Great Game Day Tips

Lights

Using strings of small holiday lights on and around the table to gives your buffet and the room a nice glow.

Helmet Bowls

Create helmet bowls by using colored tape from your local hardware store or craft store. Take an ordinary colored plastic bowl and add helmet stripes of your favorite team. Perfect for holding all those snacks.

Drinks

Fill buckets and metal tubs with bottles of beer, soda and water and pack them with ice to keep them nice and cold. This allows guests to help themselves and lets you enjoy the party!

Utensils

You can use a helmet to display team colored plastic utensils. Put a snug-fitting Styrofoam ball inside football helmet and push handles of flatware into the ball. Along with it being a great display, it makes utensils easy to grab. Use a football tee to stabilize the display.

Team Spirit

Decorating the party room with balloons in the team colors gives the whole place a festive atmosphere. This is a very economical way to add flare to the festivities and really says "party"!

Score Big

If you really want to score points, make a goalpost out of plastic pipe and fittings from your local home renovation store. Small pipe material can be used to create a table top goal, or GO BIG with the larger pipe material. The details are what make a party special and memorable.

Set the Game-Day Stage

Decorate with fan-favorites by topping the table with a piece of artificial turf, found at your hardware store. Then, use white athletic tape to add yard lines and white self-adhesive numbers, found at the craft store, to finish your themed tablescape with yardage markers.

Score with Sweets

After the delicious appetizers and main entrees, don't forget dessert. Display cupcakes on a platter and add green "turf" and "yard lines and markers" with frosting.