Just because winter is here doesn't mean that the fun season is over, and you can no longer enjoy parties. Even though the days get shorter and the night grows colder and longer, you can still welcome winter wholeheartedly and enjoy outdoor activities like sledding or ice skating.
You can also have a bonfire party with your family and friends. Although planning a winter party can be a bit more challenging, using your imagination and creativity can throw an unforgettable winter party.
Whether you are bored of traditional party ideas or can't brainstorm some unique ideas, we have brought some out-of-the-box ideas to add thrill to your winter party.
1. Chose a Venue
You'll need a warm and fantastic winter-friendly place to celebrate your winter party where your guests feel cozy and comfortable without worrying about the freezing cold. Depending on where you live, you have various options to host your birthday party. Consider your budget and the expected number of guests while choosing a venue.
Some places for hosting a winter party can be a restaurant, a movie theater, a dance studio, an indoor pool, or an indoor or outdoor ice skating rink.
2. Create a Bonfire Party
Even in the dead of winter, having a blazing fire is a brilliant way to host a party outside. Choose a place in your backyard for your fire, and arrange camp chairs for your guests. Hot dogs and marshmallows can be roasted over the fire.
Give out blankets. It can be helpful to have plenty of wool blankets on hand to keep your guests warm and cozy even though you'll have a fire. Ask your guests to bring their own blankets if you need more for everyone. If some of your friends know how to play guitar, ask them to bring their instruments so they may sing songs by the fire. To keep your guests entertained, offer them some games to play.
2. Create Your Own Theater
Most of your guests would like to stay indoors when it's freezing out there, and of course, being a host, you have to keep them busy. How about setting up an indoor cinema for your guests to cozy up in blankets and watch some entertaining movies all night?
Setting up an indoor cinema experience makes watching a movie feel like a party. Set up a projector on a white sheet. Provide plenty of blankets and pillows for the movie area to make your guests feel cozy.
You could host an outdoor movie party with lots of blankets and a campfire if you live somewhere with mild winters.
Make popcorn and offer boxed candy to recreate the movie theater experience. How about offering your guests some hot chocolate or coffee so they can watch their favorite movies while sipping these warm drinks?
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4. Decorate Your House
Having a party at your place means that you have to decorate your house. There are a lot of winter themes to pick from. One of the best winter party themes is a winter wonderland. To make your house look like a winter wonderland, try to choose silver, white and icy blue colors for your decorations.
Purchase a tablecloth, keeping in mind the theme of your party. For example, you can use blue or white tablecloths for a winter party. Try to incorporate silver and white decorations into your table. For example, choose blue or white balloons.
You can also create your "welcome winter" banners using ribbons, cardstock, and markers. Finally, ask one or two friends to come before the party and help you decorate the house.
5. Go Ice Skating
You are never too old to celebrate the magic of winter. So this winter, rather than staying indoors, invite your friends and dare to go out with them in the cold to the nearest rink for sledding or ice skating. Besides this, you can also arrange a snow fighting competition with your friends.
6. Serve Warm Drinks
Winter is the best time to provide warm drinks and beverages. Most people love hot chocolate, which makes it a perfect winter party beverage. Additionally, you can set up a hot chocolate bar to make it more festive.
Hot chocolate bar without toppings is boring and incomplete, so you can add a variety of toppings to your table for your guests to choose from, including marshmallows, chocolate chips, whipped cream, cookie crumbs, peppermint, and cinnamon sticks. You can also serve apple cider with cinnamon sticks.
7. Offer Snacks
Winter is a great time to offer some snacks to your guests to keep them warm and cozy. Pizza can be a delicious snack for your party. You can also serve your guest's french fries, sandwiches, hot dogs, stuffed baked mushrooms, peanut butter snacks, cookies, and biscuits.
8. Lights
We all know that lighting sets the mood and atmosphere no matter what kind of party you are throwing. So this winter party, experiment with different lights to see which ones go the best with your overall winter theme.
We recommend using blue fairy lights to add some magic to your party. You can also use sphere lights, LED snowflakes, and white and blue icicle lights to create a frosty environment for winter. Your home will instantly become a winter paradise after you install these gorgeous lights.
9. Plan a Pajama Party
Since it's freezing in winter, most of your guests want to stay indoors, and they would prefer to stay in their casual clothes and warm pajamas. So, to make your guests feel comfortable and cozy, you can throw a pajama party, so they don't have to wear fancy dresses to attend your winter party.
