Play host to a colorful tropical island theme party.
A tropical island-themed party is a fun way to celebrate a birthday party for kids, teens or adults and a great way to enliven any adult get-together. Invite guests to come dressed in their Hawaiian shirts or flowered sarongs and enjoy a fantasy island getaway with colorful decorations and delicious food and drink. Does this Spark an idea?
Decorations
Creating a tropical island setting will be all-important for this party theme. You can purchase inexpensive inflatable palms trees and other tropical island decorations from party or novelty stores or online theme party suppliers such as Theme-Parties.MakeParties.com. Alternatively or in addition, get some mural paper and paints from an arts supplies store to create a mural of sand, trees and water to put up on the wall. Other inexpensive ways to decorate include buying colored sand and sea shells from a craft store and arranging them on tables, blowing up some beach balls to set around and purchasing some stuffed parrots to perch here and there. Add some streamers and latex balloons in tropical colors such as bright blue, green, red and yellow, or use a tropical flower decorating scheme of pink, blue and purple and hang paper lanterns and tropical flower lights. Check novelty and party stores or online lighting suppliers such as 100Candles.com.
Food
Guests will look forward to the food and drink served at an island theme party. Serve up seafood-themed finger food, such as crab legs and coconut shrimp with dipping sauce or shrimp or crab dip with crackers, potato chips or veggies. Create a fruit tray with a selection of tropical fruits, such as fresh pineapple, bananas, kiwi, mango and papaya, or make a tropical fruit salad. Find creative and delicious tropical treats suitable for an island theme party, such as Crab Salad with Mango Salsa, by consulting online recipe sites such as TheFoodNetwork.com.
Drinks
For an adult party, there is an almost endless array of tropical drinks to choose from, from the pina colada to the singapore sling. Prepare in advance by choosing your drinks and buying the alcohol and mixes you'll need. Visit a party or dollar store ahead of time to get cocktail glasses in different shapes and colors to show off the drinks. With the addition of orange or lime slices, maraschino cherries and cocktail umbrellas, the drinks will become part of the decor as well as the entertainment. You can also serve the drinks out of hollowed-out coconuts or pineapples, especially if you're using the fruit or coconut meat for the party food. For the kids, get some plastic coconut and pineapple drinking cups from the party or novelty store and fill them with non-alcoholic tropical fruit punch.
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