Color Party

Indian culture has a lot of beautiful traditions, and one of my favorites is part their Spring celebration- Holi- where they throw colored powdered at each other. American culture has recently appropriated this VERY successfully with "Color Runs", but some of us...ummm... don't like to run...

Our color party lasted 2 days with a group of my friends during the day, and a group of my husband's friends the following night. I purchased a couple packs of holi color powder/rangoli powder:

While we did put the bags out, i also filled close to 100 shot glasses with powder and displayed them on a plastic 3 tier server for easy throwing. Invitations were tie dye, and guests were advised to wear white or clothes they didn't mind ruining. I actually thought the powders looked better on brightly colored clothing than the white!

 It was summer so we had bocce ball, badminton, and water guns filled with water color available. We also had a clothesline of canvases where you could "paint" with the water guns. *Note, if you provide water guns, grown men will war with water guns.

one friend came in a hazmat suit!

I was about 5 months pregnant and wore a (cheap, throw away) chiffon dress for the party. I had to convince people to include me in the activities, but eventually, i was colorful too!