A Peek at the Fun: Are you thinking of throwing a fun football-themed party?  I have lots of awesome ideas for your next football party. From easy tailgating ideas to football decorations and football party food, I have you covered!

Something you maybe should know about me–although I have good friends, they are definitely not my best friends. They have accepted that they don’t rank number one and decided to embrace my “real” best friends with this football-themed party!  Coca-Cola® and football, is there any better combination?  I think not!!  Coke has been my best friend since day 1. I have so many fun ideas for your next tailgating party, you’ll wish football season lasted all year!

If you love a good football-themed party, too–whether it’s for the food or for the football or even just for the party–pull up a chair because I have some great tailgate party ideas for you today!

Football-Themed Party:

Every great football party starts with great food!!  Deciding what to serve is the most important decision because we all love to eat.  Serving fun food and drinks will keep your guests happily cheering on their favorite team.

Football Party Food:

Because time and money are always a consideration, I started our party planning at Sam’s Club–game time’s favorite teammate–because I know I can get everything I need in one place.  I stocked up on Coca-Cola®, Sprite®, and Diet Coke® which Sam’s Club sells by the two-liter bottles in a 4-pack on the beverage aisle.  I knew I would need plenty of drinks for our fun “Time Out Drink Station” I created for this party.

Have you ever had a soda pop mixed drink?  They are super yummy, and such a fun idea for a party.

Your guests are going to love this! Here’s how to create one with a football-themed party twist!

Football Party Drink Station:

Supplies Needed:

• Coca-Cola®
• Diet Coke®
• Sprite®
• Drink Flavorings (Coconut, Cherry, Peach, Blackberry)
• Limes Cut into Wedges
• Cherries
• Ice
• Cups
• Straws
• Drink Menu (See Below)
• Black and White Striped Paper
• Drink Labels (See Below)

Now that you have all of your supplies, let’s put this tailgate party drink station together.  With the several flavors of pop and several drink flavorings, you can let your guests mix and match to create their own drink, or they can order off the menu I have created for you.  A drink station is a fun way to serve your guests and it becomes a social gathering spot.

The “Touchdown” happens to be my very favorite drink in the whole world, so maybe start with that one and work your way through the menu! I created 5 different drinks made from Sprite®, Coke®, Diet Coke®, and various flavorings that your guests will love! And they’ve all got fun football-themed party names.

I have the menu all ready to print, it’s as simple as clicking on this link:

Time Out Drink Station Menu

I added some cute black-and-white striped paper to our drink mix-in bottles to make them look more festive for the occasion.  I also have the printable drink labels all ready for you, simply click here:

Drink Labels 1

Drink Labels 2

You’ll want to have your flavorings ready as well as limes and cherries that guests can toss in their drinks.

Grab these four packs of 2 liter Coca-Cola® beverages from Sam’s Club! They are the best when planning a party.  Rule number one of party planning is to never run out of Coke!

Football Party Food:

I also grabbed several Member’s Mark 16″ Take & Bake pizza’s from Sam’s Club because they are so quick, easy, and delicious.  Because you bake them yourself, you have more control over when dinner is served.

Pizza and Coca-Cola® are two of my favorite food groups!  Your football party will be a hit with this perfect combo.

Beyond your pizza and drinks, a good football-themed party is going to need some chips and dips.  I had some fun with the serving style on these–like this 7 layer dip served in a football tray!

Or salsa coming right out of a football! (More on this below.)

I also served popcorn, mixed nuts, pretzels, salsa, chips, candy, and these cupcakes.  The cupcakes are as easy as making cupcakes with green frosting and adding these fun cupcake toppers.

Print Here: Football Cupcake Toppers

Football Decorations:

Oftentimes, the men come to a football party for the game and the food, but I don’t want to forget you ladies who are coming for the cuteness factor, too.  This black, white, and green decoration motif was perfect for this party.  Let’s start to break things down for you.

I started with a piece of green turf which we repurposed to use as a tablecloth, added a black-and-white table runner, and had a fun football-themed table.  From there, I added little elements to make our party look original and festive.

One of our favorite elements were these footballs we used as a salsa holder and utensil caddy.

Aren’t these so fun? Let’s make them.

Cutout Football Holder:

Supplies Needed:

• Football
• Knife or razor
• Sharpie

How to Make:

• Start with a football that has been inflated for at least a couple of days.  This will help the football retain its shape once it’s been cut.
• Trace a circle with a sharpie.  I used the bowl we wanted to insert in the hole as our guide.
• Cut with the knife along the traced line.  The football is tough to cut through so we would recommend using a new blade that will allow for easier cutting.  Please be so careful while cutting so you don’t slip.  Just go slow, and it will cut!

Once you have your football cut, you can use it for anything you want.

A football party usually involves eating while watching the game, so I made sure the place settings were simple and easily movable.  Black-and-white plates created a perfect canvas for our napkin and utensil bundles.  I tied them up with black-and-white bakers twine and these cute football and touchdown printables.  The printables are available here for you:

Football and Touchdown Tags

Football Party Bunting:

No party is complete without a fun banner or in this case fun bunting.  I love the little touch of color that bunting adds to any celebration.

