Crazy Sock Christmas Party

Looking for an ultra-easy and cheap party theme?? Read on...

The invite said:
-Prizes for most outlandish socks
-Bring your own plate, cup and silverware
-Bring your favorite holiday side dish for 10

When people walked in, everyone was given a baggie with 10 stickers in it to stick on people (ie: ugliest sock, most expensive sock, most colorful etc).

Here is Fabio, with many different stickers for his crazy socks.


Emma with her crazy stockings.


Then came the judging part. Table by table, everyone stuck their socks in air to show them off. Here's Tim and I giving the prizes out. Prizes were given based on who had the most stickers of each of the 10 categories. I glued candy bars onto ribbons, to hang like Olympic medals.
1. 100 grand= most expensive socks
2. Starburst= most colorful
3. Nutty bar= funniest
4. Extra gum= Extra mile (oldest socks)
5. Bit of Honey= Bit over the top
6. QQ gummies= Most GQ socks
7. Black black Gum= Boring Black
8. Sweet Tarts= Most feminine

Etc. It was hard to find prizes with the limited availability of imported candy in the stores here.


Then one per table came up. Here's some of the crazy socks.


Then they cat walked down the center of the room to bouncy Christmas music while everyone finished their dinner.


Here's Tim and I passing out the prizes (Tim and Tanner off to the left). You can kinda see the candy bars hanging from my arm,and I'm holding up the 100 Grand Bar prize.


My favorite part of the party was that we could invite some of our favorite Chinese friends. There are many parties we go to where the Chinese are not allowed to attend if there is religious content.

The government doesn't allow the local Chinese to meet with foreign Christian churches, and the same holds true for church parties. We got around this b/c this was just a crazy sock party, no religious content.


We had about 80 come. I would say about 40 were kids. I don't think we've ever had a party without kids. They have so much fun at the parties. Every single person came that said they were going to come on the evite. This totally made the day!


We got 8 per table, and the food was the best! People brought sweet potato souffle, spinach souffle, strawberry creme souffle, I made two pot roasts, sweet n sour meat balls, others brought homemade mini cinnamon rolls, crescent rolls, Italian grilled vegetables, mashed potatoes, rice crispies, grilled pork, adorable decorated sugar cookies, fresh fruit and even banana bread.


Here's a good shot of my 'fancy' centerpieces. I hung socks by shepherd's hooks, sprinkled sequins on some cheap satin fabric. These were also the party favors for the ladies. The guys got individual toe socks. And of course we reserved the ugliest socks possible for those who happened to forget to wear some.

These socks included: hot pink/purple combo for Kevin (note: someone hid his shoes), 3-d teddy bear socks, and a few other calf high socks.


Where were all the kids you ask? They took off to the play room.


Here's Hunter, wearing his bumblebee costume from Santa.


Love this play ground! After dinner, all the kids went here to play, and the adults played games upstairs. I'll post that below....

But first, props to our photographer:

And of course, when you have a teenager photographer you are gifted with one of these beauties on the film strip. Thanks Benjamin, you're the best!