MINI DECORATIONS: Using construction paper, I made bright colored lanterns by placing the two pieces together, folding in half "hamburger" style, cutting them until I was about an inch away from the edge, unfolding them and then refolding them "hotdog" style and then stapling them at the edges. I made about 6 of these and hung them from the ceiling. I also made pineapples and coconuts using construction paper as well. We then took 2 false trees that we already have in our house (you can get those @ like Wal-Mart for about $20) and used brown balloons as coconuts. Over the door we wrote "ALOHA" on a piece of with poster board using bright colored markers and then attached leis to the poster board similar to beads that would hang over a door. We also put "ALOHA" in random places. MAIN DECORATION: On one of our walls, we used a blue tablecloth to be the sky. We then used cardboard to be the sand. On the "sand" we used 5 green poster boards cut into grass shapes on the bottom, and then made flamingos using 3 hot pink poster boards going along the bottom. We also put hibiscus flowers in between the 3 flamingos. On the sky we simply used large yellow construction paper for a sun, and 3 white poster boards for clouds. This decoration cost about 20 overall. (All things used in this decoration were from a dollar store) WELCOMING OF GUESTS: The birthday girl, with a balloon and a small list of questions, welcomed guests. On this list were questions they had to fill out about themselves and then put into the balloon; later that night, one girl would pick a balloon, read the info about the person and try to guess who that person is. They were also given a bandanna made from pink or orange fabric. On the pink bandanna it said "hoku" which means star in Hawaiian, and on the orange one it said "mahina" which means moon in Hawaiian. These were the different teams that the girls were going to be on. My sister invited 7 girls, 8 including her.