To immediately set the tone for the event, nautical themed parties, start with the right thoughtful design. Invitation to a sea party should also be consistent with the theme of the party. Depending on what style you have chosen, the invitation may be a ticket to a round-the-world cruise on a huge liner (white narrow envelope, expensive paper, gold embossing), a letter in a bottle (you can choose a small bottle of elite alcohol) or a chest with a map ( a small pirate-style chest can be purchased at a souvenir shop). You can simply send guests a “black mark” (a cardboard circle, black on one side, and on the other with the time and location of the event).

The party venue itself also needs to be decorated accordingly. At the very entrance you should place several posters with different contents, for example, “Give up the mooring lines!”, “All aboard!” etc. By the way, if, in accordance with a previously drawn up scenario, the entire celebration supposedly takes place on the deck of a ship, the ceiling and all the walls should be decorated with a number of fishing nets, in which images of all sorts of inhabitants of the depths of the sea should be placed. You can also attach compasses, maps and a ship's steering wheel. As an alternative, improvised portholes decorating the walls can be used. In order to imitate the seashore, you can use appropriate photo wallpaper or banners, tables with sun umbrellas, and a few scattered inflatable balls indoors. And as decoration, use starfish, shells, various corals, colored oval and round stones. In addition, glasses of respectable size, filled with water and sand, grass, glass balls, floating candles or even fish, would also be appropriate! One way to decorate a party could be to record the sounds of the sea surf and the cries of seagulls in the background.

The dress code for a seaside party is very simple - everything that has to do with the sea! It could be: a vest and cap, a pirate costume, a fisherman or fisherwoman costume, a captain’s jacket, a little mermaid costume, a merman costume, a Neptune costume, or just a swimsuit. You can create your own adventures using, for example, fins, masks and snorkels.

You don’t need to come up with a menu for a seaside party. The basis of the menu is seafood! Prepare fish dishes, boil shrimp, make slices of salted fish. Alternatively, you can make or order sushi! Drink - rum, ale or dark beer!

Accordingly, at a sea party, competitions should be in the same vein. Tug of war, fishing (artificial fish on a magnetic hook), knowledge competition maritime terms, burim with marine-themed words, competition for the best sea gait, etc.

We hope that our tips will help you create a seaside party. Good luck and seven feet under your keel!

There can be many reasons to organize a party in a nautical style. This is a corporate holiday, a birthday, or just a meeting of old friends. Despite the fact that the nautical style presupposes the presence of a pond, such a party can be held anywhere, indoors, in winter.

Main features and nuances

You can use several design options. They differ in general content and focus:

• Actually " nautical» option is anchors, ships, sails, steering wheels and other similar details that are present throughout the entire space allocated for the party.
• One of the most popular nautical style options is pirate, including treasure maps, antique chests, gold coins, Jolly Roger emblem, pistols. This option is preferable for a children's party.

• « Underwater kingdom" - abundance around figurines and images of all kinds of marine life: crabs, fish, stingrays, algae and much more.
• One of the most interesting ways to design is to create cartoon sea world. For example, the world of the Little Mermaid with its palaces, Neptune's trident, colorful fish and pearls. This option is especially good for a women's party.

Each of these areas is completely independent, but at the same time relates to the marine style. They all have a lot in common - these are the main attributes and details. One of these details will be sand. It’s good if the party takes place outdoors near the sea or lake. And in an ordinary apartment, you can fence off a small area of ​​the hallway at the entrance and pour a little sand, collected on the shore or purchased at a gardening store, onto a piece of blue fabric.

Decorating a party in a nautical style

Wherever it is decided to hold the holiday, The design must include themed accessories and details. It is they who will create the “marine” atmosphere at the initial stage and help maintain it throughout the event.

The color scheme is mainly the presence of white, red, all variants of blue and their combination. In a marine theme, all kinds of stripes are more popular.

You must start with the front door (holding a holiday in an apartment or house), the hall (in a hotel or club) or a symbolic fence (on the shore of a body of water). It is necessary to post an advertisement on imitation parchment with the name of the ship or “locality”. At the entrance you can even build a kind of ladder, if space permits. You need to prepare garlands of boats or anchors in advance - they will hide the usual walls and ceiling. Marine paraphernalia can be placed on all horizontal surfaces - pebbles from the sea, corals, shells, etc.. If the party takes place in an apartment, then walls main room can be draped with blue or blue fabric. Thick ropes hung against its background will resemble ship ropes. There you can also place helm. If it is difficult to get a real one, then brown cardboard will make an excellent imitation of it. Tablecloths, curtains and all kinds of home textiles should also be designed in marine colors. An image of anchors is glued or sewn onto the pillowcases. Don’t forget about such “marine” details as barometers, hourglasses, maps, telescopes And so on. These details should be everywhere. It would be great if you hang the name of each on the doors of all rooms: galley, pilothouse, wardroom and so on. You can even appoint a person in charge of these rooms and hang a photo of this person nearby. For example, like this: “Galley. Kok Yaroslav." The captain, of course, will be either the owner of the house or the hero of the occasion.

