Decorating to achieve Hollywood glamor doesn't have to be expensive.
In addition to creating a very special Oscar Night, a Red Carpet or Hollywood Party is a great way to celebrate an important teen birthday, like sweet 16, although young children can have fun with the theme too. A birthday celebrant and friends will look and feel fabulous enjoying an evening of Oscar-style glamor. The question is how best to achieve a Night at the Oscars Look for your home on a budget. Fortunately, decorating for a Red Carpet Party is easy. Does this Spark an idea?
Entrance
It's not a red carpet party without a red carpet runner, stretching from the front door to the sidewalk. These items can be found inexpensively from online party suppliers and specific Hollywood party sources. Parents and other helpers stand around and snap pictures as paparazzi or pretend to be autograph hounds or bodyguards. At a birthday party, the birthday celebrant can either greet them at the door or make their own fabulous entrance if they get ready at a friend's house or go out for dinner first.
Decorations
Choose a color scheme that reflects Hollywood opulence. Use black, gold, red or silver or a selected combination as the colors for balloons, streamers and the tablecloth if you're serving dinner or setting out a snack table. Choose disposable plates, cups and napkins in black, gold or silver to go with the colors. Use latex helium balloons for basic decorations and introduce a few more expensive gold or silver star-shaped foil balloons for added glamor. You can purchase gold or silver stars to hang from the ceiling from party suppliers or make your own using star stencils and gold or silver card stock from the craft store.
Hollywood Touches
Get black and silver or gold glitter top hats from the party store and use them to serve candies, potato chips and, most appropriately, popcorn. Sprinkle star confetti over the snack table or dining table and on other surfaces. Hollywood-specific party supplies to use as party decorations range from Oscar statuettes to film canisters and director's clapboards and centerpiece combinations. Inexpensive items you can pick up at a novelty or dollar store and use as decorations include plastic sunglasses, toy lipsticks and feather boas. Wrap the boas around top hats, clapboards or statuettes and set sunglasses and lipsticks among the feathers to create table arrangements with a Hollywood glamor theme.
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