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Hawaiian Theme Party

Ages: 6 to 12

Invitations:

Make an invitation shaped like a seashell. Write the party information on the back.

Decoration Ideas

Put fake plants all over the party area. Cover the table with green paper and attach grass skirts around the edge of the table. Mount posters and postcards of Hawaii on the wall. Hang flower garlands and streamers in bright tropical colors. Tie balloons to the tops of pineapples for a fun centerpiece or put one on each side of the entrance.

Craft Ideas

Provide the kids with beads and silk flowers to make their own leis. Decorate cheap frames with seashells and flowers.

Have the kids dress up in grass skirts and other Hawaiian items and take their pictures so that they can put them in the frames they decorate.

Game Ideas

Bobbing for Seashells

Fill a large plastic tub with water. Put Hawaiian themed floating items in the tub such as flip flops, plastic fish, toy boats, plastic seashells and anything else you can think of. Write numbers on the items with a permanent marker. These numbers correspond with a prize. Have party members try to get an item with their teeth. If you have really young guests, let them use their hands.

Hawaiian’s play a game called ulu maika. To play put a 2 foot post in the ground. Gather up stones. The guests roll a stone on the ground to get it as close to the post as they can. If you have really young guests, you may want to use bouncy balls instead of stones.

Play hot potato only with a coconut. Set up simple lawn games like croquet and volleyball. Have a hula hoop contest and play limbo.

Food Ideas

Cut up pineapples and apples to make pineapple, grape and apple fruit kabobs. Make different kinds of fruit smoothies and add little umbrellas. Put bananas on kabob sticks, dip them in melted chocolate, roll it in nuts and freeze them in the freezer for a fun snack. Offer Hawaiian sweet bread, macadamia nuts, and cookies with coconuts.