In the spirit of the Hunger Games, I decided to host a book
club. Here's what I did! (I'll add pics of my party later...)
Starting off, everyone who walked in the door had the chance
to vote for their favorite- Team Peeta or Team Gale! Make your voice heard and Vote! Team Peeta or Team Gale?(Team Peeta one hands down
at my book club....) You could even be cool like me and make a DIY I-Heart-Peeta T-Shirt.
FOOD
For the food, I set one table, one half with the foods of
the 'Capital' and one half with foods from District 12. I really had to do some
guessing on the Capital side and really just tried to focus on fancy,
over-the-top foods.
Capital Side
Crystal goblets and white china, set on a lace table cloth.
And for that actual food?
*Mini cherry cheesecakes
*Bite sized key lime crumbles
*Fancy sliced French bread
*Strawberries and whipped cream
*Red velvet mini cupcakes
*Orange juice (HAVE to have that orange juice... they talk
about it so much!)
District 12
Much simpler, set on a rough piece of woven brown cloth,
served in stone and wood dishes. The food?
*Sliced Swiss cheese (reminiscent of the goat's cheese from
Primm)
*Sliced apples (as mentioned in the book)
*Home-baked bread (Peeta's bakery, perhaps?)
*Pumpkin bread (seemed homey-and simple)
*Milk (served in a stone pitcher)
ACTIVIES
I kept these rather simple and book-based. We started with a
quiz of over-the-top questions (I'll post a few- see how you do!)
(1) What
Hunger Games did Haymitch win? (_____________th)
50th
70th
55th
(2) What is
the baker’s favorite meat?
(3) Who is the
only male member of Katniss’ prep team?
(4) What score
did Rue receive in training?
Pretty tough, right?
And the PRIZE if
you got the most quiz questions right? Over-the-top make-up and nail polish, reminiscent
of the Capital.
Then I doled out a simple question sheet to promote
discussion of the book, with questions like:
· What was your favorite part?
· If you could change one thing what
would it be and why?
· Which character do you think you
would be in the Hunger Games?
· What part upset you the most?
· What do you feel was the point the
author was trying to get across?
Then,
I sent everyone home with little gift bags of some European chocolate.... not
that Europe existed in the book, but I am sure there was plenty of delicious
chocolate! Feel free to steal some ideas. If you are interested in just having
my entire format for YOUR party, feel free to go to the 'Contact' section, shoot me an e-mail, and I'll e-mail you my
whole text document with pictures, quizzes, and decor as an attachment. (It's a .doc file)
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