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Party Themes
Beach Theme Party
Ages: 2 to 8
Invitations:
 Create an invitation that looks like a simple sand castle. To give
it an authentic look, use sandpaper to create the sand castle.
Have your child help you. Get some seashell stickers to add
embellishment. Write the party information on the inside.
Or create paper crafted invitations using scraps to make umbrellas
and a beach ball and use different colored papers in the
background to show the sand, water and sky. See detailed
instructions for this
Handmade Beach
Party Invitation.
You could also choose from our
Beach Birthday Invitation
Wording samples to add to your own invites.
Decoration Ideas
Go with bright, bold summer colors when you pick out streamers,
balloons and eating utensils. Blow up beach balls and place them
throughout the party area. If you know someone with a surf board,
ask if you can borrow it and prop it up somewhere. Fish nets are
inexpensive to get at craft stores. Tack them up on the wall or
put them over a blue table cloth and put seashells and fake fish
in them. Set up a sun umbrella and lay out beach towels. On the
food table put finger foods in sand buckets that have been cleaned
out well. Play fun summer time music in the background to complete
the effect.
Craft Ideas
For older kids you can let them decorate cheap flip flops with
silk flowers, glitter and rhinestones for the girls. For the guys
in the group offer them seashells, wooden beads and raffia. With
the same supplies party goers could customize their own
sunglasses.
For younger kids a sand scene in a jar is a fun craft. Any clear
jar will work; let them fill it with different colored sands and
fun seashells. Then glue the lid on and tie it with some raffia.
A fun craft for any age group is painting on seashells. You will
need to wash the shells and let them air dry before the party.
Then your guests can paint them with watercolors or acrylic
paints.
Game Ideas
For a beach theme water games are ideal. There is any number of
water games you could play, but a favorite is water balloon beach
towel toss. To play people will need to partner up and hold the
corners of a beach towel. One pair will put a water balloon in
their towel then pop it out of the towel by throwing it up
together. Another pair tries to catch it, and this continues until
the balloon is dropped. For younger kids this might take too much
coordination and they would be happy with just throwing and
catching the water balloons.
Frisbee is a favorite of beach goers. Give it a party twist by
setting up posts in the yard, or use masking tape to mark spots in
the party area (if it is indoors). Then play Frisbee golf. Each
person tries to get the Frisbee as close as possible to the mark.
Food
Ideas
Make tropical fruit kabobs using pineapple, kiwi and grapes. Offer
plenty of fun snack foods like chips and crackers. Put the punch
in a bowl that looks like a fish bowl and use a little food
coloring to dye it blue. Add some fish shaped fruit snacks to
complete the look. Another fun themed food item is mock sushi. Use
fruit rolls, and candies to create them. Or offer the ingredients
to the kids and let them make their own combinations and roll
their own “sushi”.
There are many ingenious ways to create a cake for a beach theme.
You could build a layered cake in a clean sand pail. Crush some
vanilla wafers up and sprinkle them on top to make it look like
sand. You could also make cakes in different themed shapes like a
fish, beach ball, umbrella or flip flops; or you could simply
decorate a sheet cake to make it look like a beach scene.
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