Hawaiian Day @ school...help needed

[hmwnick]

I teach @ an Intermediate School & next Friday has been designated as "Hawaiian Day". There is usually a competition between the hallways & WE want to WIN. I need some creative ideas beyond the hawaiian shirt that everyone else will think of.

I know you can do it!!! Work you magic!!!

 

[Cinderella94]

We had Hawaiian Day once...I can't remember much but I know we decorated our hall with huge, brightly colored flowers & had Hawaiian music playing (not too loud) from a tape recorder on the desk in the hall.

I'll keep thinking for you!!

Also, some of the party stores usually have a Hawaiian theme b-day set of stuff, with garland, etc. Party City near us does.


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[justjulie]

What about homemade Hawaiian leis and fresh fruit kabobs? Can you make a palm tree - perhaps with a small sono tube (used in constructions) and construction paper palm leaves. Flowers can be made by tracing children's hands onto coloured paper and curling the "fingers" outward to make the petals ... then there's always fresh fruit smoothies ... and Don Ho singing ....

 

[DawnCt1]

Make some colorful leis, play Braddah Iz music, serve poi to unsuspecting victims.....

 

[justjulie]

"Grass" skirts can be made from green garbage bags - just cut strips from the bottom part way up toward the waist ...

 

[mommytotwo]

As the judges come along, could you have some of your students go by your door and have them dance the hula? Have the dancers wear fresh flower leis and after their preformance, present the leis to them.
Have the kids build a grass shack that has a few different Hawaiian foods and drinks like pineapple and passion fruit juice. And let the judges taste the different selection you have.

 

[justjulie]

I love a challenge ...

Here's a site that translates English names into Hawaiian ... sorry, I don't know how to "link" it ...


http://www.alohafriendsluau.com/names.html

 

[barkley]

for a visual beyond the leis and stuff like that how about doing something with the words "hawaii-beyond the beaches"? you could find photos and copy them to display of the pineapple, nut and coffee plantations, some of the waterfalls on the road to hana, the animals and plants indiginous (sorry not sure of the spelling ) to the different islands, and maybe a nice display on the pearl harbour memorial (you can get some interesting information from the "doolittle" website that might be facinating for the kids to learn from).

you could serve some pineapple, macadamian nuts and the like-but it might be fun too to have some information on how the hawain diet came to regulary poupulary include some not so hawaiian food items with the influx of mainlanders during the pre war and ww 2 years (there is some interesting health information stuff on programs that are being implemented in some regions to get back to the native healthier diet vs. the high fat diet that some mainland foods -esp. SPAM- introduced to the islands). i recently saw a news peice on how much the u.s. military diet changed the eating habits of the native islanders-it was realy interesting.

 

[pjlla]

How about serving poi.... very icky traditional food from the Island.

 

[grlpwrd]

I don't know how much you want to spend or if you want to make decorations...here are some ideas:

tiki torches secured to the wall or placed in decorated buckets with sand - not lighted, of course

beach mats on the floor

make or buy a door curtain using flowers

handmade signs with tikis or words like aloha for the walls

table with a grass skirt around it and set up with pineapple, papaya, coconuts, etc. and Polynesian type wooden plates and bowls - poi is hard to come by and one of the poi companies on Kauai which offers poi by mail (Hanalei Poi Company) has halted mail orders due to recent heavy rains which will affect future production

have some folks as hula dancers and singers to sing a Hawaiian song



GL!

 

[RangerPooh]

If you are decorating a wall you could have a scuba diver/snorkler swimming with fishes, sea turtles, and coral reefs.

Volcanoes (not the large ones but the low ever flowing ones)

A surf board

You could glue sand to butcher paper and place that on the walls with beach towels and umbrellas

You could make a waterfall using butcher paper, clear/bluish streamers (basket filler) and attach it to the fall, then point a small fan upwards at it so the water is 'moving'. You could then set up a mister so that those walking by get misted by the falls. We did this in Jr. High in our homeroom and it looked great!

Hawaii also has Diamond Head and Pearl Harbor

 

[AnaheimGirl]

We did this once and someone brought in some little kiddie wading pools. We filled some partway with water, and some with sand. We had the Hawaiian music going, beach towels laying on the floor with things like sunglasses, snorkeling gear, sunscreen bottles and a trashy novel laying on top of them. If I'm remembering correctly, I think a couple of my co-workers even put on the sunglasses and hats (no swimsuits, though!) and laid down on the towels as if they were sunbathing when the judges came by. Fish nets tacked up on the walls, with paper fish decorations "caught" inside them. Inflatable palm trees we got from Oriental Trading Company.

Have fun!

 

[llp479]

Can you get some HI travel posters from a local travel agency?

The biggest thing that reminds me of HI is the smells of the gardenias and lillies when I stepped off the plane. The Bath & Body works Gardenia scent reminds me of being there. Maybe you could get some candles or flowers to help make the air more frangrent.

 

[MinnieM3]

You could have someone dressed as King Kamehameha and Queen lilikalani or whatever her name is...... Also, how about Hawaiian totem poles....I don't think they're called that, but think Polynesian lobby/gift shop.

Lilo and Stitch??

I use this site for Hawaiian names.... www.hisurf.com I'm going to double check that that's correct. Good luck! Don't forget the Aloha spirit!