When planning your party, be it birthday, anniversary, movie night, or whatever, it is easy to become lax in your decorating and fall back continually upon the same old rehashed balloons, streamers, and noisy party favors.
To escape the monotony of your lackluster same-old party throwing, try looking for some more unique party supplies to enhance and add character to your evening.
This step can seem overwhelming, with the sheer possibility of party supply choices seeming endless, but it can be simplified with just a little planning.
First, use the occasion to set the theme and thereby the choice of decorations.
If you're throwing a party for a party's sake alone, choose any theme you like and build upon it.
Standups and scene setters are one of the most obvious yet least monopolized of standard party supplies.
Don't just tell your guests the theme, let it illustrate itself with corresponding scene setters and standups.
The whole feel of a room can be transformed with even the simplest of scene setters, and stand-ups liven the theme and make great props for pictures.
Silly string is an excellent party staple as it brings out the silliness in even the most serious of characters.
Whether you use in place of rice at a wedding, surprise a birthday person with everyone spraying them as they enter the party, or by using it in part of a party game, you're sure to enhance the party with a few cans of silly string on hand.
You could also pick colors that coordinated with the event, such as white with the wedding colors for a wedding or reception, the color of the birthstone for a birthday, holiday colors such as orange and black for Halloween, etc.
Perhaps its is because they are pleasantly addicting in nature that glow sticks are so enormously popular.
Both kids and adults seem to love the bright orbs and first snapping them to life in their fingers and then wearing them as bracelets or necklaces and waving them around in the air like magic wands.
Miscellaneous costume items such as hats, wigs, costume glasses, and feather boas are all fun accessories that can break the ice and set a lighthearted mood for the evening.
The nice thing about costume accessories is that you probably already have a supply to draw from what with old Halloween costumes and can easily get more either at a costume, party, or thrift store.