Water Party Ideas

Now that summer is here, people may decide to have a water-park or themed party.

Here are some fun ideas for this type of party:

Check out the Surf’s Up party supplies which are festive and fun for this theme.

Create a Personalized Surf’s Up invitation for your guests!

Another fun theme: Beach Ball!

Have a water balloon fight! Play Water Balloon Volleyball: You’ll need lots of water balloons stored in a bucket full of water and towels for each pair of children. Divide children into two groups. Pair them off and give each pair a beach towel. One side begins by placing a water balloon in the center of their towel. Each child holds onto one or two corners of the towel in their hands. The object is to toss the water balloon over the net with the opposing side catching the balloon in their towel. The volley continues until one side misses and the balloon breaks, giving the other team a point. First team to 15 wins.

You’ll need lots of water balloons stored in a bucket full of water and towels for each pair of children. Divide children into two groups. Pair them off and give each pair a beach towel. One side begins by placing a water balloon in the center of their towel. Each child holds onto one two corners of the towel in their hands. The object is to toss the water balloon over the net with the opposing side catching the balloon in their towel. The volley continues until one side misses and the balloon breaks giving the other team a point. First team to 15 wins. Variation: If you do not own a volleyball net, put two pairs of kids a distance apart and have them volley back and forth.

Variation for young children: Instead of beach towels use two large blankets. Divide into teams, and each team member holds a part of the blanket. Toss the balloon back and forth between teams. Not too tough with a bit of teamwork.

Make sure to carefully clean up the balloon remains, as they are a choking hazard for young children.

Give out plastic squirt guns and fill them up so the kids can run around with them squirting water at one another. They can also keep the toy as a party favor.

Give out a small goldfish as a favor. This can also serve as a centerpiece for your party table!

You can also buy stuffed fish/ocean animals and put them at the centerpiece of your birthday table. You can buy enough for each of your guests to take one home, or have a raffle.

If you have other favors, you can hide them in a bucket of a sand for the kids to dig out as they depart the party.

Use green and blue balloons to decorate.

You can get a fun sprinkler or Slip ‘N Slide that the kids can enjoy together.

If you have a pool, the kids can definitely swim, but make sure to have an adult supervise the pool. Depending on the kids’ ages, you can play relay swimming races or Marco Polo.

If you don’t have a regular pool, you can fill a small plastic pool with bubble solution and water so the kids can wade in the bubbly water and blow massive bubbles!

You can have fun little foods for your guests. Usually a cookout would work really well. You can also have gummy candy in the shape of fish or other water animals as party treats!

Make sure to send them home with a fun favor! (The  Flip Flop Straws are really cool!)

Check out this link for baking a fishy cake.

Birthday Party Ideas also has some information about how other parents planned and organized their water-themed parties:

A water-themed party will be an absolute blast, especially on a hot day! Make sure that if you do plan an outdoors party such as this one, you have a secondary date reserved as a back-up in case of rain, and/or you have planned at least some activities that can take place indoors…just in case!