Selecting costumes

In addition to decorating the party room in a nautical and ship style, to maintain the overall atmosphere The clothing of guests and hosts is very important. The suitability of suits must be taken care of in advance. The first option (also the simplest) is to indicate the dress code in the invitations. Here's a list of what's perfect for any nautical-themed party, no matter the occasion:

• caps and vests;
• captain's jackets;
• costumes of sailors, fishermen and fisherwomen;
• pirate costumes and accessories;
• mermaid and Neptune costumes;
• swimsuits (if the holiday is on the shore).

If you don’t buy costumes specifically for the party, then suitable sets can be made from what you have in your wardrobe.

For girls, a blue skirt with a white tight short blouse is quite suitable. It is better if the skirt is pleated and also quite short. To turn an ordinary blouse into a sailor's one, you just need to tie a classic one sailor tie. You can make it yourself or replace it with a blue scarf with white stripes. Men can easily wear flared (or regular) trousers in white or blue and a white T-shirt. The same sailor tie or the presence of stripes on clothes will turn the outfit into a naval one. The second option assumes that upon entry guests will be given the necessary clothing items. Everything should be in red, white and blue colors. Black is also allowed, and for girls - pink (but always striped!). T-shirts may be enough. Additionally, guests can receive caps(they are easy to make from plain paper) and sailors collars. If a pirate nautical style is chosen, then instead of caps and collars there will be hats or pirate belts and “one-eyed Joe” headbands.

Marine style competitions

All entertainment during the scenario of such a party should also be themed. Most of them are mobile or require some kind of physical activity.

One of the few competitions that can be held right at the table is called the “Marine Knowledge Auction”. All participants are divided into two teams. If there are many guests, the number of teams can be increased. The presenter names one of the marine terms, such as waterline, half-hull, pilot, galley and so on. Teams must decipher this term. The delegate of the team that first reported a ready answer answers. If no one gives an answer right away, you can give one minute of time to think about it. The team that gave the victory wins greatest number correct answers.

Rescue of drowning people

Depending on the total number of guests, they are divided into teams of 5–6 people. All players in turn must throw on a separately selected person(this can be the presenter or his assistant) Lifebuoy. Instead of a circle, a regular gymnastic hoop, preferably a lightweight plastic one, is suitable for the competition. If the circle is cast accurately, it is considered a “save” and the team receives one point. They win on points.

The board is broken!

Teams of 3–4 people participate. Each receives a fairly large open container of water. It personifies the hold into which water entered through the resulting hole. The second container, which has the same volume, is empty. She needs fill with water from the first using spoons. This is called "bailing out the bilge." The competition continues until one of the teams completes the task first.

We are not afraid of the storm!

All guests are divided equally into two teams. The more players in each, the more interesting it will be. Participants stand in two lines opposite each other. The leader gives the first person in the line a very long narrow ribbon. Instead, you can use thin synthetic rope. After the whistle or bell sounds, participants must "tie" the entire team using a makeshift rope. To do this, everyone must thread the ribbon through some part of their wardrobe - a button hole, a belt strap, a bracelet or something similar.

Let's lay a fairway

After the middle of the party, guests will greet such a competition with a bang. Teams have 4–5 players. In front of each is a winding line of reefs, for example, made from water bottles. The first participant, who is also the team captain or navigator, receives a “steering wheel” (a hoop, plate or other round object) and blindfolded, following the prompts of his team, must navigate a safe route. His comrades remember the route and turns. The rest of the team must “swim” along the same path after the navigator.

One-legged pirate

At about the same time as the previous one, a competition may be held " One-legged pirate" This competition is a relay race, so teams must consist of only pairs of people (4, 6, 8). The distance and route are planned in advance. It may not be direct, but anything, even reciprocal (that is, each pair will return to the beginning to pass the baton), depending on where the party is held. All couples stand next to each other, their two legs are tied together - the left one of one to the right of the other. This is how the rest of the route should follow. The group whose members complete the task faster wins.

