Graduation Party Centerpiece Ideas

RE: Graduation Party Centerpiece Ideas Post By Mary Ann (Guest Post) (06/15/2008) My daughter is graduation from high school in two weeks. I'm using a margherita glass, filling bottom with colored stones from the dollar store in her school colors. Took her pre-school graduation picture, and her high school picture, printed them out on card-stock, with a nice saying, made a fan out of them, stuck them in the glass, and wrapped tulle around them with curling ribbon. They are adorable. I made 3 of these. I am also using old vases that I have and buying carnations in her school colors to put on the other tables. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Graduation Party Centerpiece Ideas Post By jasmine (Guest Post) (05/27/2008) Hello! I'm trying to come up with ideas for a centerpiece. It's for a graduation party, I want something unique! I thought of the fruit tree but what else? Report Spam or Abuse RE: Graduation Party Centerpiece Ideas Post By Sharon (Guest Post) (05/08/2008) I went to Michael's and bought my daughters first initial of her first name, K, in three dimensional paperboard letters. I then purchased a paperboard box to mount each letter on. I spray painted the letters in her favorite color, (or you can use your school colors), then painted the boxes white. I glued a letter on the lid of the box then used glitter spray paint over the entire piece. I plan to add some sand to each box so they don't blow away in the Kansas wind. I will use them as centerpieces with glitter or confetti sprinkled around them. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Graduation Party Centerpiece Ideas Post by rivrerat726 (1) | (05/06/2008) Contact Cali I love the idea of the scales of justice, but I can't find plastic ones, have you had any luck finding cheap scales of justice? Report Spam or Abuse RE: Graduation Party Centerpiece Ideas Post By Cali (Guest Post) (04/22/2008) My boyfriend is graduating Law School in a few weeks and I was thinking of getting some plastic scales of justice and filling them with m&m's. I think they will make nice centerpieces as well as conversation-starters! Report Spam or Abuse Law school graduate party idea Post By Monica (Guest Post) (01/13/2008) I have been asked to plan my cousin's grad party from Law School. Need a fun theme or some small ideas that will get my creative juices flowing! Help! Report Spam or Abuse Open House for Graduation Post By Stephanie (Guest Post) (07/31/2007) I am planning an open house for Spring of 2008 and I have some ideas, but I wanted to keep cost low. I read about the taco buffet and thought that was nice. I wanted to have the M&M candies personalized for center pieces in her school colors. I still need other inexpensive ideas. I'm starting 9 months in advance so I can have a nice one considering my daughter did not want a SWEET 16 Party so she hasn't had a real party since 12 years old. Help! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Graduation Party Centerpiece Ideas Post By Sherrie (Guest Post) (05/25/2007) Love all the ideas. I was stumped until this site all I had come up with was visiting the party store and spending more money than I wanted. Love the diploma costers, the rolled diplomas. Think I wll print the grad year to runn along the side of the rolled paper. Thanks to all !!!1 Report Spam or Abuse RE: Graduation Party Centerpiece Ideas Post By Tamika Ferguson (Guest Post) (05/04/2007) One of my best friends of ten years will be graduating from college on May 12th. His mom wanted me to decorate for his graduation party. As centerpieces I will be using styrofoam cups filled with gravel or marbles. I will then use metallic gold tissue paper and wrap the cups up. Then I will attach two helium filled balloons in his school colors green and gold. He has a degree in criminal justice and music directing, so I will use die cuts of music notes, badges and diplomas to finish the look. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Graduation Party Centerpiece Ideas Post By Amber (Guest Post) (04/20/2007) I'm organizing the graduation reception for my law school class. I'm stuck on ideas for centerpieces (both big and small tables). My ideas so far are: 1) Mini diplomas scattered around the centerpiece. This would be really easy and inexpensive to make. 2) A decorative display of our legal textbooks. The centerpieces would vary between some with stacks of books, some with open books, etc. Any feedback or more ideas would be very helpful! I'm looking for any graduation or legal themes. