Please help with 50th birthday surprise....

[MandyH]

I am giving my mother a 50th birthday surprise party in about 10 days. I need as many suggestions as to what gag gifts, party decorations, etc I can use. This will be a family get together so please lets keep it clean. Thanks in advance for any useful suggestions.

 

[Frozen Feathers]

Hey my Mom just had her 50th on the 21st this month!
Of course black balloons! If you have Spencer's near you, they have a lot Over the Hill stuff...some clean some very naughty. I picked her up a "Vintage 1957" T-shirt from there....she loved it.

 

[MandyH]

Thanks Angie,
My mom is a nut AND she knows everybody in town so it's very hard to surprise her usually. I've got her a black corsage coming and a black funeral spray!! LOL. I am trying to get my grandmother to get me some pictures together so I can do a "This is Your Life" kind of scrapbook for her too.

 

[bantymum]

Get some photos together and add captions and put music with them and run a slideshow, you can have all the family photos, they will get a kick out of looking at them. Just have it going on a wall or screen so its not the centrepoint attraction but an added item. They will all stand around and laugh, beware they will probably all want a copy.!!!

 

[MandyH]

thanks

 

[LynnGrigg]

LOL, last year I gave my husband(Scot) a surprise 50th. One of the games was "Guess Scot's Age". The entrant, put the guess(well it was a no-brainer of course-just a little extra reminder to grind in his old age) on the paper along with their name and put it in the hat. - first entry drawn with the correct answer won a gift certificate to a nice local restaurant - the prize/s can be anything of course. HAVE FUN!

 

[Tastes_Like_Chicken]

We just had a 50th b-day party for my sister-in-law and we used "vintage" barbie dolls for the centerpieces for each table. We had a table filled with old toys, games, records (that's like a cd for you young ones) and a poster with all facts about 1957. It was a lot of fun for people to look at during the party.

 

[mdbucks]

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I got something clean when FIL turned 60 someone got him a NY times from the day he was born, I think it was a condensed version, but had headlines and what things cost coffee 20 cents....gasoline 35 cent.....kinda neat

 

[MandyH]

Thanks all... I'm starting to get some good ideas.