Top 10 Budget-Friendly Favors
If your Prom Budget is stretched and you're trying to make it work, don't ditch the favors! Give them a keepsake of their special night AND stay on budget! Here are TEN favor ideas under $2.00!
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Top 5 Budget-Friendly Ideas to Get the Word Out About Prom
Get everyone excited about Prom now with a fun PR campaign. These easy, budget-friendly ideas will get your Prom off to a successful start by creating enthusiasm and excitement for the big night.
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Mini Desserts - a Hot New Trend for Prom
One of the hottest new ideas for Prom or Senior Dinner is Mini Desserts. Amazing little indulgences that exude elegance and sophistication. Get some fabulous recipes or learn how to convert your favorite dessert to a mini-dessert!
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Planning For Homecoming
An awesome tradition welcoming students and alumni back to school, Homecoming is just around the corner!! Are you ready? We’re here to help make the planning of this incredible event as stress-free as possible for your students, staff, alumni, and you! Check out our fabulous ideas for Homecoming themes, and great planning tips and tricks!
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Video Tutorials
Learn how to decorate like a PRO! We offer video tutorials on how to use lighting, balloons, background paper and more!
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Video Tutorial - Weighting for Structures
Prom Themes are important to make your prom as wonderful of an event as you ever have! Be sure that your structures at prom are properly weighted to ensure durability.
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Video Tutorial - Working with transparencies
Decorating your Prom venue is important to make sure that your space has a magical feel! Using a few simple tools, such as a transparency and overhead projector, you can create a beautiful cardboard background structure!
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Video Tutorial - Working with Sheeting
Prom Decorations bring your venue space to life. Using a variety of decorating fabrics such as background paper, streamers, gossamer, netting, tulle and more, you can create beautiful spaces!
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Video Tutorial - Lighting your prom theme
Prom Decorations, especially prom lighting definitely has the capability to set the mood for your ambiance. Use mini lights, flood lights or even colored lights to feature soft themes.
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Video Tutorial - Decorating with Glitter
Prom Decorations shine with glitter! Glitter can make any and everything sand out and come to life!
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Video Tutorial - Decorating with Fabrics: Gossamer, Tulle, and Netting
Prom Decorations bring your venue space to life. Using a variety of decorating fabrics such as gossamer, netting, tulle, background paper, streamers, and more, you can create beautiful spaces!
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Video Tutorial - Working with Die-Cuts
Prom Decorations are made easy with pre-cut shapes (die cuts). You can place these on structures throughout your prom such as trees or columns to make your prom space come to life!
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Video Tutorial - Working with Balloons
Prom decorations are quick and easy to put together with balloons. Whether used in balloon arches, or balloon clusters, balloons always add color to your decor and can bring out exciting elements to your prom theme.
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Video Tutorial - Working with Background Paper
Prom Decorations come to life with simple tools such as background paper, corrugated paper and poly vinyl.
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Homecoming Float Decorations
Amazing Float Decoration Ideas for Your Homecoming
No homecoming parade is complete without a variety of beautiful, fun or even zany floats! The recipe for creating amazing homecoming floats is simple: Just add Anderson's! We can help you bring your homecoming float ideas to the parade with our affordable float decorations. Or, if you’re out of ideas and running out of time, we have tons of great float kits that are ready to go!
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Spirit Week Ideas
Are you ready for Spirit Week?
What are your school’s Spirit Week traditions? Whatever they are, use Spirit Week as a time to promote school spirit, unify the student body and make fun memories your students and teachers will cherish for a lifetime. Read on for some fun Spirit Week ideas!
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Fundraising Fun
The secret to successful fundraising is knowledge: knowing what you need (money),
how to get it (sell a good or service), who your market is (students, parents and the
community), what they want (do you have what they’re looking for?) and how much
time you have (when is your event?). Armed with this knowledge, you can create a
successful and profitable fundraiser in no time.
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What to Do BEFORE Building a Theme
Building a theme for your BIG EVENT? Here are some things to think about BEFORE you start construction!
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Free Online Tools
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Download our Advisor Planner, Budget Sheet, Fundraising Flyer and more.... For FREE!
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Wanted Advisory Board Members
Be heard! Anderson's wants to listen to your thoughts about product
ideas, what’s working and what’s not, what we’re doing right and what
we could improve, so we can continue to provide you with the very best
products, offers, prices and service. This is your chance to
collaborate with others across the nation to improve not just your own
school but theirs as well! All while getting compensated too!
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15 Activities For Your Senior All Night Party
All-night parties or "lock-ins" are intended to one last hurrah in their high school career. They are also a great way to keep kids safe on a big night of celebrations.
Generating interest and getting the kids there is key to a successful event. A few wild & crazy activities will do just the trick. This list is just a starting point, and may possibly generate more ideas from your committee. Think out of the box. It's okay to get a little crazy!
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4 Creative Prom Invitations
We're looking for your stories or ideas for great Prom Invitations. Wild & wacky, crazy & creative, or really romantic. We know there are some great stories out there, and we want to hear them.
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Organizing Your Committees
If your school or committee is small, you could plan your event as one large committee, but if you have a large Committee, splitting up into several smaller sub-committees will make planning easier and more efficient. Sub-committees can research their areas of responsibility and bring information and selections back to the large committee to vote on.
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Advisor Planning Guide
Whether it's your first time as an advisor or you're a seasoned veteran, a planning guide is a great way to get organized with your committee. Here you'll find tips, ideas, strategies, and a workable timeline that makes sense.
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Spirit Week New Ways to Celebrate
Spirit week is a traditional part of Homecoming celebrations for many schools. It's celebrated with a different theme each day of the week ending with School Spirit Day on Friday. This year why not try some fun new "days" and break free from the "same-old-same-old" spirit days of the past.
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Make Your Awards Ceremony Exceptional
All Achievements are worth celebrating; find a reason to honor every student. High School awards ceremonies are in full swing. While some students look forward to the occasion, recognition of their accomplishments is a big deal, others shy away. The event can feel awkward and even shameful; a reminder of their shortcomings.
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