Island Slumber Party \*Invitation to Paradise\*: For each guest, make a postcard by cutting tropical pictures out of travel magazines or brochures and gluing them to the front of an index card. On the back of the card, draw a line down the middle. Write information about the party on the left side, and the guest's address on the right. Add a stamp and mail it! \*Sleep on the Beach\*: Transform your party room into your own private island.  Spread out beach towels, set up beach chairs or lawn furniture, and open up beach umbrellas. Hang posters of tropical vacations - you can often get these for free at travel agencies. Cover tables with seashells and big crepepaper flowers, available at most craft stores, or fill glass bowls with water and float real flower blossoms in them.  Blow up beach balls for guests to play with, and play reggae, calypso, or other island music in the background.    \*Warm Welcome\*: When your guests arrive, greet them the Hawaiian way by hanging a lei, or flower necklace, around their necks.  You can buy plastic leis at most party stores.  Or you can make your own paper leis by scrunching up balls of tissue paper and stringing them together with a needle and thread.  \*Cool Shades\*: Kick off the party by passing out inexpensive plastic sunglasses as favors. You and your guests can wear them all night long!  \*Homemade Hula Skirts\*: Make your own grass skirts, then swish and sway away!  You will need: ~1-2 rolls of green crepe paper ~Scissors ~Stapler or clear tape 1. To make the waistband, cut a piece of crepe paper long enough to go loosely around your waist. 2. Cut another strip about 2 feet long. Staple or tape it to one end of the waistband so that the strip hangs down straight.  Cut another strip the same length and attach it right next to the first one. Keep going until you get to the end of waistband. 3. Help each other wrap the finished skirts around your waists and staple or tape the ends together. \*Hula Hoopla\*: Play Follow the Hula Leader!  Take turns making up goofy hula dances for one another to try to follow.  \*Island Buffet\*: Serve a taste of the tropics! ~Ocean Motion: Serve tuna salad on a sea of lettuce.  Or have an adult help you make a pineapple "boat" by slicing a pineapple in half, cutting out the inside, and filling the boat with tuna or chicken salad. ~Floating Island Sundaes: For each guest, pour chocolate sauce into a bowl and gently drop a scoop of ice cream into it. Sprinkle the chocolate sauce with shredded coconut to look like foamy waves. Stick a pretty paper "beach" umbrella into the ice cream. ~Fruit-Tasting Tray: Look for unusual tropical fruits such as mangoes, kiwis, pomegranates, star fruit, and papayas at the grocery store. Cut the fruit into pieces for your guests to sample. ~"Fishy" Snacks: Fill a clean fishbowl with goldfish-shaped crackers. ~Caribbean Breeze: With an adult's help, fill a blender about 1/3 full with ice.  Then add 2 cups of pineapple juice, 1 cup of orange juice, and half a banana. Blend until smooth. ~Strawberry Sunrise: Break an 8-ounce package of frozen strawberries into pieces small enough to go in the blender. Add 2 cups of 7-Up or Sprite.  With an adult's help, blend until smooth. \*Island Anklets\*: Supply your guests with a variety of beads and thin leather cord to make ankle bracelets.  Each of you should cut a piece of cord long enough to wrap around your ankle twice, then tie a knot at one end of the cord. String beads onto the cord until the string is almost long enough to wrap around your ankle.  Tie a knot after the last bead, and tie your bracelet around your ankle. Trim off any extra cord. \*Flashlight Limbo\*: Turn off the lights and have one person shine a flashlight straight out, about three feet off the floor.  Have everyone take turns "limboing" under the beam. Each player must pass under it without ducking forward or touching the floor with her hands or knees. If any part of her body crosses through the light, she's out.  Lower the beam after everyone has had a turn. How low can you go?  \*Tidal Wave\*: You'll need a ball of socks for each player, and a bed sheet. Have everyone stand around the sheet and toss her socks into the middle. Then everyone should grab the edges of the sheet, lift it up, and try to bounce each other's socks off by shaking and waving the sheet.  The girl whose socks stay on the longest wins.