Sea menu

At a “sea” stylistic party, you need a menu that matches the setting and the general idea.

First of all, you need to remember that most of the dishes, except for sweets, should either consist entirely seafood, or contain them. Will fit salads with shrimp, mussels, crab meat. Several types of fish must be included in the party menu. Can be served as a main dish huge stuffed fish. Around there are various cuts of smoked and salted fish, salads with squid, seaweed, etc. The best option for decorating the table and serving dishes would be a buffet. On the table you can place a lot of full-fledged dishes and all kinds of sandwiches with caviar, red fish, smoked herring and other delicacies. Sandwiches, like the entire table, can be decorated with vegetables cut out in the shape of ships and starfish. The second table - for sweets and drinks - can be set up right away, just on the other side. From alcoholic drinks - rum, gin, dark beer. Cocktails blue color And juices They will be well complemented by matching tubes and ice in the shape of shells, sails, and so on. Sweets - cakes, cakes, cookies - are also prepared in a themed color scheme. They can be made in the form of a variety of aquatic life. Napkins folded into sails will be a great addition. Marine style is always fresh and light, good mood and enthusiasm for communication. Choosing this particular style for a party is a holiday for guests and hosts.

A birthday party in a nautical style for a child is a fairly universal option. It is perfect for both boys and girls. A narrower theme for a girl’s birthday is a celebration in the style of the Little Mermaid or a fish, and a boy’s birthday can be organized in the style pirate party or Spongebob style. Let us consider a broad topic, since it is the most universal and simplest in terms of its implementation.

Of course, an underwater or beach party wouldn’t be complete without blue, the color of the waves. All its shades are appropriate - from blue to dark blue and turquoise. You can complement the range with green, white, red, purple. If you are going to decorate a pirate ship, use paper or fabric with dark blue or black stripes for decoration.

Well, now let’s learn more about what you can do for a birthday in a nautical style with your own hands.

Invitations

We decorate the traditional version of a rectangular postcard with drawings of waves, algae, and sea inhabitants.

Fish, turtles and seahorses can be drawn, or you can cut them out of colored cardboard and glue them onto a postcard - then we’ll get a three-dimensional detail that will look more interesting.

Well, the options for figured postcards are a shell, a duck, a whale or a mermaid’s tail.

Decorating the room

You can use paper boats strung on a thread as a garland at the holiday. Crabs, jellyfish, and shells also look interesting, which can be cut out of colored paper or cardboard according to a template.

Ordinary paper pompoms turn into sea inhabitants if you attach fins, tails, heads and other details to them.

Chinese lanterns are also good at transforming into inhabitants of the depths. It’s easy to make a fish or jellyfish from such a paper lantern.

We supplement traditional banners with figures of stars, algae, scales, or we make each detail in the shape of a shell or fish.

Balloons can also turn into fish or jellyfish; you just need to add paper tails and fins to them, and add eyes and mouth with a felt-tip pen or marker. And if you don’t have enough time or desire for creativity, stock up on ready-made foil balloons in the shape of a shark or octopus.

You can also make funny octopuses from balloons.

The marine theme will be complemented by a fishing net on the wall, decorated with figures of sea inhabitants. This grid can also be used as a stand for photographs of the birthday boy. Photos can also be placed in small round aquariums, supplemented with shells, sand, and pearls.

Once the walls are decorated, you can think about decorating the ceiling. Stripes corrugated paper imitate waves and create the illusion of being under water. An octopus made from a ball and paper strips also looks funny. Children will surely like this decorative beauty.

We welcome guests

A special sign, decorated in a nautical style, will help inform guests about where the holiday will take place. Also, a path decorated with foil balloons to match the holiday can act as a landmark.

To ensure that guests also match the theme of the celebration, we give them accessories at the entrance - caps, hoops, bracelets. Bracelets with hoops are suitable for girls, and caps are a universal option; you can dress up all your guests in them.

Image of the birthday boy

The boy's outfit depends on the theme of the holiday. If you have settled on a general nautical theme, a sailor suit will do, and if your choice is a narrower theme of pirates or SpongeBob, then choose the appropriate suit. Sailor and pirate costumes can be found at rental stores, and the role of SpongeBob's outfit can be played by an ordinary yellow T-shirt with the image of a cartoon character.