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Graduation Centerpiece Ideas with candy Post By wanda (Guest Post) (04/15/2007) I am looking for ideas for Graduation centerpieces made of candy. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Graduation Party Centerpiece Ideas "STARS" Post By Desiree (Guest Post) (04/10/2007) Sometimes StumpsSpirit.com has really elegant centerpieces at great prices! Check it out!...for someone doing a grad party and the theme is "STARS,"...I did it...StumpsSpirit.com had colorful 3D Star centerpieces for a set of 6 @ $30.00. You can choose your own school colors too. Once the Stars were placed on the tabletops, I just sprinkled some graduation caps confetti around them and bits of curling ribbon just to add a more elegant look to it. Have fun, graduation comes only once in a lifetime. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Graduation Party Centerpiece Ideas Post By b. dina (Guest Post) (03/22/2007) At my cousins graduation party, her sisters made centerpieces. They bought little vases and use stencils to write her name, the year she graduated, and flowers on it. Then they put styrofoam balls (purchased at Walmart) that fit the inside of the vase and stuck pretty fake flowers in it. It looked nice on the tables. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Graduation Party Centerpiece Ideas Post By Kendra (Guest Post) (03/18/2007) I am on a very tight budget as in barely anything but I want a nice looking party. The theme I have is stars. what do you think I should do for the centerpieces? Thanks! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Graduation Party Centerpiece Ideas Post By Lynne (Guest Post) (05/05/2006) I loved the photos in the flower pot idea! I'm going to expand this idea and purchase some small pots of annual yellow flowers, wrap the pots with blue wrapping paper (our school colors) and then tape photos of my son on straws and stick these in the pots. After the party, the pots can be given to grandparents, aunts, etc. as a way to remember my son's graduation. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Graduation Party Centerpiece Ideas Post By 91chevy (Guest Post) (03/05/2006) Here's what I did last year that was cheap and clever: 1) graduation caps, used as coasters: black square paper napkins... poke hole in middle with needle ... run 2 or 3 lengths of yellow ribbon through hole (school color) ... tape ribbon on the underside. Make ribbon length in proportion to napkin to make it look like a graduation cap. I made 20+ of these and had them all over the house. Can be done well in advance of party. You'll love the look. 2) photos under plastic on table Scan photos of graduate from childhood years and print out on regular white paper ... scatter on table ... cover with clear plastic tablecloth (bought at dollar store). I used only young child pictures and scanned about 30 of them. Did this on numerous tables throughout the house. Not too many things cuter than a bunch of baby and little kids pictures scattered about. Photos can be scanned well ahead of the party. 4) stack books as food holders Stack old textbooks, 3-5 of them, on a table. Wrap with yellow crepe paper ribbon to simulate a book bag stack. I used their hardest course books, like chemistry, biology, etc., to give an appreciation of how hard they worked to get through. Put bowls of fruit salad, etc., on top of the book stacks. 5) See if you can find some glasses in the shape of 2006. The guests will wear them and they make for fun photo opportunities. I loved planning these things. Have FUN! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Graduation Party Centerpiece Ideas Post By Katie (Guest Post) (01/01/2006) Hi, We make balloon centerpieces at reasonable prices and many are personalized. Right now we have available two graduation centerpieces, one is $8.50 the other is $10.25. You can see them at http://www.celebratedsensations.com/centerpieces/graduationcp.html Please let me know if I can be of further help to you. Katie Report Spam or Abuse RE: Graduation Party Centerpiece Ideas Post by ThriftyFun (3746) | (12/15/2005) Profile | Blog! | Contact Request: A friend's mother put me in charge of decorating for her daughter's graduation party this Sunday. The graduate is 26 and just finished her undergraduate degree. I'm looking for ideas for center pieces