Over The Hill Party Ideas
For Milestone Birthdays

Check out our Over the Hill birthday party ideas in preparation of celebrating a milestone birthday--30th, 40th, 50, 60th, etc. Make sure your guest of honor has a good sense of humor, as the object of a traditional Over the Hill Party is sarcasm.


First of all, to help get you in the over the hill party frame of mind, here are some party supply ideas from which to select. If you would like a sneak preview, click on the links below to check them out and make a quick price comparison:

Over The Hill Celebration Supplies Over The Hill Decor & Partyware
Over The Hill Supplies
More Over The Hill Supplies


OVER THE HILL PARTY IDEAS FOR INVITATIONS

OVER THE HILL INVITATION - Cut 8 1/2" x 11" black card stock into two pieces. Write in white gel pen, "You Know You're Old When..." on the front. Glue pictures from magazine ads of walkers, denture cleaner, hair dye, laxatives, Depends, magnifying glass, etc. on front. Put party details noted below on back of card.

TOMBSTONE INVITATION #1 - Cut a gray tombstone-shaped invitation and type or write the following party info in black:

(Name's) over the hill and picking up speed.
A birthday celebration is just what she needs.
(Name) is turning (age)!
Please dress in dark clothing, as we will all will be in mourning.
Add date, time, location, and RSVP info.

TOMBSTONE INVITATION #2 - Same as above with slightly different wording:

Too many candles on the cake to count,
(Name's) over the hill and on his way out.
(Name) is turning (age)!
Please dress in dark clothing, as we will all will be in mourning.
Add date, time, location, and RSVP info.

TOMBSTONE INVITATION #3 - Same as above with slightly different wording:

(Name's) turning (age), which creates quite a fright.
So, we decided to plan a special birthday night.
Please dress in dark clothing, as we will all will be in mourning.
Add date, time, location, and RSVP info.


OVER THE HILL PARTY IDEAS FOR COSTUMES

The following Over the Hill party ideas are provided for costumes fitting this theme. You can have everyone come in dark clothing, suggesting a time of mourning. If you want the guest of honor to really stand out, have everyone come in white and have the guest of honor wear black. Another idea, is to have everyone dress like a senior citizen whose attire makes everyone say, "Oh, my gosh. Do you see what so-and-so has on?" Examples:

• Curlers and a hair net or curlers and a scarf.

• Wigs with "big" hair like they wore back in the 60's/70's.

• Thick support hose with roll-down garters that show beneath the dress.

• Plastic rain bonnet.

• Thick gold chains around a man's neck.

• Bad comb-over.

• Plaid sweater-vest with short-sleeved shirt.

• Bow tie.

The following Over the Hill party ideas are provided for decorating the party rooms, so you can create the proper ambiance for this theme.

• Black ravens and vultures perched around party room.

• Over the hill balloons intermixed with black helium balloons with black curling ribbons.

• Decorate room with lilies.

• Vases of carnations dyed black.

• Vases of dead flowers.

• Make road signs to hang on walls like Geezer Crossing; Senior Moment in Progress; DANGER, Falling Body Parts; Welcome to Over The Hillsville; Bumps, Sags & Wrinkles; Aged to Perfection; Golden Oldie; Stiff Joints Ahead; and Hot Flash Zone.

• Hang Hot Flash streamers around the party room to accent the ceiling, door and window frames, mantels, etc.

• Black tablecloths and Over the Hill plates and cups.

• Over the Hill confetti sprinkled on tables.

• Cover walls with black fabric or black plastic.

• Play organ music in the background.

• Hang an Over the Hill birthday banner in the front yard.

• Twist black and gray streamers throughout party room.

• Hang clothesline in party room and clothespin photos of birthday honoree from birth to the present.

• Decorate tables with Over the Hill balloon bouquets made inside of bedpans.

• Make gray tombstones that say "Over the Hill" and hang on walls.

• For the guest of honor, provide an inflatable walker or cane to get around the room.

Create special signs and hang on walls for guests to read using the following Over the Hill Party Ideas:

YOU KNOW YOU'RE OLD WHEN...

• You're back goes out more than you do.

• You look forward to an evening of doing nothing.

• Your ears have more hair than you head.

• You buy special tools and mega-magnifying mirrors to remove those pesky chin hairs.

• Your childhood toys sell on Ebay for big bucks.

• You find yourself telling people what a gallon of gas or loaf of bread used to cost.

• The only proposition you get these days is from AARP.

• Your joints alert you to upcoming weather conditions.

• People call at 9 p.m. and apologize for waking you up.

• You're on a first-name basis with your pharmacist.

• You find yourself comparing notes with friends about bowel movements.

• Your drug of preference is now Viagra.

• Your idea of a good time at the beach is walking around with a metal detector.

• After years of therapy, you have finally got your head together, but now your body is falling apart.

• It takes you twice as long to get ready, only to look half as good.

• You don't care where you wife goes, just as long as you don't have to go.

• You brag about your new lawn mower.

• You're little black book only has names ending with M.D.

• You find that you recognize the tunes being played in elevators.

• Getting lucky means you remember where you parked your car.

Create special signs and hang on walls for guests to read using the following Over the Hill Party Ideas:

DO YOU REMEMBER?