The girl can be dressed up in a mermaid costume or just in a dress that matches the color scheme. Girls really like fluffy skirts and dresses, and a felt crown with pearls or a festive paper cap to match the dress will complete the look.

Letters and numbers

If you are going to decorate the hall with a number symbolizing the age of the birthday person, you can implement these simple options:

You can also make the first letter of the baby’s name or even a whole word in a marine theme:

Festive table

We decorate the table itself with shells, stars, netting, and burlap.

We also decorate disposable tableware. Children will be interested in eating from a plate shaped like a turtle or crab.

Since the child’s birthday is planned in a marine style, seafood and fish dishes will be appropriate as treats. But ordinary cold cuts or salad can also be decorated according to the theme of the celebration - laid out in the shape of an anchor, decorated with pepper octopus, crab-shaped toppers. You can also remember a favorite dish of many - fried octopus sausages. Not very useful, but on a holiday you can)

Candy bar

We also decorate the sweet table in a sea theme. To do this, we choose the background and tablecloth in shades of blue, complement it with a fishing net, paper fish figurines, and serve sweets in small aquariums.

Images of lighthouses, boats, anchors, and steering wheels are suitable as toppers. We decorate the tubes with paper skates, stars, and shells. There is a simpler option - we glue small flags onto the tubes.

And of course, at the festival of the sea, we can only have real water from the ocean) And we decorate the container for it with stickers with octopuses or crabs.

We top the cupcakes with sugar pearls, decorative stars or jelly candy turtles.

The cake can be decorated with a small paper sail, and ordinary macarons are transformed into a shell with a pearl.

And even the usual and not quite festive crackers can be creatively served in buckets with spatulas, and we pour white jelly beans into a small aquarium and call them pearls)

The sweet table will also be decorated with gingerbread cookies in the shape of jellyfish, fish, skates and stars, painted with colored sugar icing.

Cake

A popular material for decorating cakes is mastic. You can use it to make seaweed, shells, fish, scales - this is exactly the kind of cake decor that would be suitable for a sea themed holiday.

Photozone

The memory of the holiday is bright and beautiful photos, so we pay due attention to organizing the photo zone. The easiest way to diversify your photographs in a marine theme is photo props in a marine style - anchors, lifebuoys, scuba diver masks.

A more interesting, but also more difficult to make on your own option is a photo stand. On it you can depict a mermaid with a sailor or with a seahorse, and the most original photo stand is in the shape of a shark’s mouth, with which you are guaranteed bright and unusual photos!

Here are ideas for a photo zone in a marine style:

Entertainment

A children's holiday cannot be complete without games and competitions. Here is a small selection of activities that will make a child's nautical themed birthday party fun.

Attach your tail

We draw a mermaid or a whale on a sheet of whatman paper, draw and cut out the tail separately. The child's task is to try to attach the tail while blindfolded.

Fishing

For this game you will need a children's pool or a large basin of water, as well as a toy fisherman set with fishing rods and fish on a magnet.

The most accurate

Props - a stand with fish and with cut out holes, as well as balls or balls. The point of the game is to get the balls into the holes.

Creative activities

Types of calm, creative activities for children on the theme of the sea:

• decorating cardboard fish with pieces of foil, colored paper, beads, stones;
• coloring shells with paints. Children will be able to take these shells with them as a souvenir;
• face painting in a marine theme. It is advisable to invite specialists who will professionally paint children's faces.

Looking for treasure

For this entertainment you will need a container with sand or foam, and the treasures themselves. The children's task is to find the treasure.

The rustling of sea waves is always tempting, and especially in summer. Friends’ Instagrams are full of azure photographs, but so far all we can see is the sun in the garden? No problem! Let's have a sea party! Ocean useful tips- in our article.

To sea. To sea. I need to go to the sea. To sea. There is water in the sea. Water tames. Slowly, wisely tames.

Sasha Dea, "Girl with a Blindfold"

The sea is an inexhaustible topic, everyone knows this. Therefore, we choose one of the bottomless mass of party directions:

Matrosskoe
Stripes, stripes and more stripes! We appoint a captain, put on vests, let the combination of blue, white and red reign, cut tiny lifebuoys from tomatoes and cheese, hang ship ropes, a steering wheel, cardboard “portholes” and a spyglass on the walls. We conduct master classes on tying sea knots, and at the end there is a competition to see who can scrub the deck better! And what? And you don’t have to clean up after your guests.

