How to throw a Football Themed Party

by Marla Ellis
A football themed party is great for a boys birthday, or a baby shower for a baby boy.

Call all of your team members to your house for you are throwing a fun filled football party.

For your Party Invitations:

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Ideas on how to Decorate for your Football Party:

There are many versions on what you can use as your color themes for your football party, you can use your pro football, college, school, or make up our own family team colors. So look to your favorite football team for your color inspiration.

You can purchase a green plastic tablecloth, for your teams football field. Purchase your plates, utensils, napkins, cups, balloons, and streamers all in your favorite football teams colors.

A Touchdown Centerpiece:

Materials Needed:
1 Nerf Football, in your teams colors
2 Pompoms, in your teams colors
1 Sports Whistle
1 Sports Cone, in your teams colors

Putting together your Touchdown Centerpiece:

First taking the two pompoms and placing them in the center of your party table with the handles facing out, making sure the stream end is all fanned out. Now, place the sports cone in the center of the two pompoms, and drape the sports whistle over the top of the cone. Next, lean the football up against the cone, and your touchdown centerpiece is all finished.

Menu Ideas:

Make a Touchdown Cake:

Ingredients you will need:
1 Cake Mix
1 Tub of Vanilla Frosting
Green Food Coloring
1 White Icing decorating frosting tube
2 Decorating Frosting tubes in your teams colors
Decorating Tips for the Frosting Tubes
Football Cake Decorations (will have goal post, and players in it)


First, make the cake according to the instructions on the package. Let the cake cool completely before moving on to the next step. For the football field, part of the touchdown cake, adding a few drops of green food coloring, to the vanilla frosting, mixing well. Spread the green frosting over the entire cake.

Next, place the writing tip, on to the tube of white frosting. With the white frosting, make a line down the center of the cake, this is your 50 yard line. Place two more lines, at both ends of the cake, these will be your end zones, these will be filled in later. Make two more lines in between the end zones and the 50 yard line.

Now wash out your writing tip, and dry it completely. Place this tip on one of the colored frosting tubes, and fill in one of the end zones on your touchdown cake. Do the same with the other end zone using the other frosting color. Wash out the writing tip once more, and place it on the white frosting tube, and write the name of your child in one of the end zones, and his birthday date in the other one.

Next, taking the football cake decorations, and placing the goal post at the ends of the field, and placing the players in play formations. You have just finished your touchdown cake.

Here are some ideas on what to serve with your cake, pretzels, peanuts, and popcorn, would all be great choices to add to your concession stand of party treats.

Drinks: You can serve Root Beer floats, by taking a scoop vanilla ice cream and putting it into the party cups, and pouring a little Root Beer over the top of the ice cream you will have a great foamy treat.

For your football party activity, let's play the football toss game:

Materials you will need:

1 Large Piece of Plywood
Jigsaw
Small Football
Marker
Green Spray Paint
Paint (choose three colors from your team)
Paint Brushes
Small Chalk Board or Notebook

To get started you will need, using the marker to draw three circles, making sure the small football with go through he holes, at three different heights, on the piece of plywood, and carefully cut these out with the jigsaw. Now take the spray paint, and paint the entire piece of plywood, letting it dry completely, before moving on to the next step.

Now pick one of the three paint colors, and paint around the highest circle. Now with your marker write the word touchdown and give it 50 points. For the circle paint it with the second color, with the marker write the words first down, and give it 10 points. Now for the last circle paint it with the third color, with the marker write the words fourth down and give it 5 points. Place your finished touchdown game, in your party room, or outside.

Now that you are done making your touchdown game board, let's play the game. You need to have your guest sand a few feet away from the game board. You will need a notebook or chalk board, to keep a total of all the points. Now, have each of the players throw the small football, at the game board, to see if they can throw the ball through the circles to make a touchdown. To win the game, one of the players has to either throw, the football through, the circle marked touchdown, or get the highest points total, to win the game.