Have lots of artificial flowers, set out tropical fruits in bowls. Gather all of your houseplants together on the table for a tropical feel.

Fruit Kabobs

Using toothpicks, skewer fruits and cubes of cheese.
Good fruits to use are pineapple chunks, apple chunks, halved orange segments, and grapes.

Shark Punch

Place one “gummi shark” into each section of an ice cube tray. Fill with water and freeze. Float shark cubes in blue punch. To make blue punch combine blue Hawaiian punch or Kool-aid (mixed according to package directions) with lemon-lime soda.

Luau Burgers
for each sandwich you’ll need-

1 thin slice Spam
1 ring of pineapple
1 slice of american cheese

Layer on bottom half of a hamburger bun- Spam, pineapple, cheese, then top half of bun. Wrap each sandwich in foil. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.

• Who are you?
  Translate everyone's name into Hawaiian at this site- Find Your Hawaiian Name
  Write the Hawaiian names on large sheets of paper and tape them up around the room. As the guests arrive, have them try to find their name.
• Make flowered headbands
  Using artificial flowers and inexpensive plastic headbands, glue flowers to bands using hot glue or craft glue.
• Limbo contest
• Hula hooping
• Make your own grass skirts
  Use green plastic garbage bags. Place the bag on a flat surface. Cut fringe from the open end of bag, to just about 3" from the top edge. Fasten skirts on with a piece of double stick tape.

flowered headbands, leis, grass skirts

Hula Girl Cake

1 box cake mix, any flavor
3 cups green frosting
Barbie doll, or similar type doll

Grease and flour a 2-quart ovenproof bowl. Prepare batter as directed on box, and pour into bowl. Bake about 1 hour 15 minutes, or until done. (Test with a toothpick.) Cool about 15 minutes, then invert onto a metal rack. Cool completely. Cut out center of cake (just enough for Barbie to fit into.) Using a cake decorator, frost cake with green frosting, making strands of frosting from top to bottom of cake to resemble grass skirt. Wrap bottom half of doll with plastic wrap. Insert doll into center of cake. Decorate with tiny artificial flowers.