Hawaiian
Hello
On your invitations, ask your guests to come dressed in their favorite
Hawaiian shirt, shorts, dress, thongs, grass skirts, or Puka shells.
When each guest arrives, let the birthday child present him or her
with a plastic lei to set the mood. Don’t forget to give each
person a welcoming “Aloha!”
Games
Pass
the Coconut
- The players sit in a circle with one player holding a coconut.
The music (a Hawaiian tune) begins and the coconut is passed around
the circle until the music stops. The player holding the coconut
when the music stops is out. The music begins again and the play
continues until there is only one player left.
Flamingos
- This
is a game of elimination. Two players should stand about five feet
apart, facing away from each other. Each challenger holds his raised
foot behind him in one hand with a water pistol in the other hand.
On the signal each flamingo turns around and tries to make the other
contestant lose his balance and drop his foot. The contestants may
not touch each other, but a squirt of water is part of the game.
The winner takes on the next challenger until there is only one
player remaining.
Hula
La
- You will need the following items:
• Coconut Bra
• Grass Skirt
• Straw Hat
• Flower Ankle Bracelet
• Lei
Divide
your guest into two teams. Choose a person from each team to be
the "Hula La." Have
each team form a line with the "Hula La" (the chosen team
member) at the end. Place one of each of the items in a pile at
the beginning of each line. To begin, the first person in line puts
on all the items in the pile. The second person in line can help
by handing items to the person getting dressed. After all items
are somewhere on the first person's body, they undress and place
items with help of the next person in line. Continue until all members
of the team have dressed and undressed and the "Hula La"
wears all the items. The winning team is the team that finishes
first.
Treasure
Hunt - Kids love treasure hunts. So why not bury some
small party favors and let them go at it.
Pin the coconut on the Palm Tree
- Just
like pin the tail on the donkey but a luau theme game instead
Food Ideas
Easy
Punch
-Let the kids help with this colorful and fruity beverage.
1 can
Hawaiian Punch
1/2 gallon pineapple sherbet
20-02 liter bottle of ginger ale
Freeze a can
of Hawaiian Punch fruit juice until slushy. Pour into a punch bowl.
Add 1/2 gallon pineapple sherbet and two bottles of ginger ale.
Frozen
Strawberry Margarita
Lime
Coarse Salt
2 oz. Tequila
1 oz. Triple Sec
3/4 oz. Fresh Lime Juice
1/2 cup Frozen Strawberries
1/2 cup Crushed Ice
Rub a lime around
the rim of a margarita glass and then dip the glass into a pile
of coarse salt. Combine everything into a blender, blend for 20
seconds or until smooth, pour into the margarita and garnish with
a lime wedge.
Watermelon
Fruit Basket
Simply cut watermelon in half and hollow out. Cube the fruit from
the watermelon, add other cubed tropical fruit and accent with various
food picks
Kalua Pig
This recipe requires little preparation and cooks a long time, giving
you plenty of free time for decorating and getting ready for your
party! Prep/Cook
5 hours
5 -7 pounds
pork butt
2 tablespoons Hawaiian salt or rock salt
4 tablespoons liquid smoke
Preheat oven
to 350 degrees. Score pork butt on all sides by slashing diagonally
and making slits that are 1/4 inch deep and 1 inch apart. Rub salt
into the slits, then rub all sides with liquid smoke. Seal pork
completely in foil. Place in a 350 degree oven and bake for 4 to
5 hours.
Aloha
Salad Prep/Cook
20 minutes
1/3 cup
of olive oil
2 -3 tablespoons sugar
3 tablespoons rice vinegar
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon sesame seed oil
1 package ramen noodles (shrimp flavored)
1 cup green scallions chopped
1/3 cup slivered almonds
2 tablespoons sesame seeds
1 head of napa cabbage shredded
Remove flavor
packet from the ramen noodles. Leave the noodles in the package
and break them up into small pieces. Place noodles, almonds and
sesame seeds on a baking tray. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes
or until browned. Mix
together oil, sugar, vinegar, salt, pepper, scallions and ramen
flavor packet with the napa cabbage. Add noodle mixture to dressing
and pour over cabbage.
Erupting
Volcano Cake - Bake your favorite cake in an ovenproof
bowl, then hollow a well in the top for the lava!
1 short juice
glass to fit into the well with the top even or below the top of
the cake
1 small box of cherry Jell-O
1 small bottle lemon juice
1 tablespoon of bicarbonate of soda
Make Jell-O
according to package directions.Let
it cool 15 minutes
Fill juice glass
1/2 full with the warm Jell-O, (not hot). Pour in enough lemon juice
so that it is 1/2" from the top. Place
glass down into the well on the top of the cake. Place
cake on table and when everyone is ready, put 1 tablespoon bicarbonate
of soda onto the glass and briefly stir, Jell-O "lava"
will immediately pour out the top of the glass and flow down the
sides of the cake.
Luau
Party Ideas
