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GRADUATION OPEN HOUSE PARTY

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Best Graduation Party Ideas!

Make your Graduation Open House Party a special one and make this time a memorable one for your son, daughter or family member!

College Graduation – my oldest son graduated from my alma mater, the University of Washington!

So proud of him and since he had a big grad party when he graduated from high school, (see the “Picture your Future” party below)

For his college party he just wanted a simple BBQ with his closest friends but I still had to make up a dessert table!

I included purple and gold candy, cupcakes and mini black takeout containers that I decorated with UW stickers and black cardstock to make a cute little mortar board.

Topped it off with a tassel keychain from Oriental Trading and filled them with fortune cookies!

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So beyond proud of you Austin, I love you and can’t wait until the world sees what wonderful things you can do!

See below for Graduation Open House ideas!

High School Graduation Open House Party

THE WORLD IS YOUR CANVAS –My youngest, my BABY graduated from high school this year.

He is wildly artistic, having multiple Art Universities offer him amazing scholarships.

I am one proud mama so I thought an art graduation party would be perfect!

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Piggy Bank Parties designed a banner and printables for the party!

Check out their Etsy shop, they are amazing and will enhance your Graduation Open House Party!

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These paintbrush truffles were so fun and they made this Graduation Open House Party just that much more special.

In addition, I just dipped paintbrush handles into melted chocolate and pushed them into Ferrero Rocher truffles!

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Super cute cupcake picks from Oriental Trading.

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Try mini paint can favors and decorate them with graduation caps! Click here for my step by step instructions how to make these!

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For your Graduation Open House Party, consider Diploma cookies – ribbon tied around Pepperidge Farm Pirouette Cookies

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My son’s favorite foods – I put chips into clear paint cans (bought from Michael’s crafts) and put number stickers on them. I labeled them “Paint Chips”

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Plastic silverware rolled in napkins and tied with a black ribbon to look like diplomas

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Don’t tell people your dreams – show them.

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This amazing paint tube made by Mommy Mogul

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Click here for instructions on how to make my Graduation Collage Centerpiece

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I cut out the banner from Piggy Bank Parties and attached it to foam for dimension. Then I attached it to canvases with black mats.

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It makes me so proud of my incredibly artistic son and the World is his canvas! Carson, I am in awe of your talent and cannot wait until the world sees your amazing gifts! Congratulations, I love you more than words can say!

Graduation Open House Party

Time flies!  My son Austin is a high school graduate! Wasn’t he a toddler just yesterday?

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The theme for my son’s party was “Picture your Future”  I am an avid scrapbooker and wanted to showcase my son growing up through the years.

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I found these 8″ paper mache numbers at Hobby Lobby, painted them purple and decoupaged a collage of pictures of my son on them.

It made great budget friendly centerpieces. FOR ALL THE DETAILS AND STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS click here.

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Lollipops with the school name & colors from Oriental Trading

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Personalized fortune cookies filled the boxes with tassels

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Homemade Snickerdoodles – my son’s favorite for his Graduation Open House Party!

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A variety of cupcake toppers are nice to have – Nicole thanks for making 80 cupcakes. You’re a rockstar!

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This banner  and all printables from the tags, banners, menus, signs, food cards to the yearbook favor boxes were all by Piggy Bank Parties!

Here’s Austin helping me hang his “Congrats Kamiak Grads” banner!

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Ready for words of encouragment!

Adorable yearbook boxes filled with mints!

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Senior pictures and scrapbook made by mom 🙂

Banners of my son’s school pictures and baby pictures

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Utensils rolled in napkins and tied with ribbon to look like diplomas.

Austin’s favorite food – Dick’s Drive-In cheeseburgers and orange chicken from Panda Express

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Seattle weather = tent for our Graduation Open House Party.

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Ice cold buckets full of water, pop and lemonade!

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I cannot tell you how proud I am of my son, and how blessed I feel to have the privilege of being his mom and I can “Picture his Future” and know this next chapter in his life will be filled with happiness, love and success.

Love you Austin. You are now officially a Husky. Go Dawgs – Woof!

More Graduation Party Ideas

Easy Graduation dessert table – diploma cupcakes, diploma swiss roll & graduation cap peanut butter cups & chocolate bars.

Little Debbie Swiss Roll diplomas

Star & diploma fondant cupcakes!

Diploma Cupcakes and you can check them out by clicking here

Star cupcakes

A dish full of Smarties candies with a label I created saying “Congratulations!” These made a cute candy favor for the guests.

For the centerpiece I used a grouping of six bud vases from Dollar Tree and placed a gerber daisy in school colors in each one.

In addition, I also used game spirit pom poms, the school megaphone, a chalkboard and easel and the mortarboard for additional decorations.

If you don’t already have these items you can use yearbooks, or textbooks stacked and tied with ribbon in coordinating school colors.

Also, Party City also sells school spirit pom poms and megaphones in various colors.

Inexpensive small black frames from Dollar Tree were perfect for school pictures for grades K-12.

The black square plastic plates were from Party City and were perfect since they looked like mortarboards.

Rolling the white napkins and tying them with a red ribbon made them resemble a diploma.

Small chalkboards (found at Joann’s Fabric and Crafts) were used for place cards at each table setting.

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