If you want to triple your Hawaiian party, read on for what it takes to make it an unforgettable experience. How to decorate a table, make a skirt and a garland ley. Theme parties are a great success. Moreover, both adults and children like them. A Hawaiian party will help you to celebrate your birthday cheerfully, have a relaxed corporate party, celebrate a meeting of friends, or just have an unforgettable day out of town.
Hawaiian Party - How To Make Clothes
The outfit can be the same for both men and women. A costume for a Hawaiian party consists of a skirt and a flower garland (lei). And that, and that accessory is made extremely simple.
If you need to quickly craft a costume for a Hawaiian party, consider the simple option. For a skirt, you just need an elastic band and a satin ribbon. For a flower garland, you also need a few items, namely:
- colored paper;
- strong thread;
- darning needle with a thick eye;
- cocktail rolls.
Let's start at the bottom of the outfit. To make a skirt with your own hands, tie an elastic band below the waist, cut off its excess edges, remove. Now you have to cut a lot of ribbons. Measure the length of the future skirt. The length of the ribbons should be 2 times this figure obtained.
Fold the first ribbon in half, placing the fold on the elastic. Slide both ends of the tape back under the elastic, pulling up through the loop formed by the tape, tighten. Do the same with the rest of the elements.
The more ribbons there are, the more magnificent the skirt will become. To prevent these elements from wiping, singe the ends over a candle or lighter flame. It remains to learn how to make a garland to hang around your neck. Fold the sheets of colored paper "accordion" so that there is a distance of 8 cm from fold to fold. Draw a template of a future flower with wavy edges on cardboard or paper. Apply it to folded paper and cut multiple colors at once. Set them aside for now.
Cut the cocktail tubes into 2 cm pieces. Here's how to make the garland next. With your own hands, or better with the help of your daughter or friends, start creating a lei. To do this, thread the thread into the eye of the needle, start stringing flowers and segments of cocktail tubes on it, alternating fragments.
At the end, remove the needle, tie the ends of the threads and the garland is ready. Now the fair sex can put on a swimsuit, skirt, lei - and the Hawaiian costume is ready. Attire for men can include swimming trunks, shorts, and of course a garland. And here's how to do it the second way.
For her, corrugated paper or fabric that does not wrinkle, such as tulle or taffeta, is suitable. Having chosen the material, cut it into long strips 6–8 cm wide. Now you need to sew each in the center with a basting stitch. Having designed the first strip in this way, collect the second one on the same thread, placing them close to each other. Once you've made your corrugated paper jewelry of the right length, you can put the garland around your neck and go sparkle at your Hawaiian party!
If this hot holiday beckons you, and there are no suitable materials for making clothes at hand, everyone has trash bags or ordinary cellophane bags. The next Hawaiian skirt is made from them.
Measure the elastic around your hips. Cut thin strips from plastic bags along the entire length, tie them with an elastic band, bending in half, and the Hawaiian skirt is ready.
Hula Dancewear for Hawaiian Party
If you enjoyed making Hawaiian suits and want to craft a slightly more sophisticated outfit in this style, check out How to DIY a Raffia Skirt, which is sold in florist shops. In such a new dress, you can visit Hawaiian parties more than once, since such a skirt is durable and even intense movements will not harm it.
Take the raffia, unpack it. To smooth it, dampen it with water. Pull out the fibers, let them dry.
Here's how the Hawaiian skirt is made next. Now take a braid, cord or elastic band, which will become the basis of the outfit. Elements will also be tied on it - in this case, strips of raffia bent in half.
See how to do it.
If you want to speed up the process, optimize it. To do this, first, on the fingers of the left hand, fold the knots in the center of several raffia fibers without tightening. Then insert the cord into the loops, tighten them.
You will have a Hawaiian skirt that you can wear to parties or go to the hula dance classes that are so popular on this island.
How to arrange such themed parties?
After you have made a costume for the holiday, you need to set the tables and prepare a treat that matches the given topic.
The Hawaiian party usually takes place in the summer. Therefore, you can spend it right under the open sky in nature. But you need to know the weather forecast in advance to be sure that rain is not expected. If there is a possibility of short-term precipitation, then it is better to arrange awnings over the tables.
Decorate them with paper or satin ribbons to create the mood you want. Now you need to move the tables and lay the same tablecloths on them. Then you will get the right impression that this is one long table.
Chairs should also be consistent in style. To do this, you can sew covers on them. How to do this, read the article presented earlier. In it you will find many simple ideas on how to sew chair covers. Hang a flower garland on each and tie a large ribbon bow.
To avoid the hassle of washing dishes, it is better if it is disposable. At a Hawaiian table party, plates with bright colors look great. Indeed, on this day, everything should be filled with variegated colors. Multi-colored plastic glasses are suitable. It is good if there are natural or made paper flowers in vases on the tables.
The appliances are arranged, the space is decorated, it's time to prepare a treat. It doesn't have to be hard, as a Hawaiian party is an active pastime. These are dances, funny contests. Therefore, juices, a couple of cocktails and light snacks will be excellent components of the menu.
What to cook for the holiday?
Let's start with the appetizer dishes. Hawaiian Toast is both exotic and hearty.
Their composition:
- wheat bread;
- ham;
- hard cheese;
- a pineapple;
- butter;
- pitted cherries.
It is better to buy sliced bread, specially designed for toast. But if not, chop the loaf into slices with a thin knife. Hard cheese and ham can also be bought pre-cut or made yourself. You can cut pineapple with your own hands or buy canned slices of this fruit.
