Luau Party Ideas To Create A Perfect Hawaiian Luau Birthday Party

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LUAU PARTY IDEAS FOR INVITATIONS

Here's your chance to start setting the luau mood. Listed below are a few ideas to help you get creative with your invitations:

BOTTLE INVITATION - Put party details on a piece of torn paper and insert into a bottle with a little sand. Cork it with a wadded piece of paper. Tie curling ribbons around the neck with a colorful card stock tag that reads, "Come Splash The Day Away", or "Come Celebrate And Don't Be Late", or Life's A Beach And Then You Have A Party", or "Aloha! Wish You Were Here!". Hand-deliver invitations.

TROPICAL PARTY POSTCARD INVITATION - Either create your own tropical scene postcards by downloading a beach scene onto a postcard size card or buy ready-made postcards. Put "Aloha! Wish You Were Here!" on the front. On back put:

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

LUAU-RELATED SHAPED INVITATIONS - Cut out a palm tree, shell, starfish, sandcastle, pineapple, coconut, etc. shape from colored card stock. On one side write, "Come Splash The Day Away", or "Come Celebrate And Don't Be Late", or Life's A Beach And Then You Have A Party", or "Aloha! Wish You Were Here!" On reverse side, write party details.

AIRLINE TICKET INVITATION - Make reservation look like an airline ticket. At top put "South Pacific Airlines" and download a fun piece of clipart to create the airline logo. Things like a smiley face with sunglasses, or a beach ball, the sun, starfish, octopus with a face, etc. Then say:

Boarding Pass For Joshua's (Name) 16th (Age) Birthday Party.
Date:
Arrival/Departure Time: (Party hours)
Flight #IAM16 (Insert age)
Destination: Address
Class: 1st Class Hawaiian, Grass Skirts, or Swimwear
Meal: Hawaiian Luau
RSVP: (Name and phone)

BEACH BALL INVITATION - Blow-up the beach ball, write the party details on the ball, and hand-deliver invitations.

LUAU PARTY IDEAS TO CREATE LUAU ITEM-RELATED INVITATIONSCut out a palm tree, shell, starfish, sandcastle, pineapple, coconut, etc. shape from colored card stock. On one side write, "Come Splash The Day Away", or "Come Celebrate And Don't Be Late", or Life's A Beach And Then You Have A Party", or "Aloha! Wish You Were Here!" On reverse side, write party details. Attach to a pineapple, coconut, silk flower lei, plastic bucket and shovel, etc. Hand-deliver invitations.

EMBELLISHED READY-MADE LUAU INVITATIONS - Buy ready-made luau theme invitations and embellish the picture. Add glitter on palm trees, tiny silk flowers on top of flowers, etc.


LUAU PARTY IDEAS FOR COSTUMES

Listed below are a few luau party ideas for beachwear costumes: Invite your guests to come in costume or at least wear Hawaiian shirts, shorts, beachwear, sarongs, mu-mu's, straw hats, and flip-flops. As guests arrive, you might opt to give them puka shells, floral leis, or a grass hula skirt.

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LUAU PARTY IDEAS FOR DECORATIONS

Turn your backyard into a tropical paradise with rich, vibrant colors. Transport your guests to the island of Maui-Wowie using some of the following luau party ideas:

• Place luau yard signs in your front yard to alert everyone of the party's location.

• Line walkway with bamboo tiki torches.

• Hang luau-themed spirals and danglers from your ceiling to add a little color and to help bring the theme of the luau to your party room.

• Hang a Luau Banner on the front door and greet everyone with a floral lei and a big "Aloha!"

• Put a palm tree at the front door.

• One of the best luau party ideas is to transform your party room walls with some fun luau themed wall murals, covers, gossamer, etc.

• Hang fishnets on fences and attach plastic fish, lobsters, crabs, and sea horses.

• Be sure to add a few colorful parrots throughout the room.

• Display live or silk plants around party area, including palm plants.

• Display large basket of leis at the front door and let guests help themselves to a few.

• Place pineapples and luau centerpieces on your tables in your party room.

• Display a surfboard in the entryway or hang from the ceiling over the buffet table.

• Place some fun luau-themed balloons around your party room to liven up the area.

• Place various luau-themed decals on your party room walls to give the room a little luau ambiance.

• Put bamboo matting on the party floor.

• Hang tropical cutouts, posters, and birthday banners on fences and house siding.

• Put a raffia table skirt on your coolers and tables. Attach white Christmas lights around edges of tables.

• Serve munchies in upside down beachcomber hats.

• Cover your food table from the sun with a fun tabletop tiki hut cover. It will add to your luau decor while keeping the sun off of your food.

• Hang some fun luau-themed banners on your walls or fences to help bring your luau theme alive.

