How to Host a Vision Board Party
Last year I planned a Vision Board for myself using a combination of Pinterest and a custom Notion dashboard with views for each category I had goals in (and I actually used it!).
I liked it so much, I decided to do it again — but this year I'm hosting a Vision Board party with a few friends, a champagne toast, plenty of snacks, and a table of craft supplies to build our physical Vision Boards with. Plus, I designed a 2027 Bingo Card that each person can add their own milestones or goals to and track throughout the year.
This post covers how I'm setting the party up, how the evening will run, and how the Bingo Card fits in. You don't have to be in the room for any of it. If you want to host your own, borrow the whole plan. If you'd rather do this on your own, the Bingo Card and my Planning Guide are free downloads at the end.
Why I'm keeping it small
To me, the best part of a Vision Board party is sharing your ideas and plans with each other. I've chosen to keep my party small because, although I want us all to have a champagne toast and share a little about what we're leaving behind, what we're bringing with us, and what we hope to do that's new, I wanted to make sure the group I invited would feel comfortable doing that and also still have time to get to the actual Vision Board building part!
Also, I'm providing all the supplies (plus snacks, and drinks). This just seemed easiest. Guests only need to bring their own posterboard or journal to build their Vision Board. Undoubtedly, some will bring specific things they want to include based on their goals, but that's totally optional.
A Pinterest board and a personal theme
My advice: start a private Pinterest board well before the event and save anything that makes you want to do something. Places to visit, room decor, outfits, books, quotes, you name it. There's no need to sort it yet. The point is to arrive with raw material instead of staring at a blank poster board. I'm building mine now and will suggest the group do the same.
The other thing to land on is a personal theme for your year: one sentence about what the year is for, lined up with your goals. It gives you something to check every goal against: does this fit the year I'm trying to have? Mine last year was "2026 is a stabilize + build year." I'm building on that for 2027. I'm not asking anyone to bring a theme or design one for the party. It's a theme for your year, and you decide it.
I'm also sending a Planning Guide to everyone who will be attending. It asks why you want a goal, whether it fits the life you already have, and what the minimum, target, and dream versions look like, then asks for a first step and a date. I'm also making this available to you (it's one of the downloads at the end of this article).
Setting up the room
The build table. I plan to use my dining table is for the actual board building. You could put all the craft supplies on it too, but I want everyone to have room to build and lay out their items without being cramped on top of each other.
The craft table. A separate table holds the supplies: magazines, scissors, washi tape, stickers, glue sticks, and ephemera. Ephemera is the fun part, so raid your drawers for old tickets, postcards, a receipt from a very good dinner, and wrapping paper you were too fond of to throw out. Buy a bunch of different magazines (you could probably snag a bunch of old ones from your dentist or hair salon!) because those are a great resource for some funky images and letter cut-outs.
Food and drinks. I'll be setting this up on a kitchen counter, away from both tables. I'm opting for champagne (and probably some sodas or other non-alcoholic beverages) and simple party food, not a meal.
The decor. Since my party is happening right after Christmas, I'll still have all my Christmas decor up, plus adding a disco ball and some confetti, balloons, and streamers. You could choose pretty much any theme, or even have none at all — just getting together over the crafts and light snacks would be a lot of fun without additional decor!
How the evening runs
This is not an event with a strict schedule, but I plan to follow roughly this order of events:
Arrival. While people are arriving is a great time to start on the snacks and chat. Maybe even peruse the craft table to start planning what you'll need.
Cheers. Once everyone's arrived, we'll go round-robin and say what we're taking from 2026 into 2027, what we're leaving behind, and one new thing we're planning for 2027.
Fill in the Bingo Card. Everyone pulls up their Planning Guide and/or Pinterest board and uses it to write their squares. This takes the longest, because writing a goal in a box means you've decided on it.
Make the board. Start adding and arranging your images, stickers, embellishments however you want! You could even add the Bingo Card to the board, or keep it separate.
