Hobbies And Interests
Blast from the Past Costume Contest
Students can dress up in iconic costumes from a particular decade like the 1920s or 1950s. This allows the students to display some creativity, and it breaks the ice because it gives everyone something to talk about at the dance. Prizes can be awarded for best costume, and the music can be themed to fit the particular decade. For example, a 1950s sock hop theme could play a lot of Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry records and maybe give out a copy of "Rebel Without a Cause" for the best costume winner.
Dance Dance Revolution
Dance Dance Revolution is a popular fitness video game that allows participants to stand on a dance platform and sync up their dance steps to a variety of musical styles using a video screen and highlighted sections of the dance platform itself that guide you where to step. A Dance Dance Revolution contest would be more relevant to contemporary high school kids than slow dancing to a Luther Vandross song.
American Idol karaoke
American Idol style karaoke is much like regular karaoke except that students can also fill out ballots for fun categories, such as funniest performance, best duet and future Superstar, that are tallied up and the winners announced at the end of the night. Categories should be predetermined by teachers and chaperones to avoid potentially inappropriate write-in ballots.