Hawaiian Luau Party Ideas

Hawaiian Luau Party Ideas & Decorations

Aloha!! A Hawaiian Luau party is one of the most fun and creative parties to plan. There are so many ways to be creative and bring your theme to life. Children also love Hawaiian parties because the decorations are so colorful, vibrant and fun.

1) The best way to begin creating your tropical getaway is to use Hawaiian Luau Party Supplies. These are fun and a great way to incorporate your theme into your party.

2) Continue on your quest to transport your guests to a tropical island with island decorations such as Palm Tree decorations, Grass Table Skirts and Pineapple Centerpieces!

3) More fun Hawaiian ideas are wearing Grass Skirts, handing out Lei's and Flower Hair Clips when your guests arrive and greeting them with an Aloha.

4) The Pineapple Centerpieces are a great touch for the tables as well as sprinkling Flower Petals or shells. Or make a tropical fruit basket arrangment (pineapples, coconut, bananas, mangoes and guavas) for your centerpiece.

5) To continue with your theme decorate with Paper Lantern Garland, use Coconut Cups to serve punch, a Tiki Cooler to keep your sodas cold and direct your guests with a Luau Party Sign!

6 If the Luau is happening indoors then use some Tropical Wall Decals on your walls and Beach Sign Cut Outs as well as scattering toy crabs and fish around the party area.

7) Another fun decoration is a surf board. If you don't have a surf board make one out of an old ironing board. Remove the legs and cover with heavy construction paper. Of course, decorate the paper to look like a surfboard using flower stickers, fish and write Big Kahuna or Sunset Beach.

8) Hollow out fruit such as oranges or pineapples and use as candy dishes.

Hawaiian Luau Party Ideas & Favors

Goodie Bag Ideas - Include Flower Hair Clips, Sunglasses, Lei's (ankle, wristband or neck), Shell Necklace, Beach Stickers, flip flops and candy.

Hawaiian Luau Party Ideas & Activities

Shovel And Pail Relay

1) Purchase two sand buckets and shovels.

2) Divide the children into 2 teams.

3) Organize a relay race where the children have to pick up a small block with the shovel on one side of the room or yard and then run to the other and dump it into the pail.

4) The first team to put all their blocks into their pail is the winner.

Sand Box Hunt

1) Create a sand box. Using a small wading pool and pour sand into it.

2) You can play one of two ways. You can hide small toys in the sand and have the children dig through the sand to find the treasure. They get to keep what they find. Or, hide small plastic fish or crabs or both in the sand and tell the children they get a gift if they find 2 fish and 2 crab (or whatever number you choose). You will need to have separate gifts for the children.

Hula Toss

1) Have the kids throw a ball through a hula hoop for a predetermined distance. They get a prize if it goes through the hoop.

Hula Hoop Contest

Have a hula hoop contest. Either have enough hula hoops for all the kids to "hula" at the same time. Whoever lasts the longest wins. Or group the children into pairs and have each pair compete (you only need 2 hula hoops this way).

Island Jewelry

Provide the kids with any pasta that has a hole in it such as macaroni, pasta shells, penne, rigatoni and so on. Provide string to use to make necklaces, bracelets and anklets.

Fish Pond

1) You will need a wading pool, a small net (a fish tank net works well) several rubber fish (if you can't find rubber fish easily use ducks). You will need as many fish and prizes as you have guests.

2) Put numbers on the bottom of each fish (use a waterproof marker) and number each prize.

3) Have each child use the net to try to catch a fish. Once they've caught a fish they get to open the prize that corresponds with the number on the bottom of their fish.

4) To make the game more exciting you can have a golden fish egg prize. Use a gold marker (waterproof) to draw a golden egg on the bottom of 1 fish. Whoever gets the fish with the golden fish egg gets the "Golden Fish Egg" prize. This prize should be a little more exciting then the other prizes.

Hot Coconut

Play as you would hot potato, but using a coconut.

Sand Art

You will need glass jars and colored sand. The kids will create works of art!

Also, check out our Kids Party Games page with over 30 kids party games!

Hawaiian Luau Party Ideas & Food

Skewered fruit

BBQ chicken, hamburgers and hotdogs

Pineapple pizza

Macaroni and cheese using shell pasta

Fish sticks

Serve Chicken, tuna or fruit salad in pineapple boats. Cut the pineapple in half and remove the inside fruit. Fill with the salad.

Hawaiian Fruit Smoothies - Use any of the below ingredients, put in blender with ice and top with Whipped cream and a paper umbrella! Ingredients: pineapple juice, orange juice, apple juice, mango juice, cranberry juice, pomegranate juice, frozen strawberries, frozen bananas, frozen grapes, frozen mangoes, frozen pineapples and any other fruit you can imagine!

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