We all know April is good for April Fool’s Day and Tax Day. Photo Booth of the Stars loves a good reason to host a party and one superb reason to celebrate is having your taxes filed and over with until next year. Here’s some ideas that will have your guest lists wanting to Save The Date rather than dread tax day!
Invite and Delight like to celebrate this date with a Death and Taxes Party and share some unique ideas for hosting this type of theme party over at their blog. Their idea for taxes inspired invitations are creating fake refund checks made out to each of your guests. You can include the party details on the back of the invitations complete with a note stating they must attend the party in order to receive this year’s refund. You can check out more of their ideas here.
Décor and photo booth prop ideas can include money confetti that you could easily get from your local brick and mortar store. Communizine suggests running the dollar bills through a shredder and scatter it about in places that need some pop. It can represent all of the hard earned money Americans’ make that gets ran through the shredder every year. Patriotic decorations are great décor items since it is our civic duty to do taxes, so anything American themed will provide the perfect touches to your party.
Of course each and every party needs some fun theme inspired games and here are some festive ideas for entertainment from Communizine:
Pin the Tail on the IRS Commissioner
This is a Tax Day take on the classic children’s party game “Pin the Tail on the Donkey.” This requires a little creativity on your part: get a picture of current IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman and blow it up to poster-size. Draw or glue a picture of his head onto the body of a donkey, grab something that works as a tail, and blindfold your guests as they attempt to stick a pin in him.
Have a “Most Ludicrous Write-Off” Contest
If your Tax Day Party guests have already filed their returns, tell them in advance that you’re having a bizarre write-off contest and to bring in evidence of the weirdest thing they’re trying to use as a tax write-off. You might be surprised at the creativity of some of your friends and their tax lawyers.
Have a Tax Day-Themed Movie Marathon
If you and your friends aren’t into the kinds of party activities described above, consider inviting just a few people over to have a Tax Day movie viewing party. Since you’re about to have to cut a check to the government, use as many movie coupons as you can to save money on your Tax Day movie purchases. Watch films like Wall Street, Rounders, and Boiler Room, movies where money plays a leading role and the name of the game is doing whatever it takes to get more of it. That oughta put you and your friends in the perfect mood for Tax Day.
These tips and ideas should be able to get you Death and Taxes Party up and running!
Author: L. Fulton-EventsbyL
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