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College Party Checklist

College Party Checklist

Updated on: Feb 16, 2024

With all the stress that College brings it’s a good idea to let loose every once in a while! Whether you’re planning a huge party with many strangers or planning a small get together with a few college classmates, our college party checklist can help you make it a memorable night!

Below we provided a guide on how to plan a college party that covers everything from games to reasons why you should hire a bartender. The template will help you budget your time so you don’t have to be anxious about getting everything done at the last minute!

5 Reasons to Love our College Party Checklist

1. Automatic Timeline

How long does it take to plan a college party, you ask? Since everyone has their own specific situations and timeframes we created a checklist that will help you countdown the days till the day of the college party. With our college party checklist, you don’t have to feel anxious and behind from day one like other checklists. All you have to do is add the day you started planning the college party, along with what day you’ll be holding it, and it will automatically assign due dates to your task! This will help you plan and make sure you have everything taken care of in time to let loose and relax from college stress!

2. Customizable College Party task

This is no generic party planning guideline to plan and host a great college party. Instead, we created a list of ideas that can be incorporated into your college party checklist.

3. Visuals

Our college party checklist is created to help you easily see what tasks need to get done, and which should have higher priority. For instance, booking a DJ for the party should be a top priority but with the challenges, life throws at us we may forget to get it done. Our checklist will

  • Found a DJ for the college party? Check the box in the row for choosing a venue, and it will turn green. This helps you visually spot which tasks are still outstanding.
  • Did life throw a challenge in your way? When the task gets close to the due date it will turn yellow. When a task passes its due date it will notify you by turning red which will help you prioritize tasks.

4. Shareable!

If you are planning a kickback or a huge college party it is still difficult to plan things on your own. We suggest that you plan with your college friends to get things set up for the day of the party. If you are planning with college friends or other acquaintances our checklist makes things easy to collaborate. Our checklist template can be shared with anyone through Google Drive. Since it can be worked simultaneously online everyone will be on the same page!

5. Helpful Links

The college party checklist template not only helps with budgeting your time but has useful links to resources that will help you plan your party. We provided resources to help you find the right time to have the party find the right DJ for the event. We have also provided links to supplies, a budget worksheet, and links to fun party tips and ideas. These resources will help you plan the best college party!

How to Use our College Party Checklist

Simply click the download button below to get started. We have created a step-by-step guide to take you through using our checklists: how to share your checklists with fellow planners, how to add/edit/delete tasks, how to sort/filter/reorder tasks and more.

College Party Checklist: Conclusion

Easy Event Planning believes that planning a college party should be simple and easy for the host! Our customizable college party checklist template will help to make sure that you will have everything ready before the day of the event. Unlike other checklists that set certain tasks, ours gives you the freedom to add or take out any task to fit your plans. If you enjoy using our college party checklist then you will also find our other event planning tools amazing as well!


Written by Bryk Li