Hawaiian Luau Party Idea For A Toddler Birthday Party

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HAWAIIAN LUAU PARTY IDEA FOR INVITATIONS

Set the tone for your party and let everyone know what it's all about with a fun luau theme invitation. Listed below are a few ideas to help you get creative with your invitations:

TROPICAL PARTY POSTCARD INVITES - Create your own postcard with a tropical scene by downloading an appropriate luau scene onto a postcard size piece of cardstock or buy ready-made postcards that have a tropical picture. Put "Aloha! Wish You Were Here!" on the front. On the back put the following party details:

Hula on over to (Address of party)
On (Date and time of party)
(Birthday child's name) is turning (Age)
Bring your swimsuit OR
Wear Hawaiian luau attire.
RSVP: (Name and phone)

SURF'S UP INVITES - Cut out various colored surfboards from cardstock so they will fit into a Ziploc snack-sized bag. On the front write, "ALOHA" and then decorate it with various flower stickers. On the back, write your party details. Place the "surfboard" into the Ziploc bag. Then add some sea-life shaped confetti, tiny seashells, and a tiny bottle. Zip it closed and place into blue envelopes decorated with luau-related stickers.

SURF'S UP INVITES FOR HAND-DELIVERY - After you create your surfboard invitation as noted above, encase it completely in lamination. Add some sand, tiny seashells, a tiny bottle, and some water that is slightly colored blue. Seal it up and hand-deliver.

LUAU-RELATED SHAPED INVITES - Cut out a coconut, sandcastle, pineapple, starfish, palm tree, or seashell shape from an appropriately colored piece of cardstock. On one side write, "Aloha! wish You Were Here!" or "Come Splash The Day Away", or "Come Help Me Celebrate My Special Day". On the reverse side, write out all of your party details.

BOTTLE INVITES FOR HAND-DELIVERY - Put all your party details on a torn piece of paper and then insert it into a bottle with a little bit of sand. Cork it with a wadded piece of paper. Then decorate it with various colored curling ribbons tied around the neck of the bottle. Create a tag out of a colorful piece of cardstock that contains all of your party details. You can use some of the ideas noted above. When done, hand-deliver your invites.

HAWAIIAN LUAU PARTY IDEA FOR AIRLINE TICKET INVITES - Make your invites look like an airline ticket. At the top, using the child's last name, place "Montgomery Airlines" and then download a fun piece of clipart to create your airline logo. Things like a smiley face with sunglasses, or a beach ball with a smiley face, the sun wearing a pair of sunglasses, etc. Then add the following party details:

Boarding Pass For Carol's 4th Birthday Party.
Date:
Arrival/Departure Time: (Party hours)
Flight #IAM4 (Insert child's age)
Destination: (last name) Montgomery Island, (Address)
1st Class: Hawaiian attire or Grass Skirts required and Swimwear
Meal: Hawaiian Luau
RSVP: (Name and phone)

HAWAIIAN LUAU PARTY IDEA FOR BEACH BALL INVITES - Blow-up small beach balls and write all of the party info on the ball. You can either deflate them and place them in envelopes and mail, or leave them inflated and hand-deliver your invites.

LUAU-RELATED INVITESMake an invite as noted above and attach with curling ribbon to a coconut, pineapple, silk flower lei, plastic bucket and shovel, etc. and hand deliver.

EMBELLISH READY-MADE HAWAIIAN LUAU INVITES - Buy some ready-made luau themed invitations and then embellish the picture with glitter, tiny silk flowers, ribbons, etc.


HAWAIIAN LUAU PARTY IDEA FOR COSTUMES

To help bring your theme to life, invite your guests to wear luau costumes or Hawaiian style shirts, shorts, sarongs, flip-flops, fun hats, etc. In the alternative, you could provide luau-themed items to your guests as they arrive. Things like a lei, puka shells, or a grass skirt.

If you're thinking of creating a photo invite of the birthday child dressed Hawaiian luau style, perhaps one of the above hula girl costumes might work for you.

