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Hawaiian Luau Backyard Barbecue Party Theme Ideas
Hawaiian Backyard Barbecue Party Ideas
For your Hawaiian luau backyard barbecue party suggest women wear muumuus, bikinis with grass skirts, or sarongs. Men’s attire would be Hawaiian shirts, board shorts or sarongs.
Pass out lei's upon their arrival. Then serve Mai Tais and tropical punch in coconut cups or bright tropical colored glasses.
Decorate your tables with floral table cloths. Use fruit such as bananas, apples, oranges as table centerpieces so people can help themselves during the day.
Decorate the backyard with palm trees made from cardboard and paint, or buy inexpensive inflatable palm trees and scatter them around.
On butcher paper or a paper drop cloth draw a tropical scene and have your children use water colors or crayons to create a colorful backdrop for picture taking.
If your party is going to last into the night use string lights, tiki torches, solar path lights and a fire pit.
Make pineapple candle holders by cutting two inches off the crown of the pineapple (Reserving the pineapple for kebobs or fruit salad) and pull out the center leaves to make a hole the size of your brightly colored taper candles. Store in the refrigerator and place on tables just before sunset.
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If it is an all age crowd intersperse Hawaiian music along with a variety of music. Every one should be able to handle one CD's worth of other generations favorite music. If you have the capabilities of mixing your own music really mix it up so every one can enjoy them and maybe get a little music appreciation!
If you can afford it hire a DJ and request they bring a couple hours worth of solid Hawaiian music, look for a hula dancer to teach the hula to your guests. Make sure you have a camera or camcorder to record it all and for fun you can show it later on that night, and give out prizes for most improved to most enthusiastic! If a hula dancer is not in your budget, download the papaya dance music that is taking over the Philippines and have a friend or your teenagers learn it so they can teach it to your backyard barbecue guests. This dance is fun for all ages.
If people will be sleeping over rent an outdoor theater projector and show movies such as Elvis in Blue Hawaii or Gidget goes Hawaiian.
Hawaiian food such as poi is a learned appreciation, and people are coming to enjoy themselves, which means good tasty food, not a cultural lesson for the belly? So instead of being authentic just go with the flavors and foods that one thinks of when thinking of tropical islands. Such as chicken pineapple and papaya Kebabs, fruit salsa, grilled sweet potatoes, steamed rice, green salad with Mango dressing
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