Homecoming Themes and Ideas

Homecoming for college students is a very big deal. Colleges love advertising the fact that homecoming is great on their campus and a great way for students to remember their college years. Homecoming is a great way for students to meet up again with their friends and professors from college and another chance to meet up and shoot the breeze.

There are several ways that universities and some high schools plan Homecoming. The biggest and most popular way of celebrating the day is centered on a huge sporting event, usually a home football game. Football games attract large crowds and large amounts of the student body. Most universities reserve an unusually large number of tickets for the homecoming game so that the stadium can accompany all of the alumni students who want to attend the event. The University usually schedules a team to play on their schedule the day of homecoming that they know they will probably win. Students like celebrating a win and not a loss; hence the university team usually plays a division II team.

Another homecoming idea is a parade is usually thrown for the alumni. The biggest problem with this idea is that the student body usually isn't that enthusiastic about a parade and very few students actually show up to watch it unfold.

Casino style atmosphere game night. One of the more intriguing and interesting home coming ideas that my own university threw was modeling the night after Vegas. Using the "What happens in Vegas comes to Binghamton slogan" my university created the slogan "What happens in Vegas comes to Binghamton which was rather catchy I must admit. Students were given monopoly money with each person receiving the same value. Then various tables were set up in which students could "buy in" for a certain amount of their monopoly money. Casino tables such as blackjack, no limit hold'em, hold em, wheel of fortune and roulette were set up and the atmosphere in the room was absolutely great. The large room in the union building for students was filled to max capacity which was at least 200 or more students at any given point in time in the night.

Students came in and out at various times of the night and if a student ran out of monopoly money then they either had to borrow money from a friend or just watch people play. The monopoly money was used to buy raffle tickets. Thus, the more money a person had the more raffle tickets that could be handed out. Great prizes were given out which was totally unexpected like an Ipod, Xbox, sound system and more. Cocktail drinks were also served that did not contain alcohol such as pinacoladas without alcohol and Shirley Temples.