Mermaid
Flowing hair, sparkling tails, pearls in hair, lots of laughter and songs. No, you don’t have to turn into sea foam, and even dancing shouldn’t hurt your legs. We have the best form of fairy tales, Disney. A karaoke competition is obligatory (who is Ariel here and sings the best) and a silence tournament (it’s not for nothing that the witch deprived the Little Mermaid of her voice). Sirens, go!

Sea! When you say this word, it seems that you are going out for a walk, looking at the horizon. Sea…

Alexander Green, “Running on the Waves”

Cruise
Have you booked a trip along the mirror-like surface of the sea? Invitations in the form of steamship tickets, perfect refreshing cocktails, blue paper pom-poms hanging from the ceiling, white light dresses that flutter sea ​​breeze... Oh, that is, a fan that also spins wind vanes. We powder the spout behind the door with the “latrine” sign, and we certainly take the baked sturgeon out of the “galley.”

Deep
Who lives at the bottom of the ocean? Us and we hang out! Must have: flasks with multi-colored sand, azure tablecloths, decorative shells, corals, hedgehog fish, paper jellyfish with light lighting under the ceiling and a hilarious clown fish costume. Well, or some other fish. Or maybe even an octopus, all of whose tentacles are connected to each other and move funny when you move one of them.

A man at sea is never alone.

Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

Beach
Anyone who comes to visit with an underwater mask and fins is not crazy, but is going to a beach party! The atmosphere of total serenity, leis at the entrance, decorations for bare feet, decor in the form of inflatable rings, funny panama hats and straw hats, and buffet- shrimp, smoked fish, baklava, waffle rolls and hot corn!

Pirate
Yo-ho-ho! And also bottles of rum, boxes with precious strands of pearls hanging from them, singed scrolls in mossy bottles, blindfolds, torn jeans, bandanas, a wall-sized Jolly Roger and fortune telling from the book “Treasure Island.” Hot? Let's go outside and have a water pistol fight!

Rybatskoe
Sparkling spoons, a net across the entire ceiling, a bouquet of fishing rods, crucian carp for the table and reeds in vases! The devil, or rather Neptune, as always, is in the details. We attach hooks to the napkins (most importantly, not as sharp as usual), and send out the invitation along with tiny dried fish. And at least someone should dress up in huge rubber boots!

The sea is eternal movement and love, eternal life.

Jules Verne, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"

We compose invitations based on the theme. We play with the theme of Aphrodite, who stepped onto the earth from the foam of the sea, draw bubbles, sailor suits, create water streaks using watercolors, singe the edges to give the scroll some historicity...

Your soul worries once, twice, and thrice in anticipation of a sea party, your heart skips a beat, but there isn’t a single shell or steering wheel lying around in the house? No problem! You can extract such topics from paper and even food that you will be rocked. We create: marine cardboard flags, origami boats, necklaces from “ropes”. We hang up: sea maps and photographs of whales, jellyfish, skates, octopuses.

And don't forget about the kitchen! From a cucumber cut lengthwise, using triangles of the peel (fins on the sides and back), we successfully make a dolphin surfing the light green waves. Macarons will perfectly fulfill the role of oysters once we attach a sparkling dragee to them. Cake pops are the spitting image of baby whales, and without cookies in the shape of starfish, it’s just not a holiday! Any seafood from squid to lobster will fill all the plot gaps. Drop the anchors! We stay here to get lost in the fun.

Holding my breath, I dived into the abyss of delight
Angela Malysheva

Cloudless sky, full sails and endless blue warm waves - romance! A bright seaside party is perfect as a theme for birthdays, weddings and meetings on other significant occasions.

It is ideal to gather in nature, preferably near the water. You can play volleyball, swim races, and fight with water pistols. But it will also be very spectacular indoors: in a gray autumn or a boring winter, refreshing summer decorations will certainly cheer up your friends!

The ideas below will be suitable no matter where the sea themed party will take place - at home or outdoors. It’s just that in the latter case, the decorations will need to be mounted not on the walls/ceiling, but inside the tents or on bushes/trees.

Decor

Start your design by choosing a color scheme. The combination of white and delicate blue shades is an airy, elegant decor. Red color is ideal for creating bright accents. To liven up your interior, add blue, turquoise and traditional stripes. Beige decorations and attributes for a marine-themed party - sand and shells, green color– algae, palm trees.

Use textiles - drapery on windows, walls, ceilings and furniture. For example, light white fabric – sails, blue – sky, sea. Burlap, unbleached linen, and fishing nets will fit in. The drapery will serve as a backdrop for thematic decorations and will hide inappropriate interior details.