You can pre-brown the bread slices in the toaster or not. Grease them with butter, top with ham, pineapple on top, and then cheese. It remains to bake toasts in a slow cooker and you can serve.
If you only have a skillet on hand, prepare a Hawaiian appetizer in it. To do this, split the pan over high heat, then muffle it to a minimum, brush with butter, put the prepared toast. In a skillet, a Hawaiian appetizer is cooked with the lid closed until the undersides of the bread are browned. Here are some other dishes for a holiday dedicated to a given topic. The next fruit salad is sure to please the kids. It consists of:
- 1 cup coconut, chopped into strips
- 1 cup heavy cream or unsweetened yogurt
- 1 cup diced pineapple
- 1.5 cups small marshmallow balls;
- 1.5 cups tangerine slices
- grated nutmeg.
Before cooking, the tangerine slices must be peeled from the film. Dry them and pineapple cubes on a napkin. This salad looks good in transparent bowls. Place the tangerine wedges down into each first, then layer them with yogurt or cream. Decorate with marshmallow balls, sprinkle with nutmeg grains on top.
If you want a more satisfying menu, you can prepare hot dishes on the table - bake chicken, chopping it with oranges and / or pineapples. Also, seafood will be appropriate on the table, because in Hawaii they are mined in large quantities and many dishes are prepared.
A variety of iced punches and exotic cocktails, decorated in a specific way, are also to be served.
A cocktail called "Hawaiian Beach" would be very appropriate. It stands from:
- 4 parts pineapple juice;
- 3 parts light rum;
- 3 parts ginger ale;
- juice? lime;
- 1 tsp Sahara.
Combine all the ingredients except the ale and beat with a blender. Put the pieces of ice in large glasses, pour the cocktail, pour the ale. Garnish each serving with a slice of lime by cutting a thin circle on the side and sliding it over the glass. Also, mint leaves can act as decoration.
Non-alcoholic cocktails can be prepared for children. For example, "Weathervane". For it, use all the ingredients taken in the same proportion:
- Cherry juice;
- strawberries;
- sprite;
- Apple juice.
All this must be whipped with a blender, poured into glasses and served immediately.
Do not forget to put fruits on the festive table in spectacular flowerpots. These elements will be a great decoration, and the fruit can be refreshed at any time, for example, in between fun competitions, which must be thought out in advance for a Hawaiian party.
Fun Hawaiian Party Contests
Limbaugh - the game with that name is unchanged on such holidays. To prepare this competition you only need:
- round fruit;
- 2 high poles;
- rope.
Everything is extremely simple - the poles need to be sharpened, driven into the ground, and the rope pulled at the top. The players line up behind her. The first participant clamps a tropical fruit with his chin and goes under the rope so as not to hit it. In this case, you can only lean back. Anyone who touches the rope, drops a fruit or breaks the rules will be eliminated from the competition. After each stage, the rope must be lowered lower and lower. When only one participant remains, he is declared the winner.
Such fun contests will give you the opportunity to move around and have fun to your heart's content. The next one will also require dexterity from the participants … mouth. For this entertainment you will need:
- bananas;
- rope.
All plots are divided into 2 or more teams, from each one a player is selected. A banana must be tied by its "leg" to a rope, the other end of which is attached to a high place. It can be tied to a branch of a tree or to a nail driven in under the roof of the veranda. Next, you need to eat the banana without touching it with your hands. Whoever does it first wins.
You can also hold interesting contests, determining the winner by the volume of the applause: who has the best Hawaiian costume, the most “Hawaiian” voice. For the latter, let everyone who wants to perform a song that, in their opinion, is suitable for this theme party. You can also choose the mermaid of the evening, it will be the most beautiful or talented girl.
Do the Hawaiian Hula dance together. To do this, let the presenter say what needs to be imitated at the moment, it can be:
- fluttering of plants from the wind;
- movement of algae;
- life of the ocean, land, mountains;
- a story about bad weather.
You can turn this dance into another fun competition. Write the assignments on the signs in advance. Distribute them to the participants, let them show one of the listed Hula movements so that those present guess what it is. In this case, the player must "dance" all these movements. You can time it, which player will have faster guesses, he will win.
It's good if you make a palm tree in advance. It can be made from plastic bottles or from cardboard and balls. For a final idea, dig a pole into the ground, wrap it with cardboard, paint it brown. Tie balloons, attach to the top of the barrel.
Such a palm tree, made with your own hands, will become not only a central decoration, but also help to hold another funny competition. For him, attach notes with cheerful wishes to this artificial tree with glue or paper clips and invite the guests to tell fortunes. Let everyone take the note they like and read its contents aloud.
Making accessories for a Hawaiian party
They will help to ensure that the Hawaiian party is flawless, and all the nuances are taken into account.
You can make invitations to the holiday yourself. Since this is a Hawaiian themed party, it will be funny if you hand-write or print an invitation, tie it to an exotic fruit (coconut, banana), and then personally hand it to the addressee.
You can make a postcard with flowers, because Hawaii is a land of flowers as well as the sun. So that it does not fade even in the evening, let there be a lot of light! Light the lanterns that you have decorated with your own hands. Floating candles will also be appropriate, they can be placed in the pool, pond and lit at sunset. Various LED lights, garlands will also help to decorate the holiday in the evening.
Another important touch of the holiday concerns the design of drinks. See how to make and decorate an exotic cocktail party. We also suggest that you familiarize yourself with the process of making a Hawaiian costume. After that, it remains to repeat the ideas presented. Have a fun and unforgettable Hawaiian party!
