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60s/70s Flashback:
Retro Meets Disco
Visit 60s
and 70s Hippie to Disco Rock &
Roll Decorating411
For some, the decade of the 1970s is represented by
antiwar demonstrations and the culmination of the peace, civil rights, women's
and black power movements. It is Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate and
George C. Scott in Patton. It is Watergate and Nixon, as well as the
Chicago Seven and Apollo 13. Everyone has at least one pair of hot pants and an
item of tie-dyed clothing. For some people, the music of this period is courtesy
of Woodstock -- Jimi Hendrix, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Santana, Joe Cocker,
the Rolling Stones, and the Who.
For others, however, the 70s are all about disco. The cool image of John
Travolta in Saturday Night Fever, with his flashy leisure suit look, dancing to
disco music, is one that many of us have emblazoned in our minds forever. Dare
we mention Studio 54? Big disco club scenes from the 1970s are courtesy of
people like Donna Summer, the Bee Gees, Earth Wind and Fire, Gloria Gaynor,
Lionel Richie, Peaches & Herb, and The Village People. The great thing about
the 1970s is it was full of variety throughout the decade. Don't settle on just
one theme for your 70s party. Combine the various trends and events of the
decade to throw a wild and crazy bash from the past! (Bellbottoms optional!)
Invitations
For a fun and unique invitation idea, print your party information on the
back of tie-dyed T-shirts. Roll up the T-shirts and tie them with a neon smile necklace. Hand-deliver them to your guests
with a custom music invitation
from Party411.com.
Invite your guests to a fabulous blast from the past with tie-dyed invitations. And see a variety of fun and
creative products that will match your tie-dyed invites!
Mark the occasion with a smile. Send your guests big yellow smiley face paper invitations.
Another creative way to invite guests to your 70s bash is to attach all of
the pertinent party details to either a smiley face cuddly plush, or a smiley
face beanbag. Hand-deliver your fun and playful invitations to each guest.
Another really unique idea is to find a bunch of 8-track tapes, make sticky
labels with all your party information and place them on the back of the tape.
Mail to guests and Voila! Everyone will get a good laugh out of it. The
challenge of course is to find them. Search online, garage sales and the like.
I think the Party Girl might still have an 8-track player in her basement!
Be sure to have your guests come dressed in their 70s
best, whether bell-bottom pants, polyester leisure suits, big gold chains,
polyester wrap dresses or red gloss lipstick! Have them come as their favorite
70s TV characters like Reuben Kincaid, Arnold Horshack, Captain 20, Richie
Cunningham, Oscar Madison, Felix Unger, Marsha Brady, Charles Nelson Reilly,
Mary Tyler Moore, Sue Ann Nivens, Ted Baxter, Colonel Potter, Shaggy and
Scooby, Fred Rogers, Gene Rayburn, Fred and Lamont Sanford, Grady, George
Jefferson, Mork, Isaac, Gopher and Doc, or Vinnie Barbarino, among others.
Welcome
Give each guest who enters an eyeball ring or metal mood ring to get them in a funky
mood. Your younger guests or those more light at heart will appreciate Metal Magnetic Rainbow Spin Wheels.
If you have a TV/VCR available, run classic 70s movies in the background
like Saturday Night Fever, Stayin' Alive, Star Wars, Jaws and One Flew Over
the Cuckoo's Nest among others. Click here for a great list of movies from the 70s.
Decorations
There are multitudes of things that can be done to decorate your
Flashback from the 1970s party. First of all, hang a beaded curtain at the
front door to welcome all of your guests in 70s style. Inside, at the party
pad, hang up "scenes of the 70s cutouts" on the walls, along with
vibrantly colored ribbon, crepe streamers, and balloons.
To set the mood with lights, try real disco stuff. Set up black lights and lava lamps around the room as well. You
know bean chairs are a must, whether tye-dyed or denim. For a
nicely scented finishing touch, light some candles or incense to fill the room with a popular 70s
fragrance. Why not try hanging mini disco balls in all colors from the ceiling for an
added cool illusion.
Be sure to have a Pet Rock for all your guests, complete with name,
personality and preferences listed.
Props
Retro:
Disco:
Centerpieces and Table Decoration
Place a fondue pot in the middle of each table. Each
pot serves your meal as well as a centerpiece. If you want to really get your
guests mingling, put a different type of fondue at each table. (Make sure to
have cheese fondue as an appetizer and chocolate fondue for dessert.) If your
food will be centered elsewhere, wrap tie-dyed bandanas around sand filled
balloons and tie it closed with a colored ribbon. Attach Mylar balloons to give it height. Guitar piñatas make festive centerpieces, too.
Throw gold and silver star confetti around the tables.
For another look, try throwing smiley face confetti all over the table and place a tie-dyed napkin at each place setting. Be sure to use peace sign necklaces as napkin rings.
You will definitely need 70s Flashback Deluxe Party Pack, which includes dinner
plates, luncheon napkins, table cover and cups, banquet plates, cutlery plus 3
rolls of crepe, curling ribbon and balloons.
Menu
Let your friends feast on fabulous flavors of fondue! Serve different types
of cheese fondue as your appetizer. Cook up spicy chicken, Mexican, or
teriyaki fondues as the main course. Of course, chocolate fondue is for
dessert. Finger food and buffets are useful since your guests can eat on the
run and dance up a storm to your funky music. Try these processed foods:
Gobstoppers, Tang, Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, Pop-tarts among others. Dr.
Pepper, Coke & 7-Up are musts. Bugles, onion dip, Necco wafers are old
standbyes.