I have made your life easy when it comes to bunting because I have the letters already done for you.  Get your letters here: Bunting Letters.

Then just get some fun paper in green, black, and black-and-white stripes. Make yourself a triangle template and cut out enough triangles for what you want to spell (I did “touchdown”).

Print and cut the letters and glue them on. Then string it up and hang it somewhere festive for your party!

More Football Decorations with Printables:

One last fun touch for our party, I printed little signs for each of the various food options and stuck them into little footballs to display all over the table.

I have some signs for you to use:

Football Themed Party Signs

Football Themed Party Signs 2

So, are you ready to throw your own football themed party this year? I hope these fun ideas have helped you! Remember to grab your pizza, Coca-Cola®, and everything else you need at Sam’s Club. It really is game time’s favorite teammate. It just makes the shopping so easy!

And have FUN throwing your football party!

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I’ve got a couple of little boys who are obsessed with football. They wear football jerseys to school every day, play it at recess and snuggle their footballs at night. Neither of them can seem to get enough football.

So when one of their birthdays rolls around, I know exactly what kind of birthday party to throw! Football everything! These fun football party ideas could be used for a kids football birthday party or for a big game party or really just any football party you want to throw!

Whether you love football or not, you’ve got to admit that this football party looks fun to throw! And if you’ve got little ones that love it like mine, this football birthday party is perfect for them.

Football Birthday Party Ideas:

I had a ton of fun pulling together all of these fun, easy football birthday party ideas-from decorations to invitations, treats to party favors, if you want to throw a football party, I’ve got you covered!

Here’s a peek at the full football birthday party spread:

Who doesn’t get excited for football looking at that fun party?!

Football Party Invitations:

These football party invitations might be my favorite part of this party! They are made to look like football tickets but with all the party info printed right on them. How fun is that?

Here’s a football themed party invitation template that you can use and customize for your own party.

To use this football invitation, right click and save it to your computer. Then, open in a photo editing program (like PicMonkey) and add your own text. Need help with how to do that? I’ve got a tutorial here.

Hopefully, that was easy for you!

Football Party Decorations:

There are lots of easy and fun ways to decorate for a football themed birthday party. I used black foam board for a backdrop and added little green pennant flags. Then we added some fun touches.

My favorite are these letters spelling out Game Day!

And they’re easy to make!

Supplies Needed:

• Scrapbook Paper (Hobby Lobby had that cool paper that looks like a football and even feels like one!)
• Metal Letters (at the craft store)
• Glue or tape

All you need to do is trace the letter on the back of your scrapbook paper. Make sure that your letter is face down on the scrapbook paper’s back. Trace around it, cut it out and glue or tape it to your metal letters:

I also added some fun touches like this cute football paper lantern from Oriental Trading:

Football Party Food:

You’ve got to have some fun treats at a football party right?

I made a fun Game Day popcorn to celebrate the big game. Super easy and tastes amazing! Bet you can’t stop eating it.

It’s SO yummy! I made it with green and brown M&Ms to look like football colors, but you could also make it with your team’s colors! Here’s the recipe:

Game Day Popcorn Recipe:

Ingredients:

• 2 bags of cooked microwave popcorn
• 2 sticks of butter (1 Cup)
• 1/2 C light Karo syrup
• 1 1/3 C sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 small (7 oz.) container of marshmallow fluff
• 2-3 C mini marshmallows
• Colored M&Ms

Instructions:

Cook your popcorn. Try to remove as many unpopped kernels as possible. Set this aside in a large bowl.

On the stove in a small pan, mix your Karo syrup, sugar, butter and vanilla over medium-high heat until it boils. Boil for 1 and a half minutes.

Stir in the marshmallow fluff until totally melted.

Pour this over your popcorn and mix and mix until it’s all coated. Let it cool for 3-5 minutes, then add the marshmallows and mix them in. Top with M&Ms.

Let it sit for a couple of hours before eating for best results!

Football Party Cupcakes:

Cupcakes are a must for most fun parties for me. What makes these special are the simple little chocolate footballs on top for our football birthday party so that they birthday kid had something fun to put candles on.

Want to make some of these football cupcakes? Here’s how:

Supplies Needed:

• Melting chocolate-brown and white
• Sandwich baggie
• Silpat mat or wax paper (affiliate link)

Heat up your melting chocolate (the brown first). Once it’s totally melted, pour it into your sandwich baggie and snip off just the very tip of the bag (just a tiny bit).

On your Silpat mat or wax paper, pipe the shape of a football and fill it in. As it begins to set up you can smooth it out a little with the tip of your baggie.

Once it is hardened, peel it off your Silpat mat and flip it over. Then heat your white chocolate, put it in a baggie and pipe the stripes. Ours were VERY not perfect but still looked cute.

