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Beach Blanket Bingo!

A Summer Beach Party Theme

Summer or winter, rain or shine, everyone loves a beach party!  Your guests will love having the sights and smells of the beach – no matter where you are.

Beach Party Invitations

Your guests will start looking for their bikinis and board shorts the minute the invitation arrives.  Choose a personalized summer invitation, complete with flip flops and sunglasses, from Creations for You.  Or, if it’s a beach chair and umbrella you want, that’s available too!  Pick your design, decide on the wording and leave the rest to Party411.com – it’s that easy.

If you’re having a Beach Blanket Bingo party in the summer (and it doesn’t have to be, think how popular Christmas in July parties are?) why not use a bottle of suntan lotion as your invitation?  Print the party information on a colorful label and attach it to the bottle.  Include some beach theme confetti, complete with sea shells and suns, for extra fun. Be sure to mail the invitation in a padded envelope.

For a really unique invitation, let Creations for You™ design a caricature of the guest of honor or host/hostess, or chose a design from our semi-custom caricatures and add a photo face or a caricature face and a custom message to current artwork. These are truly special invitations and the image can be used for a sign in board, photo opportunity and more for your party.

Beach Party Decorations

Let your guests know that it’s time to “hang ten” as soon as they enter the party.  A colorful banner announcing your party is the perfect way to welcome your guests.  These great banners are easy to hang and weather resistant so they can be used indoors or out!

Remember the caricature you used on the invitation?  Let Creations For You turn it into a lifesize cutout complete with speech bubble telling everyone that “surfs up!”  Put a basket of sunglasses in a variety of colors next to the caricature, because you can’t be at the beach without your shades.  Beachcomber hats and bucket hats are a wonderful addition to everyone’s beach outfit.

No matter where you have your party, palm trees and sunshine are a must.  Place inflatable palm trees within your party area on the beach, or scattered about in your party room.  Complete with coconuts, these are “must have” decorations.

Even if your party is inside, you can still see the water!  Ocean view scene setters look so real, you’ll think you’re definitely at the beach.  All that’s missing are the sea gulls.  Hang sunburst danglers from the ceiling and your party room will look totally festive.

Beach balls are a must at this party.  Use them for games, party favors or just scattered about as extra decorations.

Balloons are an easy and economical way to decorate. They can be used to mark off your party area or as centerpieces.  Use bunches of colorful balloons held down with a palm tree weight.  Accent the bouquets with great looking Mylar sun or flip flop balloons.

Beach Party Table Decorations and Menu

This party is all about fun and your tables should reflect that too.  Cover your tables in bright colored table clothes and Sunny Days paper goods. You can make easy to use silverware bundles by wrapping plastic silverware in a napkin. Tie the bundles closes with a piece of raffia or a string of palm tree beads (they make a wonderful favor).

Centerpieces can be as simple or elaborate as you like.  Balloon bouquets always look wonderful.  Or, create your own centerpieces using a sand pail filled with sunglasses, lotion and small beach balls.  Flip flop candles or bamboo torch candles are a must for when it gets dark. Be sure to include personalized cameras from Party411.com Creations For You.  Buy extras; your guests will love taking pictures of themselves as beach babes and hunks.  And cameras make fabulous party favors.

Hamburgers and hotdogs are a must at a Beach Blanket Bingo Party!  Add chips, salsa, fruit and ice cream (if it’s an indoor party) or s’mores (what’s tastier than toasted marshmallows) and you have a simple and delicious meal that everyone will love.   

Have some extra fun with your beverages.  No matter what you’re offering, be sure to serve it in great light up glasses.  Your guests will ooh and amah as the sun goes down and these glasses start flashing.  For an extra touch, use brightly glowing light up ice cubes too. Keep the waters bottles cold in an inflatable palm cooler.  It’s not only practical (use it every time you have guests over); it makes a great decoration too.

It’s always hot at the beach so be sure to have plenty of water around, but not just any water!  A personalized water bottle label from Creations For You!  Your guests will enjoy these water bottles so much you may want to get some extras to use as party favors. 

Beach Party Entertainment

No day or night at the beach is complete without music.  If you have access to live music, a DJ or steel drum band would be great.  If not play a luau cod with classic beach tunes or make your own CD. 

If you’re having a party at home, make sure the fabulous beach movies from the 60’s are playing in the background.  Annette, Frankie, and Gidget will all be welcome additions to your guest list.

Just being at the beach is entertainment enough, but your guests will enjoy some planned activities as well.  Take the theme, Beach Blanket Bingo literally and have everyone play bingo.  (If you don’t own a set, it’s an inexpensive purchase at your local discount or toy store.)  Keep the games short and moving and offer fun, reasonably priced prizes like glow necklaces, earrings, or beach towels.  More active games like limbo and charades will be a big hit too.

Beach Party Favors

Unfortunately, all good parties have to end but your guests will have sweet memories when they leave with a delicious milk or dark chocolate candy bar.  Hand out a personalized candy bar with a beach theme image and a personalized message.  It will be a tasty reminder of a wonderful party.

Make the kids little favor packets. Fill a small pail with a few fun goodies:

• Octopus Disc

• Neon Squirt Fish

• Sticky Sea Animals

• Fish Bubbles

After all their fun in the sun at your Beach Blanket Bingo party, your guests will anxiously await your next event.  Together you and Party411.com will guarantee that all your parties will be a success!