Activities
MUSIC! - Who doesn't love to dance along to the funky sounds of Sly
and the Family Stone, the Village People, Donna Summer, Elton John, the
Commodores, La Chick, K.C. & the Sunshine Band, Kool & the Gang,
Average White Band, the Tavres, Patti LaBelle and others. Visit your favorite
music store and pick up CDs of 70s compilations. Do the Hustle, nominate a Denny Terio-like
M.C. and have your own dance contest with great prizes.
Ouija Board is a must, for those who dare.
70s Charades - To begin, each player must write down a difficult
phrase/name/title/song etc., (the phrase/name/title/song has to be from the
1970s) and all of the slips of paper go into a hat. Then everyone is divided
up into two teams. Each team chooses a "captain", and the two
captains flip a coin to decide who gets to go first. The first person has to
pick a slip of paper from the hat without looking. He then looks at the paper,
and gives a signal to his team (signals are determined before the game begins)
to reveal what category he will be acting out. (For example: If it is a book
title, the first player might put his hands together face up in front of
himself, as if he is reading a book). The players on his team will say,
"It's a book". Then the "actor" puts up the same number of
fingers, as there are words in the phrase/name/title on the paper. His team
will say out loud how many words there are. Then he will again, show a number
of fingers for the word he will be acting out first. (If he is acting out the
name "Daffy Duck", and he wants to act out the 2nd word first, he
has to put up 2 fingers). Then for each word he acts out, all he has to do is
have his number of fingers represent the word he is acting out. If the group
is having trouble guessing the word, the "actor" can cup his hand
behind his ear to convey, "sounds like". Then he can try and act out
a word that the word in the phrase sounds like. When the team guesses the
"charade", then it is the next team's turn.
SIGNS FOR CHARADES
- Syllables - placing the same amount of fingers can show The number of
syllables in each word, as there are syllables in each word on your
forearm.
- Book - Hold both hands in front of you, touching, with palms up.
- Movie - Put one hand in front of your eye in a fist (so you can look
through it), and turn the other as if you are winding up film.
- TV show - Draw an imaginary square in the air (symbolizes a TV).
- Play - Place one hand near your heart, and the other out, as if you are
showing your team something great.
- Song - Open your mouth, and wiggle your finger in front of your mouth
(as if sound is coming out).
Dress up Contest - Divide up into teams and choose
one person to be the dress-up "dummy". Use clothes from the 70s like
brightly colored scarves, big sunglasses, platform shoes, floppy hats,
halter/tube tops, jewelry in the shape of a peace sign, tie dyed anything, and
anything else that you can place on another person's body to dress up your 70s
"dummy." Click here for some fun and fabulous
70s accessories, including a YMCA kit. Make your
"dummy" as funny and creative as possible (have plenty of oversized
clothing because the "dummy" will most likely want to put the 70s
garb over their own clothes). The funniest "dummy" is the winner (or
the funniest and most quickly dressed).
Lip sync/Karaoke Contest - Sing or lip sync (mouth the words along
with the music) to your favorite tunes from the decade of the 1970s. Prize
goes to the best act.
Who Am I? - Write the names of famous people on index cards, and
tape one card to the back of each guest. Have everyone walk around in the same
room, and instruct them not to mention the names on their backs, but to talk
to everyone as if they are the people whose names are on their cards. As
people begin to correctly guess their identities, they have to continue to
treat the people who still don't know their identities like the stars whose
names are taped to their backs. When everyone guesses the names on their backs
correctly the game is over.
A few other fun activities besides those listed above are a Twister
tournament, 1970s trivia contest, and a smiley face piñata filled with candy as well as other
goodies.
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Party
Favors
Smiley face treat bags are a great idea for favors.
Smiley face bubbles are a must for this party. They always
provide hours of fun for adults as well as for kids.
The smile spring key chain is a popular favor because it is a
key chain and a toy all in one!
One of the Party Girl's favorite favors is an assortment of nostalgic key chains that include Duncan® YoYos, Lava
Lamps®, Magic 8 Balls, Mr. Potato Heads®, Uncle Milton's® Ant Farm and
others. Let's not forget the Lovebug, too.
No 70s party is complete without the following. You don't have to do it all,
but you have to do some. There were those of us who were into tie-dye and black
light parties while some donned that little guy who was made famous and stayed
famous--the happy face!
- Glow jewelry--pretend it's black light poster time; I
was there I remember and it was grand. Glow jewelry will light up your night
and take you back to the 60s and 70s. My special favorite...glow straws!
- Tambourines--all the hippies played them; they sat
around with drums and tambourines and pretended they were far, far away. I
wonder what they're thinking now?
- A peace hat--this makes for a great centerpiece (add
balloons if you like) or just a great photo op. After all, it they had these
at Woodstock, imagine what the movie would be like!
- Tie-dyed bandanas--I still wear my tie-dye shirt from my
college days. I kid you not. It's got a couple of holes so I save it for
special occasions. I've bought some new ones, but they don't feel as good.
These bandanas are COOL. And they also make GREAT NAPKINS.
- Hippie Headbands--oh yeah! Check these out. Great napkin
ring that turns into a headband. You're friends will love you for it!
- Summer of Love Tie Dye bag--a great favor...and these
can be personalized.
- Peace Necklaces--another great napkin ring, a great
seating card (just tie off a card with name and table number) and more.
(Also available in metallic.)
- Peace Earrings--even the guys will wear these. (Also
available in metallic.)
- Feather earrings--in case after the 70s party you want
to wear them for Halloween.
- 70s party kit--peace sign sunglasses, necklaces, hair
extensions, beads, etc.
- Inflatable guitars--for anyone who wants to do their
Jimi Hendrix imitation.
- John Lennon glasses--regular or neon blue, green, yellow lenses.
Happy Face/Smile Face--made famous in the 70s. You may want to add a bit of
this to your party or keep this as your 70s theme! In fact, I don't think the
smile face has ever gone away, do you?
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more?
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