<p>Our school holds a semi formal dinner dance at a nice hotel for graduating seniors and their parents the weekend before graduation. It is a purely a social event, separate from the pomp and circumstance of the award ceremonies and the graduation exercises of the season.</p>
<p>I have been asked to come up with a party favor and a game for the seniors. I need ideas! </p>
<p>Last year the favor was an assortment of m and ms in school colors with the schools initials in a nice glass container. It was darling but ran about $400. I would like to be closer to around $3pp.</p>
<p>One of the games we will be doing is kind of a version of Musical Chairs. All students assemble on the dance floor and are given a $1 bill. Music is played and the kids dance. When the music stops the kids put their hand either on their head or their rear end. The DJ flips a coin. If it is tails everyone with their hand on their head leaves the dance floor and surrenders their dollar. Everyone with their hand on their rear end survives the round. This goes on until just one student remains and they get the jackpot. With 70 students it goes pretty quickly.</p>
<p>We are trying to make it so they students WANT to stay around rather than bolting after dessert. Since this is a semi formal event, games involving food, water and/or running wouldnt be appropriate. I would prefer something that engages them as a group rather than splitting up into teams etc.</p>
<p>Any great ideas from the collective CC wisdom?</p>
<p>To keep within the tiny budget, make choc. lollipops or figurines of the school’s mascot (think choc. bunnies)
You can buy the molds of the mascot online</p>
<p>The first thing I thought of for a party favor is personalized chocolate bar covers… ([Candy</a> Wrappers Chocolate Favors at Custom Candy Bar Wrapper: Personalized Candy Wrappers, Personalized Candy Bar Wrappers, Custom Candy Wrappers](<a href=“http://www.customcandybarwrapper.com%5DCandy”>http://www.customcandybarwrapper.com)) will show you what I mean if you haven’t seen them before… I would NEVER pay what they’re asking, they’re super easy to make yourself (google for the template) and so cheap. Fill them with a Hershey bar (or whatever you prefer) or do the mini ones… Simple, cheap and very unique!</p>
<p>I’ll keep thinking, once I get my brain to turn on I should be able to come up with a couple of other ideas.</p>
<p>Choc molds of an eagle’s head(possible sub for a hawk) for lollipops online.</p>
<p>Big cookie in shape of a hawk and decorated with colored royal icing for each place setting(think of the cookies in a cookie bouquet).
Again to keep costs low, you and other will have to bake and decorate.</p>
<p>Does it need to be a food item? What about a fleece blanket with their name on it or a school logo or something like that? Our son got one as a graduation gift from the school and uses it all the time. It was great to have in his dorm room too.</p>
<p>^^The OP said she wanted to spend $3 per person. I doubt your could get a fleece blanket for that price, although it certainly would be nice. :)</p>
<p>Chocolate-dipped oreos drizzled with the school colors are quite popular. Piping the school initial(s) is also a possibility. Or you could make chocolate pops–if you can find a mold that will pass for a hawk-- or some kind of chocolate dipped treats like pretzels and put them in clear bags tied with ribbons in the school colors. If you do decide to do something with chocolate, you are going to have to decide whether you use real chocolate, which needs to be tempered, or a" summer coating" kind of thing. The latter is commonly used for novelties. If you decide to use that type, I strongly suggest that you try to get Merckens and avoid Wilton like the plague. Merckens tastes a lot better, even though it isn’t real chocolate.</p>
<p>If you go to the Sugarcraft website, you will find some eagle sucker molds, as well as Merckens chocolate, sticks, and bags: everything you would need.</p>
<p>^^Actually, they probably can easily find something like that from a promotional products company in that price range or less depending on how many they have to order. I just checked the company we use for our golf team and they had 40 under $5 and 20 under $3.</p>
<p>i will throw in some games___not sure what you call it - but form 2 random lines and one from each dances down inside the lines to fun crazy music?.. also maybe the limbo?</p>
<p>If the DJ has ever worked at a bar mitzvah, they will be very knowledgeable about games! One that is popular around here is a type of treasure hunt…but it involves a group of kids going to the adults sitting at the tables for items as the DJ calls out what item he’s looking for…could be played altogether…the DJ says he’s looking for a certain item and whoever produces the item stays in the game!</p>
<p>A treasure hunt is a fantastic idea. We did that at daughter’s sweet 16 party. We actually printed a list of things to find scattered around the banquet room in various locations. We had a particular theme in mind since D was a volunteer at a nature center so we used little animals all bought at a craft store for a very cheap price. A school theme can done. Also the DJ did trivia questions randomly throughout the night that were prepared by us with questions about our daughter that people may know. You could do questions about individual students include questions about teachers and staff that the kids may know. This can be both hilarious as well as factual Have lots of dollar store prizes wrapped up as gifts for knowing the answer, displaying them on a table all by itself. Everyone loves gifts and people usually stick around for those. Chocolate bar favors with school color wrappers are also nice and cost way less than 3.00 a person. Having several of these type activities keep th night moving and keeps the kids active and not bored. Have fun!</p>
<p>Way back in the dark ages when I graduated High School we did a “High School Bee” at our parent dinner. Teachers and students came up with a bunch of questions that they thought everyone should know before they graduate from high school. Then, at the dinner, the parents had to answer them, much like a spelling bee. One wrong and down you go. The parent who won, their kid got the prize.</p>
<p>Not sure of the price but do a search for the “Brain Show.” Great entertainment for those participating and those in the audience. Pop culture, current and old music, buzzer to ring in answers. No time to explain more but we had them come to an elementary school but seemed appropriate for many groups…high school, college orientations, corporate team building…</p>
<p>If you look at promotional sites, you can find things like cups (fill with some candy) or key rings that you could have their school logo and graduation year printed on.</p>