Amazing Super Bowl Party Ideas Guests Will Cheer For

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The Super Bowl is here, and you can’t wait to yell “Touchdown!” with all your family and friends. But how do you make your party touchdown-worthy? With some themed decorations, delicious food, and party games, your guests will be lifting you up on their shoulders and calling you the most valuable host in no time. Everybody will have a blast, no matter which team wins! Take a look at these awesome ideas, so you can throw the best Super Bowl party ever. We’ve even included expert advice from event decor specialist Anna Braff, so keep reading!

The next Super Bowl happens on Sunday, February 14, 2027.

The Best Super Bowl Party Ideas

Decorate a long table to look like a football field.
Serve football-shaped appetizers and snacks.
Set up a themed photo booth for fun pics.
Create cocktails inspired by the teams’ cities.
Play Super Bowl commercial bingo.
Hand out themed goodie bags.
Give a DIY Lombardi Trophy to the guest who wins the most party games.

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Decorate your table to look like a football field.

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Use green felt, duct tape, and stickers to make your own tablecloth. All you have to do is cover your table with green felt. Next, take white duct tape and stick it onto the felt horizontally to create yard lines. Lastly, place number stickers on each yard line and voila! You have an epic party table that everyone will love.^{[1]
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- You can find green felt, white duct tape, and number stickers at your local craft or dollar store.
- If you’re not a super crafty person, try ordering a football field tablecloth online, instead!
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Anna Braff is an event decor specialist, as well as the founder and designer at Provenance Rentals, whose award-winning work has been featured in Vogue, InStyle, People, and more.

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Put out some football-shaped deviled eggs.

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First, follow a traditional deviled eggs recipe. Once you’re done, top each egg with sprigs of green onion in the pattern of football laces, or pipe thin lines of mayo into the shape of football laces if you prefer. Serve at the start of your Super Bowl party for your guests to munch on!

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Make a football-shaped cheese ball.

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To make it, just follow a cheese ball recipe of your choice, but mold the mixed cheese at the ends into tapered points, like the shape of a football. Add pieces of thinly sliced cheese on top in the shape of football laces, and that’s it! Serve your cheese dip with the crackers of your choice.^{[2]
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Serve some game-day staples.

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Make sure to include some Super Bowl classics in your food spread. Braff says food is one of the most important parts of a game-day party, so she recommends polling your guests ahead of time to see what their tastes are and what kind of dishes they’re expecting at a Super Bowl gathering.^{[3]
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- Braff explains that you don’t need to stick to traditional dishes for everything you serve, since you don’t want your spread to look like every other party’s. “But sometimes, people want to see some classics there, like Buffalo wings and things like that,” she says. “People love wings, people love nachos. People love good beer.”^{[4]
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- So, to keep your guests happy, make sure you’ve included at least a few tried-and-true classics, like Buffalo wings, Buffalo chicken dip, nachos, pigs in a blanket, jalapeño poppers, spinach and artichoke dip, chili, or potato skins.

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Create themed letterboards to display your menu.

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Sure, your guests could just inspect each dish to try to figure out exactly what it is, but it’s much easier (and more festive) to display some letterboards listing out their options. To keep things on-theme, get a green letterboard with white letters to mimic the colors of the football field itself!

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Play “How Many Chips.”

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This is a great way to get the games going for the night! Place several chips in a glass jar, and have your guests guess how many chips are in the jar as soon as they arrive at your party. At the end of the night, announce which guest got closest to the actual number, and give them a prize!^{[5]
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- If you’re not a fan of the chip idea, you could fill your jar with any other type of food. For example, M&Ms in the team colors would be a great option!

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Use banners and balloons to deck out the space in team colors.

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Add extra festivity to your Super Bowl party with creative decorations. Tape banners, balloons, and streamers to your walls or hang them from the ceiling. You can go to your local party store for football-themed party supplies, or you can make them yourself. Here are some fun ways you can decorate your space:
- Hang a banner above your food table.
- Create a balloon arch for your doorway or around your TV.
- Drape streamers over your front door or in an archway.
- What colors should you use for a 2026 Super Bowl party? The two teams playing in the 2026 Super Bowl are the New England Patriots (whose colors are blue, red, silver, and white) and the Seattle Seahawks (whose colors are navy, green, and white).

