High School Graduation Party Planning Made Easy

It's never too soon to begin making arrangements for the graduate's most memorable day. Below are listed a few ideas to get the party off to a good start.

Distribute novelty 2006 sunglasses for everyone to wear, with a decorative crown for the special graduate.

Invitations

Produce hand made invitations utilising graduation themes; books, diplomas, pens, gowns and mortarboards. The invitations can be rolled up in diploma style and tied with a ribbon.

Party Activities and Games

Beware of overdoing the activity planning as groups of young people love to gather together and simply chat. Here are a few non intrusive activities which aren't too regimented but keep the conversation alive.

* Ask guests to bring a plain white T-shirt for everyone to sign as a keepsake.

* Produce a 'time capsule' box to place some item relevant to their time at school containing memorabilia, personal items, 'in' jokes and notes. This can be opened years later for fond reminiscing.

*Collect photographs of the special graduate from crib to graduation day and assemble them on a large poster with funny captions for everyone to see.

* Throw water balloons.

* Knock down a Pinata

* Guess the teacher - stick a teacher's name on the back of every guest.The guest has to guess which teacher they are from clues acted out by the fellow guests.

*Improvise 'Pin the tail on the Donkey' to become 'Pin the Tail on the Teacher'. Attach a teacher's picture to a wall and then the "tail" can be any item of choice - mad hair, glasses, accessories, etc.

Eating and Drinking

Fork and finger food work well, as talking and socializing will be paramount. Miniature sombreros and nachos with a salsa should be on every table with nothing too difficult to carry and eat.

The ambience is all important and should be relaxed with conversation flowing and memories being made. Happy graduation

Ouija Board History and Origins

What is a Ouija Board?

A Ouija board is a flat surface with letters, numbers, printed and other symbols to which a planchette or movable indicator points.

The Ouija board has two rows of curved letters, one above the other. The top row goes from A to M, and the lower row runs from N to Z. In these numbers is a number from one to zero. In the top left of the table is the word Yes, and top right, No word near the bottom ofFarewell to the edge.

A small device with three legs in the shape of heart rests on the edge, which moves smoothly over the surface of the board. The fingers of the participants moved the planchette then allow to write on the board, which created its own merits.

The Ouija board is not a simple story, there are several different hypotheses.

Towards the end of the nineteenth century the first genuine Ouija board was invented. And 'significantDisagreement over who actually invented it - names are grown Elijah Bond, EC Rich and Charles Kennard.

The first patent to speak for cards Modern-class was recorded in 1890 and referred to Elijah Bond as the inventor with Charles W. Kennard and William HA Maupin as the title.

Charles Kennard and associates set up the Kennard Novelty Company and began to produce and sell Ouija boards in the business.

The Ouija board production rights were sold toParker Brothers, which has been updated. It 's interesting - if not a bit' scared to think - he can do, what began as an instrument for spiritualists, clairvoyants and media purchased today, as his child's toy.

History and origins of Ouija Board

They walk slowly and sit in the dusty shadow table with a mysterious map with letters, numbers from zero to nine and the words yes and no to the opposite ends. Sitting on top of a triangular woodenPlanchette. Put your hands on the display, close your eyes, breathe deeply, and ask the question. Suddenly, his hands moving, personal care, without provocation, the answer to your question. The hair on the neck is sitting on the end and you shudder to the event as a lone tear from his left eye ... How could you know?

You have just experienced your first Ouija board - a paranormal means to contact the spirit world! Also known as a council to speak or spirit,the Ouija board itself, but 150 years, but the practice of using reply cards in China for more than three thousand years.

Over the years, the basic concept of the Ouija board has not changed - usually with some photos of the day / night, good and evil with the letters of the alphabet, the digits zero to nine, yes and no. Alone or in groups, you get your hands on the tablet, and ask a question aloud, or let theSpirits to accompany you in an answer.

Regardless of the planchette sold in 1800 was in itself a novelty in the middle. It 'was a simple device with foot coaster brake and a pencil attached to the spirits who draw or write messages have been activated. It was not until 1891, when two businessmen Elijah Bond and Charles Kennard got the idea to group table and the table together for the first patent Modern Talking Board as a new board game. Instead of using aPencil, would place a marker so that the user would direct. William Fuld, for which the rights to the game was invented by the first two do not add the name Ouija until 1901. Long after Fuld's death, the rights to Parker Brothers Ouija board, which still sells today still hold the rights and patents.

The name is not fully known, but I think that most took the French word "oui" which means "Yes" and the German word"Yes" means "yes."