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Abba 70’s “You can dance” party and game review

Published: December 16, 2011 | Updated: November 11, 2019 | By Ashlee

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This disco inspired 70’s dance party is easy to retreat and so much fun. With some retro food and some free retro printables you can throw a disco dance party too!

disco party

Last Friday night I had an Abba “you can dance” party. I had SO much fun getting ready for the party.

Researching the right food for a 70’s party, creating the labels and of course practicing my dance moves! We broke out the Wii “Abba you can dance” a few days before the official party.

The game was a BLAST, the kids and I really enjoyed playing! Lego Boy has been singing “Money, Money, Money” non-stop for over a week now!

The Reader loved the Karaoke settings and is our official singer every time we play. The Destroying Angel isn’t very good at the game, but she sure loves trying!

Clearly Baby Boy (the only one who dressed up for the party – wearing his daddies authentic 70’s newborn outfit!) loved it.  Now I want to collect the rest of the UbiSoft dance games!

I had never played any of the wii dancing games before so I wasn’t sure what to expect.  They had a ton of different styles.  Some songs had one “dancer” that we followed with a figure on the side the “previewed” the next move so you could get more points.  

My favorite songs though were the ones with 4 dancers, each doing a different move.  Those are really fun when you have all 4 wii-motes being used.

disco ball cake

Our group was a ton of fun, my sister, sister in law, daughter, nieces, friends and their daughters…  and Baby Boy (our token male)!  It was a BLAST!  

We always have fun together, even just talking, but adding great food (if I do say so myself), fun music, dancing and prizes? A winning evening!

The food was  mixture of normal parties foods and 70’s party food items!  My Disco ball cake of course, and I HAD to make a bright rainbow jello mold!!!  Not the tastiest item, but GORGEOUS, and the wiggle was OH so fun!

abba disco party printables

My “disco” oreo balls, and of course fondue!  I went with a chocolate fondue (made from my ganache), it just seemed more party friendly than hot cheese!  

We had pound cake, cinnamon bears, marshmallows, orange slices (the candy kind) and Famous Amos cookies (the company started making cookies in the 70’s- seemed fitting!) And my 3 ingredient meatballs.

Cheese ball (Mmmmmm, roca blue is back on the shelves so go stock up for the year) and cocktail weenies wrapped in croissants!  

I debated putting them on sticks and sticking them into a cabbage (found a few 70’s picture that way) but in the end went with a slightly more picture friendly serving?

70s party food and printables

Watergate Salad!  There was actually a fascinating story online about how when Kraft started making pistachio pudding in the 70’s they created this “salad” recipe.  

Soon they started getting requests for the “Watergate salad” recipe, they had no idea what people were taking about.  To this day no one knows how the name came about!  The funny thing is it’s right on the pistachio pudding box and I had NEVER noticed before (pistachio is my favorite pudding).  

I was also sent this totally adorable disco ball for the party!  My kids LOVED  it and are so excited that we get to keep it, I think it’s going to find a home in my girls room (when I finally get around to cleaning it out and remodeling it for the girls).  

I also had some 70’s inspired colored nail polish for anyone interested, my daughter was in heaven, since I don’t usually let her paint her nails!  And finally prizes.  

Best way to “inspire” women my age to get up and dance!  A colorful version of my bearded beanie, some chevron winter scarfs and the clear favorite, a few of my knit finger-stache’s!

abba disco ball party, food and prizes

We had a GREAT night, and I loved having an excuse to throw a party.  If I had my way I’d throw parties every few months!  

Lucky for me it’s the holiday’s!  And then birthday season starts around here! Do you enjoy throwing parties?

Thank you to Ubisoft for sponsoring this blog post. Please click here to learn more about Ubisoft. I was selected for this sponsorship by the Clever Girls Collective. All opinions are my own.

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  1. Jennifer Rodriguez

    December 16, 2011 at 9:17 pm

    That looks like SO much fun! I can’t believe you gave those scarves away.. OK, the next time you plan one will you make sure I can come ;o) Love it all!!

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    • Ashlee

      January 8, 2012 at 10:54 pm

      We’ll make SURE your free for my next party!!! It was great spending time with you at the dinner too! Looks like you had fun at the art class, wish I could’ve joined you! Next time.

  2. Amy

    December 17, 2011 at 4:35 pm

    What a fun party Ashlee! I”m sure the food was so yummy and the dancing looked like a LOT of fun! 🙂 Next time I’m hoping I won’t be a crazy pants and miss it.
    xoxo,
    Amy

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    • Ashlee

      January 8, 2012 at 10:54 pm

      We totally missed it and you!!! Hope your holiday’s were fun even with the new surprise!!!

  3. ElisabethAndrée

    December 20, 2011 at 3:26 am

    This really looks like fun! You write about it so nicely, I enjoy reading it. Nice pictures too!

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    • Ashlee

      January 8, 2012 at 10:59 pm

      thanks so much! I just started working on my crochet project and am planning on posting it Thurs!

  4. heather

    December 20, 2011 at 5:35 pm

    That looked like such a fun party! Loved all your 70’s touches and food!!!! Those ABBA songs really get in your head, don’t they? They are so catchy!!

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    • Ashlee

      January 8, 2012 at 11:01 pm

      They sure do! Lego boy is STILL singing the songs! So am I for that matter, the party was so much fun! And I loved finding fun food ideas from the 70’s VERY interesting “research”

  5. Daniel

    June 8, 2014 at 9:23 am

    Your disco ball cake looks so delicious, Ashlee! What a fun party!

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    • Ashlee

      June 23, 2014 at 8:10 pm

      Thanks so much! It was a super fun party!

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