No matter what time of the year, we are always in a season or near a holiday worth celebrating! From Halloween to Cinco de Mayo, you need only look at the calendar for easy party inspiration.
For our antipodal friends in South America, Australasia and southern Africa, please refer to the opposite season for holidays (i.e. see Christmas parties in Winter). But regardless of which hemisphere you’re in, there are also plenty of seasonally-themed parties that aren’t tied to any specific holiday but are just as fun to celebrate during certain times of the year! So unlike established holidays, check out your own real-time season for other timely celebration ideas.
The Spirit of Vintage Halloween The first citywide Halloween celebration took place in 1921 in Anoka, Minnesota. Through the decades we’ve seen plenty of interesting iterations of this fantastic holiday. And we all have fond memories of celebrated Halloweens from our own childhood years. Those basic motion-sensor hanging ghosts that blared a hyper vibrato cry […]
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What Makes a Halloween Party Classic? Like many modernized holidays, Halloween has scattered origins which mostly trace back to ancient European practices. But Halloween as we know it didn’t materialize until the past couple hundred years. And only within the past century has it become relatively tame. It used to mark a raucous night of
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The Inspiration and Background of May Day Hurray, it’s May! It may not be summer yet (unless you live in the American South), but May Day commemorates the halfway point between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. In other words, cold spells should finally have ceased but it isn’t yet scorching hot, so we
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Why a Witch Fest, You Wonder? Witches are wonderful to celebrate any time of the year, but since they are so entrenched in Halloween culture, October is an especially fitting time to dust off your witch hat and party! You could go so many ways with this theme. You could make it a natural, woodsy
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Meet the Classy Halloween Party What makes a Halloween party classy? For one, a classy Halloween party doesn’t feel like a haunted house with drinks and music. Neither does it feel like a kids’ party with juice and cookies. A classy Halloween party feels like an old wine bar or jazz club: upbeat while also
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Kids Need Their Own Halloween Bash The theme ideas you’ll find on Party Themes Galore are all curated for adult parties (though they can often be tailored for kids’ parties, too)…except for this one. This theme is a stand-alone because it’s only for kids: a kids Halloween party! Whether you have your own kids, whether
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Why Pink Halloween already has such a fun colour palate: orange, black, purple, and sometimes lime green playfully mix and mingle. So why switch it up? Because pink has its own secret magic in Halloween, too. Beyond the gore, terror and sometimes disturbing aesthetics we see marketed more and more each Halloween, there is a
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The Rich Heritage of the Pumpkin: a Classic and Fitting Autumn Celebration Nothing symbolizes autumn quite like the pumpkin. In the USA, fall is when we start to see this native fruit everywhere, along with pumpkin-flavoured everything. So October is the perfect time to celebrate with pumpkins. There are a lot of things you can
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