Mermaid activities:
Mermaid Resources
- Involve Dad in the under-the-sea fun. Kids will love to frolic with a father figure.
Dad or Uncle can dress the part of a fisherman with fishing gear and a few
props. Or he can be prince charming with a crown and cape. In either roll he
can engage the girls to ask them if they've seen the mermaids. As a fisherman
he can net the little mermaids in a game of chase on the lawn. As prince he
can ask questions and tell the girls that it's too bad they lost their voice. Or he
can be King Neptune (white Santa beard and a crown with a fork shaped
spear). King Neptune can jokingly forbid the mermaid girls to play with human
things. Have him throw human treasures in the pool.
- Paint the little ladies with Mermaid Face Painting. Drape a canopy, and some
tulle on a chair and prop a clamshell pillow to create an under the sea salon.
Klutz makes an excellent book for inspiration that includes the face paints.
You're sure to use it for years to come. You can also paint nails and toes.
- Create sea jewels: String inexpensive plastic shell beads to make mermaid
jewelry to take home.
Mermaid Resources
- Mermaid craft supplies, including three paper mermaids, sequins, pearls and
glue. - Make your little girl the star of a personalized Mermaid coloring book.
Mermaid's lunch
Don't bother with the fish cakes! She may like tuna sandwiches, but a real crowd
pleaser with the younger kids is a simple macaroni and cheese dish you make with a
shelled pasta. Serve the pasta with a plastic clam shell ladle and punch bowl adds a
mesmerizing mermaid's touch. Or buy a brand new fish bowl to serve up the pasta
fun. If she must have tuna, try tuna boats and plop a mermaid figurine on the side.
Mermaid cookies, cakes and sweet treats
Don't bother with the fish cakes! She may like tuna sandwiches, but a real crowd
pleaser with the younger kids is a simple macaroni and cheese dish you make with a
shelled pasta. Serve the pasta with a plastic clam shell ladle and punch bowl adds a
mesmerizing mermaid's touch. Or buy a brand new fish bowl to serve up the pasta
fun. If she must have tuna, try tuna boats and plop a mermaid figurine on the side.
Mermaid cookies, cakes and sweet treats
- Fish around for cake ideas. A mermaid's cake is easy when you take hints from
Wilton. You may find the retired Merry Mermaid cake pan (2105-6710, 1993) on
eBay. Otherwise, you can follow their recipe for a mermaid cake using a doll
stick prop. Or check out the Betty Crocker mermaid cake.
- Stick to a candy color palette of mostly blues, greens and lavender. Green
lollypops, blue shark and whale gummies to create an under the sea effect.
- Make almost from scratch Mermaid's shell cookies. Buy Madeline cookies and dip
them into a melted swirls of Wilton's green and blue melting candies.
- Make home made marshmallows and dust with Wilton's Green Powdered sugar.
- Pour some bubbly carbonated drinks with a dash of blue food coloring and
garnish them with blue sugar rim.
- Cool them down with Ocean Blue raspberry shave ice. Or make a refreshing
blue raspberry gelatin dessert.
- Serve up blue ice cream! Allow vanilla ice cream to soften, then mix the desired
color of blue. For the ultimate tropical look, cut coconuts in half and use them for
bowls. Here's how to cut coconuts in half. Or garnish with Chocolate Seashell
Candy and serve in a small beach pail.
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More ways to set the scene:
- Load steel drum music to your MP3 player. Carnival Cruise line favorites has the
classics that will set a happy tropical tone.
- Show life in a fishbowl: Buy some plastic goldfish bowls, add food coloring and
the graceful beauty of underwater plastic plants. Or fill the bowls with yummy
display of sea green and ocean blue candies and allow kids to help
themselves. (It's a party after all.) Martha Stewart has the recipe for success
with a fish bowl gelatin dessert.
- Have some sandbox fun. Make your own mini sandbox with blue sand and some
colorful ocean toys. Buy a pound of sand (or about 1.5 cups) for under four
bucks. In a pinch, you can buy salt and rub blue or green chalk into the mixture
to create your perfect color.
- Get bubbly. Load the floor with varying colors of blue, green and lilac and silvery
balloons, and place a bubble maker in a high traffic area.
