About Luau Theme Parties
In the Hawaiian culture the term "Luau" is very often means a "party". It is feast involving great hawaiian recipes like kalua pig, poi, lomi salmon, haupia, and of course tropical drinks. Entertainment is arranged in the form of Hawaiian music and Hula dancing. There are several kinds of luaus, like wedding luaus, bachelor luaus, and birthday luaus. To celebrate an occassion in an authentic and traditinal Luau way you'd have to visit Hawaii. But, we'll show you how to get the best bang for the buck while celebrating it locally. Since our Luau party theme is geared towards kids, we'll have kids friendly food and drinks, but they will have fun nonetheless.
Preferred Venue: A Luau party is best arranged near a water body with some open space around it. If you have a pool in your back yard, it might be a good idea to arrange it there.
Preferred Season: Luah Birthday Party is an excellent choice for celebrating birthdays of kids in and around the summer months. Infact, it is the most popular birthday theme for summer birthdays. A tropical feel in the atmosphere is a must for kids to have fun outdoors.
Luau Decorations:
There is no set of rules here and you can use your imagination to transform the party area into a tropical paradise. All symbol of the tropical polynesian culture can be used as decor. A few examples of items that can be easily found are, tiki lights, grass table runners, tropical fruits, surf boards, ocean and beach backdrop, Hula personalized birthday banners, palm tree centerpieces, palm tree drink coolers, palm tree wall decor, etc.
Provide some grass skirts for kids to wrap around their waists. Beachcomber Hats will bring the Tropical Hawiian spirit to the party.
A Lei is a must too. You can several kinds of Leis, Plumeria Poepoe Lei, Maui Lei, bracelets and head bands. Also, its a good idea for the adults to dress up in beach shirts with one of them carrying a Coconut Ukulele. You can also set up a Luau Party bar to serve "Hawaiian drinks" to the kids at the party.
Luau Theme Invitations and Thanks-You notes
You can order personalized invitations with luau/hula themes to attract the guests to the best Luau party in town. On the other hand you can make your invitations by printing with plam trees and ocean as a background and hand writing the invitations. Obviously, this works only if you have a limited number of guests and have some free time.
Luau Theme Party Supplies
Luau Theme party supplies are abundantly available on the internet and local party stores. You will be able to easily find luau themed dinner plates, napkins, balloon, cups, forks, spoons, knives, Luau activity placemats, table covers, palm tree confetti, cake candles.
Luau Party Games & Activities
- Mai Tai Limbo Dance: Limbo Kit, Luau Music CD, Mai Tai look alike drink
Luau Pinata
Hula Hoop
1. First, purchase a whole bunch of hula-hoops in bright colors. 2. Give all of your guests a hula-hoop.
3. Have all of the guests hula-hoop to the best of their ability to music.
4. The person who hula-hoops the longest wins. You can give out prizes for the most creative hula-hoop, worst hula-hoop, and most rhythmic hula-hoop.
Another idea, is to have your guests wear big fruit hats as they hula-hoop. Whoever hula-hoops the longest while wearing a fruit hat wins. Whoever loses the hat, well they lose.
Colorful Hawaiian Shirt/Dress Runway Show
1. Fresh fruit basket with tropical fruit.
2. Jimmy Buffet and other luau-esque music CD’s
3. Bottle of rum to make some Mai Tai’s
4. Hawaiian Macadamia Nuts and Coffee
5. Hawaiian shirt or muumuu
6. Hawaiian themed movies and shows, such as Gidget Goes Hawaiian, Blue Hawaii, or Hawaii Five-O.
7. For the kids, give out leis, flip-flops, sunglasses, and necklaces.
Arts & Crafts
Luau Recipes/Foods
Below is a lit of mouth watering kid friendly luau recipes that can be prepared with minimum effort and are great tasting at the same time.
Festive Luau Pineapple
Taro Chips
Hawaiian Pizzas
Spongebobs Hawaiian Pizzas
Krusty Krab Taro Chips
Patrick Star Luau Cake
Luau-Shell-Snacks
Kauai Trail Mix
Luau Party Favors & Toys
Luau party favor boxes can also be ordered to thank the party goers with "treasures from the Hawaiian islands". The favor boxes include parrot bean bag, Hawaiian shirt notepad, box of 4 crayons, fish squirter and Luau sticker sheet.
Luau Music, Movies/DVD, Books
Of course, we need the Luau music for the luau party. You can find lots of free luau party music online. Make sure you select a good mix of lively and calm songs. You can have the kids do the limbo dance and some Hula moves. Kids and adults both will have fun dancing to the Hawaiian Drums!
Related Party Themes
Hula Birthday Party Theme.
Other Resources
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