Casino Party Plan
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This total poker or casino party plan has been created by especially for you by award-winning party planner and author Phyllis Cambria for PartyPlansPlus.com. And, to save you even more time, we've included links to quality party supplies hand-selected by this party pro.
To make your planning even easier, Phyllis has given you "QUICK TIPS AND EASY IDEAS" to plan your party when you're short on time or money. She's also designed a plan for a "BLOWOUT BASH" when you really want to make a BIG impression. So, pick and choose the ideas that suit your style.
QUICK TIPS AND EASY PLANNING IDEAS
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Invitations – Gambling on Fun
- Write your invitation copy across the sheet music of “The Gambler” by Kenny Rogers.
- Type your invitation on a label and affix to the back of a playing card. Instruct your friends that the rest of their hand will be dealt at the party.
- Pre-printed casino party invitations is always a safe bet that your guests will feel like winners just for being invited.
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Decorations – Creating Your Casino
- Purchase oversized playing cards or use a color copier to enlarge regular playing cards and mount on cardstock to hang around your party site.
- Name the casino after the guest of honor and use small twinkle lights or rope lights to outline their name on a custom banner.
- Use twinkle lights to outline doors and your room and put them in the flashing mode.
- Hang signs over each “gaming area” naming the activity offered there.
- Create a lounge area for music and dancing.
- Just like on the Vegas Strip, give your casino a theme. It's also a great way to recycle western, luau, fiesta, decade themes such as '20s, '50s, '60s, '70s disco, Hollywood, Mardi Gras, sports, safari, Asian, beach party, pirate or patriotic party supplies from past parties.
- In a hurry and looking for a quick and easy way to spruce up your space? Buy an entire casino party theme decoration pack so that you can decorate in minutes.
Activities – Gaming and Games
- Affix a mini playing card to each name tag. Challenge guests to present themselves in a group to show a winning poker hand for prizes.
- Upon their arrival, give each guest a fixed amount of “funny money" or chips. Make sure your guests know the “value” of the chips if they’re not plainly marked. (You can make up signs near each gaming area with a chip glued to the poster and the value clearly marked next to it for easy reference.)
- Hire some help or enlist some volunteers to serve as dealers and croupiers.
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REFRESHMENTS – FOOD AND DRINK BEST BETS
- Finger foods work best here since folks won’t want to take time from “the action” to eat. But use gambling-themed paper products to keep their mind on the game.
- Costume your servers to match your casino’s decor.
- Use cardboard cutouts of suits (heart, diamond, club and spade) as trivets for your buffet table.
- Make colored Jell-O squares. Use cake decorating products to turn them into “dice” or card suits.
- Serve heaping trays of foil-covered chocolate or candy coins.
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- Many party supply companies sell recycled decks of cards from actual casinos or buy plain decks of cards to give as prizes and party favors.
- Real or toy dice are always a good bet.
- A rabbit’s foot will make your guests feel lucky long after they have left your casino.
- Crafty types can make souvenir refrigerator magnets (available at craft stores) using mini playing card and dice.
- Use your casino backdrop and take a souvenir instant or digitial photo and put into a frame for your high rollers to keep.
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Invitations – Gambling on Fun
- Replace the face on a royal card with that of your guest of honor and include in the invitation design.
- Send your invitation along with a pair of standard sized or oversized dice.
- Include chocolate coins (poker chips) with your invitation to start the evening off on a sweet note.
- Instruct your guests to bring something for a “white elephant auction.”
- Attach your invitation to a garter/armband.
- Use clip art to make up “funny money” with the invitation wording as part of the design and the guest of honor's picture replacing that of a president.
- A rabbit’s foot keychain or four-leaf clover as part of your invitation will make your guests feel lucky they were invited.
- Invite your guests to dress formally in glamorous Monte Carlo style or supply them with top hats and boas to add class to your casino.
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Decorations – Creating Your Casino
- Welcome guests to your casino with cardboard Las Vegas signs.
- Paper your walls in funny money, dollar sign paper, jackpot paper, casino nights, and/or slot machine cut-outs to give a backdrop to your gambling den using easily removable sticky tack.
- Replace the faces of the King, Queen or Jack on playing cards or on oversized money with the image of the host(s) or guest of honor or party host(s) that you've printed on self-stick paper (available at office supply stores).
- Have your dealers and croupiers dress in white shirts, bow ties, paper vest with and eye shades or a derby hat and they’ll be part of the decor.
- Get posters from your travel agent of places like Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Reno and Monte Carlo.
- Sprinkle your space with casino, dice or gambler helium or air-filled Mylar or latex balloons.
- It's easy to personalize your casino chips by scanning in a photo of your guest(s) of honor or party host(s), dollar value or a logo you created for your casino on your computer. Print on small, round stickers (available at office supply stores) and affix to your chips.
- There will be giggles and grins when you outfit your powder room with money-printed toilet tissue.
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REFRESHMENTS – FOOD AND DRINK BEST BETS
· Give your guests a glow when you pour their drinks into glowing glasses or add glowing ice cubes or glowing straws to their beverages.
· Virtually every Vegas casino has a buffet. Dress up your dishes with a Vegas Nights, Suit Yourself, Poker Party or Elvis themed casino paper products. You can use the entire themed line or mix and match with solid-color paper products.
- If you'd like, match the food to the theme. If your decor is a Roman Empire theme, serve Italian food; Polynesian, serve Crab Rangoon or Coconut shrimp, New Orleans, serve Cajun, a New York theme, serve deli.
- Make up flatware packets with a money print bandana napkin tied to a glowing beaded bracelet, glowing rope bracelet, or blinking dice beads.
- While gambling is surely the main attraction, you might want to set up a “lounge” for conversation and a floor show. A karaoke setup would be perfect if you want your guests to be part of the show. At the least, make sure there's music to move the crowd.
- More than just a drink container, this casino mug makes a great party favor.
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Activities – Gaming and Games
- Buy hand-held electronic gambling games to give your guests the action of a real casino.
- Cover your tables with green felt cloths designed for poker, blackjack, bingo, keno, craps and roulette games.
- Near the end of the event, hold an auction where guests bid on white elephant items brought in by other guests using their “winnings.”
- Did they have a bad night at the tables? Let guests take out their frustrations by taking a whack at a treat-filled casino piñata.
- A full poker party set will add style to your setting, but a monogrammed poker set will make guests feel like high rollers.
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- Any money-themed item: money clip, a paperweight made of recycled money, a money-design pen, etc. will let each guest feel like a winner.
- Coin sorters are great for your guests to count their "winnings."
- Fuzzy dice swinging from their rear-view mirror and/or keys on poker chip key chains will remind them that you think they're a winner.
- They'll love keeping their winnings safe in a small combination safe.
- So no one can read their "tell," provide guests with dark glasses.
- Jeweled dollar sign necklaces will make them sing your praises.
- Crown your winner as the king or queen of your casino.
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Note: This plan includes just a small amount of party supplies available for a Casino theme party. You can find more party products for this or almost any theme from our carefully selected suppliers listed below. Remember, supplies may be limited, so order early to ensure you'll get your party products in time for your party.
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