When planning a super bowl party you need three main things: great food, cold drinks, and a big, quality sounding TV. But to take it up a notch, you’ll want to add festive decorations and fun games that get everyone involved. We’re happy to share our Super Bowl party planning tips to help you have the best Big Game party ever!
Select your Super Bowl color scheme and theme.
Have you noticed the colors for the Super Bowl LIV teams are similar? You can go with the theme of team colors or the traditional football theme:
✔️49ers Colors – Red, gold, white & black
✔️Chief’s colors – Red, yellow, black & white
✔️Traditional football colors – White, green, & brown
Once you have a theme for your party look for party essentials such as cups, straws, and napkins in those colors. Then put it all together for a perfect game day look. The accents is where the fun comes in. Look for game day banners, balloons, marquee signs or letters. Look for artificial grass turf and the referee patterns to finish off your game day decor.
Now chill the drinks using a rented party barge and make a chalkboard sign menu.
Another super bowl party tip to make your game day party all that and more is the drinks. You can serve your beer in bottles, but jazz up other drinks by serving them in brass cups decorated like footballs. Try making faux grass drink coasters. Help guests with their cocktail recipes by placing a menu on a chalkboard sign. Put all the mix-ins nearby using a party barge (yes you can rent the party barge.)
Finalize the accents with a game day cake and party snacks designed with your team colors or football color scheme.
There are many desserts you can serve at your super bowl party. We love cakes and cupcakes, but break out the cookies decorated like footballs, cake pops with your team logo, and a classic brownie to keep your crowd cheering. Because everyone will be occupied with the game, it is safe to start with bite size desserts. Then cut the cake in the 4th quarter or after the game has ended.
Add elements of fun to your game day with a few games everyone can play.
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Our final super bowl party tips are to add games. When groups of friends come over that don’t know each other very well, they tend to stay in their own comfort zone. There’s nothing like some good old fashioned games to get folks mingling and having fun.
Here are a few to consider:
✔️ You have to do a “football squares” game, but we recommend having two of them. Create one that guests can pay to enter, and one that’s free to enter, but requires participation. For help with this game, see How to play super bowl “Squares.”
Guests can earn a square on the free game if they: bring a dish, wear a jersey, take a shot, take a photo in front of a selfie wall, etc. You can create a list of ways to earn a free square and post it somewhere visible. The crowd will be eager to participate, especially if they know there’s a prize. Give out a halftime prize such as a bottle of spirits and a final prize such as a gift card.
✔️Hand out a “props bet” sheet & pen to everyone. These sheets ask fun questions like, how long will the national anthem be, who will score first, and will the coach be wearing a hat? As folks get answers correct, they can put their name on the free squares game. For help with this game, see Big game “Props Bets” – Printable.
✔️Play “commercial bingo. ” Hand everyone a bingo sheet that lists the various commercials that play during the big game. Examples are Coca Cola, Budweiser, anything with a puppy. Just like regular bingo, whoever gets for in a row wins a prize. For help with this game, see the Big Game “Commercial Bingo” – Printable.
✔️When guests arrive, give them a Mardi Gras-style beads necklace. They can pick the 49ers or Chiefs colors, or their own team’s favorite color. Then, pick a word the guests cannot say, such as ‘game’. Throughout the party, if they say that word, their beads can get stolen. The person with the most beads by the 4th quarter wins.
✔️Have some fun yard games around the backyard that encourages more interaction and mingling, such as giant Jenga and cornhole.