Mermaid Pool Party
How to have a mermaid theme birthday party or pool party
She has a mermaid's wish to have a party with the fish! You can create a magical
underwater oasis with a mermaid pool party that's fin-tastic. Set the scene with
colorful shells, steel drum music, and sea foam fantasies for memories that will last a
lifetime. (See also our shark party, dolphin party, seahorse party, and surfer party
ideas.)
Yes, under the sea, you can throw a mermaid's birthday bash without inviting Disney.
True, favors are a bit of a challenge if you're departing from Ariel, but if you open your
eyes to the underwater world, you will find plenty of sparkles, sweet sea treasures
and inspiration, like the organza mermaid favor bag, pictured right, that's a true
keepsake. Stuff it with a string of faux pearls, shell lip-gloss, and plastic starfish. And
she'll love the Grow Your Own Mermaid card (you'll find it at Michael's stores, not
online, for about a buck).
Here are some other fanciful fun ideas for frolicking with the mermaids:
How to have a mermaid theme birthday party or pool party
She has a mermaid's wish to have a party with the fish! You can create a magical
underwater oasis with a mermaid pool party that's fin-tastic. Set the scene with
colorful shells, steel drum music, and sea foam fantasies for memories that will last a
lifetime. (See also our shark party, dolphin party, seahorse party, and surfer party
ideas.)
Yes, under the sea, you can throw a mermaid's birthday bash without inviting Disney.
True, favors are a bit of a challenge if you're departing from Ariel, but if you open your
eyes to the underwater world, you will find plenty of sparkles, sweet sea treasures
and inspiration, like the organza mermaid favor bag, pictured right, that's a true
keepsake. Stuff it with a string of faux pearls, shell lip-gloss, and plastic starfish. And
she'll love the Grow Your Own Mermaid card (you'll find it at Michael's stores, not
online, for about a buck).
Here are some other fanciful fun ideas for frolicking with the mermaids:
- Get Shellfish: Instead of going with Ariel for the party plates, opt for inexpensive
colorful plastic shell plates, which you can use again and again. They're sized
perfectly for lunch and cake. The vibrant colors pair nicely with the King Neptune
style cocktail picks for the appetizers.
- Make a splash with the Piñata: Fill it with salt water taffy, Efrutti Mother of Pearl
Gummi Candy, Fruit Seashell Candy, and Swedish fish, and Aloha buttermints,
because they're individually wrapped and festive.
- Give them a nice Hawaiian punch. Skip the old school drink. Create instead a sea-
foam punch with lime sherbet with lemon lime soda. Garnish with a plastic
cocktail mermaid and a drink parasol. Or mix a carbonated beverage with blue
Gatorade. Even easier: peel the Gatorade label and stick on some mermaid
stickers so it looks as though they are floating in the drink.
- Make waves with a tablecloth. Start with a sea-foam green plastic tablecloth, then
lay an ocean blue tulle over Or Barn Kids has the mermaid look with a mermaid
tablecloth and sweet mermaid plates.
- Create a sea kelp ceiling. String fishing line and drape green crepe paper or craft
fringe in clusters. For added effect, cut out fish shapes and hang them in
schools. You can also make a sea kelp limba. More MERMAID PARTY Stuff. Take a
limba stick and add crepe paper seaweed.
- Since mermaids treasure fish, here are some fun ideas for your under the sea
party:
- Fish bowl decoration (fill a fish bowl with goldfish or Swedish Fish.
- Make a wavy aquarium invitation (idea by Family Fun).
- Make fish in a bag gelatin desserts (idea also by Family Fun).
- Craft mini take home aquariums (this is sort of an aquatic snow globe).
- Send a message in the bottle. Start with a plastic sand art bottle and plop in a
cocktail mermaid, a bit of blue sand and a shell. Then roll and stuff your message
and hand deliver a memorable invitation. Or search Etsy.com for hand made
mermaid creations, like the set pictured right. Here's another adorable mermaid
invitation from Etsy.com
- Mermaid Birthday invitations and party wording ideas:
- Under the sea we'll soon be, as Marina is turning three!*
- Take the plunge and swim with us Saturday, August 22 at 1:30
- Mermaid's Cove: 123 Beach street
- RSVP: Sea Queen Rachel or King Neptune Todd at 867-5309
- * Variations:
- Have some with us fun in the sun, our little mermaid is turning one!
- Join us under the ocean blue, little Anne-Marie is turning two!
- Venture to the ocean floor, our little mermaid is turning four!
- Splish splash and fun galore, our Brittany is five no more!
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