Fiesta Friday – Everybody Limbo!!

I can’t believe that school is almost here, so it must be time for one more hurrah, and what is better than a End of Summer Luau?

Check out these cute flip-flop invites from Paper Source. The flip flops are connected by a hot pink string through pre-drilled holes and with two attached plastic pink flowers.

If I haven’t said it enough before, I so love Social Couture. I’ve ordered from them a few times, and just love my goodies. They have a great Hawaii Five-O Luau party featured. Purchase the complete party set with everything shown here. It includes all of your tableware, even tea lights for the votive holders and coconut shell candles. Add to your table these bamboo vases filled with your favorite tropical flowers.

Wait for the “ohs” and “ahs” as you serve guests with these pineapple wood trays, perfect for your island treats.

If you are having a kid-friendly party, set up a bar serving fruity “mocktails“. Make sure and have lots of umbrellas and plastic picks to dress up drinks.

A great party idea: set up a few craft stations where young guests create tropical flowers from tissue paper and pipe cleaners, make their own flower leis by threading and alternating paper flower punch-outs and short pieces of straw onto yarn, and translate their name into the Hawaiian version. We did this at our Aloha Party for the end of school, and the kids loved it. Since the Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters, you have to make substitutions. Check out Hawaiianshop.com for directions.

Send them home with a flower lei coiled into a cocktail glass, palm tree stickers and sunglasses all wrapped in cellophane and tied with a pretty ribbon.

Oh, and I just had to share this picture of my boys at their luau-themed VBS, it just seemed appropriate. Mine are the only ones not wearing their personalized hats, and not singing.