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80's Themed Party

By Corie @DesignDNAblog

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!

We ordered inflatable guitars from Oriental Trading


Picnik.com was used to create the "Polaroid" effect












Use Faceinhole.com to put the faces of your friends and family on 80s pop culture!  Print them out and display them as wall art.

Tara as Pat Benatar


Brother-in-law as Mr. T


Me as JEM


My Husband as Pee Wee Herman