5 Cheap and Easy Ways to Decorate for Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras is celebrated in New Orleans with loud music and colorful parades. Many people have parties for Mardi Gras. Here are five different ideas on cheap and easy decorating for Mardi Gras so you can bring a little parade to your party.

Decorating Idea 1 - You can buy a cheap package of Mardi Gras beads from most craft stores, dollar stores, and some department stores like Wal-Mart and Target or online from Amazon.com. Mardi Gras beads are easy to use decorations as you can hang them from ceiling fans, mantles, and door ways. Loop the beads around each other like rubber bands and use them as banners to string across the room and line windows and door frames.

Decorating Idea 2 - Balloons are a requirement for any great party. Purple, gold, and green balloons are cheap and easy decorations for Mardi Gras. You can blow up sets of three in purple, gold, and green, tie them together, and tape them the corners of door frames, window frames, and rooms. You can buy balloons from craft stores, dollar stores, party supplies stores, department stores like Wal-Mart and Target, and online from Amazon.com.

Decorating Idea 3 - Craft stores and some department stores also sell cheap, plastic feathers that you can glue into fan shapes onto cardboard or poster board backing. Trim the cardboard or poster board so that it's not visible behind the feathers. Tape the feather fans onto the corners of doorways and windows and onto walls like a picture.

Decorating Idea 4 - An easy way to add a theme to a party is to buy matching themed plastic cups, plates, and napkins. Many places sell Mardi Gras themed party supplies for cheap such as craft stores, dollar stores, party supplies stores, department stores like Wal-Mart, Target, K-Mart, and online at Amazon.com.

Decorating Idea 5 - Another cheap and easy way to decorate for Mardi Gras is to buy a couple toy Mardi Gras masks and tape them on to your purple, gold, and green balloons, your feather fans, and hang them from your bead banners with ribbon. You can get the Mardi Gras masks from toy stores, craft stores, party supplies stores or any place selling seasonal things such as department stores like Wal-Mart, Target, and Amazon.com. You can also make your own from construction paper and those plastic feathers. Simply cut out eye mask shapes from green, purple, and yellow construction paper and glue on matching and contrasting feathers.