeches, poems, great date plans and daring tasks. The winners get to sit by the girls and the losers have to wait on them.
Features
Try something truly different, like an Amelia Earhart party where you have contests for the best paper airplane design and the one that flies the best. The winners can get lost forever when cleanup time comes. Or do an Albert Einstein party where everyone has to present what they believe to be their own personal theory of relativity about life. The winner gets an honorary Ph.D. Have an Elvis party where everyone dresses up like a person from one of his songs.
Geography
Decorate the whole house in an around the world theme, making each room a different country or continent. Serve food and drinks from each county, such as Coronas and nachos for Mexico and saki and eggrolls for Japan. Use the flag colors for decorations and add little bios of the country's most famous or infamous persons and have everyone vote on the best foods and drinks.
Potential
Plan your party around one or more games. A "Cranium" party is really funny because you have to sing, play with clay and answer trivia questions all in one game. You can play teams or have several games on hand. Winners get to eat first and losers have to clean up. You can also play "Trivial Pursuit, "Charades," "Pictionary" or any other game that lends itself to crowds. Try an "American Idol" karaoke contest or a "So You Think You Can Dance" bash.
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