THE PERFECT POOL PARTY!  INVITATIONS:Buy plastic bottles and put some sand in the bottom. Next, put some identical colored rocks on top of the sand. Then place some fake or real seashells on he top.  With some faded paper, hand write the invitation. (Example) ALOHA karla!  PLEASE JOIN  jessica's HAWAIIAN BIRTHDAY SLEEPOVER!  AT 0000 anenue parkway.  BE THERE BY 2:30 ON THE 24th AND RSVP TO 1-000-0000-! DECORATIONS: You'll need the basics for this one! Streamers, balloons, confetti; and some plastic sea creatures to put anywhere, posters to do anything with, blow up palm trees, and some cheap fish nets. GOODY BAGS:  What I'm going to put in my guests' bags is as follows: beach ball, sunglasses, candy, glow in the dark jewelery, and some pineapple lip gloss!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bath stuff, glitter, eye-shadow, in a tye-dye bags they can keep! FOOD:  I made a menu, with desserts, meals, appitizers, and drinks.  Make up funny names like, Chill'n cheeseburger, or, hawaiian hot dogs, or even surf'n PB & J sandwich! Strawberry smoothies, banana shakes, soda, fruit, water (duh!)  WHAT TO BRING:  Have your guests bring a bag of their favorite tropical candy, and have each guest bring $2.50.  I have invited 8 people, however many people you have over, divide it by 2 and have each guest bring the amount needed, so the two halves each have $10.00 each. GAME: Mall scavenger hunt!  Drive you and your guests to the mall, have the two teams seperated at the front entrance, give each team an envelope containing: A map of the mall, a list, pencil, their money, and a plastic bag. Make sure each team has a watch to set. Give each team exactly 1 hour to find the things on the list and return to the entrance. Whichever team gets there first (or has more or all the items,) wins.  Give the loosing team $10.00 to spend any where they like, but they can only spend up to heir limit they brought!  Give the winning team the same thing, but have a $5.00 gift certificate to Claires as well!!!!!!! CRAFTS: Tye-dye tees, make photo frames, make slippers out of flip flops (www.familyfun.com)  or even give eachother make overs!  And make a scrapbook decorated with your photos from the party (that were developed at the 1 hour while you were watching a movie.) You should have a great party, and feel free to twist some things around, just have fun with it, and relax!!!!   Hope this has helped!