This Beach party idea is a little extra special as it’s was for my little boy 🙂 The photos are looking a little old as this party was in 2009.
We created a Beach/Pool party for his 1st birthday party and it was lots of fun, even the adults had fun.
I printed surfboards for cupcake toppers and used flip flop shoe keyrings
, We also printed off some shark fins to use as cupcake toppers. I laminated the printouts so they were firm enough to stick into the cupcake and could be washed and re-used if required.
Party Guests were able to keep the shoe keyring from their cupcake if they wanted to and every child got a plastic beach bucket 
and an inexpensive beach towel
to take home.
A beach party would not be complete without a sandpit and giant beach ball
so we added those too.
The party food was all about sand, so I used my food mixer to crush graham crackers
for the sand, you could use any type of light brown biscuit.
The fruit sticks were a huge hit and I added a Shark Gummy
to the top of the lolly sticks.
I decorated the table with thin bird netting
which was very inexpensive and small plastic sand mold
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We dressed up in Lifeguard shirts
and the kids just wore swimmers.
Beach Party Cupcakes
Beach Sand Pit
Bucket of chips
Beach themed food
Beach party decorations
Hot Chips
Sandcastle cake
