Q. im having an end of the school year party for about 60 7th and 8th graders. i have decided to have the party at my house and we have plenty of room and about an acre of land. we are planning on having a bonfire but im not sure what else to plan. i dont want everyone just sitting around because thats no fun! i have been to plenty of parties like that and i ended up leaving...so if you have any fun ideas please share! :) also decorating and invitation ideas
thankyou!
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I love the other poster's response of relay races and summer Olympics. You can do a big barbeque, grill up some hamburgers and hot dogs, have an ice cream bar, lots of soda, lemonade, and iced tea, and LOTS of games.
You can have volley ball, badmitten, kickball, softball, there are plenty of team games you can play being there is a huge group and plenty of space. You can also do water games, water balloons, sprinkler, or one of those water things that they sell in toy stores, you run the water down it, it looks like a plastic mat, and then you just slide down it, but it's flat. I'm sure if you go to a toy store to the water/yard section you will find lots of things you can set up in the yard. Even Target or WalMart, even the big water gun, those water blasters, you can play with them in the yard if a parent can bring them later after school lets out and if they're allowed.
If everyone can chip in, you can rent out a bouncy castle. I know where I live, that's very popular here with every age group, even older kids and teens at every party. I would stick to going to a toy section though and seeing what they have in their backyard and water section for games and water things that you and your friends can do.
You can buy ice cream and toppings and set up an ice cream bar for everyone to make their own sundaes.
You can set up lawn chairs, some with umbrellas over them and some without, so people can sit and chat when they want to, also get some inflatable beach balls lots of them for everyone to throw around and have fun with. Get bubbles, make it light hearted and fun. Even a bubble machine get a few of them going with bubble solution, see if any of the kids have any at home and that will be fun to have the yard filled with bubbles!
I would walk around Toys 'r Us and see what they have for spring, I know it sounds like it's younger than the age group you are, but you'd be surprised at the fun ideas you can come up with. The water balloon fights, maybe even a tug a war game with the 2 teams and put a baby pool in the middle so the losing team goes into the baby pool, etc, I'm sure you can find lots of ideas roaming around the store.
Make sure to have lots of music for everyone to listen to, I would also buy some beach pails and put the plastic forks and spoons and things in the pails, and maybe find some really small pails to decorate tables with as centerpieces, etc. You can even use the beach pails and shovels for the ice cream and use the shoves to serve ice cream, and the pails to hold the ice cream containers.
You can even use beach towels as tablecloths and lay some beach towels around the yard for people to sit on. Get some plastic sunglasses and visors, go the dollar stores and see what you can find there. I would check the dollar store first for these things then venture out to the other stores to see what they have.
For the invites, be creative, but don't stress out. You don't want to spend a fortune on them. If you can get a good deal, and if you're inviting the entire 7th and 8th grade class, but a few beach balls, write out the invite, deflate the ball and have the classes have to blow up the ball to read the invite if the teachers will allow that to happen. This way you only have to do about 2 invites per class and not 60-70 individual ones. If you have to do one per person, it's going to be harder to be creative without spending a fortune.
Your party sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun! I hope you and your friends have a great time and that some of these ideas helped!
need Sweet 16 luau party help for this summer.?
Jess
hey! i'm having a sweet 16 luau party. very hawaiian/tropical theme. i need party ideas! fast! please help.
about my party:
this will take place early august in nj. it will be in my backyard with about 20 people. where we live about that time of the year, the sun goes down around 8 o'clock. the party starts at 4 and ends at 11.
what will take place:
the limbo
hoola hoop contests
relaxing by the pool
supplies:
silk flower leis
painted shells with guests' names on them
grass skirts
flamingo or palm tree table covers
beach balls
umbrella
sunscreen
blow up palm trees
plastic fish bowls filled with water, sand and rocks with a flower on top
tiki torches
beach chairs
towels
straws with umbrellas in them
aloha banner
palm tree center pieces
luau confetti
disposable cameras!
maracas
plastic silverware with a tie and flower around each
sunglasses
plastic tiki cups where i can write the guests' name on
fish net to drape around the back deck. here, there will be pictures of me growing up (mom & best friends are making me =/- what kind of pix should i pick out?), a list of all the guests names translated into hawaiian, pictures of hawaii, fake fish and shells...
food/drinks:
fruit kabobs
hawaiian punch
virgin pina coladas
i'm making chocolate covered strawberries, marshmallows and pretzels for dessert.
what kind of candy should i have there? i was thinking... air heads, gum, jolly ranchers, skittles, sour patch, sweet tarts, nerds, sweetish fish....
my invitation will be a cutout surfboard with the info on it.
am i missing anything? i want this party to really be perfect! even the littlest idea is appreciated!
need help with:
ideas about food
activities to do
decoration ideas
MUSIC IDEAS! THE LATEST TECHNO, PARTY MUSIC ALL NEEDED.
thank you!!
