Louisiana’s Hottest Mardi Gras Throws for 2025

The hottest throws at Mardi Gras parades include beautiful beads and other new treasures. What are the hottest items for Mardi Gras parades this year? We asked a professional in the business about what items we were going to be lucky enough to catch this year.

The differing types of items thrown at Mardi Gras parades include the ever-popular extra-large, extra-long beads, but the landscape now includes tons of new items that have gained in popularity in recent years.

When speaking to the Bead King, Craign Spadoni, the owner of Bead Busters, says some items, besides beads, are flying off their shelves.

#10 Footballs Of Any Size Will Be Thown Often This Year

Footballs are a hot item for Mardi Gras parades this year. They are fun to throw at anyone at a parade. They sail through the air beautifully.

Footballs are one of the most coveted throws that you can catch when you're at a parade.

Check out all the different shapes and sizes. Just remember, Mardi Gras is supposed to be for the kids; don't know a kid down for a football! 😂

#9  You Will Get The Chance To Catch Plush King Cake Throws

This is the king cake that lasts all year long! Check out these plush king cakes you will see being thrown at every parade this year!

If you have tried so hard to get one this year, you are not alone but don't worry because plenty of these is being thrown.

Also, these plush, stuffed king cakes are one of the hottest items being thrown by revelers occupying floats for the parades.

#8  Plenty Of Giant Multi-Colored Chickens Will Be Thrown Into Crowds

Chickens that are giant, glittered-up, and colored will be thrown into the crowds at Mardi Gras parades this season. You are going to see these big birds 🐔 everywhere.

Craig Spadoni, owner of Bead Busters, says these are hot items everyone wants this year.

He says they make a deafening, annoying noise when you squeeze them. This is perfect to annoy your enemies!

#7  Chances Are Great You'll Catch a Light-Up Football

Footballs will be flying through the air, and your job will be intercepting them.

Get your skills in order, and be ready to go the distance to grab one of the lighted footballs because tons will be thrown from floats this year.

These light-up footballs are a massive catch for this year! You'll have to battle the people around you, but this treasure is worth it!

#6  Light-Up Rubber Chickens Will Be Flying Through The Air

Watch for light-up rubber chickens that scream sailing through the air at you while you are at a Mardi Gras parade!! They are super popular this year. Make sure you can try to catch one.

Chickens are a hot commodity everywhere this year. In addition to the likelihood that you will catch one of these this year, you will be happy to know they make an annoying sound that will make your boss crazy if you bring this thing to work. 😝😆

Hey, what could be better than a rubber chicken that lights up? That's an epic catch at Mardi Gras this year.

#5  Giant Frisbees Will Be Flying In Your Direction At Parades

It's a bird, it's a plane, awww, heck know it's a giant frisbee soaring through the crowd just waiting for you to catch it.

Spadoni says this year, again, the giant frisbees are a hot item everyone has been buying to pack their floats.

If you're able to catch one of the many giant frisbees being thrown this year, you're going to be a huge hit with your kids.

#4  Shrilling Pigs Will Be Something You'll Get A Chance To Catch This Year

These pigs are one of the year's hottest items at Mardi Gras parades. Everyone wants to catch one of these.

Do pigs fly? Why, yes, yes they do, and you will see them sailing through the air heading for you. Tons of them have been bought this year.

You are probably hoping to catch one, and your odds are great because while these pigs don't have wings, they are flying off the shelves at Bead Busters.

#3  Who Is Going To Catch A Basketball? YOU!

Hot, hot, hot this year are basketballs. You have a huge chance of working someone on a Mardi Gras float to throw you a basketball.

Basketballs are a popular item that people love.

#2  Big Balls Will Be Thrown From A Ton Of Floats

Big balls of assorted colors have been flying off the shelves at Bead Busters.

No doubt you will be fighting (not really), more like competing with the other people in the crowds to get one of the big balls being thrown from floats this year.

These big balls are such a hot commodity, that you are seeing them all over.

#1  Giant Plush Animals Will Be Soaring Through The Air At You!

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What The Duck?

Oh yes, rubber duckies are just for lovers of Jeeps and bathtime; you have a high probability of catching one at the parades this year.

Kids in any Mardi Gras crowd can get their hands on one of these ducks. Wait until you see the different kinds we have already seen thrown at other parades.

Get on all the fun this Mardi Gras season, and be sure to show us your photos!