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Beach Party
This party theme can be pulled off at any time of year, in fact it's probably more fun for a winter celebration. Let your guests know that it's swimsuit or shorts attire and to bring their sandals and a beach towel. 

DECORATIONS
Lounge chairs and beach blankets, and beach balls instead of balloons. Holding the party outside? If you have a sandbox, place fake crabs and other beach sea creatures in the sand. Have a wading pool so the kids can cool off. If you're holding the party indoors, cover the walls in blue ocean-coloured paper on which the children can draw fish. 

Keep the colours bright -- yellows, orange and lime green. Set-up a sandbox for those who want to feel the sand between their toes and don't forget the Beach Boys tunes. 

FOOD SUGGESTIONS
Make Mexican beach-type foods like nachos and quesadillas. Have fruit smoothies to drink.

Prepare rice krispies, pressing the mixture into a cookie sheet. Once set, use a fish-shaped cookie cutter to cut out little fish. Let the kids decorate their own fish with supplies like icing, candy eyes, sprinkles and other tasty additions.

GAMES / ACTIVITIES
Limbo

Pinata

Sand Castle Building Contest
Have lots of prizes for the tallest, the smallest, etc. 

Pin the Flipper on the Dolphin
Just like Pin the Tail on the Donkey. Draw a dolphin on poster board and mark where the flipper should go. Cut out a flipper for each child and put some double-sided tape on the back. Let each child have a turn of pinning the flipper on the dolphin (blindfolded and spun around three times).

GOODY BAGS
Buckets with shovels - fill the buckets with sunglasses, bubbles and a beach ball or other things that may help the kids with the sand castle building contest.

REMEMBER
Invite the kids to come dressed in beach attire - Hawaiian shirts for boys and grass skirts for girls.