It is better to fix the material in waves, a little carelessly - the vagaries of the elements. The net looks very nice on top of blue fabric or stretched out to dry on the wall. When attaching decor to textiles, take into account its total weight.

Stock up on pebbles, shells, corals, starfish, decorative fish, seagulls and so on. – they are useful for decorating literally everything. You can do something with your own hands - cut it out of paper, print it, draw it. Something to buy in a store for aquarists.

Decide on the main idea: beach, tropical island, undersea world, side of the ship. If you mix everything together, it won't be very stylish. This design is ideal for children, and for adults, the subdued ambience of a seaside party, without an excess of details, is more suitable.

This does not mean that anchors and steering wheels are inappropriate on the “beach”, and that there cannot be fish and algae on the “board of the ship”. Just create an emphasis on the main idea, and use other attributes in moderation, as a festive addition.

• decorate chandeliers so that they do not violate the integrity of the picture. The easiest option is to replace the lampshades with round paper lampshades (a penny at Ikea). If you cut it in half and add decorations, you get charming jellyfish.

• sisal and ropes fit seamlessly into the theme– use them in compositions, to decorate the table, instead of napkin rings. If the chandelier shades are not removable, you can wrap the horns and the central part with rope. It’s easy to attach decorations such as “pearls”, shells, small pebbles to ropes and rope with a glue gun.

• if you are planning to throw a nautical themed party for a wedding or anniversary, use simple decorations to decorate the ceiling. For example, paper lanterns, pom-poms, silhouettes of seagulls on transparent fishing line. Do you want colors and fun? Make garlands of triangles - striped, red and blue, with drawings or a birthday message.

The party can go... down the drain! Surrounded by wonderful corals, graceful algae and scatterings of underwater treasures. Then let seahorses, fish, dolphins, octopuses, squids and other bright living creatures “swim” (the same transparent fishing line) on the ceiling and walls:

• hang captain's wheels, lifebuoys, anchors, boats, portholes on the walls, doors, backs of chairs.

• They are easy to make with your own hands from scrap materials; You can write jokes and congratulations on anchors and lifebuoys.

• And with the help of portholes, you can visually expand the space and make the interior more realistic. Print it out, stick it on a piece of cardboard, hang it along the walls; arrange miniature compositions around the hall,

• put sailor's attributes here and there: jars/bottles with sand and pebbles decorated with shells

• and other decorations inside. Do-it-yourself corals: carelessly stick glue from a gun around the wire blanks, paint them, assemble them into a “bush,” and stick them to the stand with the same gun. treasures in chests, caskets

• (in the craft store you can buy cheap beads, rhinestones, “emeralds-diamonds”); underwater gardens in jars or small aquariums

• (you can launch a couple of live fish), ship models, sextants, compasses, telescopes, maps. Pirate paraphernalia will also fit in, but don’t overdo it - this is a separate topic. (for reference if necessary) blue, red and white hydrangeas reminiscent of tropical corals – the most suitable flowers for sea theme party

• . Lilies and alstroemeria will fit in. Instead of flowers, you can put crooked decorative branches in bottles; you can hang “galley” signs at the entrance to the kitchen, “wardroom”

above the table with refreshments, a “radio room” above the musical equipment, a “latrine” in a well-known place.

Photozone

If the party takes place “on board a ship,” design the photo zone as a captain’s cabin or deck overlooking the sea. You can print and glue a ship with cut out portholes for faces onto the base. Or put a boat against the wall, against the background of the sky and waves. A simple but effective photo zone - the seabed: a blue background plus algae, shells, fish and other decorations. Can print out a beautiful sea view and place thematic attributes in the foreground

, in artistic disorder. You will get both a photo zone and a set of accessories for taking pictures. Let guests fool around by putting their heads through a life preserver or “knocking” a neighbor’s head with an “anchor” - the memorable photos will be fun and lively!

It is better to hand out invitations two weeks before the event so that guests have time to prepare their costumes (if a certain dress code is expected). You can make an invitation to a seaside party yourself, print a template or buy postcards - this is a popular topic.

Use maritime slang: We moor at berth No. 5 (house number) in the Preobrazhenskaya harbor (street). If according to the scenario, the party guests will go through a quest, hint at it in the text: “In addition to delicious treats from our cook, an exciting journey to a desert island awaits you.” Invitation ideas:

• Marine life, different or one thing;
• a message in a bottle decorated with pearls and shells;
• boat, anchor, lifebuoy;
• a shell with text inside (a postcard or a real shell with a card);
• a figurine of a sailor or sailor, a cap, a guy and other elements of a naval costume as a form for a postcard.

