American Idol Party Guide: Freebies & Fun

The party guide helps plan a themed American Idol event with ideas, tips in the food departments, creative crafts, and clever conversation chats, menus, recipes, cookies, cakes and food labels. Free printable games, puzzles, place name cards and coloring pages.

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American Idol Event Music

Most American Idol fans will enjoy an American Idol party complete with music, songs and dancing. Celebrating a special event with outstanding performances that include singing, dancing and acting is a great way to keep the guests involved in the celebration. These fun activities are perfect for guests of all ages and will add a great deal to the celebration. More often than not, these performances will be the perfect addition to a fun filled and exciting event. From Marvin Gaye's, Let�s Get it On sung by American Idol contestant Jacob Lusk, to Janis Joplin�s, Piece of My Heart sung by Haley Reinhart, the songs that could play at your American Idol party are endless. Most of your guests will enjoy recapping the week�s event while watching videos from the music performed on American Idol.
Over the years, American Idol has been a favorite party theme and having American Idol party supplies will add to this party. Most people will discover that an American Idol party is very popular and your guests will be excited to have been invited. Having a variety of American Idol party supplies such as posters, centerpieces and American Idol CDs will only add to this musical party.
An American Idol party theme should be very popular and the music chosen for this party should be upbeat and popular. Therefore, an American Idol party will be the perfect party for most American Idol fans. Music selections may include music such as: Jailhouse Rock by Elvis Presley
When a Man Loves a Woman by Percy Sledge
Baby by Justin Bieber
Rocket Man by Elton John
Have you Ever Seen the Rain by Creedance Clearwater Revival. Game idea: take a clear container, then fill with candy, toys or other objects and have the guests guess the number of items inside. Photos provide such lasting memories; take time to designate someone as the photographer at a social occasion. Gather up some leftover brown packing boxes, wrap them in a matching theme color design and place them throughout the event space for instant decorations.

Homemade American Idol Party Supplies

Homemade American Idol party supplies can turn a standard American Idol party into something special. Celebrating a special event with remarkable event trimmings, designs and materials is always a great way to add fun to a festive celebration. Enjoyable designs that are perfect for guests of all ages will enhance the event and make the guests feel very special. More often than not, these colorful embellishments will add a lot of attention to the celebration. Use blue and green American Idol color for the primary colors when making the homemade party supplies. Cut out large green and blue stars, hang from the ceiling, and paste on the walls. Draw the American Idol logo on large sheet of paper or cardboard and color in. Trace the outline of the logo to ensure it is as close to the real thing as possible. American Idol is all about the music so cut out musical notes and instruments to hang from the ceiling and walls as well.

Handmade party supplies for an American Idol party should also consist of audition number tags. Cut out sheets of paper and tape each tag on the person when they enter the party. Copy the tags as closely as possible from the American Idol show. Do some research and had out quiz questions on the history of American Idol and the contestants for a pop quiz fun. To fill up a large area with minimal party supplies, draw silhouettes of people singing. Place pictures of the silhouettes on a projector and trace an outlines on a sheet of people. For those who do not have a projector, drawing silhouettes free hand is not that difficult.

Cakes for American Idol

Here are a few tips on how to make yourself an awesome birthday cake for that American Idol themed party you are hosting:

First off to leave no doubt about the inspiration behind the creation incorporate the American Idol logo somewhere on the cake. Most probably it would be in the icing itself, but you could get creative about how to work it in there. A great idea is to include the name of the birthday style in the logo.

An American Idol birthday cake is all the glitz and glamour that the show epitomizes so don�t hesitate to use some glitter and sparkles in your cake decoration. Surely your party supplies would have lots of it as well, so make sure the cake stands out.

This exciting and fun event is the ideal time for a variety of creative desserts and other tasty treats designed especially for this celebration. These items are always a great addition to a celebration and most often the addition of enjoyable fares that are designed especially for this gathering will make everyone feel very special. To drive in the American idol theme you could consider making your sheet cake in the shape of a guitar. A microphone is an even better idea since it is one object that is most strongly associated with the show.

The goal while making an American idol cake is to pack onto it as much of the pizzazz and pomp of show business. Make it loud and larger than life in honour of the Rock Star that is the birthday child!

American Idol Parties

American Idol is a sensation across not only America but even in many countries across seas as well. There�s just something people love about the idea of some unknown person coming out of nowhere and becoming world famous overnight. Actually American Idol was not the original; over in the U.K. a reality program called Pop Idol was what spawned the American Idol series. Of course this is a show run by a corporation after all, and as such the show was created to find new singing talent and advertise them through the shows viewers. Then the shows producers would gain exclusive rights to manage the idols and for merchandising. Even if the idol wanted to quit or go with someone else. Still, this show does keep up to its word and gives anyone with the guts to tryout a genuine chance at fame and fortune.

These fun items and supplies are always a great addition to a celebration and fun posters that include designs and greetings that are perfect for the celebration will liven up the event and make everyone feel very special. More often than not, these signs and posters will add a lot of fun to the celebrated get together. There are loads of great ideas you can use for this party theme. The most obvious is of course to have a marathon viewing session of the shows six seasons. You may just want to shorten it by showing the best episodes, or perhaps just the winning episodes or the party could last for days. It would be really fun to do this while everyone is home for Veterans Day. Another great choice would be karaoke. You could organize your own version of American Idol with your party goers playing the contestants and rating each other. Decorations can be a little vague for this theme, but if you want you could try to set up a mini stage, or at least a wall scroll of one. This would also be a fun theme to incorporate into a disco party. Stars, streamers, confetti, and any other all purpose decorations would be a great idea.

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American Idol History, Facts and Educational Resources

Add an educational twist to any birthday party, holiday celebration, or theme party. Share the history of the American Idol theme to the guests. Play some free printable educational party games. Shhh don't tell the kids that they are learning!

American Idol History & Facts

American Idol has a short but very rich history in the entertainment world. This reality television show has offered many opportunities to up and coming stars who would never have likely been seen or heard of otherwise. This show was created by Simon Fuller as an actual spin off of a similar British show known as Pop Idol. Most people are amazed at the history behind many of the shows from the present and past. Like others before them the times of past and the recordings are often as interesting now as they were many years ago. For this reason, fans of the show have held strong and their popularity has continued to grow.

There is no doubt this show will become a very famous one in television history. Since its debut on June 11th 2002 it has soared to the top of the charts of most watched shows and drawn millions of people into the action. Voters decide who the American Idol is in the end. This Television show has also become a national family pastime it seems, with many families using it as a family activity as so many age ranges seem to be drawn into the fold. American idol even though so young already has a history that is known for discovering the best singer around. Singers perform and a panel of judges that include Randy Jackson, Simon Cowell as well as others who are there to critique the singers performances. Many levels of performers have made their way on and off of the American Idol stage.

Although this process can be painful and comical to watch, the judges are only there to offer instruction, in the end the people who watch the show are ultimately the ones who decide the true American Idol. Decorations help transform a room into something more for that special day so look forward to learning some exciting and creative ideas. If you specify the type of clothing for a social event like summer causal, give a few examples of what is acceptable and more importantly what isn't. Decorations help transform a room into something more for that special day so look forward to learning some exciting and creative ideas. The history of American Idol has different interpretations by each person, so use your own judgement. Share these facts with friends at a celebration.

Educational American Idol Resources

The Party Supplies Hut has more free elementary educational teacher resources for American Idol to use in the classroom for active learning to create lesson plans with trivia questions, games and fun activities.

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