Party Tips

It's the first day of summer, school is out, and your new swimming pool has just been installed – all of these mean only one thing – cool fun and a hot party.

Whether it's an afternoon of barbeque or a soiree, swimming pools are neighbors, friends, and relatives-magnet. You don't really intend to keep those envious eyes from merely gazing at your graceful dive into the pool. You can throw a pool party for neighbors and friends all summer long with the help of these pool party tips.

Invitations

Parties can neither go without pool party invitations – after all, you need to inform people of summer's biggest event right in your own backyard. Invitations can contain simple information such as details about the party: when and where it will be held, and the party theme.

Party Theme

Make the party more interesting and fun by adding themes. Invitees can don on their bathing suits, vibrant sarongs and wide-brimmed hats for a Hawaiian Luau theme, which is popular in a teen pool party. Themes make your guests prepare for appropriate accessories ahead while you busy yourself transforming the pool surroundings into a miniature Hawaii.

Pool party ideas can be bought from local craft stores, pool retailers, and party supplies. You can also attach torches on surrounding trees or float candles to brighten up the entire pool area. Plastic wares are most suitable in pool parties unless you'd like to spend your day searching for broken glasses at the pool bottom.

Choose colors such as aqua or sea blue to match with your theme. Floral or yellow tablecloths are excellent choices to match any kind of pool party theme. Tabletops can be donned with yellow flowers such as roses and daffodils to really set the scene.

Food And Drinks

What would pool parties be without food? Food for pool parties needs to be simple unless you want to keep people's focus on your food and not on the pool. Serving finger foods such as tortilla chips and salsa, potato chips and onion dips, or pita chips and hummus on large platters lessens the hassle of refilling. Served sandwiches can be cut into bite-size pieces or you can try tropical spring rolls with crisp vegetable fillings. Also serve ice cream cake and assorted Popsicles.

Serve non-alcoholic or light alcoholic drinks in your pool party to minimize incidences of guests throwing up and getting drunk. Martinis and vodkas mixed with blue curacao and lemonade are irresistible drinks while serving iced tea, cucumber-and-lemon spa water, and other fresh fruit smoothies can add to the spice and turn it into one of those wild pool parties. If it’s a pool party intended for children, serve lemonade over an afternoon of barbequing hotdogs and marshmallows.

Pool Party Games

Avoid the possibility of your party to end up into one of those slumber parties by adding cool and fun pool party games. Here are party tips geared to make your guests experience nothing but fun. The pool can be filled with beach balls and inflatable rafts so guests can engage in pool volleyball or water polo. Otherwise, if your guests are of the more creative kind, your friends can prepare a routine of synchronized swimming.

Other Necessities

If you don’t have a pool house, prepare a place where guests can change and rinse off, or place towel and doormats on paths leading to the washroom. Although guests can easily sit on the poolside, it's still safe to ensure everybody can sit down decently. Additionally, be sure to offer sunscreen for guests who aren't able to bring their own.

With enough preparations and cool pool party tips, your friends may not be able to remember when the party was but they could never forget how swell it was.