Use flower leis for party decorations as well as welcoming gifts.
The best ideas for a teen's luau birthday party require refreshments, decorations and entertainment that guests will consider cool. You don't have to spend a fortune on the party, but quick cupcakes and cartoon streamers just aren't going to impress teens. You're going to need ample food, mature decorations and several different activities for a successful teen party. Does this Spark an idea?
Invitations
Invitations with a tropical theme give guests a vital sign about the style of party they should expect. In addition to the tropical theme and basic party information, a quality invitation notes if guests need to bring personal items, such as swimsuits and sunscreen. Invitation selections include a card shaped like a hula girl, a tropical beach decorated card or a tropical fish decorated card.
Refreshments
Combine healthy and indulgent dishes to make sure there are luau-themed refreshments to suit every guest. Healthy dishes can include tropical fruit salad, pineapple chicken kabobs, coconut rice balls and pineapple coleslaw. Indulgent dishes can include roasted pork, fried clams, crispy coconut shrimp, sweet Hawaiian rolls, sweet potato fries, strawberry-orange gelatin salad and palm heart bacon salad. Luau-themed birthday cake selections include a pineapple upside-down cake, coconut-chocolate lava cake or a mango cake with lemon icing.
Drinks for a teen's luau birthday party can include simple and mock-cocktail refreshments. Simple drinks can include lemon water, iced tea, lemonade, soda, fruit juice and fruit punch. Mock cocktails can include virgin strawberry daiquiris, virgin pineapple margaritas, coconut mango smoothies and orange juice fizzers. Paper umbrellas, fruit slices and colorful stir sticks can add a fancy tropical touch to any of the drinks.
Decorations
Turn the outdoors into a tropical paradise with low-cost luau party decorations. Basic decorations can include tiki torches, tiki-patterned tablecloths and coconut shell centerpieces filled with fake tropical flowers. Cardboard palm trees along fences or walls, plastic parrots hanging from trees and plastic flower garlands wrapped anywhere provide tropical background decorations for the party.
Decorations for your luau party guests are as important as the decorations for the party area. Plastic flower leis and grass skirts give teen guests a quick luau look for the birthday celebration. Additional items can include plastic flowers for girls to tuck behind one ear and a plastic shark-tooth necklace for "brave" guys.
Entertainment
Prepare a variety of luau-themed entertainment options to keep teen guests occupied and to allow for failed ideas that guests opt out on. Contests can include limbo, pineapple chucking, hula-hoop endurance, hula-hoop style, best hula dance and best sandcastle. Additional entertainment can include volleyball, dancing, swimming and water-balloon fights.
If you don't mind spending a little extra money, rent special equipment and/or book performers for the luau birthday party. Equipment rentals can include a karaoke machine for a tropical singing contest and a projector/screen for a tropical-themed video game contest. Performers can include fire-eaters, fire jugglers, hula dancers and Polynesian folksingers.
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