Answer
Had a luau for New Years Eve a few years back, we had an area covered in straw beach mats, which we purchased at the dollar store (all though you can also get them online). This is where everyone hung out in their bathing suit while they were eating, chatting, etc.
We set up a photo booth of a surfboard (you can rent one or buy one) against a blue backdrop and people put on lei's, beach comber hats, hawaiian shirts, sunglasses, etc and had their photo taken as a souvenier, which they put in a photo frame made out of seashells at the party. We also purchased craft kits from Oriental Trading Company which included seashell boxes, leis, seashell photo frames, and starfish Hawaiian character pins.
We set up a prize booth for prizes when you won games. The booth was decorated to look like a tropical hut. We used a table, and then we used wrapping paper tubes painted dark brown as tree trunks, and then cut out green construction paper palm leaves to hang over a carboard awning. This is where people went to pick up their prizes when they won a game, all though you could use it for other things as well.
For food ideas, lots of snacks, blue jello with gummy fish in it is a great dessert, goldfish crackers served in sand pails (clean of course) is a great snack, gummy sharks and gummy fish are also great for snacks and candy. You have to have a cake, and we did a wonderful fish cake that we got from Family Fun's web site: http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=50135 it used Necco Wafers for the scales, everyone loved it. They also have a mermaid, and some other themed cakes you could use if you think the fish is too baby-ish.
For music, look for luau party CD's at party supply stores. Some of the luau themed songs that we used included:
Liliu E Lei Momi
It's Just An Old Hawaiian Custom
My Little Grass Shack
Sweet Leilani
Hukilau
Hawaiian Hula Eyes
Little Brown Gal
Hawaiian Wedding Song
Beyond The Reef
On The Beach
My Yellow Ginger
Hawaiian War Chant
Lovely Hula Hands Lei Momi
Aloha Oe
The Hula Hoop Song
I attended a luau party once that used other songs like Surfing USA, Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride, etc instead of traditional luau songs, and they fit the theme really well. I don't think that the latest techno and dance party music really fits with a luau theme, but that's up to you.
We decorated with tissue paper pineapples and parrots, and we made three dimensional sea creatures on an ocean wall of blue crepe paper. The sea creatures were made out of card stock, double sided images, and we stuffed them with cotton to make them three dimensional. We suspended them in the air with clear fishing wire from Walmart, it made a really neat effect.
Other decorations that we did was to use coconut cups to drink out of, use flower straws or tissue paper flamingo straws, we used tropical sunset themed napkins, we bought a hula skirt to go around the table, and we gave everyone in attendance hula skirts, purchased from Oriental Trading Company. If hula skirts are out of your price range, than you could purchase the straw beach comber style hats by the dozen on Oriental Trading Company.
We paid a tropical luau bingo game with the word LUAU across the top instead of bingo. We got the cards for free, printed from DLTK-Kids web site.
We got most of our items from Party City, dollar stores, and Oriental Trading Company (their website).
We played tons of games, one of the favorites was using "crab legs" (a staple remover, the pac man style) blindfolded to dig out small plastic fish out of a big pail filled with packing peanuts dyed blue to look like water. You cashed in your plastic fish for tickets. All of our games used tickets and you cashed in your tickets for various prizes at the prize hut.
Other games that we had included throwing ping pong balls into goldfish bowls, and if you were successful you won a bagged goldfish (a local pet store was happy to donate them, but if you can't get them donated, then you could always buy them at Walmart). There was a water balloon toss. We also made a bean bag toss game, by painting a giant box to look like a whale, and adding cardboard fins, and then we cut the front of the box off for the mouth, and added teeth, and took turns throwing bean bags into the mouth of the whale. There were many other games and activities as well.
The list goes on and on. I have lots of photos of the decorations that we used, as well as a complete list of all the games we did, which included coconut bowling (complete with hula girl pins) and pin the monkey on the palm tree, so if you need more ideas, please feel free to e-mail me directly.
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