Hosting a Tiki Party Or Luau

A tiki party or luau is the quintessential summer party. Although most tiki parties happen in a backyard or near a pool, your tiki party or luau can also be held indoors. A tropical party atmosphere is uniquely relaxing and inviting. Plus, it is very easy to decorate your home or yard with Polynesian style.

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The first step in decorating for your party is to set up a wooden tiki bar. This can take the form of a freestanding hut, or a smaller bar in any place you plan to serve food or drinks. These are no ifs ands or buts quite easy to construct, and should be covered in grass skirts or thatching for an authentic look. You can make a tiki bar in just a few days; this bar will serve as the centerpiece of your party, and instantly pull together the theme of your party. If you do not have the time to set up a full bar, decorate a table or counter with grass skirts or thatching.

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When decorating for your themed party, use lots of natural fibers and engaging tropical colors. You can use burlap or unbleached cotton for the tablecloths, or simply use a brightly colored plastic cloth. Tiki party decorations comprise bamboo, drink umbrellas, fresh coconuts, and of course, carved statues or masks. You can also integrate beach or surfing décor, especially if your backyard has a pool. These accessories will help make your party fun and unique. Play tiki, Hawaiian guitar, or reggae as background music.

You can use citronella torches to keep the mosquitoes away from your tiki party guests, but do not light the torches if you are retention your party indoors. Always light tiki torches away from combustible materials, which can be tricky with all of the natural materials complex in decorating for a tiki party. If you are having an indoor party, reconsider using strings of festive lights instead of candles.

At your tiki party or luau, serve Hawaiian foods and appetizing tropical drinks. Your menu should comprise fresh pineapple and other fruits on skewers, roasted pork, shrimp, and grilled chicken. If you don't want to make anyone too complicated, you can even serve Hawaiian pizzas. Spam is very favorite in Hawaii, so it would be acceptable to serve with rice at your luau. Tropical punch, pina coladas, mai tais, and daiquiris are the excellent drinks for any tiki party. Don't forget the paper umbrellas, tiki mugs, and maraschino cherries!

Invite your guests to wear Hawaiian shirts or grass skirts to get them in the party mood. Hand out leis at the door as you welcome them to "the island" of your party. Hold a limbo contest. You can also give out small tiki figures as party favors, or as a prize for the contest.

Even if you don't live in a hot climate, the tiki decor can help you feel like you are in a tropical paradise. Tiki parties are a fun and relaxing way to celebrate. This summer, throw a tiki party that everybody will remember!

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Hosting a Disney Cars Birthday Party

Cars is one of the most popular Disney movies for boys. It is also one of the most popular themes for a boy's birthday party. With Cars 2 being released in the summer of 2011, it will admittedly continue to be one of the most popular birthday party themes for some time to come. Fortunately, it's very easy to host a Disney Cars birthday party. Party favors are easy to find, and there are plenty of choices for Cars-themed games.

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Invite Your Child's Friends and Family

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Once you know that you want to host a birthday party based on this popular movie with Lightning McQueen, Mater, Luigi, and the rest of the gang at Radiator Springs, you'll have to decree who to invite. You might want a small party with just a few friends and family, a family-only party, or a party with your child's entire class. If you're just tantalizing a join family members and close friends, you can probably get by with an email invitation or by calling them on the phone; if you're tantalizing classmates, you'll probably want to buy invitations. Fortunately, Disney Cars invitations are pretty easy to find.

Get the Right Decorations

One of the first things that you'll need to do is find the right decorations. You should be able to find Cars-themed invitations, cups, plates, and napkins at your local party store, or online. You also might be able to find tablecloths and wall decals featuring the popular characters. How much you decorate depends on your funds and what kind of space you're decorating for. If you're decorating for an outdoor party at a park, you'll probably want to skip the wall decals and get more balloons.

Find the Right Cake

It's easy to find a Cars-themed cake for your child's birthday party. Your local grocery store's bakery probably can make one for you. You might even be able to get an ice cream cake made for your party at an ice cream shop. If you prefer cupcakes, movie-themed cupcake toppers, baking cups, and racing flags are available. It's easy to bake your own cupcakes if you want to save a dinky bit of money. If you want to make your own cake, there are themed baking pans and cake toppers that can admittedly be found online.

Cars-Themed Games

Most kids can keep themselves pretty entertained at a party just by running nearby in the backyard, but you might want to contain a game or two when you host your party. A piñata is popular with many kids; you might be able to find a Lightning McQueen piñata, or at least one with a race car on it. If you're a crafty kind of person, you might want to generate a Lightning McQueen posture (without the number 95 on the side) and play "pin the 95 on Lightning McQueen". an additional one automotive-themed game that you might want to play is "Red Light Green Light".

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Hosting - Party Game Ideas

Ok, so it's your turn to host this year's 4th of July party. As we all know too well, the downtime between eating and watching the fireworks can be a long and arduous one, especially if your party guests have children. So, to bail you out of hours of boredom and the thought of never being asked to host another 4th of July party, below are a few "themed" party games to entertain the masses.

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The first one involves embracing your inner child - invite all party attendees to join in a parade. You can purchase streamers, party horns, balloons, obviously in red, white and blue and have them readily available for your guests or you could request they bring their pre-decorated bicycles or scooters/skateboards with them. Obviously, if you waited and did the decorating at you party; this would also help fill that void space of time until the fireworks. You can have prizes ready to hand out for the funniest, best all around or most creative. If you are extra adventurous, you can all line up and bravely peddle and scoot down your street with your parade.

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Another fun party game is a balloon passing game. Again, purchasing the colors of red, white and blue would be in order. All of your party guests can play this game and you can either play as teams - men against women, adults again children, etc. or just play every "man" for himself in a straight line. This game can take on several varieties from the first person using their hands to pass the balloon to the second person who passes it with his legs to the next person having to pass the balloon using his/her neck. Get creative. Another variation of this game is to pass it to music, like musical chairs and whoever ends up with the balloon when the music stops is out. Last one standing is the winner. Since the 4th of July is usually a hot day, why not fill the balloons with water? Or whip cream for a messy game? It will bring out the kid in your guests and lots of fun can be had. (Obviously, if you're going to get wet or messy, you might want to tell your guests to bring an extra set of clothing).

Sidewalk Chalk Artwork - This game is good for both adults and children, but probably more for the children. Again, you can break the teams up with an adult/child or females or adults or one person "teams". (Those party guests that are party poopers can be the judges since they won't like to draw anyway). Take different colored chalk - again since this is a 4th of July part, you could try for red, white and blue. Have you guests draw a patriotic picture, with something specific having to be in the picture - like the flag, the Liberty Bell, fireworks, etc. You can pass out prizes to the winner of this game as well.

Charades - Like the game once played by many a youngster, you can play charades with a 4th of July theme. Some can act out being the Statue of Liberty, Abraham Lincoln, etc.

Along this same line you can play the guessing game where you fill a jar, yep, you guessed it with red, white and blue something; be it jellybeans, gum, hard candies, M&Ms, etc. and have your guests guess how many are in the jar. Obviously the winner would be the person who is the closest to the correct number without going over.

Last, but not least, fireworks. While they are not really a game, you can have your guests help organize which ones get set off after which. You have to be careful though because in some places blowing off fireworks at home is illegal and you should always be the pyrotechnician setting them off - not the children. The "I'm sorry officer I let a child get hurt while blowing off fireworks illegally at my home" game is not one that you get a really great prize for.

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