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Make your next beach or pool party a celebration to remember...with cool ideas for Hawaiian luau-themed fun.

Here are some easy ideas for creating your own custom invitations - as well as fun activities, decorations, delicious food ideas and links to recipes:

Hawaiian Luau Party Invitations:

• Do-it-yourself invitations may include any kind of tropical clip art, or photos of a hula dancer, surfer, tropical flowers, a lei, a volcanoe, or a map of Hawaii.
• Don't forget to include party details in both English and Hawaiian.
• Also, be sure to ask guests to wear Hawaiian shirts for the occasion!!

Hawaiian Luau Party Decorations:

• See if your local florist carries inexpensively-priced orchids (now available in most big flower markets), or ask about tropical flowers such as Bird of Paradise, Hybiscus, Red Anthurium, or Red Ginger flowers.
• surf boards (borrow one from a surfer friend, or create one from inexpensive styrofoam board)
• palm fronds (Tip: you can also make your own palm trees by cutting out palm fronds from green construction paper, then gluing or taping them to cardboard tubes.)
• pineapples and coconuts

Hawaiian Luau Party Games & Activities:

• also see in the Party Blog: Hawaiian Luau Party Food Ideas

  Hula Hoop Contest - Award prizes for the person who can hula the longest, and for the person who can successfully hula the most hoops. (Tip: make inexpensive hula skirts from green drawstring trash bags. Cut the bottom off, then make thin slits to create the hula grass skirt. The draw strings allows for one-size-fits-all.)

• Pineapple Bowling - So silly it gives adults and kids the giggles as they bowl with coconuts to knock down pineapple "pins". Awards to the party-goer with the best aim.
  
  
• Limbo Contest - How low can you go?
  
  
• The Big Kahuna - The award goes to the party animal who arrives with the most colorful Hawaiian shirt.

Hawaiian Luau Party Favor Ideas:

• Lei
• Sunglasses
• Sand buckets and shovels
• Blow-up beach balls
• Sun tan lotion
• Beach towels

Hawaiian Luau Party Food Ideas & Recipes:

• goldfish crackers
• macadamia nuts
• fruit smoothies
• tropical punch recipes
• pineapple upside-down cake
• volcano cake - easy bake a chocolate bundt cake from packaged mix, then carefully placing a small piece of dry ice in the middle hole for an instant "smokin' " volcano.
• fresh fruit plate - pineapple chunks, papaya slices, strawberries, grapes, watermelon, bananas.

More about Hawaiian party ideas around the Web:

Luau Hawaiian Themed Party for Kids - Amazing Moms.com guide to creating decorations and party favors, hosting fun party games, food ideas and more.

Hawaiian Tropical Luau Party - The best vistor-submitted birthday party ideas with a tropical theme.

Guide to Everything Luau - A complete resource for recipes and party food ideas, drink recipes, do-it-yourself decorations, party favors and lots more from the Polynesian Cultural Center.

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