80's Themed Party

Table decorations

1980's party check list must haves

Headband sunglasses
Hot colored Velcro wallets
Friendship Bracelets
Slap Bracelets
Jelly Bracelets
Rubik's cube
Fun Dip
Candy Rings
Pop Rocks

Some of the music used during the party

Song Artist

Take on Me a-ha

Money for Nothing Dire Straits

Footloose Kenny Loggins

Maniac Michael Sembello

Maneater Hall & Oates

Take Me Home Tonight Eddie Money

I Ran A Flock of Seagulls

Material Girl Madonna

Manic Monday The Bangles

Uptown Girl Billy Joel

Friday I'm in Love The Cure

Welcome to the Jungle Poison

Don't You Simple Minds

Eye of the Tiger Survivor

Mickey Toni Basil

How Will I Know Whitney Houston

Conga Gloria Estefan

Vacation The Go-Gos

Splatter paint a white sheet for an inexpensive backdrop. We originally intended on using this as the back drop for the "picture booth" but it didn't seem to have as much impact as I would have liked.
***Note the yellow piece of paper sitting on the table - on "80s" inspired scrapbook paper, I printed out fun 80s facts from 1980 - 1989. This could even be turned into a game!

Some of the party favors - most of the candy was purchased from Oriental Trading Company

Pac-Man and the ghosts where cut out of construction paper and taped to the wall. Glue-on googly eyes were used for the ghost eyes.

Old records were purchased from Goodwill - painted and splattered with acrylic paint.

I found family photos from the 80s and had them enlarged (walmart.com) - place them on funky colored scrapbook paper for personalized wall decor.

acrylic painted tape cassettes were hung from the ceiling with fishing line at different lengths.

Rubik's Cube cupcakes

It would have been like totally awesome if we could have rented an actual "photo booth" but the price was like way out of our budget! We purchased a "rock star" scene setter from Oriental Trading and designated a wall to be the radically cool photo area!