Surf, sand, and the sun. it’s the perfect description for summer and what everyone’s ideal vacation would have. It conjures up dreams of the surf pounding the beach, those perfect waves for boogie boarding or longboard surfing, and the sound of the sea. It’s time for a surfing birthday party!
Choose invitations that showcase the surf, whether it’s the pipeline on the North Shore, or the bikini babes on North Beach. You can print out invitations that just show a simple line drawing of a surfboard with the surfer catching the waves and writing party details inside. Sent in an envelope with some colored sand, along with the invitation to come in surf gear, there’s hardly anyone that can refuse this party!
Even if your party is inside, you can always set it up like the beach. Use balloons to set the mood and choose fun beach colors like red, turquoise, lavender, blue, and pink. Set them up in bunches in beach pails filled with sand. Create palm trees out of cardboard, or purchase inflatable ones. Cylindrical Japanese paper lanterns are pretty to look at when hung up in a room, and it really bring the beach vibe in. Life-sized surfboards can be cut from shiny butcher paper, whether colored and left plain or white with patterns added.
Give every guest a lei as they arrive. The lei is an important Hawaiian welcome symbol. Then, take pictures of them hanging ten!
Do something fun and different at the children’s table for this surfing party. Why should you use cloth? Lay out a grass mat where you’ll be positioning the tableware and the centerpieces. Set up a few fishbowls with soil, sand, aquatic plants, and shells and let them settle for a few days before you put a few goldfish in each bowl and make that your centerpiece. We’re talking Hawaii, the land of casual cool, so don’t be hung up on the matchy-matchy place settings. Give each person different colored tableware and nakins, mixing the colors up thoroughly.
As for the display table, use surfer fabric for the tablecloth but decorate the table sides with ti leaves to make a male’s grass skirt. Center a cake stand onto the table and decorate it with large shells all around. Make the cake stand out by its simplicity. A rectangular cake is easily decorated when covered a fourth of the way with light brown frosting for sand and the other three fourths with blue frosting for the water. Add white frosting foam and position a surfer there headed towards shore. Sprinkle the sand area with brown-tinted sugar.
What’s the perfect food for a surfing birthday party? Picnic food! Meatball hoagies made in miniature, plain cheese pizza, and snacks of popcorn, pretzels and goldfish make up a great menu. Serve a traditional Hawaiian pineapple upside down cake for dessert along with a tropical flavored sherbet like coconut. You could set up a tropical juice bar in a corner where people choose what kind of drink they want.
Beach paraphernalia fills the surfing birthday favors. A big, floppy hat, sunblock, and cool sunglasses fill up a mesh bag that doubles as a carry all later on. Bubble solution and fish candy flesh it out.
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