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White elephant gifts for the Cinco de Mayo party

Tomorrow is the Cinco de Mayo party day – millions will spend the day in celebration and sharing gifts among themselves. And though there are no white elephants in Mexico, there is a great opportunity to use a white elephant gift exchange to make the party more engaging.

A Cinco de Mayo white elephant gift party would be a perfect way to share the day with a group of friends or family.

Mexican Theme

You can decorate with a Mexican theme, prepare food and refreshments that are fitting for the day, and then have a great gift exchange game. Add in some great Mexican music in the background and have everyone come wearing some type of Mexican dress, like a sombrero or a poncho. You could even have TacoBell cater the event!

Mexican White Elephant Gifts

The white elephant gift exchange is a gift sharing event, so on Cinco de Mayo the gifts should be Mexican centered.  Tell every invitee that they need to bring creative and fun Mexican-styled white elephant gifts.  Because it is the fifth of May there could be a requirement that gifts have a tie to the number five, like $15, $25 or $35 dollar maximum spend. Here are a few gift ideas to get your creative juices flowing….

• Habenero sause
• Mexican music CD’s
• Mini cactus
• Margarita Glasses
• Ponchos
• Salsa
• Castanets
• Flag
• Masks
• Belt
• Cookbook

Thanks to Axtell for the image

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Easter gifts in a unique exchange party

White Elephant Egg Hunt

I bet  that you have never seen a white elephant or an actual white elephant egg – have you?  These albino elephants are so rare and valuable that only kings can own them once they are found. So imagine the rarity of an actual white elephant egg!

Now you can have a Royal white elephant egg hunt with your family and friends. Like any other white elephant exchange, this is an opportunity to share fun gifts and great conversation with those you love.  But you will need to substitute something different for the very rare albino elephant eggs – We suggest the common cantaloupe!

Once you have your substitute elephant eggs gathered from the local grocer, you are ready to prepare them for the gift exchange party. Use a marking pen to number each “egg” so that there is one egg for every player.  We suggest that you use a food-safe marker, but the skin of a cantaloupe is thick like a…..Elephant’s hide, so you could probably get by with another style of marker if you use it on the day of the event.

Set-up like any white elephant gift exchange

You will set-up this  party using the standard rules for white elephant gift exchange and then extend invitations. You can suggest that they bring gifts that will add to the fun of the event and even set a price limit if you would like.  Easter is a great time to host this party so you could suggest Easter gifts or some Easter themed gift purchasing requirement.

On the day of the event you will need to hide the eggs, just like you would for an Easter egg hunt.  This is just a bit different because these eggs are white elephant sized, so you might want to let the grass grow a bit taller! You should get a bit of entertainment from this effort…

The party game starts with the white elephant egg hunt. Tell the players that the numbers will be their gift selection order in the gift exchange portion of the game. This will allow for some strategy to play-out as people find elephant eggs and then decide to keep or leave them for the next guy. (Like strategy every helped anyone in a white elephant gift exchange!)

Baby Elephant Eggs?

After all the eggs have been claimed they can be gathered into the kitchen for processing into the “baby elephant eggs” with a Double Melon Baller and Mini Scoop.  Just remember to record who had what number so you can use it in the exchange portion of the party. Use the newly created fruit treats as a part of your refreshments.

Now you are ready to do the gift exchange like you would with any traditional white elephant gift party.  In stead of drawing names in a random manner you will use the order from the white elephant eggs.

Other Ideas…

You could expand the fun with an Easter trivia contest during the mellon balling fun, or do a left-right game with the melons prior to finalizing the game selection order.  → Printable Easter Ideas

Now you know that the white elephant gift exchange is not just for the Christmas season, but can be a great way to share gifts and fun at almost any holiday.  Take the time to plan a Royal White Elephant Egg Hunt and Gift Exchange this Easter – You are going to love this Party!

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If we look down the “internet road” we can see a day when parties in person will combine with online parties to include everyone…

Online parties will be next…

Skype and Facebook are both figuring out how to mesh video chat and social networking into one package.

Envision a baby shower for a new mommy who has friends all around the country. Currently the shower attendees are limited to those who live close or are willing to travel to be with the new mother in person.

With Skype and a networking system, like Facebook the activities could be shared by video and coordinated online and in person. Some of the attendees would be sharing gifts that are opened directly by the mommy, while other gifts are opened virtually and displayed on the computer, only to be delivered by UPS later.

The glue that would make this event stick in the memory of everyone involved would be an engaging activity that combined both the computer crowd and the live crowd in the action.

Thanks to the video advances of Skype and the networking abilities of social media, we will all eventually make every party and share in all the fun.

We can envision a day when online parties like AlbinoPhant will be commonplace in white elephat gift sharing times. When other important life events are connected to internet activity sources that allow any distance to be bridged.

Distance will not be a stop sign on the future internet roads.

 

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