Sweet 16 Mardi Gras Theme

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Throw a sweet 16 Mardi Gras party to celebrate your birthday with one largest celebrations in the world! If you're into culture and amazing parties, this is the right theme for you.



Every celebration has a specific theme. The most common themes have been from Hollywood or a well known part of history. Royalty themes are very common like kings, queens and princesses.

The secret to decorating for this theme is using bright colors . The main Mardi Gras colors are:

* Green
* Purple
* Gold

So hang some balloons of these colors, metallic masks , and long swirling streamers. Grab some confetti and let it all fly through your sweet 16 Mardi Gras party. Be creative when decorating for your sweet 16 birthday.

Beads are very important for a Mardi Gras party theme. Get some long colorful curtain beads to hang on door frames. Also, get some long bright colored necklaces for all of your party guests to wear.

Masks are also important for this specific party theme. There are many traditions of Mardi Gras and masks are one of the most important. They are also fun to wear and very mysterious. So grab some masks or make them!

Get creative and glue some feathers and glitter to a paper plates and cut out your desired mask shapes. If you have clay or plaster on hand, try that as well.

It really doesn't matter what kind of mask you decide to wear, as long as you have one on!

This can also be a sweet 16 Mardi Gras party activity. Pull out some ceramics and art supplies and let your friends imaginations go wild!

Make your very own sweet 15 Mardi Gras birthday banner using the classic colors of purple, green and gold. Paint images of beads and masks on your banner.

Have a friend or relative dress up as a fortune teller . A tarot card reader would best fit the job criteria, but really anyone can have fun doing this. Grab a big circular light bulb or a deck of cards and use your imagination!

This can be a very fun and unique way to express the sweet 16 Mardi Gras theme at your party.

Grab a collection of jazz music or of course a jazz band if you want to go all out for your party.

Like any carnival in the world, activities and games always cost tickets to play. So why not set up some cool carnival games and charge your guests doubloons to play. You can use colorful play money from any dollar store to represent doubloons.

Give each guest a handful of doubloons upon entry to the party and have them earn more through carnival games like:

* Ring Toss: Set up come bottles or colorful sticks for your guests to toss the rings over.
* Darts: The player who gets the bulls eye wins a prize
* Tin Can Knock Off: Supply players with a ball. Stack tin cans in a pyramid and watch as your players try to know all the cans over.

Each game has stuffed animal prizes. Buy some stuffed toys or small knickknacks for grand prizes.

Buy a couple of King Cakes for this occasion. King Cakes are a very important New Orleans tradition.

Grab some colorful plates, cups and cutlery from your local dollar store. Have tons of food available for your hungry teens! Have a great sweet 16 Mardi Gras birthday!

Enjoy!

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