Luau Party Crafts: Edible Flip Flips

Luau parties are a popular theme for birthday parties, end of summer parties and yes, back to school parties. Luau themed parties are colorful, fun and easy to coordinate. Luau parties are a popular theme for birthday parties, end of summer parties and yes, back to school parties.Luau themed parties are colorful, fun and easy to coordinate.

Need crafts or snack ideas for a luau party? The great thing about these luau party crafts is that they provide a fun activity and a healthy party snack too.

Having a “create your own luau party snacks” table provides a fun activity and incentive for kids to try some healthy fruits and vegetables too.

Depending on the ages and abilities of your luau party guests, you can create samples and provide knifes and cutting boards or you can pre-cut pieces of fruits and vegetables for kids to assemble their own luau party snacks.

If you are having your guests do their own cutting, provide a plate for “scraps” that are still usable and eatable. Also provide a paper lunch bag and write “compost” on the front for the usable scraps such as the insides of peppers. Model to your guest a “no waste” food policy at your luau party.

Edible Flip Flops

I was recently asked to host a “carving decorative vegetables” table at a library luau party. Knowing that the kids would also be decorating their own flip-flops, I couldn’t help but see the potential of a squash shape to become flip-flops.

Materials needed for Edible flip-flops:

Squash
Peppers, any or all colors
Ranch dressing
Cutting board
Knife
Spoon

*Tip on choosing vegetables for these edible crafts:

Because you’ll be using the “humps” on the bottom of the peppers for the v on top of the flip flops, try to find peppers with four humps on the bottom to create two pair of flip flops per pepper.

Also, most squash have a natural curve that will resemble the base of a flip-flop but keep this shape in mind when choosing your squash.

Directions for edible flip-flops:

Cut only the very tip of the end off of the squash to preserve the rounded heel of the flip-flop shape.

Slice thin slices of squash horizontally. I was generally able to get four flip-flop shapes out of medium sized squash.

Cut off the bottom of peppers and turn them upside down. Carve the v shapes out of the humps on the bottom of the peppers. The v shape will be obvious to you. Make them as long as possible to reach closely to the sides of the squash slices. You can always trim ends back later if needed.

Place two squash on a plate, positioning them in with “toes in.” In other words, one slice should be flipped over so that they sit as a pair of flip-flops.

Put a dollop of Ranch or other favorite dressing or veggie dip on the squash slices and spread with the back of a spoon leaving the yellow outline showing.

Place the v shapes made from the peppers on the top front and you’ll be amazed at how much your edible craft looks like a flip-flop.

Edible flip-flops were a fun luau party craft. It was amazing to see kids who had never tried squash or either raw squash eat their flip-flops! This flip flop eatable luau party craft was far from a flop.