10 Tips To Host Your Own Taylor Swift Eras Tour Party At Home
Secured your Era’s tour ticket and getting over excited already? Crying because you haven’t but, you still want the fun? Wanting to relive the magic of the show(s) you attended? You’ve come to the right place.
I’m here to show you how to hold your very own Era’s tour from the comfort of your own home. I’m talking karaoke, dance moves, a stage, the lot! Baby, let the games begin…
UPDATE!
But first, BIG NEWS, we have had amazing feedback about our Taylor Swift games and so we have now released our official Taylor Swift puzzle book!!!
This is the ultimate puzzle adventure for Swifties of all ages!
This meticulously crafted puzzle book is a celebration of Taylor's illustrious career, featuring 9 different games and a whopping 50 puzzles. The book also includes games and puzzles from the latest Tortured Poets Department. Making this the ONLY Taylor activity book to feature the latest era!
Including a Trivia Game, Finish the Lyrics, and an Ultimate Swift quiz that’ll test your knowledge of Taylor's discography and personal milestones. coupled with puzzles that are perfect to pass the time and keep your mind active. Which includes crosswords, word searches for every Taylor era, code breakers which get more and more difficult and maze challenges.
What's Included:
12x CODE BREAKERS
2x CROSSWORDS
1x TRUE OR FALSE TRIVIA GAME
16x MAZE CHALLENGES
11x WORD SEARCHES
20 Round FINISH THE LYRIC
4 Round ULTIMATE QUIZ
20 Round WORD SCRAMBLE
10 round EMOJI PICTIONARY
Made BY Swifties FOR Swifties. So tell me... Are you ready for it?
Now back to the party tips…
#1 The Invites
No tour is complete without a ticket! By now we’ve all experienced the pain, or triumph of trying to get an Era’s tour ticket (we’re looking at you Ticketmaster)!
Luckily I’ve made it easy for your friends to secure a ticket to your Era’s tour with ticket invites in the ultimate Era’s tour party pack.
What’s Included
3x styles of customisable Taylor Swift tickets/invites
3x styles of Taylor Swift bunting ready to print, fold, and hang
2x Ready to print Taylor Swift masks
16x Photo props ready to print
17x Toppers for decorating rooms or garnishing food and drink
Women's style guide - How to dress for ever Taylor Swift Era with recommended products and inspiration
Men's style guide - How to dress for every Taylor Swift Era with recommended products and outfit inspiration
The ultimate Taylor Swift Quiz - 4 rounds of questions including a photo round, general knowledge round, Taylor's personal life round and a Taylor Swift Music round to test your Taylor Swift and Speak Now knowledge
Finish the lyric game
3x Taylor Swift word searches
A Taylor Swift brain teasing crossword
2x Taylor Swift code breakers - can you crack the codes?
2x Taylor Swift Maze Challenges
8x rounds of Find Taylor - How quick can you find the hidden Taylor Swift?
Word Scramble! Unscramble the Taylor Swift anagrams
2x Taylor Swift themed non-alcoholic drink recipes
4x Taylor Swift themed cocktail recipes
If it’s not the entire pack you’re after and just want the tickets, well you can do so right here on Smartblend below.
Once downloaded just add the date, time and location of your Era’s party to the file and then you can either email/message or print these out for your friends.
Going for the physical option?
You’ll need some good card make sure your printer can use card first though.
Not only are these tickets a lovely addition to your home party, but they make the perfect keepsake for your guests. You could even go the extra mile and laminate them so they’ll last forever.
And if you are lucky enough to be going to the Eras tour, and your purchasing tickets for someone's birthday or Christmas. These tickets make the perfect addition to announce that they're going to see Taylor live.
Instead of just saying "I got you Taylor Swift Tickets" make a spectacle of it, print these of and put in the ACTUAL location, seats, section, and row and wrap it up for them.
#2 Pre-Party
What’s an Era’s tour without friendship bracelets? Why not get crafty before the party and make a bracelet for everyone on your guestlist, even better, why not get all your friends round for a bracelet making pre-party?
This is the one I’ll be using
Make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it
…I don’t recommend eating bracelets unless you loop these edible necklaces
#3 The Setlist
The setlist is no secret, at the time of writing this Taylor only has 11 shows of her US leg left! That’s not to say it won’t change though. I mean, in total she’s going to be doing 131 shows across 5 continents, she might want to swich some things up!!
Each night is around 3 hours 15 mins long with a whopping 44 songs split into 10 eras, wowie - I’m tired just writing that!
Where to find the songs
Where can I find the Taylor Swift Era’s setlist? I’m glad asked, personally, I like this on Spotify. I won’t lie, I listen to it A LOT; when I’m working, when I’m cleaning, when I’m showering (some of best performances), heck I may as well just say, when I’m awake (don’t worry, I skip the stolen versions)!
YouTube
I’ve also managed to find the Taylor Swift Eras tour setlist on YouTube, check out the below playlist for the YouTube version which consists of 43 songs in order.
The Surprise Songs
As we all probably know by now, Taylor also performs two surprise songs every night, she does both of these acoustically, one on the piano and one on the guitar.
