So, You Want Coolest Luau Party Ideas For Baby Showers, Huh?

Invitations

Hawaiian luau baby shower is all about fun "hulala", so let the guests know that they won't miss it!

You can use these tiki time invitations or pick up any tropical, beach, luau or tiki themed cliparts from the internet as the front of your invitation. Before sending out, toss some Palm tree confetti into the envelopes.

A cool luau baby shower idea for invitations is to cut out pineapple shape from yellow construction paper, and have the crease run down the middle to fold the invitations in half. Then draw brown criss-cross marks on one side, cut out leaves shape from green tissue paper, and complete the pineapple invitations.

If you don't want to get too serious, simply purchase some tropical island postcards and glue a small paper umbrella(pink or blue) to the front.

Use your imagination! One of the perfect luau party ideas for baby showers is laminating your baby shower invitations to ensure they're waterproof. Roll the invitations up, and put them into baby bottles filled halfway with water(drop a few blue food coloring), some sand and miniature shells.

In your invitation, encourage guests to come dressed in luau party style. Don't forget prepare a few hawaiian luau shirts and skirts for unprepared guests. Write something like:

"ALOHA! You're invited to join our beautiful hawaiian/luau/tiki island baby shower for Parents' Names. Your flight schedule is Shower Date and Time, the destination is Shower Place. Speak out hawaiian baby anme meaning and your dress code to RSVP!".

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Decorations

Why follow the traditional rules? Unleash your creativity and transform your backyard pool or ballroom into a tropical paradise!

Get all kinds of hawaiian luau party items ready for your baby shower decorations, such as tiki torches, grass skirts, flower leis, ukuleles, fresh flowers, and bright, paper lanterns.

Have your guests wear the coolest wanna nookie costume and give each person a flower lei as they walk in.

Find the long butcher paper on a roll, draw (or have your kids, nieces, or nephews help you draw) a life-size palm tree and hang it for decoration. You can even buy fake palm trees or rent real ones from a tree nursery.

For centerpieces, try dolphin stuffed animals, exotic flowers in a vase, whole pineapples, and Hawaiian straw hats with flowers set on the brim. Or get a bunch of clear goldfish bowls and floating flowers on the surface of the water.

Need some simple but spectacular ideas for baby showers? Then try decorate with watermelon!

Watermelon Vase

Cut a slice off the buttom that the watermelon can be able to stand evenly. Next, cut a slice off the top of it and scoop out the watermelon, and serve at your baby shower. After the watermelon is hollow, insert a tall galss or container filled with water and your favorite flowers and greenery.

Watermelon Baby Carriages

This is one of the coolest ideas for baby showers, and always a big hit at the shower! They're just so darn cute! And your guests are going to hesitate before digging into your beautiful Baby Carriage for fruit salad, so you might want to make an extra bowl to set out beside the carriage. However, it's just not possible to describe how to make it, so I just found the complete guide online from watermelon.org.

And stock up on tapes of Hawaiian and Polynesian music, and let the shower festivities begin.

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Eat And Drink

Hawaiian Cake Ideas For Baby Showers

A big surprise for luau baby showers is baking a Hawaiian island cake. Bake a rectangle shape cake and frost the entire cake with a thin layer of blue frosting. Next, create ocean with waves by swirling the rest blue frosting on two thirds of the cake. Create some curvy shorelines too!

Then squirt white icing through pastry bag to make whitecaps. Sprinkle graham cracker cookie crumbs and brown sugar on the remaining third of the cake. Have the crumbs and sugar stick to the thin layer of cake frosting. Finally, add plastic Palm tree, plastic baby and miniature baby carriage.

To create a more beachy setting, place some fruit stripe gum(surfboard) and plastic Hawaiian dancers.

You can also try banana or coconut cream pie. Another luau baby shower idea is to serve ice cream or tropical tasting sherbet in hollowed out half-cut orange.

Tropical Food Ideas for Baby Showers

A luau baby shower is the perfect occasion to try new and unusual recipes, with a Polynesian style, such as sweet and sour chicken wings, meatball, roasted bananas, chicken kabobs, or pineapple ham. You should serve an appropriate menu of foods and present all in a colorful, creative display.

Here are some luau party food ideas for baby showers from Dole.com.

* Aloha chicken wings
* Polynesian pork
* Pineapple and Ham rice
* Triple pineapple glazed chicken
* Hawaiian style spareribs
* Warm chicken salad with pineapple

Tips: The food all worked out great because most of it had to be marinated which you should do the night before and then simply grilled right before eating.

One of my favorite hawaiian luau baby shower idea is prepare tropical fruit salsa. Combine 1 papaya, 1 mango and 1 cup of fresh pineapple together. To add more special flavor, consider adding some ingredients like 1/4 cup diced red bell pepper, 1/4 cup diced red oion, 1 cup lime juice, 1/8 cup rice vinegar, 1 tablespoon red chili flakes and 2 tablespoons fresh cilantro. The mixture is wonderful on chicken or fish. Or you can toss them together for a special meal.

More Food Ideas For Baby Showers

* Grilled fish
* Fruit salad in a cutout watermelon
* BBQ sausage with Polynesian sauce
* Tropical pizza served in cold
* Tripical Fruit Salsa
* Fish-shaped tuna sandwiches(use a fish cookie cutter)
* Coconut shrimp
* Pineapple boat salad - tuna or chicken salad in hollowed out half-cut pinapple.

