High School Graduation Party Ideas – Celebrate In Style

High school graduation party ideas will help you celebrate in style whilst preserving those all important memories of your time at high school.

High school graduation parties are great fun but can prove quite costly if you are going to invite a lot of guests.

Also if there are many parties going on at the same time why not get together and host one big party with the deluxe party kit!

There are many high school graduation themes that you can incorporate into the party such as western, Luau, prom or Grease. Add these special touches in decorations and even graduation party menu ideas.

When thinking of ideas for a graduation party, why not have an outdoor party, if you have a lot of guests and the weather is nice. A pool party or BBQ party are great ideas or why not just take a trip to the beach and have one big party!

If you have many graduation parties to attend or you will be attending one for your whole school year why not think about throwing a party for your closest friends. Check out teen spa party or slumber party ideas for some inspiration as to spending time with your favorite friends using end of school party ideas.

INVITATIONS

When it comes to inviting guests to the party you will need to decide whether this will be a family affair or a mixture of family and friends.

When inviting friends, however, you need to take into consideration that there will be quite a few graduation parties going on at the same time so you need to find out when the other parties are being held so that they don’t clash and guests have to choose between parties.

Diplomas are a great high school graduation party idea for invitations. Creating your own diploma invitations is simple. If you’re good at calligraphy then creating the required text is easy. A simple way to create a diploma, though, is to use a computer with word processing software.

Use a landscape format (that’s A4 turned sideways) and copy the below image for wording.

You can then sign the diploma before rolling up and tying with a pink ribbon.

diploma invitation

DECORATIONS

Depending on your chosen theme, decorations play a big part in high school graduation ideas. If you are having a luau or western theme then the decorations need to match.

For a simple graduation party try out some of these decoration ideas:

Balloons (in school colours) and a large personalized balloon reading ‘Class of 2009’ near the entrance.
Graduation cap garland
Large ‘Class of 2009’ Banner
Giant graduation sign
Motarboard confetti
A Cork board – Hung on the wall either filled with class photos or with space for guests to add their own.
Make sure that every Pink Heaven Party Angel gets a Princess grad headband. The ultimate in pink headgear!
A memorabilia table with school items such as past yearbooks and other related school items are the perfect high school graduation party ideas.
For the table keep to the school colors theme and put an upside down graduation cap or a Graduation cap centrepiece on the table and fill with flowers or a small personalized balloon.

THE CAKE

As these are high school graduation party ideas not a birthday party it is up to you if you want to have a cake. If you do want a cake, try one of these graduation cake ideas:

Diploma cake (complete with name, school and year)
Year photo cake (take a school year photo to a bakery who can easily put it onto the cake for you)
Graduation cap shaped cake
Stack of school books cake
Class of 2009 cake (rectangle cake with writing on)

FOOD AND DRINK

The ideal high school graduation party idea for food is to have a BBQ. Due to the amount of people that may be coming this is also a very cost effective option.

Other graduation party menu ideas are:

A chocolate fountain
Drinks fountain (with pink ‘champagne’ and champagne glasses)
Pizza
Fish and chips is a unique graduation party food idea
Finger sandwiches or cold meat buffet

ENTERTAINMENT

Now that school’s over it’s time to party before college starts. Just have a BBQ and disco or try some of these high school graduation party entertainment ideas:

Make a Time Capsule - To be ‘re-discovered’ at the high school reunion
Make a Year Book - Using the photos from the notice board and get every to sign or make a comment.
Graduation Cap Piñata
High School Trivia - What do they know about their high school and friends?
Watch High School Movies - Such as Grease, Clueless, She’s All That or Can’t Buy Me Love.
Have a Disco - With some old school classics.

FAVORS

Guest’s will love little graduation party favor ideas that remind them of their high school years. Put them into a mini book bag or a cool high school graduation party idea is to put the favors in a ‘Class of 2009’ mug:

Personalized chocolate bars
Graduation medallion
Customized pens
Signature graduation hat
Year book
Graduation bubbles
Chocolate 2009 coins
T-shirt (which everyone has signed)
Thank You note
Graduation money box

Out of all these ideas for a graduation party the main concept is to have fun. So throw off your hats and let's party!

Remember, if you can't find what you are looking for here then why not ask the Pink Heaven Party Angel, who is there to answer all your party questions.

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