Hawaiian Luau Party Idea For A Homemade Hula Skirt

If you want to make hula skirts for everyone, buy packages of raffia (natural or colors) and elastic, Use your child's size as a guide to determine the waist measurement and the length of the skirt.

Cut a piece of elastic the size of your child's waist, plus one-inch. Sew the ends of the elastic band together.

Cut all the raffia twice the length you need, plus one-inch.

Hang a strand of raffia over the elastic band, making sure that both ends are the same length. Then knot each strand under the elastic band. Continue this process until the skirt is as full as you want it to be.

If you don't want to go to all the trouble of knotting each individual piece of raffia, you can use fabric glue or a glue gun to fasten the raffia to the elastic band.


HAWAIIAN LUAU PARTY IDEA FOR DECORATIONS

A luau party is best done poolside, but a garden environment will work nicely, or opt to turn your party room into a tropical paradise with lots of fun decorations full of vibrant colors like orange, yellow, pink, green, blue, etc. Transport your guests to your Hawaiian paradise using some of the following Hawaiian luau party idea:

• Place a large basket of leis at your front door and greet everyone with a big "Aloha" and place a lei around their necks.

• Place a surfboard at your entryway or hang it from the ceiling over your buffet table.

• If you don't have access to a surfboard, create one using an ironing board. Tie it together so it doesn't open up. Cover the whole thing with a fabric "glove." Use your ironing board as your pattern and cut two pieces of fabric, which has a fun Hawaiian print. With right sides together, sew 1/2" around the edges, leaving the bottom open. Turn it right side out and insert your ironing board, and voila' you have an instant surfboard! These instructions can easily be adapted to create your surfboard from a large piece of cardboard cut from a refrigerator box.

• Put an inflatable palm tree at the front door, in a corner of the party room, or near the buffet table.

• To bring the sea life atmosphere to life, hang fishnets on your fences, walls, ceiling, or lay on tabletops. For the hanging fishnets, attach plastic sea horses, crabs, fish, and lobsters.

• Place lots of live or silk palm tree plants around your party area.

• Hang Hawaiian luau themed cutouts, posters, and birthday banners on your walls, fence, or the side of your home.

• Dress up your party tables by placing a raffia tableskirt around the edges of your party tables.

• Turn beachcomber hats upside down and line them with plastic wrap. Serve dry munchies in the hats. Things like chips, crackers, nuts, etc. work well.

• Use lots of colorful balloons and streamers throughout your party room or area.

• Hang strings of Christmas lights and paper lanterns with luau designs around your front door, porch, deck, ceiling, etc.

• If bugs are an issue, put yard stakes throughout the yard and/or table citronella candles.

• Use tropical party plates, cups, napkins, tablecloth, and centerpieces.

• use different colored tablecloths, in your party colors, for your various tables to create a festive atmosphere.

• Sprinkle luau confetti on your tabletops.

• Use a palm tree cooler to keep your drinks accessible and cold, in a fun way.

• Here's a great and yummy Hawaiian luau party idea. Create an edible centerpiece with a pineapple. Slice the bottom off so it will sit level on a serving plate. Place skewers of pineapple chunks, grapes, strawberries, and cut-up apples, into the pineapple. Place flowers or a flower lei around the bottom of the pineapple.

• If possible, create a "beach" for your guests. Bring in lots of sand and add plastic buckets, shovels, sand toys, molds, etc. for everyone to play with while at the "beach."

• If the creation of a "beach" isn't possible, you might consider making a sandbox for the kids to play in. Then add all of the above sand toys for their enjoyment.

• Direct your guests to your Hawaiian Luau with a fun luau party yard sign.

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Here's an entire page with nothing but Hawaiian Luau Party Games and Activities, such as:

• Pretty Flip Flops
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• Hula Dance
• Hula-Hoops
• Limbo
• Pass The Coconut
• Coconut Bowling
• Pin The Monkey on the Palm Tree
• Luau Treasure Hunt
• Water Balloon Toss
• Luau Relay Race

To be sure your food is in keeping with the Hawaiian luau party idea, listed below are some party foods to consider. Place decorative signs by each dish identifying the luau faire they are eating.