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Tell your guests to dress up in their team’s colors.

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Instruct your guest to do this when you send out your invites. According to Braff, your guests don’t necessarily need to be the hugest football fans ever to have a good time, but it definitely makes a big difference if they’re willing to dress up in jerseys or the team colors to get into the festivity of the event.^{[6]
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- If you know you’ve got a few guests who aren’t into football all that much, consider having a few themed accessories in a bucket at your party, so that they can add to their ensemble once they get there!

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Paint your favorite team’s colors on your face.

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Use washable face paint to paint each half of your face your team's colors, or draw your team’s logo or mascot on your cheek. This is sure to put you and your friends in a competitive and jolly mood.

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Dress up your pets in themed outfits.

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Put them in a dog or cat jersey for the team you’re rooting for, or dress them in a cute dog or cat sweater in the team’s colors. For a subtler touch, you could also go for a football-themed dog collar or cat collar. As they walk around the party, they’ll be sure to bring a smile to your guests’ faces.

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Vote on your guests’ team spirit.

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Will they be voted best dressed, most spirited, sorest loser, or most likely to fall asleep? Set up a voting box and have your guests vote for the winners during the game. After the game, count the votes and present each winner with a certificate, mock Super Bowl trophy, or even a special cocktail.

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Make sure you’ve got a good screen set-up.

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With this in mind, “You definitely need a good screen to watch your game,” says Braff.^{[7]
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Serve snacks inspired by the teams’ locations.

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You don’t need to stick to traditional football-themed dishes for your party! The hometowns or regions of the teams playing can also serve as inspiration. For example, if you’re rooting for the New England Patriots, you could serve New England clam chowder, lobster rolls, or Boston cream pie in honor of them. This is a fun way to get creative with your snack ideas and possibly give your guests something new to try!

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Create a Super Bowl bar with team-themed drinks.

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Your guests will not only have a great drink in their hands, but they’ll also learn something new about the teams. Look up the most popular alcoholic drinks in a team’s area. Make the drinks ahead of time, or take your party to a whole other level by hiring a mixologist.^{[8]
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Store cold drinks in an on-theme container.

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For example, order an inflatable drink holder that looks like a football field or a football, fill it with ice, and then add in all your canned or bottled soft drinks. Or, for a more low-key option, paint a bucket brown and then paint on some white laces so it looks like a football, then add your ice and drinks.

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Serve drinks and food with themed garnishes.

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Add a little extra flair to your soft drinks or cocktails by serving them with drink stirrers topped with tiny footballs. Amp up the festivity of your appetizers and snacks by sticking in a few toothpicks topped with the flags of whichever team you’re rooting for, or general football-themed toothpicks. It’s all about creating a festive ambience throughout your whole party, even down to the smallest details!

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Serve foods on themed platters.

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Order a few themed plates and platters online to serve your appetizers, snacks, entrees, and desserts on, instead of putting them on plain old serving trays. It may seem like a small thing, but it goes a long way to make your party theme festive and cohesive!

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Use faux grass as coasters.

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Cut 4x4 squares of astroturf so cups look like they’re on the field. This is a creative way to bring some extra flair to your party. Find astroturf at your local hardware store and use cuts of it as coasters or even placemats. Your tables will stay dry and clean, and your guests will be super impressed by your crafting skills.^{[9]
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- Cut out larger rectangles to make astroturf placements.

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Create some football-themed centerpieces.

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Add some pizazz to your tables with these fun centerpieces. To make them, cut some thin pieces of white duct tape and stick them on to look like a football’s laces on the outside of each mason jar. Next, cut pieces of brown construction paper or cardstock so that they’re the right height and length to fit into your jar when rolled up. Place the brown rolled-up paper into each mason jar, so they look like footballs with laces.^{[10]
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- Finish off your mason jar centerpieces with decorative items of your choice. You can include flags representing each of the teams, flowers in the team colors, and any other football-related props you’d like!

