Idea's for a BBQ.?!
Answers: Once a year at Whit Bank Holiday we hold a BBQ for friends and Family. We always get alot of people attending. We live in North Cornwall and most people travel down for the weekend from the midlands. We have tents and bodies all over the place. Any Serious idea's how to make it special.
- Fireworks
- Bonfire with roasting marshmallows
- Live-Music
- Scavenger Hunt
- Give everyone a disposable camera to capture memories
- Set up a movie projector outside your house to watch an old classic movie outside
- Have some draw charactures
- Have outdoors games like three-legged race, or an egg toss
- Play football
- Fly kites
- Have a trampoline or bouncy castle for the kids
- Make lots of great food
- Hope for sun!
Why not have a whip round and hire a local band
do it in summer on a sunny day
Fireworks?
A band?
A whole spit roasted hog?
Traditional meats - venison, rabbit, pigeon, pheasent, etc?
Ye olde fair games with small prizes?
Homemade hot spiced wine?
A puppet show for the kids?
A pie baking contest?
Music is always a big plus, but another good idea would be to have a slide show of all the friends and family fun from past years. Just have it on the side for people to watch at their leisure, but make sure they are nice large pics projected on a screen or maybe the wall of one of the tents.
(also maybe raffles, beer and wine tent, or possibly a magic show for the kids)
Whit-sun bank holiday is a very busy time of the year so there are many thousands of visitors (dare I say grockles!) who flood the towns, villages and beaches. Do you hold your BBQ parties on the beach or on your own land?
If it is on your land you could have a hog roast or have lots of tables covered with white sheets as tablecloths and decorate them with flower chains, lovely old china and plenty of candles. Bowls of crisp salad, fresh fruit and freshly baked bread with dishes of cheese, olives and fish. Then the meat etc for the actual barbecue. Lashings of beer, wine and soft drinks. Good old fashioned folk music and your friends, what could be better!