Celebrate National Pizza Party Day!

Here’s How to Plan the Perfect Pizza Party

Pizza parties are not just for kids’ birthday parties. Any excuse can be used to plan the perfect pizza party, including celebrating National Pizza Party Day.

What and When Is National Pizza Party Day?

Every year, the third Friday in May is National Pizza Party Day. This celebration brings family and friends together to enjoy one of everyone’s favorite foods—pizza. National Pizza Party Day was created to celebrate not only the pizza but also as a great excuse to host a party.

Planning and Ideas for a Pizza Party

Whether planning a pizza party for children and adults or an adult-only party, one of the best pizza party ideas is making your own pizzas. This way, everyone can make a personalized pizza with their favorite toppings. Of course, you will also want a pizza stone or pizza oven for baking the pizzas.

#1. Send out pizza party invitations.

You can send emails, text messages, or go old-fashioned and mail invitations. Just make sure to ask for an RSVP.

#2. Transform your home into an Italian bistro.

Get different pizza party decorations, table cloths, wine bottle candle holders, and other things that will make your guests feel like they are walking into an Italian bistro. You can also play Italian music in the background.

#3. Plan your pizza party menu.

Pizza dough

You will need plenty of pizza dough, sauce, cheeses, and toppings. You can pre-slice veggies, cook meats, and shred cheese ahead of time. You can choose to make your own dough a few days before the party or get pre-made dough ready to toss or roll out.

You should also plan on having a few sides to accompany the pizzas. For instance, freshly baked garlic bread, an Italian pasta salad, or a salad with Italian dressing are excellent options. Another popular side you could have is an antipasto platter with Italian meats, different cheeses, olives, and veggies.

Remember to finish your pizza party menu with some dessert items. You could let your guests make dessert pizzas or have a dessert tray with popular Italian desserts, such as panna cotta, tiramisu, and cannolis.

#4. Have Italian drinks available for your guests.

Italian wines pair well with different pizza combinations. There are also Italian dessert wines that pair well with sweeter treats. For your non-wine-drinking guests, you could have popular adult Italian spirits available, such as Limoncello, Amaretto, Grappa, and Campari. Finally, Italian sodas are the perfect non-alcoholic beverage for your pizza party. 

#5. Plan pizza party games.

Having some fun pizza party games to play will make your party a hit. Games should be geared toward different ages. For example, you could play “Pin the Pepperoni on the Pizza” with kids. Another fun game you can play is blind tasting pizza by blindfolding guests. Have them take a bite of a pizza and guess the ingredients.

If you want to test your guests’ knowledge of pizza, make a pizza trivia game. For example, you can ask questions relating to the history of pizza, where different pizzas came from, and who invented Hawaiian pizza.

#6. Learn to speak Italian.

Write down different words in English on one side and write the Italian word on the back of flashcards. Everyone draws a card and then attempts to say the word in Italian. For instance, “pizza” is pronounced almost identical in both languages. However, “pizza party” in Italian is “pizzata.”

#7. Play Italian-themed movies.

Some of the top Italian-themed movies you may want to play at your pizza party are Roman Holiday, The Godfather, The Postman, Pane e Tulipani (Bread and Tulips), and Life Is Beautiful.

Have a Pizza Party Anytime

Celebrating National Pizza Party Day is just one day out of the year. Yet, you can have a pizza party anytime you want when you have an outdoor pizza oven from Fontana Forni. Check out our different models or contact us at 877-842-9822 today!Â