Deck the Tables...

[Ilovebigcats]

I am hosting a table at our annual Deck the Tables this year.

My theme is "A Christmas Story."

I NEED ideas! I have the centerpiece of my table on its way now.

Here it is...


RON!! DO NOT TELL ANYBODY!!!

Anyway... I need some more ideas of things I can do at my table. I wish I could get a the asian family at church to sit at my table and sing fa rah rah rah rah... but that might be offensive. haha. I need some other ideas. We have a BB Gun. We are going to set a pole up with a gummy tongue stuck to it. I will probably give everyone at the table a gummy tongue. I don't know. There are several cute phrases but I can't figure out how to put them in my table... Grrrrrrr.


HELP ME!!! It's 1 week away!!!

[Ilovebigcats]

Then again.. I thought we could put everything that is rebellious in Christmas movies at our table and we will be the "red-headed step-child table" like we were last year (not by choice, it is a running joke). We can all paint our hair red.

What are some other "rebellious" type things in other Christmas movies... like the leg lamp.


Is that a better idea. I don't know! I need ideas! HELP ME!!!!!!!!

[one love]

since this is from Christmas story, have Danny come in at dinner time and you can say

"show mommy how the piggy's eat"

as he dives into the plate face first eating mashed potatoes

[rjc]

You need to find or make a pink bunny pair of pj's with feet for Danny to wear.

[Gerald Creasy]

Make Placemats out of the following jpg.


http://www.flicklives.com/Glossary/red_ryder/red_ryder_ad.jpg

[soulsearcher]

Well, of course use garters for your napkin rings. And what about whooppee cushions on the chairs? Also, you could food color your mashed potatoes red and green. Okay, enough stupid silly stuff.

[Jennifer Smith]

I really like Gerald's idea- could you have them laminated or printed in color at an office store?

We watched that movie like two days ago! How about some Ovaltine?

You could get a retro santa tablecloth and some old looking stuff like "Look" magazine... (ya, like you have those lying around the house... ) How about a red folder with the words, "What I Want for Christmas" on the front..

You'll shoot your eye out...if you had some old, cracked horn-rimmed glasses...from a thrift store maybe?

I hope it turns out well- have fun!

[Sherry]

For place card holders use a bar of soap. Since Lifebuoy soap is no longer, and it is the one Ralphie had his mouth washed out with, you can't use that one, BUT..Lava soap was mentioned in the movie as the nuclear weapon of mouth-washing soaps, so powerful it was used for words we still didn't even know.

Just cut a slit in each bar, make place cards with the characters names from the movie and place at each setting.

[Gerald Creasy]

You could also use an Old style 30s radio if one is available or one of the new ones made to look old as an additonal table decoration.

This link has photos of the Ovaltine decoder pins that Ralphie was so excited to get. Maybe you could make some pin buttons with the photos.

You could also snatch some "Little Orphan Annie" pictures from the web and make cutout standups or somesuch.

Or you could take the Red Ryder BB gun ad linked before, the decoder ring photos, Annie Photos and anything else and make a collage large enough for a placemat.

[jinjer]

Actually, you can buy Lifebouy soap at the below website.

http://www.soapsgonebuy.com/Red_Lifebuo ... ni1001.htm

Jinjer

[valley]

Maybe this is over the top a little, and it does come from the movie, but you might want to make some fudge. I'm just sayin'.

[free]

The only down side is if people sit at your table who have never seen the movie (not sure how you determine who sits where)...I actually talked to a family last week who had never seen this Christmas classic!

[jinjer]

You ladies have seen a recent pic of Ralphie!! I think that would make a centerpiece.

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm4188706304/nm0082526

[Sherry]

You ladies have seen a recent pic of Ralphie!! I think that would make a centerpiece.

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm4188706304/nm0082526

My, how Ralphie's grown up!

[Dr. Ron]

I ain't sayin' a word to nobody!!!!!

Just do it nice.......and I know you will!