CHICKEN - Grill some chicken wings, drumettes, or breasts (cut into small pieces) and brush with a Teriyaki or fruit sauce to give it a Hawaiian flair.

PIZZA - Hawaiian style with ham and pineapple.

MEATBALLS - Sweet and sour style.

JELLYFISH SANDWICHES - Peanut butter and jelly.

TUNA SALAD SAILBOATS - Make your favorite tuna salad and serve it in mini individual cupcake liners. Place a piece of cracker on the bottom, a little scoop of tuna salad, and top with a tortilla chip for the sail.

OCTO-DOGS - Cut hotdog in half-lengthwise leaving 1"-2" end intact for head. Cut each long section in half again until you have 8 octopus legs. Cut 3 holes with knife point for eyes and mouth in head. Boil until legs curl and hotdog is cooked through.

PASTA SHELL SALAD - Make your favorite pasta salad or make macaroni salad using shell-shaped noodles.

PINEAPPLE BOATS - Cut pineapples in half and hollow them out. Then fill them back up with fresh cut up fruits.

FRUIT KABOBS - Cut up various fruits like pineapple, strawberries, grapes, oranges and banana chunks (soaked in lemon juice so they don't turn brown) into bite-size pieces and place them on skewers.

LUAU MUNCHIES - Macadamia nuts, goldfish crackers, Gummy fish and sharks, Swedish fish candies, molded white and milk chocolate in fish, shell, and star shapes. Place luau treats into small plastic buckets or straw beachcomber hats. HAWAIIAN LEMONADE

Place the following into a large punch bowl:

12-oz. can of frozen lemonade, thawed
Two 12-oz. cans of apricot nectar, chilled
Two 12-oz. cans of unsweetened pineapple juice, chilled
1 1/2 cups water, chilled

Right before serving, stir in 2 1/2 cups of chilled ginger ale. Add ice cubes, and decorate with slices of lemon and lime.


HAWAIIAN LUAU PARTY IDEA FOR BIRTHDAY CAKES

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HAWAIIAN LUAU PARTY IDEA FOR AN ERUPTING VOLCANO CAKE - Make your favorite bundt cake recipe. Cover the cake with chocolate frosting to create the volcano. Right before you serve the cake, place a piece of dry ice into the center and present the erupting volcano.

HAWAIIAN LUAU-THEMED CAKE - Make or buy a sheet cake. Cover the lower half with blue tinted frosting to create the ocean. Cover the other half with white frosting and sprinkle crushed graham crackers or wafer pieces on top to create a sandy area. Place tiny surfboards and seashells and starfish made out of molded chocolates on your beach. Create a Hawaii scene with plastic cake toppers. Use hula dancers, palm trees, tiki torches, sharks in the water, etc.

FLOWER LEI CAKE - Make or buy a round cake. cover it with white fondant. Decorate it with various colored flowers made out of fondant. Lay the flowers around the edge of the cake to look like a lei.

LUAU SHEET CAKE - Make or buy a sheet cake and frost it white. Add an edible sugar art image of a Hawaiian luau scene to make your cake look spectacular.

PALM TREE CAKE - Bake cake in palm tree shaped cake pan and decorate according to pan's directions.

Check out our visitor-submitted LUAU CAKE photos and how-to tips.


HAWAIIAN LUAU PARTY IDEA FOR FAVORS

In addition to any grass skirt or flower lei your guests may have received upon arrival, you can place your party favors into small plastic pails with shovels. Listed below are some fun Hawaiian luau party idea for your favors: Sunglasses, tiny bubbles, beach towels that expand when placed in water, puka shells, beachcomber hats, macadamia nuts, gummy fish or sharks, or Beanie type sea animals.

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