A beach theme birthday party is a fun way to generate “warm” thoughts in the winter as well as a fantastic means of keeping “cool” in the summer. With these easy beach birthday party innovations, your beach birthday party will be a breeze.
Beach Birthday Party Invitations
For a unique and memorable beach party invitation, buy inflatable beach balls at a dollar store and write the party details on the balls. Make sure and tell the guests to wear bathing suits to the party- regardless of season! Hand deliver the beach ball invitations or deflate them and mail them in manilla envelopes.
Beach Birthday Party Decorations
Decorate for a beach birthday party with beach towels, beach umbrellas, plastic pails and shovels and, of course, sea shells.
Make a large cardboard sun and hang it on the wall, or make it double-sided and suspend it from the ceiling, as one of your beach birthday party decorations.
Beach Birthday Party Favors
Beach birthday party favors should bring summer fun at the beach to mind. Miniature water shooters, sand molding toys, and sea shells are thematically appropriate beach party favors. Instead of giving them out in bags, place them, with shovels, in plastic beach pails.
Fill the pail with salt water taffy, fudge, and other candy reminiscent of the beach boardwalk.
Beach Birthday Party Activities
Games and activities at a beach birthday party will vary according to the season. The activities here are divided into Indoor and Outdoor categories for ease of reference.
When hosting a beach birthday party indoors due to cold weather, make sure and crank up the heat so that birthday party guests are comfortable in their bathing suits.
Indoor Beach Birthday Party Activities
The guests are dressed for the beach, so it’s time to “dig in” and play in the sand.
It’s easy to have a Sandsculpture Contest with sculpture sand that sticks together. While sculpture sand is available in stores, the quantity needed for a beach birthday party might cost more than most party throwers want to spend. Making sculpture sand is easy enough. Click here for a recipe for sculpture sand that can be used at a beach birthday party. Divide the sand into cut down boxes or foam trays so that each guest has an equal amount, set a timer, and see who can craft the most enticing sand sculpture.
Play Air Ball using a beach ball at a beach birthday party. The goal is to keep the ball in the air. Whoever drops it is out. The last player left wins the game.
An alternative game to play with a beach ball at a beach birthday party is Burning Hot Beach Ball. The beach ball was left out in the sun and now it’s too hot to touch. Put on some beach music and pass the burning hot beach ball around quickly (in the manner of Hot Potato). The player holding the beach ball when the music stops is out. The last player left wins the game.
Have a Beach Dance Party. Dance the dances of the 1960s beach party movies to the same tunes enjoyed by the likes of Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello and Elvis Presley.
Outdoor Beach Birthday Party Activities
The advantage of an outdoor beach party is the ability to use water to simulate real beach activities. Water activities can include splash pools for very young children, sprinklers, water slides or water shooters. To enhance the beach feel, provide some flippers and snorkel masks for beach party guests to wear.
Beach Volleyball is an authentic outdoor game that is reminiscent of summer days at the beach. Use either a real volleyball set, or for younger children, a beach ball to play beach volleyball at a beach birthday party. Scatter sand box sand on the volley ball court to make it beachlike.
Hold a Sandscupture Contest. This can be done in a sand box using regular sand box sand and water or with the sculpture sand described above.
Beach food is usually either picnic food or barbecue. So choose one of those themes if you are serving a meal at your beach birthday party.
For a drink, choose a clear juice or soda and use food coloring to make it the color of the ocean. Place a paper umbrella on the edge of the glass.
For a unique and beachlike presentation, use the sea shells usually used for serving Coquilles St. Jacques to serve ice cream and allow the party guests to keep the shells.
