Hawaiian Luau
Invitations:
Graphics of palm trees, hula dancer etc.
On front~
Your invited to join "name of child" in her beautiful island hideaway
for a Hawaiian Birthday Luau
Inside~
Island Location: street address
Date:
Time:
RSVP:
Find each child's Hawaiian name and print it in
the invitation with the meaning. You could also have name tags with their Hawaiian
name.
Try this web site for names:
Find Your Hawaiian Name
Decorations:
For tables make them low using bricks and plywood. Find
cushions or mats for the kids to sit on. Decorate with lots of plants and
flowers. Set up tiki torches outside. Use pineapples and/or coconuts on the
table. Hollow the out and fill with exotic or other flowers. Find paper palm
trees and volcano to decorate tables. Draw a large palm tree on butcher paper.
Or make one...get an empty carpet rolls from a
furniture store. Place each roll in a bucket of sand, then add green construction paper
leaves or get some large leaves from the woods. Tape or staple to top of the roll. This
makes a great palm tree. Take pictures of the kids
"underneath". Also get left over flowers from a flower shop to make leis. For table
decorations, we put tea candles in the middle of small paper plates, and hot glued shells
and flowers around the plates. For homemade coconuts, use brown lunch bags stuffed
with newspaper.
Lots of Hawaiian music.
Cake and Food:
Cake: Pineapple upside down cake
Or any cake with palm trees, hula dancers on it. You can make an island cake by
baking a sheet cake and one small oblong thin cake. Frost the sheet cake blue, set
on the oblong cake and frost it brown and green for an island. Decorate with palm
trees, etc.
Volcano Cake: Make a bundt cake.
Frost like a volcano and place dry ice in the center before serving. - Tracy Miller
Serve:
Watermelon with melon balls and pineapple chunks inside.
For punch have Hawaiian Punch and Seven-Up mix, or a slushie. Serve in hollowed out
pineapples (can put a plastic cup inside) for small parties or oranges for large parties,
garnish with an umbrella.
Semi freeze a bowl of water. Before solid, stick in mini palm trees, hula and
Hawaiian figures. Place in punch when solid for an island (by Tracy Miller).
Goodie Bag:
Grass skirts, leis, sunglasses, sunblock, etc.
To Make Grass Skirts: Purchase trash bags with drawstrings. Cut off bottom,
cut slits up near drawstring.
Games and Activities:
1. Make a tiki gods out of toilet paper tubes. Let the kids decorate them with
markers/stickers.
2. Make palm trees using rolled up brown paper and add leaves using green
construction paper.
3. Give each guest a lei and a kiss. They also can put a flower behind their ear.
Left side means married. Right side means single.
4. Coconut relay: Roll the coconut with a broom from one area to another and
back.
5. Obstacle course, set up kiddy pools (hot coals), walk on a board, eat a fireball
or sourball at the end (fire-eater) and other obstacles you can find.
6. A hula contest. See who can do the best, give prizes. Maybe a prize
for each participant based on a special quality they give to the dance.
7. Play a rendition of musical chairs...Musical Island, made with paper, cover with
contact paper to make more durable.
8. On butcher paper, draw a tropical scene. Let the
kids
color and draw themselves into the scene.
9. Limbo (or water limbo, under a stream of water from the hose). Look for
other water games under the "Water Blast party"
Please e-mail me with additional ideas
boardlr@coupeville.net
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