Luau Party
Luau parties are a blast! Start by ordering your Luau party supplies and decorations online from Shindigz, or see the great selection of Luau partyware, such as the items shown above, 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.
 Inflatable Palm Tree Beverage Cooler 6 ft. |
 3-D Giant 5 Tiki Head |
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