Be sure to add your own surprise songs with your setlist. How about performing these yourself with your very own Karaoke Era?
#4 Karaoke
*This could be you in your lounge.
I get it, for some people karaoke may not sound like your cup of tea but, come on kids, singing is FUN!
I mean it though, I recently went to a Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) release night party here in Manchester (yes, it was as amazing as it sounds), they had 3 rooms and the karaoke room had the best vibes by far – what could be better than an entire room of people who all love the same artist signing or, in my case screeching, along with each other?
Sure, not all of us can sing well, me included, but when you’re surrounded by your friends at an at home Era’s tour party, who cares? I know I don’t!
Here’s a fab karaoke machine if you don’t already have one.
Starter Karaoke Machine
The reason I love this karaoke machine is that it’s the perfect in-between. It’s not so cheap and low budget that you’ll question why the hell you wasted your money in the first place.
But it’s not so high end that you feel like you need to become a professional singer just to make it worth the value.
It’s right in the middle. A powerful piece of kit but still very much something that you’ll only whip out a couple of times a year.
You can of course YouTube your favourite Taylor song and add Karaoke to the end and sing so loud you wont need a karaoke machine.
#5 The Dance Moves
There’s no rules here, you groove the way you want to groove! Although we can’t forget Mikael Arellano’s ICONIC Bejewelled dance routine so remember to wiggle those fingers to Shimmer!
Got a spare chair? Why not give it your best Vigilante Shit moves! Got it in you to recreate the Delicate dance? Go for it!
Why not make up your own dance routine? You never know, you could be like Mikael and get to see Taylor herself dance them on stage!
#6 The Stage
The Era’s tour stage is HUGE so unless you have the space, it’s unlikely you’ll be able to recreate it. What you can do is bring the atmosphere to your house!
I’m a mirrorball
See the lights
Let’s hear it for the band
#7 What to wear
With so many era’s to choose from you’re spoilt for choice on what to wear to an Era’s tour party, luckily, I’ve done the hard work for you with my pick for each Era.
Eras Tour Outfit Ideas For Girls
#8 Taylor Swift Food and Drink
Food wise, I would get all your favourite savoury snacks, I’ll be getting crisps, pretzels, cheese and onion rolls (yep, I’m a classic vegetarian).
Just check out some of the recipes here on Smartblend if you’re in need of inspiration.
For those sweet treats, I’ll be putting my oven, and baking skills, to the test by whipping up some cupcakes. I’m going to keep the buttercream/frosting simple and then I’m planning on going WILD with edible glitter, I’ll be using the Monégasque one which you can find on Amazon;
Monégasque
luckily for you, and me, they have loads of colours and there’s one for every era!!! I’m also going to add some cake toppers from the Era’s Tour party pack which you can find below currently on offer;
#9 Games
We can’t all have the stamina of Taylor Swift and sing for over 3 hours, you’ll need breaks! Our Era’s Tour Party Pack has you covered with a quiz, finish the lyric (I’ll give you bonus points for singing), crosswords, code breakers and more! Once again, you can find the party pack here.
The games you get in that pack are
The ultimate Taylor Swift Quiz - 4 rounds of questions including a photo round, general knowledge round, Taylor's personal life round and a Taylor Swift Music round to test your Taylor Swift and Speak Now knowledge
Finish the lyric game
3x Taylor Swift word searches
A Taylor Swift brain teasing crossword
2x Taylor Swift code breakers - can you crack the codes?
2x Taylor Swift Maze Challenges
8x rounds of Find Taylor - How quick can you find the hidden Taylor Swift?
Word Scramble! Unscramble the Taylor Swift anagrams
Here’s a little taste.
Five celebrities are rocking the red carpet, sporting the ever so classic little black dress. Can you identify which celebrity is Taylor Swift? Bonus points if you can name ALL the celebs.
Round 2, Taylor Swift has gone for a casual bike ride along with 3 other celebrities. Can you tell me which one is the actual Taylor Swift?
Once again, bonus points if you can name all the celebrities.
Finally, let’s do some brain teasing…
Did you get the code? What about the Taylors?
#10 Long Live….the party
You’re going to be having an epic night but don’t forget to take some pictures of all your guests, green room style. You’ll need a backdrop for your pictures and seeing as this is the Era’s tour why not get different coloured tassel curtains for each Era and hang them in separate doorways/walls?
Fearless
Speak Now
Reputation
Folklore
Evermore
Midnights
Capture the moment
Obviously you’ll need a camera as well, I’m going to go for a polaroid or instax one and with whatever ones are left behind I’ll be adding them all to a frame.
Instax Mini
Instax Film
Polaroid Now+ Gen 2 Instant Camera
Polaroid Film
All that’s let to do now is to actually throw your Era’s tour at home! I hope you have the time of your life oh, and, when your friends are going wild asking how you put on the BEST party ever, please tell them my name.
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Hi, I’m Hannah, part-timer of Smartblend and self proclaimed Swiftie. If you liked this then you’re in luck, I’ve penned a few more articles here on Smartblend which you can find (mainly) under the Swiftie tag.
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