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Display straws and utensils in themed jars.

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Decorate some mini mason jars with football-themed art! This is a great way to make your party feel super on-theme, down to the small details. Making them is super easy—just buy a few pint-sized mason jars and paint them with the football-inspired designs of your choice! Do vertical black and white stripes for a referee-inspired jar, paint another jar brown and add white football laces, and decorate other jars with the colors of the team you’re rooting for.^{[11]
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- Once they’re dry, fill the jars with things your guests might need throughout the party, like plastic cutlery, straws for drinks, and napkins.

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Put out yellow napkins to represent penalty flags.

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Instead of using regular white napkins, get some yellow ones and store them in mason jars painted with black and white stripes to look like referee shirts. Label the jars “penalty flags,” and that’s it! You’ve got a practical and on-theme piece of decor.^{[12]
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Play a game of football toss.

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Use pool noodles, duct tape, and rebar to switch up classic cornhole. Bend 3 of the noodles to turn them into rings, duct taping them to keep their shape. Tape each of these rings together so you have 3 rings lined up next to each other. Next, shove 2 pieces of rebar or stakes into the ground. Slide a noodle over the rebar and tape the 3 rings to it. The rings should be attached to and between the rebar. All that’s left to do is toss a football through the rings and see who has the best aim.^{[13]
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- In the end, your DIY game should look like 3 floating rings between the upper part of a goal post.
- Set the game as far back as you please! If you have younger party guests, maybe only set it 1 foot (0.30 m) away from the throwing line. For older guests, try 5 to 10 feet (1.5 to 3.0 m).

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Place bets with Super Bowl squares.

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Get competitive and show off your football knowledge with a friendly wager. Football squares is a simple game. There is a 10x10 grid, and each square costs $5. Each square is associated with a number from 0 to 9. Before the Super Bowl starts, everyone pays for the squares they want, writing their name in those squares. At the end of each quarter, the square that matches the last number of the team’s score wins that round and the money that went into it.^{[14]
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- For example, if the Rams have 41 points and the Bengals have 31, the names in each 1 square win.
- Print out or create your own squares game. For ideas, try searching “super bowl squares game.”
- Lower the stakes by swapping real money with Monopoly money.

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Play commercial bingo.

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Print bingo cards for each guest with brands and keywords in each square. The Super Bowl commercials are famous for being silly and over the top. Add some extra fun to these ad breaks by seeing if you can find all the details on your bingo card. Use pretzels or snack crackers as your bingo chips and see who reigns victorious at the end of the night.^{[15]
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- For example, say a Coca-Cola commercial comes on. If Coca-Cola is on your bingo card, you’ve won a square.
- Maybe your bingo card has a square that says “celebrity.” You would mark that square if there’s a commercial that features a celebrity.
- You can create the bingo cards yourself using free platforms like Canva or Word, or find pre-made cards online by searching “Super Bowl commercial bingo.”

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Serve football-shaped mini sandwiches.

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These sandwiches make a great entree for your party. Buy mini sub sandwich buns at the grocery store, making sure they’re oval-shaped to resemble a football. Fill them with the sandwich fix-ins of your choice, then use a piping bag or zip-loc bag with one corner cut off to pipe thin lines of mayo or mustard onto the tops of the sandwiches to look like football laces.^{[16]
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- If you can’t find mini sub sandwich buns, use a football-shaped cookie cutter to cut regular pieces of white or wheat sliced bread into football shapes.
- Try making several different types of sandwiches (turkey, ham, BLT, veggie, etc) so that your guests can mix-and-match!

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Include a build-your-own food bar.

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You can also tailor it to fit whatever type of food you’re serving! For example, you could do a build-your-own taco bar where guests can add their protein, fixins, and sauces of choice. Or, you could do a build-your-own baked potato or mashed potato bowl, complete with toppings like bacon bits, cheese, chives, and sour cream. Feel free to get creative!

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Make a football field-inspired dip.