Suits

To avoid confusion and embarrassment, it is better to discuss with your guests in advance how to dress for a seaside party. There are many options, and the dress code differs depending on the event - for a birthday, a wedding in a restaurant, or just meeting friends outdoors or at home, the same thing is unlikely to be suitable. Additionally, costumes depend on the main idea, if one is defined. We offer options:

• Evening or casual wear in themed colors(blue, white, red). And the organizer will prepare decorations and sea attributes for everyone (chest at the entrance).

• Beachwear - shorts, light sundresses, pareos. Swimsuits in the listed colors or simply decorated with themed accessories (shells, pearl beads, miniature anchors, starfish). Instead of a headband - swimming goggles. You can put on flippers for fun (and take them off after the photo shoot).

• Striped or white shirts, tank tops, T-shirts. Black or blue skirts, shorts, trousers. Peakless caps and caps, guys and other uniform accessories. Cabin boy, sailor, boatswain, captain? Even if it's a naval party, the costumes can be stylized without being too formal (key word - party!).

• Simple and informal - denim bottom, striped sailor jacket. It can be artistically torn, decorated with appliqué, dropped over one shoulder, tied in a knot under the chest - add raisins! Many girls have striped T-shirt dresses, they also fit perfectly into the theme.

• Thematic images, one way or another connected with the sea: mermaid, Poseidon, fisherman, corsair. Or sea creatures - goldfish, octopus, shark, squid. This costume should be comfortable and light, or wear something underneath so that you can take it off after the photo shoot.

Buy accessories for a nautical party– earrings, bracelets, beads, hair jewelry in a recognizable style. Imitation pearls and algae, shells and mother of pearl, corals, pendants - anchors, steering wheels, etc. Although it is faster and cheaper to make them yourself. Earrings, bases for bracelets and other accessories are sold in handicraft stores.

Menu, serving

Think about where exactly your friends will eat. The wardroom is a traditional feast. Picnic on the beach - lots of shells, sand, starfish, corals. Ship – sail over the table/tables, floor-length tablecloth, blue background.

Prepare dishes that are blue, white and/or red. Cut cards to decorate appetizers, skewers, utensils - steering wheels, anchors, sea creatures. Decorate coasters, boxes, jars and glasses in a nautical style. For humor, you can stick labels “Rum”, “Sea Water”, “Tear of a Mermaid” on the bottles. Serve nuts, chips, dried fish and other snacks in thick paper boats. Desserts can be placed in halves of coconuts, pineapples, grapefruits and other tropical fruits.

The table should be in harmony with the interior of the room. If hand-drawn cheerful decorations are used to decorate the party, then elegant restaurant serving will fall out of the theme, and vice versa.

Prepare light snacks - sea fish, seafood, miniature sandwiches, kebabs, canapés. It is not necessary that the menu consists entirely of seafood; not everyone loves them. Let them be on the table meat dishes, a variety of salads in portions, a lot of fruits and vegetables.

Use seafood as a garnish for some dishes. Bake cookies - stars, fish, anchors, boats and other simple shapes. Cupcakes and other desserts can be easily decorated in a nautical style with icing, sprinkles and fondant.

Any drinks for this themed party will suit the tastes of the guests. You can buy a couple of bottles of rum, make a few tropical cocktails, serve punch in the “ship” (hide a bucket between the cardboard right and left “side”). For a birthday, order a cake in a nautical style - a delicious surprise for the birthday boy and guests!

Entertainment

If children are definitely looking forward to noisy fun, then a sea party for adults can be different, depending on the age of the guests, the morals of the company, the theme and the occasion. Choose games and competitions taking these factors into account.

invent complex plot It's hardly necessary for the script. But some idea must be seen so that friends do not get bored. There are many options:

• the ship crashed off the coast of the island. The natives agree to help with the repairs. But only after the strangers prove that they are worthy of help. Fun games fit well here;

• naval competition between teams of two ships. More suitable for outdoor parties - ball games, sports competitions. But a lot can be adapted for the space;

• a trip to a wonderful island with the goal of relaxing and having fun. Welcome aboard, set sail, full speed ahead! Oh, the ship was attacked... it doesn’t matter who (Kraken, pirates, Neptune). To continue the path, you need to fulfill his whims (games). This sea party scenario will end with arrival on the island (i.e. the holiday will continue in free mode);

• some kind of quest, as a reward for competitions - part of a treasure map, for example. Or a map, without which you cannot sail to the same island. Or not finding the way home. After all the games, party guests will collect the fragments into a whole map and receive a reward.

