Fire up the BBQ and meet your neighbors! Serve all food on disposable plates, trays, and cups, and add beer cups for the adults. For a kitschy feel, add disposable gingham tablecloths to your picnic. Serve classic BBQ foods such as hot dogs, hamburgers, ribs, steaks (if you’re so inclined!), fries, baked potatoes, salad, and macaroni salad. Factory Direct Party also has great salad bowls and serveware to impress your guests! Serve condiments in our adorable mousse cups for a touch of class. For dessert, serve American Apple pie and ice cream. We have disposable pie cutters and ice cream bowls to help with that! Get to know your neighbors by playing charades or a board game. A big bucket of chalk will be great for the kids to get along.

For the students in your life who are stressed by finals or midterms and are up all night studying, host a midnight breakfast! Late in the evening serve waffles, pancakes, fruits, and cereal to help fuel their learning minds. Put everything in disposable dinnerware so the students do not have to worry about dishes when their done. Teach them a valuable lesson on economics and saving by purchasing your disposable tableware right here at factory direct party!

Cookie or flower seed exchange party - Each guest should receive their invitation attached to a cookie tray. The day of the party, each guest brings their tray laden with sugary treats to exchange. Make sure all guests write their recipe down for everyone to follow! For convenience, guests may want to individually wrap their cookies and / or place them in goodie bags to give to each other. The host should have plenty of spare plates and cups to help their guests with all the food.  Put your cookies out on white and red oval trays to snack on. Serve iced tea in our fancy cups with a lemon wedge on the side. Make them disposable to help with clean up!

Alternatively, gardeners can have a flower seed exchange party - where the theme should be all the beautiful colors of the flowers they intend to grow with the seeds they are swapping! Pretty plates, balloons, and streamers will add a festive springtime look. To get festive, use lime green, yellow, sky blue, orange, purple, and hot pink. Our leaf plates will help inspire while making your party look its prettiest. Serve your guests any food that needs to grow! Crudités are perfect! Slice cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, radishes, and celery and serve with a spinach dip. Place it on our scrollwear trays and serve the dip in the matching scroll bowl. Factory Direct Party also has matching plates to coordinate!

Enchantment Under the Sea- Who doesn’t love a good “Back to the Future” reference? For this 1950’s cum 1980’s party, dress in your most radical 1980’s wear. Pull out the fluorescents you were hoping would be banned for all eternity, your slouchy socks, high ponytails, and leg warmers. For a sea-friendly feel, use lots of different colored blue cutlery, table covers, table skirts, plates, cups, and trays to serve on. Accent with some silver as well. Throw up lots of plastic fake pearls for a fun feel. Decorate a trunk with lots of “jewels” by crumpling up some tissue paper balls and placing the lid in a half open position  so others will see the jewels. Line the chest with silver or gold metallic wrap. Throw in some plastic fake pearls for good measure. Throw some silver streamers around the room for a wave-like effect and interlace some with pearls. Add some “sea-weed” by taping green streamers to the walls going from the floor to the ceiling “waving” in the ocean breeze. You can use a revolving fan on a light setting to get the wavy look just perfect.  For food, serve tuna fish salad, lox, crackers, sushi, and blue colored gelatin. They would look fabulous in a shell or flower shaped dessert cup. Place any other dessert on a mini-leaf plate.  Throw a guitar and amp in the corner and see who can do the best Chuck Berry impression.