• Barbie making her debut
• Black and white televisions with channel knobs and no remote
• Bluechip Stamps
• Bubble gum and baseball card packs for $.05
• Candy cigarettes
• Chatty Cathy doll
• Derby Bowler hat
• Ed Sullivan show
• 11" wood thread spools
• Encyclopedias being sold door--to-door
  

• 45-RPM records
• Fuller Brush man
• Hires root beer mugs
• Icebox being the proper term for a refrigerator
• Instamatic camera
• Jukeboxes
• Jukeboxes on tables in restaurants
• Love Is Cartoons
• Macrame plant hanger
• Metal cookie cutters
  

• Metal hand egg beater
• Metal ice cube trays
• Metal wall telephone
• Metal-wheeled roller skates
• Milk glass lamp
• P.F. Flyers
• Party lines
• Peashooter
• Penny candy
• Pepsi Cola wood box crate
  

• Phonograph
• Roller skate key
• Roy Rogers lunch box
• Sleeve garter
• The milkman coming to your home
• $.29 per gallon gasoline
• Soda machines that dispensed glass Coke bottles
• Vinyl records
• Wash tub wringers
• Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored water inside

If you remembered 0-10 - You are young!
If you remembered 11-20 - You are middle age
If you remembered 21-30 - Time to lie about your age
If you remembered 31-40 - You are Over the Hill!

PRINTABLE GAMES - Here's a great site for some fun adult birthday party games to print and play. They are the perfect party game add-on!

PopShops™ affiliate stores

Here's an entire page with nothing but Over the Hill Party Games and Activities, such as:

• Travel Down Memory Lane
• Trivia Game
• Name That Tune

All you have to do is spend a few minutes trying to come up with foods that are black and you will soon discover there aren't many, or there aren't many that are appetizing. Therefore, I would recommend the following Over the Hill party ideas for party foods that are black and white.

FINGER SANDWICHES - Make crustless sandwiches on marble, white, and rye breads and cut into fourths.

BLACK AND WHITE PARTY BEANS - Serve black and/or white beans with shredded Monterey Jack cheese.

PASTA DISHES WITH WHITE SAUCE - Fettuccine Alfredo or pasta in white clam sauce.

PIZZA - Pizza with white cheese and black olives.

CHICKEN BREAST - Chicken breast strips with black bean dipping sauce.

HALIBUT - Grilled halibut with a few black char markings from the BBQ.

BLACK BEAN SOUP - Serve black bean soup with a dollop of sour cream.

SIDE DISHES - White potatoes or white rice.

FRUIT KABOBS - Blackberries and white grapes.

MUNCHIES - Bowls of black olives; cubes of white cheese with toothpicks; popcorn and chocolate covered popcorn; black and white Jelly Bellies or jellybeans.

CHEESECAKE - White cheesecake with drizzled chocolate sauce. For a combination of black and white, add dark chocolate chips.

BLACK & WHITE PARTY DESSERT

Ingredients
1 pkg. brownie mix
2 3.9-oz. pkgs. instant chocolate pudding mix
1 16-oz. pkg. frozen whipped topping, thawed
3 pieces of English Toffee (approx. 3-4 ounces)

Prepare brownie mix according to package directions. Cool.

Mix pudding according to package directions.

In a glass truffle bowl, layer in following order: 1/2 of brownies, crumbled; 1/2 of pudding; 1 piece of toffee, crushed; 1/2 of whipped topping.

Repeat layers. Refrigerate. Best if made day before. Top with crumbled toffee bar before serving.

CHOCOLATE FONDUE - Melt chocolate and have angel food cake cubes for dipping.

CHOCOLATE DIPPED STRAWBERRIES - Dip half the strawberry in dark chocolate and the other half in white chocolate. Be sure to cover up all the red.

DRINKS - Serve black coffee, Pepsi, Coke, or prune juice.

OVER THE HILL PARTY IDEAS FOR BIRTHDAY CAKES

The following Over the Hill party ideas are provided to help you create a cake befitting such a theme:

TOMBSTONE CAKE #1 - Make a chocolate cake using the Wilton tombstone cake pan. Frost it with gray frosting. Pipe on "Over the Hill" and the birthday name.

TOMBSTONE CAKE #2 - Make a chocolate cake using the Wilton tombstone cake pan. Frost it light gray. Airbrush top with slightly darker gray. Pipe out with star tip dark gray edge along top of cake. Pipe out "R.I.P. Here Lies Your Youth!" on the tombstone.

TOMBSTONE CUPCAKES - Make or buy chocolate cupcakes. Frost with chocolate frosting. Top with crushed Oreo cookies, minus the white frosting center. Push a Pepperidge Farm Milano cookie into each cupcake. Pipe "R.I.P." onto cookie.

OVER THE HILL PHOTO MEMORY CAKE - Make or buy a sheet cake and have a bakery put 10-12 photos of the honoree on the cake ranging from birth to the present.

GRIM REAPER CAKE - Make or buy a chocolate cake. Create 7 graves on the cake by piping out 7 "pieces" of green grass. Hollow out 1 grave (reserved for the honoree) and only pipe out grass around the edges. Push a Pepperidge Farm Milano cookie at the top of the 6 full graves. Pipe on "R.I.P." on each cookie. On the honoree's grave, put a plastic Grim Reaper at the top of the grave. Then add a Happy Birthday message on the cake.

Check out our visitor-submitted OVER THE HILL CAKE IDEAS photos and how-to tips.


OVER THE HILL PARTY IDEAS FOR FAVORS

The following Over the Hill party ideas are provided for favor suggestions. However, favors aren't necessary for an adult birthday party, but if you wish to give your guests a small parting gift, you might consider a black bag containing any combination of the following: an AARP application, baby food, Ben Gay, antacids, individual bags of prunes, etc.

Over The Hill Party Ideas

Do you have some favorite Over The Hill Party Ideas? Do tell! Please share all your party tips and ideas for invitations, decorations, games, etc.

Here's a wonderful assortment of Over The Hill Decor, Partyware & More.

Here's some great Over The Hill Supplies.

Here's some great Over the Hill birthday party supplies.


<