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The big game is almost here and we’ve got a few quick tips to make your Super Bowl party a winning event!

At a party, everyone huddles around the food -

• Serve food in a variety of pieces styled around your football theme. A football-shaped plastic dish is perfect for serving munchies. Hot dogs and color coordinating napkins are perfect served in portable plastic baskets. A football helmet is a bold focal point in a large chip basket lined with colorful napkins.
• Small galvanized buckets purchased at your local garden or discount store are great for snacks, candy and raw veggies. You can also use them to hold utensils and napkins in the team colors.
• Gain a “First Down” when you tape grosgrain ribbon around napkin wrapped utensils and add a football sticker.
• Glass cylinders lined with computer-printed team logos or photos hold suckers and licorice. Or, you can fill the decorated cylinders with water and use as flower vases.
• Did you know you can transform a real football into a candy dish by slitting the side seam, punching in the edges and tucking a dish inside. Who would have thought?

Score a touch down with bonus details -

• Wrap glass cylinders with athletic tape, adhesive bandages and athletic shoestrings and fill with candy or flowers.
• Use plastic football picks in cubes of cheese or sausage for a fun appetizer. 
 They work in cupcakes too!
• Go green and buy wheat grass at your local co-op, garden or grocery store (or use sod) for a great table decoration.
• Place items on the table at different heights to add visual interest.
• Filling the table completely says bountiful. Too few items? Get a smaller table!
• Balloons always add a festive touch to a party. Make a few tall and short bouquets to place around the room.

You’ll get extra points for these party favors -

• Use clear cello bags of football-wrapped chocolates and tie with ribbons in team colors. Add a computer-printed pennant with the team mascot name.
• Water bottles or koozies make a fun favor that can be used during the party. Personalize with the football theme and the date of the game!
• Use high flying pinwheel decorations in team colors to greet guests at the door. When guests leave they can take one home as they’re going out the door.

Have a super party!

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