• Keep your drinks cold in a theme related inflatable cooler. They come in various shapes, sizes and themes.

• Hang and lay flower leis on walls or tables.

• Hang strings of lights with paper lanterns or tropical designs around your front door, porches, decks, etc.

• Set up a hammock in the yard or hang between 2 trees.

• Fill decorative bowls with river rock and a tea light in the middle.

• To create mood lighting, put tiki torches throughout the yard.

• Put yard stake and/or table citronella candles throughout the yard.

• Place rafia umbrella covers around your yard to provide shade, while adding to the luau ambiance.

• Add some pink flamingo yard stakes around your yard.

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

• Decorate tables with luau or palm tree confetti.

• Use tropical toothpicks for finger-food and straws for drinks. Use plastic coconut or pineapple glasses.

• Line beachcomber hats with plastic wrap and use them as serving dishes for chips, crackers, nuts, and other dry items.

• Create edible centerpieces with pineapples. Slice bottom off so it sits level on serving plate. Stick shish-ka-bob skewers of grapes, pineapple chunks, apples, and strawberries into pineapple. Put flowers around bottom of pineapple.

• Be sure to play some luau music in the background to keep everyone in the luau mood.

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

• Hula-Hoops
• Hula Dance
• Limbo
• Pass The Coconut
• Water Balloon Toss
• Luau Relay Race
• Beach Volleyball

Be sure your party food is in keeping with the luau party ideas theme. Listed below are some luau party food ideas:

PASTA SHELL SALAD - Make your favorite pasta salad and use shell-shaped noodles.

TUNA SALAD - Make your favorite tuna salad and serve with crackers.

CHICKEN & RIBS - Fire up the BBQ and grill some chicken and ribs. Brush with fruit sauce for the Hawaiian flair.

SEAFOOD - Prepare some shrimp cocktails, grilled salmon, or crab legs.

MEATBALLS & CHICKEN WINGS - Sweet and sour style, of course.

LUAU KABOBS - Cook various sausages, cut them into bite-size pieces, and skewer. Do the same with various fruits like grapes, pineapple, strawberries, orange, and banana chunks (soaked in lemon juice so they don't turn brown).

PINEAPPLE BOATS - Cut a pineapple in half and hollow it out. Then fill it back up with fresh cut fruits.

PIZZA - Hawaiian style of course!

HAWAIIAN LEMONADE - Combine in large punch bowl:
12-oz. can frozen lemonade, thawed
Two 12-oz. cans apricot nectar, chilled
Two 12-oz. cans unsweetened pineapple juice, chilled
1 1/2 cups water, chilled
Right before serving stir in 2 1/2 cups chilled ginger ale. Add ice cubes, decorate with lemon, and lime slices.

LUAU MUNCHIES - Macadamia nuts, goldfish crackers, Swedish fish candies, molded white and milk chocolate in fish, shell, and star shapes.


LUAU PARTY IDEAS FOR BIRTHDAY CAKES

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PINEAPPLE UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE - Prepare cake mix. Place pineapple slices in bottom of sheet cake pan. Fill holes with maraschino cherries. Pour pineapple liquid over pineapple slices. Pour cake batter over pineapple and bake according to box directions. When done turn cake over onto platter and insert paper umbrellas into each cherry.

PINEAPPLE CAKE - Make a cake in the shape of a pineapple and decorate it using frostings in the various pineapple colors.

ERUPTING VOLCANO CAKE - Make a bundt cake. Cover with chocolate frosting like a volcano. Just before serving place dry ice in the center and present the eruption.

LUAU-THEMED CAKE - Bake a sheet cake and cover lower half with blue tinted frosting to create water. Cover other half with white frosting and sprinkle crushed wafer pieces on top to create sand. Create a Hawaiian scene with plastic cake toppers. Use hula dancers, palm trees, tiki torches, sharks in water, etc.

LUAU SHEET CAKE - Make a white sheet cake and frost white. Add a Hawaiian edible sugar art image to instantly make your cake look spectacular.

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

UKELELE CAKE - Make a sheet cake and cut it into the shape of a ukelele. Decorate it to coincide with your luau colors.

LUAU CUPCAKES - Make or buy cupcakes and top them off with some luau cupcake pics.

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


LUAU PARTY IDEAS FOR FAVORS

Be sure to send everyone home with some favors to help them remember your special luau party. Here's some luau party ideas that you might want to consider as favors:

Sunglasses, puka shells, beachcomber hats, tiny bubbles, macadamia nuts, beach towels, sunblock, flower lei necklace, grass skirt, tropical hair clips, or a Hawaiian key chain.


LUAU PARTY IDEAS FOR PARTY SUPPLIES

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