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Plan your Nautical Theme Party ... "Setting Sail for Another Great Decade!", "Anchors Aweigh!",
or "Bon Voyage" with the Nautical theme party ideas, decorations and supplies
listed here.
Nautical Party Invitations
Nautical Party Decorations
Nautical Theme Party Table
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Theme Party Games & Activities
Nautical Party Centerpieces
Nautical Theme Party Favors
Nautical Party Food and
Recipes
The invitations you decide to send out for a party always set the
tone for the nautical theme.
Suggestions for Nautical themed invitations: Titantic Invitation Send out simple preprinted party
invitations
- only add some tiny shells and a pinch or two of sand to the envelope. For a children's Nautical Themed Birthday party - have
the birthday child draw (or cut out) a boat (either a printed or colored
picture), or create one out of cardboard. Add the party details and mail the invitations.
The color scheme that works the best with this theme is blue, red,
and white, with touches of yellow. A combination of only two of these colors
would work as well, so pick what works best for you.
Transport your guests to a nautical paradise:
The first one is the Nautical
Boat and Waves which includes a freestanding cardboard Nautical Boat includes an anchor and white-gossamer sail.
The Nautical
Flags Arch 8' tall cardboard arch has nautical flags that light up!
Decorate your door with the
Life Preserver Arch for a fun way to
get the party started. This can also be used as a fun cruise style backdrop
for some souvenir picture taking!
Some
Nautical Anchors would be
great to place on your walls. Then add some
Seagulls
and
Portholes!
Place a Ship's Rail approximately three feet away from a wall. Add some blue
Water Gossamer on the floor between the rail and the wall and add a few small
white and blue balloons to look just like the ocean!
Nautical themed
Murals on the walls makes a huge impact.
Highlight a head table, or a buffet table, by
placing a set of
Dockside Pilings on either side of the table.
Then, line the edge of the table with Nautical
Signal Garland.
Some other decorating items that you may want to use around your party site
would include lots of:
Fish netting
Glass ball floats
Air plants
Palm trees
Cork
Lighthouses
Canvas-backed beach chairs
Lanterns
Beacon lights
Cover your tables with Blue Table Covers and add Blue Table
Skirts. You may use either fine white china for an elegant look, or try Red
Plastic Tableware for a real nautical effect.
Use a sand dollar for each guest
and use a paint pen to write their names on them. Place one sand dollar on
each plate to serve as a place card.
Scatter sand and a few shells across your table like confetti.
Sailboat Centerpiece
Anchors
Around the World Votive
Tropical
Table Setting
Place a Plastic Life Preserver at the center of your table. For the center
of the ring, spray paint some tree branches white and hang fish net and
shells from them. Use a Styrofoam base to support them and keep them upright.
Use some beautiful coral, air slants and sprinkles of sand for a
centerpiece.
Play some Caribbean type music, or maybe a little Jimmy Buffet. Don't
forget about the theme song to the infamous Love Boat for fun.
Need a quiet activity while guests arrive at a child's or teen party, or
something to keep them entertained while waiting for their rides? Try
a Nautical Word Search Puzzle!
Other Free Nautical Party Games to Print -
Nautical Party Double Puzzle (Numbered),
Nautical Party Double Puzzle (Scrambled).
If you finish your games and presents early and need to keep the kids
entertained (or works great if small kids come to your adult party), try our
Nautical Coloring Pages! 1,
2, 3,
4, 5.
Enjoy!
Here are a couple of games that work great with this theme and help your
guests mingle together throughout the entire evening!
Have a trivia contest based on the Birthday guest of honor. Prepare sheets
with 25-30 facts about him/her. Some true and some false. Have a contest to
see who can get the most correct. This is fun to get to learn more about
someone-even if you thought you knew it all!
Get a list of different nautical symbols. Spell words with the symbols,
and have people figure out what the words are. Give out prizes to the person
who gets the most right.
You could also play "To Speak, or Not to Speak". Give each player a bag or
goodie box with 10 small treasures in it (candy, chocolates, little favors).
Have bags labeled with players' names, so they don't get mixed up. Let
players know at the start of the game exactly when the game will be
ending-this game can be played throughout an entire party if you so choose.
The object of the game is to catch fellow players saying one of the forbidden
words or phrases:
NAUTICAL, BOAT, OCEAN, WAVES, BEACH, YACHT
To help players, post the words prominently on a board where they can be seen
often. If someone is caught saying one of the words on the list, that person
has to give up a treasure from their stash. The player with the biggest haul
of goodies at the end of the game is the winner. Lots of fun!
If there will be children at the party - a great craft/activity for them to
fill the time and match the theme is Sand Art.
Use some wonderful Anchors
Around the World Votive -they make wonderful party favors!
Neon Sailor hats are fun for all ages! And for the kids, try Sea
Creature Beads
Fill a blue personalized fluted glass
with sand and a couple beautiful shells!
Give out
Captain's Hats or Gob Hats
to all your guests as soon as they arrive at your door, with a
Captain's hat for the Guest of Honor.
The most logical fare for a Nautical/Cruise Night gala would be seafood of
any type. Here are a couple of suggestions - some could be used as
appetizers, while others are more of a main entrée option.
Angel hair pasta with shrimp and basil
Shrimp cocktail
Seafood stir fry
Flounder with crabmeat stuffing
A large Popeye's spinach pie!
For the kids, make beach boats by placing a slice of apple on each plate. Cut a cheese
slice in half at an angle and place that like a sail on the plate. Add some
peanut butter to the apple slice and add a few raisins as the people on the
boat
Blue jello with gummy fish floating in it is always a bit hit with the kids
at Nautical parties.
Serve punch out of a large punch bowl and add a floating toy sailboat on top.
If cake is the dessert of choice, a simple and sweet cake is as easy as this!
Frost a double layer round cake with light beige frosting. Sprinkle big grain
brown sugar over it - a striking resemblance to sand! You can then add some
doll beach chairs and umbrellas, or just a few plastic seagulls to keep it
simple.
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