Graduation Party Ideas

We hope you have been blessed with a family filled Memorial Day weekend! Our party was amazing and of course friends and family make it perfect! We wanted to give you an idea of how you could organize a party of your own. Our goal was to keep things simple while offering a nice presentation, without too much clutter. We used our jars with the chalkboard contact paper for our candy and kept that theme by labeling each food item, we just stuck the contact paper to the table linens. We used the paper flowers from a previous post to border the bottom of the graduation banner. We also displayed Shya's artwork with wooden clothespins attached to jute. Hopefully you can get some new ideas and make your party planning a pleasant experience!

Paper flowers

start with plates, napkins and forks

Glass jars with chalkboard contact paper

Gardettos

DIY cupcake stands

Chocolate cupcakes, lemon cupcakes and sugar cookies

Hugs and kisses, skittles and lemonheads, m&m's and raisenettes and vanilla bean cupcakes

Label with chalkboard contact paper on linens

fresh fruit

Serving table

Shya's artwork

Shya's artwork hanging from clothespins on jute

yummy punch

Use cupcake liners for fresh strawberries - cream puffs for chocolate dipping

Love and peace,
~ Simply Tammi and Angie

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