<p>Well, in our basement they’d be partying with the spiders and other miscellaneous scary things. Gee, it could be like a Halloween Party!!! :)</p>
<p>mkm-
Hahaha. My youngest one believed (for a brief time) that a lightbulb went off in his head when he was lying. We’d see him gaze upwards. You can only get away with that briefly…</p>
<p>weenie:</p>
<p>Karoke machine. These have gotten less expensive, but I think you can still rent the set up from party places. Once one kid (usually one of the girls) gets started, they line up and it’s a hoot. I never thought my youngest S would touch a microphone. Instead, he and a friend ended up wrestling over whose turn it was (course, this was 9th grade.) </p>
<p>Also, old fashioned but still fun if all the kids play: Twister.</p>
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ummm, jym626: I might, but I would have to be cuh-raaazy to do so! But I suppose many of my friends would attest to that fact!</p>
<p>One other suggestion: if you don’t have it already, rent Guitar Hero for PS 3 (I think). It’s a hoot to play and my d and her friends had lots of fun with it. Also DDR and, as someone suggested, a carioke game. Anything to get them up and involved!</p>
<p>I have no idea what the game is about but my D (a senior) and her friends love the game “Apples to Apples.”</p>
<p>I wonder if it’s possible to rent a DDR thing?</p>
<p>In my area, the parents of the students invited to the post prom party supply the breakfast. If a parent is will to host, the least the rest of us can do is bring the snacks and breakfast! Usually we send tons of canned drinks and bottled water; the kids hate to pour drinks! For snacks usually someone makes a Costco run for cookies, chips, M&M’s, etc… For breakfast we usually just go with bagels, muffins, fruit, juice, egg casseroles, and anything else that is easy to serve to a large group. The kids can not leave until the house is spic and span-meaning the girls clean while the boys sit on their butts! Well, the boys do help some, but usually the girls seem to do most of the work.</p>
<p>The parents usually buy a gift for the host parents; a gift card to a restaurant or to a favorite store. Anyone that is will to stand watch to a bunch or 17-18 year olds deserves a treat :-)</p>
<p>Check the laws in your state/city.</p>
<p>I haven’t read every post here, just skimmed - but I didn’t see this mentioned.</p>
<p>In our state, starting last year (I think),the Attorney General let it be known that parents <em>would be prosecuted</em> if they hosted parties where alcohol was consumed during prom/grad season.</p>
<p>I know that you are planning to be vigilant about this. Just another reason to be super-vigilant. If a kid has already been drinking (and is intoxicated) before arriving, you might want to opt out of having that kid come through the door, if your state is following a policy similar to ours.</p>
<p>Better yet, get all the kids in the group to put out requests among all their friends to borrow this stuff. DDR is a good idea. One of those things that some boys wouldn’t ask for or rent on their own, but if it’s there and everyone else is doing it, they find out how much fun it is.</p>
<p>Ok-- What is DDR??
Do they make Guitar Hero for Xbox?
Apples to Apples??</p>
<p>chocoholic-
Where’d your post go??
We did have the dancemat thing, but I think older s took it to college. I’ll look around for the other stuff, but s. told me not to " go crazy".</p>
<p>jym626- DDR= Dance Dance Revolution. Guitar Hero is available for Xbox 360 and Playstation 2 (I’m still trying to figure out if you can use it on PS3- anyone know?). Guitar Hero is a lot of fun and would be perfect for a post prom party. You can buy the game + 1 guitar for about $80 (seen on amazon.com etc.).</p>
<p>haha, I posted about DDR and Apples, then realized that my description was quite half***** and 20 people would come on to correct me, so I cheated and deleted :)</p>
<p>anyone know about wi fi -
guitar hero- caught on with the senior high school S’s friends - when D brought it home from college last year. (two went out and bought it after they played here) S took another new one back to ND this spring. BIG, BIG Hit !</p>
<p>Guitar hero is a Wii game. If you can borrow it, it’s a sure hit. It’s the hot thing right now.</p>
<p>DDR is a fun dance video game with a mat. My daughter owns it, but I was shocked when son’s friends came over for poker one night and spend the better part of the evening playing DDR!</p>
<p>Apples to Apples is a card/word game. There’s no real right or wrong answer, it’s all opinion, and can be tons of fun. Players take turns being the “judge”. The judge puts out an adjective card - cool, smelly, scary, etc. The other players have noun cards in their hand. They chose the card they think best fits the adjective and put it face down. The judge takes the noun cards, shows them to everyone (without knowing who put down which card) and chooses which one he/she thinks fits the adjective best. The fun part comes when players lobby for or against noun cards. I know, it sounds lame, but it’s fun. The best one we ever came up with: the adjective card was “touchy-feely.” The noun winner in a landslide: “Michael Jackson.”</p>
<p>I love the idea of having another parent or two to keep you company and help enforce the rules. You can play poker or bridge all night, and everyone can have fun! Also the idea about talking to the local police in advance and asking them for advice is great.</p>
<p>PS3s are supposed to be backwards compatible with all PS2 games, so guitar hero should work in a PS3.</p>
<p>jym - we have the DDR game/mat too…kids love it and are always dragging it out. But a LOT of high schools and colleges have DDR clubs (UNC does), so your group of kids should be able to borrow whatever is needed.</p>
<p>From my post-prom experience a couple years ago, I stayed at a friend’s house and we ate Chinese food and dealt with the issue of removing bobby pins from everyone’s hair and we crashed. What actually ended up happening was the friend’s mom decided she didn’t want both genders staying over night so the guys ended up at my house, which my parents were okay with hosting as long as there were no girls. Everyone met up the next day and ate donuts and such and we drove to the beach. Everyone had a great time and it allowed us to extend the prom time a good deal by being together for a second day.</p>
<p>We actually hosted several post-prom parties with both sexes in attendance. We knew all the kids very well and, as I said, talked to their parents before. And they all knew in advance that at a certain time (like 2 or 3am…and we DID stay up until then), boys stayed in the basement and girls went up two floors to the bedrooms (and ours is is between 
). Usually, the boys then stayed up all night playing games or watching movies. The girls did sleep. I made breakfast later on. I really loved it!</p>
<p>I’ve never hosted the post-prom party, but my D has had several “sleep-overs” after various events. I sat my D down and told her that if anyone snuck alcohol in, it was her responsibility to tell me. If she TOLD us, we would deal with the violator. If we FOUND OUT on our own, the violator’s parent would be called AND she would be harshly punished. I put the responsibility on her. Of course, my husband and I always find reasons to walk through the party area We always enjoy seeing the kids having fun.</p>