My kids always enjoyed doing a little craft project that went along with the theme of the party we were having. For a luau theme, you could have them make flower leis out of foamie flowers with holes punched in the middle, cut up drinking straws as spacers and yarn (tape the ends so the yarn is easier to work with, like a shoelace).

I don't have any ideas, I'm just not that creative! But I hope you and the kids have a blast! and Happy Birthday Genevas!

happy birthday to your little one! i can't think of any ideas right now but i hope you all have tons of fun.

AHH i have an idea! you could play "hot coconut" (like hot potato except with a coconut for the theme ) and whoever wins could get a prize!

These are great ideas! The hot coconut is perfect. Tipsy grown ups can enjoy that too! Also, I will look at the craft store for foam flowers. Thanks!

lol tipsy adults playing hot coconut
i can see it now

(get pics!)

Her birthday was a hysterical maniacal blast. Imagine 6 grown ups, on crack, then shrunk down to 3 feet tall, and played at 2X speed. Talk about short attention span theatre! I decorated with sarongs in the windows, palm trees on the front door, flowers and leis, Lots of festive decor. The kids all had hawaiian skirts and leis to wear. I did punch with frozen pineapple rings for ice. It was really pretty. We had hawaiian music and a real hula dancer. Hannah was funny. She kept getting up and dancing with the hula dancer-it was so funy! The cake was a chocolate sheet cake with a small blue "lagoon" Palm trees and wo lawn chairs made out of Now N Later candy. I toopped the whole thing with coconut dyed green. I will try to load a pic of that. It was fun, but cery stressful and loud. We had a hula hoop contest, pass the coconut game, and pin the coconuts to the palm tree game. Lots of fun! Geneva opened the ridiculous "doodle pony" I got her and she actually screamed she was so happy. I swear she had tears in her eyes. She has wanted one of those dumb things forever. Anyway when everybody left I ended up with a horrible panic attack, so I was up for an hour and a half and finally took something. I laid there shaking for about a half hour and then fell asleep. I took another ativan this morning because i wasn't about to go through that again. Why did I have a panic attack? I couldn't tell ya.

the party sounds like a blast! what great ideas!

sorry about the panic attack!

Here's the pics of the cake:

oh god thats a cute cake!!!! well done...you should check out my sons bday cake in his thread. I had it made but its tropical as well from the movie madagascar

I love that movie! Good god the Lemurs!

thats a cute cake