Tropical Drink Ideas for Baby Showers

* Fruit iced tea
* Lilo and Stitch fruit smoothies - blend all kinds of fruit in the blender (with water, ice, milk or yogurt), and top with whip cream, wedges of fruit, colorful straws.
* Hauoli Island Punch: Mix your favorite juice (cranberry, orange, apple, Dole's pineapple) and ginger ale together in a large punch bowl. Add and carbonated soft-drink just prior to serving.
* Pineapple Strawberry Smoothie: Combine crushed pineapple, Dole's pineapple juice, vanilla ice-cream, banana, frozen strawberry in a blender. Add ice cubes last. Cover and blend until smooth.

Serve these fancy drinks with the umbrellas in them.

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Activities And Games

Limbo Competition

How low can you go? Have a Limbo competition - but add some baby shower twist on it.

The rules are basically this: get a long wood pole (a bamboo pole would be great, but any long pole will do) then have two people hold it - one on each end. Hang lots of baby items onto the long pole, such as baby diapers, bottles, toys, stuffed animals,etc.

Play lively hawaiian music and have everyone line up in a line.

Start by holding the pole quite high above the ground. The object of the contest is for everyone to go under the Limbo pole without touching any baby item or falling down. Each person goes under the pole and the pole is lowered a little after all the players have gone under the baby items. Continue in rounds, lowering the pole after the whole group has gone.

People are eliminated if they touch or fall. Eventually the pole will be quite low and close to the ground. A few good players will still be bending and trying to get under the baby itmes. The last player standing win the prize.

One of cool luau party prize ideas for baby showers is a pineapple, a coconut and macadamia nuts all in a basket. You can also award a prize to the best-luau-dressed kid(a beach scene felt board) and the best-luau-dressed mommy or daddy (a glass pineapple Christmas ornament).

Autographed Shower Umbrella

This is a cute baby shower idea to capture all the guests names on a personalized memento for Mom and Dad. Add a bit of lace to the edges of a child’s white umbrella and gather together fabric paint or permanent marker for guests to use. Write the Shower date on the umbrella and let guests sign their names. The parents-to-be can take it home as the reminder of this wonderful day!

Hawaiian Baby Names Volleyball

Looking for some hysterical Luau party ideas for baby showers? Let me tell you how to put tropical twist on classic volleyball.

String a piece of clothesline between two stationary objects by playing with a beach ball (or even a balloon). Divide your guests into two teams and give each team a fun name like the Invincible Islanders or the Volley-canoes. They have to hit the ball back and forth according to standard volleyball rules. But instead of scoring points, teams are awarded letters to spell hawaiian baby names, such as Okelani (from heaven), Kekona(second-born), and Kale(strong and manly). The first team to conplete the names wins!

Leis Wishes

Here is one of the coolest Luau party ideas for baby showers. It's all about encouragement and advice!

Trim the top of colorful cupcake liners (so that they look like scalloped-edged flowers). Then cut many colorful drinkling straws into 1-inch lengths for spacers(you can make them in various sizes if you wish). Using the same wide-eyed embroidery needle and twine, each guest alternately sew throught the centers of the flowers and string on straw sections to make two Leis. Since you're the shower host, you get to start the Leis, by tying on knot at one end of each empty Leis string.

The first Leis, you tell everyone, is for advice. As each guest sew their flowers and straw sections onto the string, they must share their bit of parenting advice. The second Leis is for encouragement and well wishes, and as each guest puts flowers and straws on this string, they must also share their bit of encouragement or well wishes. When the strand is long enough to wear, tie together the ends and have the parents-to-be wear them!

Tips for coed baby showers: Instead of giving flower leis, present your male guests shell necklaces to take home.

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Shower Gifts

Here is the coolest place for all kinds of unique designed baby sun protective products, such as baby sunglasses, sun hats and stroller rain cover, etc. Their sun protective infant swim wear and sun protective baby swimwear are made of polymide materials, so they won't fade or shrink in sun or chlorine.


Lamaze Turtletunes

Loot at this musical plush turtle with drum, maraca, four musical notes, scratching board, and soft teether drumstick! It's a soft, lovable character also teaches baby about nurturing play.

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Shower Favors

You can chose any small party favors related to tropical hawaiian theme, such as handmade Leis, fish shaped cookie, miniature tikis and tiki molded candles, Hawaiian beach shirt candles, shell Leis or Dolphin & Whale soap.

Also, try these personalized island sun mint tins.

Sand Candle Baby Shower Favors

One of the greatest Luau party ideas for baby showers is giving guests your homemade sand candle favors.

You will need large heat-proof mixing bowl, sand, empty 1-pound coffee can, paraffin or old candle stubs, candle wicking and thin wood dowel or stick.

Fill the bowl three quarters full with slightly damp sand and ask your guest to dig a mold about the size of her fist. Using your hands, bend one side of the coffee can rim to form a spout. Fill the can halfway with paraffin and set it in a saucepan that's one fourth filled with water. (Never place the can directly on the burner.) Then melt the wax over very low heat; when it has melted, turn off the heat.

Cut the wicking to 6 to 8 inches longer than your mold is deep. Rest the dowel across the bowl's top and tie one end of the wick around it. Press the other end into the bottom of the mold. Now carefully pour the wax into the mold until it reaches about 1 inch from the top. Once the candle is cool, remove it from the mold, brush off any excess sand, and trim the wick.

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