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This festive take on a 7-layer dip is sure to impress your guests. Like a typical 7-layer dip, it packs several different homemade or store-bought dips into one serving dish, but with a twist: they’re packed in to look like a football field! This dish works great as an appetizer or as a mid-game snack when your guests start to get hungry again. Here’s how to make it:^{[17]
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- Spread store-bought or homemade refried bean dip in a layer across the whole bottom of a 13’’ by 9’’ baking dish.
- Spread a layer of sour cream on top of the entire bean dip layer.
- Spread a layer of store-bought or homemade pico de gallo starting at the left shorter end of the dish, but stop before reaching the other end. Leave about 2 inches of sour cream on the right end of the dish.
- Spread a layer of store-bought or homemade queso dip starting on top of the sour cream at the shorter right end of the dish. Go over the pico de gallo layer across the middle of the dish, but stop before you reach the left edge, leaving about 2 inches of pico de gallo.
- Spread store-bought or homemade guacamole between the strips of pico de gallo and queso on either side of your dish (these are your end zones). The guacamole in the middle is your field!
- Put some sour cream in a piping bag fitted with a small tip (or a zip-loc bag with the tip cut off). Pipe white stripes across the guacamole “field” to create your yard lines.^{[18]
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- Serve with tortilla chips and enjoy!

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Make Buffalo ranch popcorn.

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Making it is pretty simple, too! Just get some Buffalo sauce from the store, or make your own by whisking together 5 tbsp unsalted butter with 2 tbsp of hot sauce.^{[19]
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Create football-themed snack bags.

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Just get some small brown paper bags and add white football laces to one side with white tape, or draw them on with a white marker. Add the snack of your choice to them, and pass them around to keep your guests satiated throughout the game!^{[21]
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Quiz your guests with Super Bowl trivia.

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Do a bit of research on the playing teams and get creative. This is a great game to play, especially if you have some die-hard football fans attending. All you have to do is come up with some questions. These can be as easy, difficult, or silly as you’d like. Split your guests off into teams, and keep track of how many points each team gets right. Make sure you have a fun prize picked out for the winning team. Here are some questions you can add to your game:^{[22]
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- How many times has each team been to a Super Bowl?
- Who are the quarterbacks for each team?
- What are the teams’ mascots?

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Set up a Super Bowl-themed photo booth.

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Cut out fun props and set up a camera for some Super Bowl fun. Give your guests something to post about by setting up a makeshift photo booth in the corner of the room. Hang glitter streamers or a plastic tablecloth in the playing teams’ colors as a backdrop. Lay out fun glasses, hats, or printed-out football graphics so your guests can dress up for their photos. This is sure to bring a smile to everyone’s face and make lasting memories.
- Set up a ring light or phone stand facing the decorated wall so your guests can take timed photos.
- If you want to go all out, order a Super Bowl-inspired photo booth background and some themed props online!

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Play Super Bowl-themed “Don’t Say It.”

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This is a fun game that can be played throughout the whole party. To play, designate a few words as “off-limits” for the night, and choose words that your guests are likely to say accidentally (like “football,” “touchdown,” or the halftime performer’s name). The object of the game is to go the whole night without saying any of the words! Give each guest a whistle to blow if they hear another guest saying one of the words. The guest who slips up then needs to give their whistle to the person who caught them.^{[23]
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- At the end of the night, the guest who collects the most whistles wins!

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Challenge your guests to football beer pong.

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It’s basically a regular game of beer pong, but you’ll set up your cups on a table decorated to look like a football field (which we explained how to do in the first step of this article).^{[24]
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Go for a round of football hot potato.

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Playing is super simple: just stand in a circle and pass around a football while someone plays music and pauses it at random intervals. Whoever’s holding the football when the music pauses is out, and the last person standing wins!^{[25]
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Play “Pin the Football in the Goalpost.”

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This take on Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Donkey is another kid-friendly option. First, set up a large poster of a football goalpost on the wall. Next, blindfold each guest and have them place a football-shaped sticker or a paper cutout of a football with tape on it onto the poster. Whoever gets their football closest to the center of the goalpost wins!^{[26]
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- If you’re not all that into arts and crafts, you can order Pin the Football kits online.

