LUAU PARTY INVITATION IDEAS:

• Send invitations out in a bottle… fill bottle with sand, a few tiny shells, and an invite printed or hand-written on parchment paper and rolled up and stuck in bottle

• Out of foam sheets, cut into the shape into a flip-flop (cut around the perimeter of one side of the flip-flop and bend the small part and hot glue it down… put the party details onto paper that fits onto the front of the flip-flop and you can put on by using spray mount or glue

• By using a tropical scrapbook paper print, cut into the shape of a shirt and print party info on the front

LUAU PARTY DECORATION IDEAS:

• Play Hawaiian music (try the Lilo & Stitch soundtrack) in the background along with the sounds of the sea

• Line your walkways and party areas (outside) with tiki torches

• Have a bubble machine blowing bubbles

• Make signs that say, Hang Ten, Surfs UP, Aloha!, Gone to the Beach, etc.

• Trim your tables with grass skirts and blue tablecloths

• Lay nets, shells and starfish over your tables as decoration

• Use pineapples as centerpieces and tie balloons to them

• Use bowls of goldfish or beta fish could be centerpieces and could be the gifts for game prizes

• Fill up a metal bin with ice and Hawaiian punch juice boxes or fill the punch in small glasses with tiny umbrellas in them

LUAU PARTY GAME IDEAS:

• Greet your guests with leis and hang extras around the house and use to decorate your table with

• Have Lilo & Stitch coloring pages out for the kids to do while waiting on guests

• Fill a baby pool with sand and seashells along with sand buckets and shovels for the kids to play in – have a sand castle building contest – separating the group into teams

• Play a game of limbo • Have the movie, Lilo & Stitch, playing in the background on one of your tv’s

• Play a game of bowling with some bottles and a coconut

• Make nametags for your guests with their Hawaiian names on it (hisurf.com) – also give the guests a small bag of shells - have everyone call each other by their Hawaiian name – if anyone messes up, then they have to give up their shell to who they messed up to

• Let kids decorate small picture frames with shells and silk tropical flowers

• Do sand craft art in cute bottles

LUAU PARTY FAVOR IDEAS:

• Toy ukulele

• Send out thank you’s with a cute pic of the party that say “Mahalo nui loa” (thank you very much)

• Beach balls

• Mini sun-tan lotion bottles (customize with personalized labels you can stick over the original label)

• Sunglasses

• Flip-flops

• Small bag of goldfish crackers

• Beach bucket with shovel

• Silk leis, ankle leis, grass skirts, and flower hair clips