for the tables. I need something simple and inexpensive, but also something unique with some personality. Party stores just aren't gonna cut it, but I also don't have the money to go all out. Can somebody please help? Patrick from Cleveland, Ohio Answers: RE: Graduation Party Centerpiece Ideas Post by austin95mom Latex helium balloons in the school's colors. RE: Graduation Party Centerpiece Ideas Kris (Guest Post) Why not get some pretty paper (I bought parchment looking type paper at wal mart in the scrap-booking section for about 5 dollars) and roll each piece of paper into a cylinder, so it looks like a diploma. Buy some pretty ribbon, like school colors or even the graduate's favorite color and tie it around the 'diploma'. On the inside you can do a number of things. If the number is small and you can afford it, tape gift certificates or even pre paid phone cards for when they go off to college. If you are on a very tight budget, go to your computer, pick out a fancy or pretty font and type some practical advice on the paper before you roll it. If they are long time friends, maybe a group picture rolled up with a special memory written underneath. RE: Graduation Party Centerpiece Ideas (Guest Post) I used helium filled balloons and a decorated cake with my daughters graduation picture air brushed on it. RE: Graduation Party Centerpiece Ideas Post by JoMama I went to a graduation open house for a "farmers kid" The centerpieces were very creative. They had clay pots filled with real dirt- then in place of flowers- there where photos of the young man when he was a child -they were cut out and glued to a wooden stick. There were a few in each pot. Very clever and a conversation piece too. RE: Graduation Party Centerpiece Ideas Joan M (Guest Post) Use construction paper to make graduation hats (like the ones that they make for kindergarten graduates). Put a tassel made with yarn in the middle using a brass fastener to hold it in place. You can type a message on top of the cap (like congratulations graduate etc...) then roll up a piece of paper to look like a diploma and tie it with a matching yarn. Really easy and and inexpensive. RE: Graduation Party Centerpiece Ideas lena (Guest Post) Hi, I'm doing graduation party for son with 150 kids. For table centerpieces I'm doing graduation party bags and filling with candy or nuts for the weight. Closing bag with balloon and ribbon to sit on tables with confetti then sprinkled on table. Some sites have bags for a $1.95 for 12/dz. Plus, I got all or most of candy for 50% to 70% off, right now with all the after Easter candy there is right now. Good luck with plans. RE: Graduation Party Centerpiece Ideas Thera (Guest Post) I am doing a graduation dinner at present, I have plans to use tropical flowers (anthuriums and ginger lilies) with dried branches sprayed in gold with pencils holding miniature graduation hats set askew. The base pot will be clay and it will be wrapped in red organza to go with the tropical theme. (I should mention that I live in the caribbean) The will also be white pebbles at the base of the oasis and small pieces of bamboo to add green. RE: Graduation Party Centerpiece Ideas Post by campermom For my son's graduation party I purchased large plain white piggy banks and stick on letters from A.C. Moore. Using the letters, I plan to spell out "College Fund" on one side and "Class of 2005" on the other side in school colors. Then I'm going to add ribbon in school colors around the pig's neck. RE: Graduation Party Centerpiece Ideas tcb (Guest Post) I had a great idea for my daughter's college graduation party. She loves purses and shoes. We used brand new inexpensive purses and added fresh flowers for the center piece. Then we used a pattern for paper high heel shoes for mints on the table. The shoe pattern is a cut out from Coluzzle by Provo Craft. They have cowboy boots too. RE: Graduation Party Centerpiece Ideas Ashley (Guest Post) I am throwing a graduation party. At the dollar store there are small fish bowls. Use them exactly how your supposed to. At pets mart you can get goldfish for 10 cents each. Inexpensive and fun to look at. RE: Graduation Party Centerpiece Ideas c kelly (Guest Post) For a centerpiece, instead of the usual diploma, I had classified want ads rolled like a diploma, with a ribbon of the school colors, and attached balloons of their school colors (for a college graduation). 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