Luau Party
Luau parties are a blast! Start by ordering Luau party supplies at AHappytime.MakesParties.com.
Make your luau memorable with these ideas and party planning tips.
Luau Party Food
- Pineapple and fruit salad are always appropriate for a luau party.
- Cut a watermelon in half lengthwise, and hollow out to use as a serving bowl for fruit salad or watermelon cubes.
- Roast pork is an authentic hawaiian luau food. You'll find great recipes for this and other dishes at AlohaFriendsLuau.com.
- For simpler, more American-style food to go with your luau theme, you can't beat barbecued hamburgers and hot dogs, baked beans, chips, etc.
- Coconut topping on a cake is very tropical looking; so is pineapple upside-down cake!
- The palm tree cake pan at The Party Works is ideal for a luau. They also have a pineapple shaped cake pan.
- Try our simply delicious party punch recipe.
- Serve drinks in plastic coconut cups.
- Add paper umbrellas to drinks for tropical flair, or use brightly colored straws.
Luau Party Ideas
- Luau music makes the party lively! If you don't already own any Hawaiian or luau music, you can order Luau CDs online.
- Greet each guest with a lei.
- Make your own party invitations. Use blue or green card stock, flattened bits of silk flowers and/or raffia, pictures from online or magazines, etc. Cut the paper to fit a standard envelope, or find envelopes the size you want before making the invitations. Print the inside/information side of the invitation using your computer and printer. If you aren't handy with a word processor or layout program, just do one by hand, filling in all the info, then scan and print the rest of the invitations or have them copied at a print shop. Depending on your design, you can get one (four-fold regular weight colored paper, two (single fold card stock) or four (postcard-style on card stock*) invitations from a page. Be sure to print a test copy before you run off a bunch! *For postcard-style invitations, print the backs, 4 to a page; decorate the other side, mail in an envelope.
- Use a little coconut tanning oil in potpourri for a tropical scent.
Luau Party Activities
- Limbo is a traditional luau activity. All you need is a bamboo pole, and two people to hold the ends!
- Hire authentic Hawaiian musicians and hula dancers, or recruit volunteers before the party.
- Hula hoops are colorful, inexpensive fun.
- Get a tiki pinata for decor and party excitement!
Luau Decorating Ideas
- Got a patio table with an umbrella? Get an umbrella cover
to transform it!
- Use a brightly colored sheet as a tablecloth on the food table.
- Put raffia skirting around the food table.
- Tiki torches set the atmosphere for nighttime parties. If insects are a problem in your area, be sure to get torch fuel with Citronella.
- Decorate a tree as a tiki totem pole.
- Use string lights in trees or between poles to create a lively party atmosphere. (If you use extension cords, secure them well or run them through a no-traffic area.)
Party Planning
- See our general party planning tips for a full party planning timetable.