• initiation/acceptance into seamen. A series of games and competitions on a maritime theme, after which guests will receive some evidence that they are real sailors! Cup, certificate, medal, etc.

Download catchy songs for a sea party– actually about the sea and about summer, vacations, beaches, resort towns. With them, competitions will be more fun, and guests will loosen up faster. Soviet, military, pop, rock, songs from cartoons and films related to the sea in one way or another - there are tons of options to suit the tastes of any company. Upon request, there are entire collections of music for a sea party, in in social networks– hundreds of songs by request: sea, summer.

We offer competitions that can be included in the script.

Trick (paired, humorous)

The goal is to tie a rope into a sea knot. Don't you know how? But it doesn’t matter how, as long as the knot is as complex as possible. Time – 20 seconds. Presenter: we divide into pairs, one gets involved, the second actively cheers for his other half. When the knots are tied, the leader praises everyone and suggests... giving the “knot” to the second participant in the pair. They need to race to undo what their spouses/friends did in the first stage.

Hole? Nonsense! (team competition)

Option one: two basins with water, spoons. You need to be quicker than your opponents by scooping up water from your basin-boat with spoons into buckets standing nearby.

Second: teams not only scoop up water, but also become mischievous by pouring it into the opponents’ “boat”. Those. Party guests pour water into each other's basins with spoons. At the end, pour it into three-liter jars and compare - whose jar has more water is the loser.

Third: water must be thrown overboard, i.e. the buckets stand at some distance from the basins. You need to carry the water with spoons faster than the opposing team, with minimal splashing on the deck.

Polundra, captain on deck!

Everyone for themselves (a glass), pairs (large glass) or team (the most fun option, two bowls). The goal is to quickly drink the contents through a straw (beer, for example, according to the tastes of the company). Why speed? So the captain is coming! If he notices that the sailors are not drinking tea at all, he will force them to scrub the deck.

And yet we scrub the deck (the captain is not stupid, eh)

Option one: garbage around the hall, small. Two teams or each for himself, party guests wearing large gloves (collecting trash is inconvenient, but fun for that). Why are you wearing gloves? So it's stormy, it's getting colder, or the North Pole is close. Whoever collects the most wins.

Second: relay race, two teams race at the same time. Take a mop and push away the trash (crumpled up newspaper) to the finish line. Possible with obstacles (chairs, water bottles, etc.). From the finish line you simply run back and pass the mop to the next one.
Third: mark the border, throw garbage (balloons, newspapers), distribute mops. The goal is to throw all the garbage onto the opponents’ “deck”. They, accordingly, return it back. After three minutes, count whose “deck” has the least garbage.

Regatta

Team (large newspaper boat), every man for himself (small paper boats). Start-finish, race. In order for the boat to “float”, you need to blow on it. The distance is small, otherwise it will be boring and long. The surface is smooth (table without a tablecloth if there is a carpet on the floor).

Sea battle

Draw a ship on whatman paper, cut holes, and place it at some distance from the wall. Above each hole write points for hits (50 points in the sail, 100 points in the center of the stern, 25 points in the edge, etc.). Three throws of the ball, you need to get into the hole. You can compete in teams (sum up the results).

Save yourself, who can!

Two teams, two stable chairs. If you have a lot of guests at your seaside party, you can group several chairs together (but still make it feel crowded). Chairs are lifeboats. The goal is to fit as many team members as possible into them (you can sit on each other’s laps, take someone in your arms, whatever you want). In a short time (a minute, for example).

Table games, quizzes (include in the script so that guests can relax a little)

• what the word means (sea slang);
• Is it true that (facts and myths about everything related to the sea, its inhabitants, the fleet);
• team game, take turns remembering sea songs (or simply with the word “sea”).

At the end of the scenario, present memorable awards to your friends. For example, a cup in the shape of an anchor or a model of a boat with a sign without a name (host: now each of you has a ship, name it and set sail - the whole world is open to you!).

Present:

• magnets and key rings (anchors, steering wheels, ships, marine life);
• decorations and accessories in a marine style;
• sets of sweets (there are shells, stars, etc.);
• alcohol, sets of coffee and exotic teas (and who else but sailors brought these “treasures” from distant countries?), a mug with a thematic design and a memorable inscription.