Luau Party Ideas: Invitations, Decorating, Games, Activities, Food

Need ideas for a Luau Party? In this article you will find ideas for the invitations, decorations, games & activities, and food suggestions for your luau theme party. This is a fun party for any age adult or even a child. The Luau is the most popular summer theme party. You can make yours as simple or elaborate as you like. Luau is a fun party for the pool or beach.

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The Invitations
Start off with fun invitations. Place a homemade invitation in a small bottle along with a little sand. Hand deliver the invitations about two weeks in advance of the party. Request your guest to wear colorful casual clothing suitable for a luau. Greet your guest at the door with colorful leis.

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Decorating Ideas
Decorating for a luau party is easy! Most luau parties are held outside, but if you are having yours inside, just apply these same ideas. One of the most important decorations is tiki lanterns. These can be in the form of a garland or lights, depending if the party is in the day or at night. Other decorations can include: scene setters, ceiling danglers, inflatable palm trees (or lots of large potted plants), silk flowers, sea shells, pinata, luau theme balloons, and lots of colorful balloons. Always have Hawaiian music playing softly in the background to set the mood.

Decorate each table with a tiki candle and a few sea shells. The food table will look really cool with a raffia table skirt. Your paper tableware in a luau theme, matched with solids, can make a striking decoration on its own. A fun idea is to wrap cutlery in a napkin and use a cheap pair of sunglasses as the napkin ring.

Party Games & Activities
Luau party games & activities should always include a limbo contest! What's a luau without one? If you have the resources, provide a couple of hula skirts for a hula contest. If your guests like to dance, play beach music and have a shag dance! Another fun idea is a hula hoop contest. How long has it been since you played with a hula hoop? These are usually easy to find in any discount store early in the summer season, so you will need to get yours early.

Food Suggestions
What to eat? Keep it simple. Prepare shish kabobs on the grill, a fruit and cheese tray, crackers, chips, and other simple foods. If money is tight, have a pot luck luau! Don't forget the cute little drink picks and pina coladas in coconut cups!

Summary
To sum it up, decorate with tiki lanterns and/or garlands, balloons, candles, and other luau theme decorations. Use a raffia table skirt, tiki candle, sea shells, and luau theme tableware to decorate your table. After a simple meal and a pina colada, enjoy activities such as limbo and hula hoops. Find out who can dance the best hula to Blue Hawaii! A luau should be a fun party with plenty of time to relax and socialize. I hope these ideas will help you have the perfect luau party!

Luau Party Ideas: Invitations, Decorating, Games, Activities, Food

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Some Really Cool Birthday Decorating Ideas!

The great thing about birthday decorations is that there are hundreds of different items to choose from. Birthday decorations come in every size, shape, and color and can match any theme you can come up with irrespective of how creative, unique or downright strange the theme is. But the really great thing about birthday decorations is how the right combination of color, style and theme can make anyone light up as bright as the sun.

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Over the years people have literally revolutionized the traditional birthday party and the decorations. The results have been ingenious ideas brought to life by impressive works of art on display. They are, simply put, classically cool. So to help you plan an unforgettable birthday party, here are some ultra cool birthday decorating ideas that could land your creation in the 'classically cool collection'.

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Chocolates, candies and chocolate coated candies are just some of the very many treats that are ever present at birthday parties. But don't underestimate the potential decorative qualities of these multi colored, multi shaped goodies, because they aren't just delectable munchies, they also make great centerpiece decorations! You can design fruit baskets, the baskets being made out of hollowed or bowl shaped chocolate and various fruits made out of candy. Purple round lollipops can be used as grapes, red and green jawbreakers can be used as apples and even different color licorice sticks can be entwined to make other fruits. The candied fruit basket is an exceptionally cool idea as a decorative piece for children's birthday parties because not very many children are fond of fruit, but you'll take them by surprise when they find out otherwise!

It's always nice to get unexpected presents isn't it? Well what if you were invited to a birthday party, where balloons hung everywhere and exotic flowers lined pathways while scented candles grace tabletops mixed with the natural fragrance of the flowers, only to find out that inside every balloon, between all the exotic flowers, alongside every lit pathway and under every candle was a surprise present. This is possibly the second coolest way to make decorations an actual part of the birthday party and the best part is that your guests all get to walk away with a little something extra!

So now you're probably wondering what the number one coolest birthday decorating idea is. Two words; Willy Wonka. Well not the actual character, but if you're going to spend all that money and time buying and putting up birthday decorations that will just have to be taken down and boxed or thrown away, why not make all the birthday decorations edible?

Now don't get the wrong idea here, it's not like you are going to create an entire chocolate factory. But why buy statuettes for centerpieces that convey the theme of the party but you will never have use for again, or serving dishes that match the color code of the party but goes with nothing else in your house or confetti that ends the party leaving you to clean up a big mess, when you can have all these decorations with no need for storage or dumping or a week's worth of cleaning when the party is over? Well, put yourself in Willy Wonka's shoes and try to think the way he might think. Make all the decorations out of candy and all kinds of sweets! And if you are adventurous enough go can go for the mother of all delicious decorations; the chocolate fountain! Kids will love the candy land you've made and adults will be amazed by your ingenuity. Now if that's not the absolute, ultimate, coolest birthday decorating idea of all time, then what on the green earth can top that? Nothing I say!

Some Really Cool Birthday Decorating Ideas!

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