Invitations
Create invitations that look like game tickets, include party kick off time, fake seat number, car location, etc.
Attach a real game ticket to your printed card invitation. Print our Prom Tickets for a football tailgate party.
Use our "Design Invitation" with a football imprint. Personalize it with your special wording inside.
Include football funtoos in your invitation envelope.
Imprint plastic footballs with "Touchdown Tailgate Party" September 17th 2:00pm. Include a piece of paper with additional details.
Cut a football shape out of construction paper and use fancy markers and make laces with string or yarn.
Bring your megaphone to try to get pre-game cheers going.
Favors
Use green tote bags filled with white shred and glue football nametags on each bag and write the guest's name.
Fill gift bag with: Funtoos, Football Spirit Pins, Footballs, Football Key tags, Football stress balls, Football Spirit Badges and Football Stadium Cups.
Imprint napkins with birthday person's name and football imprint.
Give guests tickets to a football game, football trading cards, a football Trivia book, favorite football team paraphernalia, helmets painted with guest's name, jerseys with guest's name, rooter rattles, pom pons, # 1 foam hands, seat cushions and sports towels.
Imprint custom car flags for everyone to attach to their car
Use our football topped squeeze bottle with your imprinted theme.
Ideas
Use tableware, skirts and table covers in your team colors.
Roll napkins around your cutlery and tie it with a ribbon in your team colors. Place cutlery bundles in a wicker basket.
Set up a goal post in your parking lot to look like football field.
Have a guest appearance by your favorite team's mascot.
Create football goal posts out of corrugated paper for the party area.
Divide guests into teams with different colors. Ask your guests to dress in team colors.
Buy inexpensive footballs, cut them in half and serve dry food in them.
Make centerpieces out of pipe cleaners, shape them into goal posts and place them on fake grass surrounded with mini footballs.
Create a mini football field in the back of your car or truck or on a table. Use fake grass, lines, goal posts, toy footballs, etc.
Assign each guest a player number.
Use cheer phones for game time snacks, etc.
Have personalized banners made for your party.
Spell out the party host's name or favorite team with giant letter balloons.
Inflate 3' balloons in your team's colors with helium to mark the party spot in the parking lot.
Have a Luau theme tailgate party – or other appropriate theme – change your theme with each tailgate. Don't be afraid to choose a seasonal theme, e.g. a Thanksgiving theme tailgate.
Set up a canopy with school colors.
Label foods with football nametags.
Encourage guests to come back to the tailgate after the game for different foods or dessert!
Use imprinted mugs to offer up hot drinks.
Activities
Play touch football. Have a tournament and play other sports games.
Football Trivia
Have penny game pools – who will get the first touch down, what lame song will the cheerleaders do a dance to, etc.
Do the pick a square game/pool
Use cheer phones to catch the football in the cheer phone game, etc.
Have a tailgating king and queen – sash, tiara, crown, etc. – make them wear it into the game.
Tongue fumble
Get face paint –Team Spirit Markers -to let guests imitate pro football players or just color faces in team colors
Split the group into two teams and see who can come up with the best cheer.