Then just make cupcakes and pipe frosting on and add your little footballs!

Football Party Drinks:

Another fun idea for your football themed party is to make your drinks cute! I simply used our scrapbook paper to create drink wrappers. Then we wrapped a whistle around the top of the bottle. I also have drink wrappers that you can print and use here.

So simple but such a nice football party touch!

Football Party Favors:

Want to have some fun football themed party favors for the guests? I’ve got several fun football party favor ideas-use one or use them all!

I got these cute football bags from Oriental Trading and filled them with some fun things, then tied them with a whistle!

Inside I put candy, mini footballs and little notebooks and chalk. I used Silhouette chalkboard vinyl on tiny little notebooks to make them playbooks.

I also made these cute football party poppers!

Love these! Aren’t they cute?

Supplies Needed:

• Paper Towel roll or toilet paper roll (if using paper towel, cut it in half)
• Brown tissue paper
• Football scrapbook paper
• White paper (sticker paper is ideal) or vinyl for the stripes
• String
• Tape
• Candy

To make these, cut a piece of tissue paper so that is about 2 inches wider than the toilet paper roll and big enough to wrap around the toilet paper roll about twice.

Roll it around and tie one end with string. Fill it with candy and then tie off the other end.

Cut your scrapbook paper to exactly the width of your toilet paper roll and just enough to wrap around it just more than once. Roll it around and tape it.

Cut your white sticker paper to make the stripes and put them in place and you’re set!

You can also get these cute football favor boxes from Oriental Trading. Fill them with favors or fill them with food, either way, they’re fun!

I also found these fun football suckers at Zurchers and used them as favors (plus they looked cute on the table).

That’s a good look at all of my fun football party ideas. If you’re looking for more ideas that are perfect for hosting a football view party, check these fun football party ideas here.

Have FUN throwing your football birthday party!

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Whether you are a die hard football fan or just like football parties for the food and cute decorations, I have you covered with this game day drink holder.  It’s perfect for holding all of the necessary drink supplies so you can keep cheering for your team all night!  I have everything you need to put together your own drink holder, let’s get started.

This game day drinks tray is super easy to pull together and will add a touch of flair to your party! Add some of our cute football labels to your pop bottles, some cute straws, and a few extra cute touches, and you’ve got a perfect drink holder for your football party.

Game Day Drink Holder:

Making a cute game day drink holder is super easy! You can pick and choose what pieces you want to use and make things that you have at home work for you, but here’s what I used.

Supplies Needed:

• Serving Tray
• Green Felt
• Black Bucket (ours is a chalkboard bucket from Hobby Lobby so that I could write on it)
• Chalk
• Pop Bottles
• Pop Bottle Labels (below)
• Green and black striped straws
• Ice
• Decorating accents

I placed green felt in the bottom of our tray to look like a football field. You can even add field markings if you want it to be really cute!

Wrap your bottles with these labels. Right click and save, or I’ve got PDFs with them ready for you.

Football Drink Wrappers

Football Decorations:

I used a cute chalk board bucket for our ice bucket.  I added a little fun by drawing some football plays on the bucket, I loved the way it turned out.

Add some green, black, and white straws for color and function.  I all love sipping our drinks through straws!

Seriously, this is super simple and quick leaving you plenty of time to cheer on your favorite team!

Have FUN watching football!

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I have little guys who are obsessed with all things football, so naturally football is a big part of my life.  From going to watch them play to planning football themed parties, I usually have football on my brain.  And with football season in full swing I will definitely be planning some parties that will be sure to win the night!  So, if you are looking for awesome football themed party ideas, I have so many you will have a hard time narrowing them down.

Football Themed Party:

As you are looking through these ideas, keep in mind your specific party.  Who will be attending, how many people you are inviting, and what is your time and budget going to allow.  If you keep these things in mind, you will be able to narrow down what works for your party.

I know the food is usually the best part of any party, so let’s look at the fun food ideas you can use for your football party!

Football Party Food:

Game Day Popcorn:

Game Day Snacks:

Drink Station:

Football Krispie Treats:

Easy Football Cupcakes:

Stadium Cookies:

Strawberry Footballs:

Cinnamon Roll Football Cookies:

Football Bark:

Mason Jar Football Drinks:

Football Treat Bags:

Blondies Brownie Footballs:

Touchdown Cupcakes:

Peanut Butter Football Dip:

Push Pops:

Football Snack Cones:

Ice Cream Sandwiches:

Cookie Dough Footballs:

Puppy Chow:

Fork and Football Cake Pops:

Football Field Cupcakes:

Football Cheeseball:

Now that I have your wheels turning about what to serve, let’s take a look at a few ideas to make your party look amazing!  A few small touches will make things look amazing, and you will still have plenty of time to enjoy the event.

Football Decorations:

Game Day Caddy:

Penalty Flags:

Football Mason Jars:

Game Day Lettering:

Referee Bottles:

Football Party Game:

Football Predictions Game:

Have Fun throwing your football party!

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