Beach Birthday Theme

Beach Party Ideas for your next Birthday Party!  Fun Beach theme party ideas including ideas for Beach party invitations, beach party decorations, beach party games, beach party food, beach party favors and many other great ideas for a kids beach party! 

Beach Party Invitations

Beach Ball Invitation
Buy small blow up beach balls and blow them up.  Using a black permanent marker write the party information on the beach balls.   Give out the beach balls to party guests blown up or flatten and send in the mail.

Invitation in a Bottle
You can buy kits to make invitations in a bottle or make them yourself by recycling small water bottles.  Take the label off of the bottle and fill with 1/2 cup of sand.  Print out party details on sheets of paper - 4 to a sheet.  Cut the invitations out and then roll up and tie with a colorful ribbon.  Put party information inside the bottle and seal.   

Seashell Invitation
Buy large seashells that have a flat side and write the Beach party details on the shell using a black marker.

Old swimming trunks or Hawaiian shorts can be used to make plant containers festive ... simply place the trunks around the container and tie rope at the top of the pot to make it stay.  

To hold helium balloons fill sand pails with sand or rocks and then tie the balloon strings to their handles. 

Put sand and seashells on the party table or fill tall glass containers with sand and seashells and arrange in the middle of the table. 

To chill drinks for an outside beach party fill a wading pool with ice and place the drinks among the ice to chill.   

Use bright colored sand pails to hold chips, dips, crackers and pretzels.  They also can hold forks, spoons and napkins.  Use the sand shovels that come with the pails as serving spoons.  

Fun Beach Party Ideas
Set up a backdrop with a beach / surf scene.  Buy one that looks like the ocean background or make your own with a few blow up palm trees and a blue sheet hung up for a background.  Borrow a surf board, or cover your ironing board to look like a surf board and let the kids take pictures posing in front of the surf on the board.

Beach Party Games

Sand Castle Relay
To play you need two kiddie pools filled with sand, water and some plastic sand castle molds (butter tubs, rectangular plastic containers or bowls will also work).   Teams try to build the tallest sand castle in the time permitted.  On "go" have one child (from each team) run to the sand and make a mold of a sand castle piece.  They return to their teammates and the next child in line takes a turn. Keep going until the time runs out.  Whichever team has the tallest sand castle in 5 minutes wins a prize.  Play several rounds.     

More fun beach party games that include a swimming pool -   swimming pool party games

Beach Birthday Theme Activities
For older children give them each a beach ball and let them blow it up and put their name on it. Give them permanent markers to sign each others beach ball.

Beach Party Food
Macaroni and cheese using the Shells pasta - serve in large conch shells.

Goldfish crackers in sand pails - use sand shovels as serving spoons.

Fill small clear plastic cups with blue Jell-O so it looks like water then add Swedish fish candies.

Fill small clear plastic cups with vanilla pudding. Sprinkle crushed graham crackers on top for “sand”. Place teddy grahams on top and finish with a small cocktail umbrella.

Fruit kabobs - skewer pieces of cut up strawberries, pineapples and bananas on pretzels.

Instead of cake make cupcakes. Frost ½ of the top blue for the water and ½ light brown for the beach. Place a teddy graham laying down on a piece of fruit roll up - like the teddy is sunning himself on a beach towel. Add a small cocktail umbrella and a lifesaver gummy candy in the “water”.

Beach Party Favors
Small individually wrapped packages of goldfish crackers
Swedish fish candies
Blow up beach balls
Sunglasses
Flip flops
Sand art
Life Savers
Pixie Sticks (sand!)
Gummy Sharks

Goody Bags
A sand pail and shovel make the perfect goody bag to hold the children's beach party favors.

Treasure chests made from wood or paper are a fun goody bag idea.

Blue bags tied with white curling ribbon.