Olympic Party Ideas

Show off your strength and agility and celebrate at an Olympic party. A party with a purpose of fun is fabulous. Keep a score board and have awards ready. Either neck medals or some trophies – make them gold, silver or bronze. Show your country’s spirit and cheer for all the team mates at your Olympic theme party. With alternating winter and summer Olympic games, you will have the opportunity to celebrate every two years (or sooner if you wish to create your own tradition).

Show off your strength and agility and celebrate at an Olympic party. A party with a purpose of fun is fabulous. Keep a score board and have awards ready. Either neck medals or some trophies – make them gold, silver or bronze. Show your country’s spirit and cheer for all the team mates at your Olympic theme party. With alternating winter and summer Olympic games, you will have the opportunity to celebrate every two years (or sooner if you wish to create your own tradition). 

Olympic Party Invitations

When making invitations for your event, make sure to have the 5 iconic Olympic rings. On the invitation, include the title, “let the __th games begin”.

• Regular shaped invitations - show off the Olympic theme using the traditional shape. On the left side, have a lit torch and the right side have our party information. As well, around the invitation, draw lots of mini stars.

• Paper Olympic medals - layer gold, silver, and bronze paper to make invitations to look like medals. On the invitations, attach a small ribbon for an extra touch. 

Olympic Party Decorations

• Decorate with the color theme related to your country (e.g. Canada would use red and white)
• Make Olympic rings out of colored hula hoops 
• Hang country flags
• Make an Olympic torch from red and yellow tissue paper and metal holder
• Podium/Awards area - use a white sheet for a backdrop and hang a string of country flags across the top and attach a set of Olympic rings. On the ground, have three boxes of different heights that are strong enough to stand on and paint the number 1, 2, and 3. 
• Make balloon towers with the colors red, green, black, yellow and green for the Olympic rings
• Hang streamers 
• Have Mylar balloons saying “Olympic games” or “go for gold”
• Sports themed balloons
• Play music to set the mood
• Make a large results board out of bristol board - list the players names down the left and the games/activities across the right. From this you can be competitive and keep track of results to see who wins or be kind to everyone and put stickers for completed activities. 

Winter Olympics Party Games and Activities

• Skating - rent out an ice rink and do races, count how many laps people do, or just free stake. 

• Hockey - play a recreational game on ice, try street hockey, or play air hockey.

• Curling - rent a local curling club or take a group lesson to learn with your friends

• Skiing - go cross country skiing to see the countryside or go downhill skiing to see heights

• Snowboarding - go snowboarding on a local mountain or try out a snowboard toboggan 

• Luge (feet first) or skeleton (head first) - go tobogganing and see who can go the furthest or fastest.

• Bobsled - use toboggans that can fit multiple people

• Olympic ring toss - set up hula hoops looking like Olympic rings and throw snowballs through them

• Trophy painting

• Snowman building contest 

Summer Olympics Party Games and Activities

• Swimming - in a pool have fun races across the pool, in pool sports games, like volleyball, or be the last one standing, like colors or octopus.

• Kayak or canoe racing - this can be done in singles, pairs, or both

• Soft ball throw

• Bowling or lawn bowling

• Mini golf - set up a course even in your backyard. Use coffee tins and trim your grass short on the greens

• Biking race through a subdivision, then forest path to end up at a local park

• Potato sack race

• Wheelbarrow race

• Three legged race

• Trampoline agility

• Beach volleyball

• Badminton, tennis, or pickleball 

• Country rock painting - have smooth rocks and colored paint to make country flags (these make unique party favors)

• Hurdles - use mini plastic hurdles and cover the top with a pool noodle so no one gets hurt

• Weight lifting - use pool noodles to make a weight lifting bar with fake weights

• Disk throw - go to the park and set up a starting point and have the players throw frisbees and then play pass

• Olympic ring toss - set up hula hoops looking like Olympic rings and throw bean bags through them

Olympic Games Party Food

• Set up a food station with a sign saying “finish line treats” or “refuel station” 

• Fruit tray Olympic rings - on a tray place fruit in circles and put fruit dip and yogurt in bowls in the middle of the fruit. For blue use blueberries, for black use blackberries, for red use strawberries, for yellow use pineapple, and for green use green grapes. 

• Ceremony torch ice cream - use ice cream cones and red velvet and yellow mango ice cream in the middle to make the flame.

• Cookie medals - make sugar cookies and with using royal icing, make gold, silver, and bronze medals 

• Chocolate medals - hot glue ribbon to gold chocolate coins to make medals 

• Cupcakes with the Olympic ring colors

• Flag cake - make a cake that looks like the flag of your chosen country

• Individual pizzas with toppings that say the number “1” 

• French fries and onion rings

• Life savers candies of the Olympic ring colors

• Olympic pepper torch - in a container have strips of red and yellow bell peppers 

Olympic Party Favors

• Sweat bands
• Sunglasses
• Medal or trophy 
• “Go for gold” bag of chocolates 
• Stickers or tattoos for the Olympics or your country
• Pained country rocks from summer games activities