School Colors Graduation Party Ideas

Want an end-of-school blast that will have everyone cheering? It’s easy to kick off a spirited party when you use your school colors. Pull together a completely coordinated look that celebrates your school pride, from festive room decorations to balloons and party tableware. We’ve used a royal blue and yellow school color scheme for this party. For your own fest, start with your school colors, then add fab food, memory-making keepsake gifts, and plenty of photo ops!

Get an A+ on wow factor with a sign that shouts CONGRATS! Just cut letters from sturdy poster board, cover with gold gift wrap and glue on layers of fringed foil garland. You can make the letters flat and hang from a wall or ceiling, or make the 3-D versions shown here by cutting a front and back from posterboard for each letter, and taping together with 4"-wide strips of cardboard to create the sides of each letter. Add a custom banner and a roomful of balloons and you're golden! (Find poster board and foil gift wrap at Party City stores.)

Time to get your colors on! Have the class clown wear a morphsuit with his cap and gown. Swag it up with beads, whistles and cool grad glasses. Or for an easy "instant" school colors look try a furry 'stache, beads and some shades. Check out tons of funwear ideas in your school colors – like suspenders, hair extensions (and wigs!), pom poms, furry legwarmers, body paint and more!

These DIY ideas have a fresh look that grads (and everyone else!) will eat up. Choose mingle-friendly treats like cookies, cupcakes and a candy buffet. This balloon wall is easy and economical – just tie helium-filled school colors balloons onto weights at two heights. Accent the table with fringed foil garland and a DIY sign that shows how proud you are! Most Party City stores can custom-print each letter of the grad's name onto grad-themed invites. Hats off, mom!

They've been hitting the books for four years, time for a sweet splurge! Get an A for effort by making candy bags that look like cute little diplomas. It's as simple as putting candy sticks in your school colors into cello bags and tying them off with curling ribbon. Style them with pieces of crepe paper streamers and this grad party treat will pass with flying colors! Pretzel-size cello bags are available at Party City stores.

Treat the grads to push-up cake treats in their school colors! See our Way 2 Go! Grad Treat Pops How-To for a fun, fresh take on cupcakes made with layers of mini cake rounds and creamy icing. They work just like old-school ice cream pops – just push the handle up to get to the next layer of scrumptious deliciousness! Add stickers with clever quips and you'll be the coolest mom on campus.

Making unique treats is as easy as A-B-C – just put their names on one-of-a-kind cookies! Check out our Hats Off to the Grad Cookie How-To to make these awww-inspiring cookies that are too cute to eat... almost! Stand them up in a container filled with gumballs in different sizes and add a custom tag. That way they can snap a quick Instagram pic before they gobble them up! (Yellow Congrats Grad printables available at Party City stores.)

They can crack the books later. It's party time so make it extra-fun with cute ideas like this one! We created a clever sign with a grad-themed note card – you can print it out with this "college letters" font at Party City stores that offer custom printing, or handwrite it on a blank card. Either way, your dessert table will be too cool for school!

Rock candy on sticks looks amazing when you display it on a white tray, personalized with sticker tags in your school colors. We used Congrats Grad custom stickers in size extra-small, available at Party City stores. Personalize your stickers with the grad's name, or fun messages like "We're done, yippeee" or "Class of 2013 Rocks!". This idea makes the grade!

They won't want to leave for college when they see your dessert tower full of these yummy googly-eyed graduation cupcake monsters, complete with tiny little grad caps! Make the display party-worthy by mixing in grad-themed baking cups and colorful picks in their school colors. This three-tiered cupcake stand will be the valedictorian of your dessert table!

Pump up the crowd with a tower of personalized cups! These are plastic so they're also a good-for-groups party favor and cool memento. Print up matching beverage napkins in your school colors and you'll make the party planning honor roll! Visit a Party City store to order custom-printed tableware. More ideas: Use custom stickers on plain cups or keep it simple and pick up grad-themed tableware in your school colors!

For a simple way to turn party must-haves into a part of your theme and table decorations, start with cutlery and napkins in your school colors – and display them in a clear caddy to let the bold hues show proudly through. Party City has tableware in more colors than anyone else, so you can bet we've got your grad's school colors!