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Set up a themed friendship bracelet station.

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Friendship bracelets were a crucial part of Taylor Swift’s Era’s Tour, and since Swift started dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, they’ve become popular at football games, too. If you want to satisfy some of your craftier guests, set up your own friendship bracelet-making station at your Super Bowl party, complete with beads in the colors of the teams, as well as letter beads, so that your guests can spell out festive messages like “go team” or “touchdown.”

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Set up a football cookie decorating station.

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First, bake some sugar cookies and use on-theme cookie cutters to make them into shapes like footballs, football helmets, and jerseys. Put them on a platter on a small craft table, and set up containers of colored frosting, sprinkles, and other garnishes so that your guests can decorate and personalize their own cookies.

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Serve football-themed chocolate-covered strawberries.

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Adding extra details to your desserts can put your party on a whole new level, and chocolate-covered strawberries that look like footballs are bound to impress!^{[27]
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Make football-inspired cupcakes.

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Cupcakes are a crowd-pleasing sweet treat your guests will love. To make them more on-theme for your Super Bowl gathering, decorate them with green frosting (to represent the football field) and stick football-shaped cupcake toppers into them.^{[28]
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- For something a little more unique, put your cupcakes in the shape of a football, then spread chocolate frosting across them all and pipe on white football laces for a pull-apart football cake.

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Create a football field sheet cake.

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To start, make your own sheet cake or buy one at your local grocery store. Next, decorate it with green frosting to represent the grass of the football field, then pipe lines of white frosting across the top to represent the yard lines, and pipe on the numbers for each line, too (10, 20, 30, and so on). Decorate end zones on each side of the cake using the colors of each team playing in the game, and stick in yellow goal post cake toppers at each end.^{[29]
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Cool down with football-shaped ice cream sandwiches.

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To make them, pipe icing on ice cream sandwiches to look like the laces of a football, and then slide a wooden spoon or popsicle stick into the ice cream center for a delicious hand-held dessert. You can use store-bought ice cream sandwiches or make your own—whatever you prefer!

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Serve tiny football-shaped cake pops.

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If your guests filled up too much on your other Super Bowl dishes, hand out some football-shaped cake pops for them to take to-go.^{[30]
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Hand out football-themed dirt cups for the road.

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Make a classic dirt cup, with chocolate pudding at the bottom of the cup and a layer of crushed up Oreos to resemble dirt. Next, add a layer of green icing or whipped topping to look like grass. Finally, add white icing football laces onto chocolate-covered Milano cookies and stick them into your dirt cups. Serve in clear plastic to-go cups with lids so your guests can take them home!

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Hand out swag bags after the game.

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Give your guests a piece of the party to bring home with them. These party bags could be full of Super Bowl themed snacks or gag gifts. Theme the bags around football or the playing teams’ colors. Try putting some of these party favors in your swag bags to be the ultimate host:
- Iced sugar cookies that look like footballs
- Plastic whistles
- Toy or foam footballs
- Colored beads or football lanyards
- Candy with packaging that matches team colors
- Flavored or colored popcorn
- Snap bracelets
- Football-themed stickers

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Create a faux Super Bowl trophy.

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Create your own replica of the Lombardi Trophy by attaching a football to a rectangular vase and spray painting the whole thing silver, or order one online. At the end of the night, hand the trophy out to whichever guest won the most Super Bowl games!^{[31]
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If a aggressive fight is started and one or many of the people fighting are drunk, force them out of the house to avoid anyone else getting hurt or pulled into the fight. Only attempt to break up the fight if you know you can, don't risk yourself or others being injured. If necessary, call the police and have them taken away.

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Make water bottle labels so your guests won’t lose track of their drinks. Print out a long, narrow image of a football or black and white vertical stripes. Cut out the image, wrap it around the water bottle’s label, and tape it in place. Leave out a permanent marker by the drink station so guests can write their name on the fun labels.^{[32]
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