Show and tell. This is optional, but I think it would be fun to have everyone walk the group through what they made and what's on it (skipping over anything you feel is too personal).
The Bingo Card sits in the middle of the evening on purpose. It turns a pile of Pinterest saves into specific goals before anyone starts gluing, so the board ends up being about what you're actually going to do.
The Bingo Card
A Vision Board is good at mood and bad at specifics. You can glue down a picture of a beach and still have no idea what you're doing about it in March. The Bingo Card is where the vague stuff becomes a short list.
It's a 5x5 grid with a column for each area of life: Fun, Self, Home, Health, and Money. The center square is a free space, so you fill in 24 goals.
Use the Planning Guide or your Pinterest board as the source. Scroll through, notice what you keep saving, and turn the repeats into squares.
Then it's yours to run. Keep the card on your board, on the fridge, or inside a planner. Cross off squares as they happen and aim for a line, or go for blackout if you're feeling super confident.
Physical board, Notion, or both
They do different jobs. A physical board is a visual reminder of what you said you wanted. A Notion database is where the detail lives: each category, the goals under it, the steps, and where each one stands. At the party we're making physical boards. I'll also rebuild my Notion dashboard from last year, which tracked every category.
The Bingo Card sits between the two. It's short enough to keep on the board and specific enough to copy into a database later.
Note: if you're not a Notion user, you could do pretty much the same thing with a digital or physical journal.
After the party
The board and the card only work if you see them. Hang the board somewhere you pass every day, and put the Bingo Card where you'd notice a square you could cross off, like the fridge or the front of a planner.
If you're tracking in Notion or a notebook, copy the squares over within a week, while you still remember what you meant by them.
The small group helps here. Put a date on the calendar for a check-in with the same people, even if it's only a group text asking who crossed something off. A goal other people know about is harder to drop.
If you choose to do it solo
You don't need to host a party to make a Vision Board. You can follow most of the same steps: make your Pinterest board, print the Planning Guide and Bingo Card, and set aside an afternoon with something good to drink. Then pick your theme, fill in the Bingo Card from your saves, then make a board or build your tracker if you want one.
Get the Bingo Card and the Planning Guide
The Bingo Card is a free download and it comes in four colors: sage, lavender, blush, and blue. The categories are printed on it and the squares are blank. Print it at half-letter or letter size, whichever you prefer, on cardstock if you have some, then fill it in with a pen.
The 2027 Vision Board Planning Guide is free too. It has questions for pressure-testing a goal before it goes on your board: why you want it, whether it fits your life, and what the minimum, target, and dream versions look like.
If you prefer to go digital, you can add either one to your digital planner, like Goodnotes.
Happy planning!
A Vision Board is good at mood and bad at specifics. This pack is the specifics.
I made it for my own Vision Board party, and it works just as well if you’re doing this alone at the kitchen table.
What’s inside
The 2027 Vision Board Planning Guide. Questions to run each goal through before it earns a spot on your board: why you want it, whether it fits the life you already have, and what the minimum, target, and dream versions look like. It ends with a first step and a date.
The 2027 Bingo Cards. A 5x5 card with columns for Fun, Self, Home, Health, and Money and a free space in the middle, which leaves 24 squares for goals. It comes in four colors: sage, lavender, blush, and blue. The squares are blank, so you decide what goes in them.
How to use it
Pick your squares from your Pinterest board or the Planning Guide. Print the Bingo Card at half-letter or letter size (cardstock if you have it) and fill it in with a pen. If you’d rather go digital, add either file to a planner like Goodnotes. Keep the card on your Vision Board, the fridge, or in your planner, and cross off squares as they happen.
Hosting your own party? The blog post walks through the whole setup: https://www.storysippers.com/blog/hosting-a-vision-board-party
What you get: one zipped file with the Planning Guide and the Bingo Cards, both as PDFs.
