A pool party can be either a modest or an extremely big and loud event that will take some time and effort to organize.
If you decide to have a really big day, you will have to think it through and prepare thoroughly! And the first thing to take care of is the stunning beach themed party decorations, which will create a mood and immediately give your guests clues that something great is going to happen!
We’ve got you covered with that: check out some of the best décor ideas!
How to make an amazing pool party:
- come up with unique invitations
- choose a suitable theme
- hire a professional show host and a DJ
- pick up some pool party decoration ideas
- arrange beautiful lighting for the evening
- create a cocktail bar, think over snacks and drinks
- arrange a lounge area with sun protection
- make a cool photo zone
- come up with interesting activities (water inflatable attractions, contests, fun games, etc.).
Think of a pool party theme
Come up with a theme for the celebration that will be of interest to all your guests. Sketch out a script, so it will be easier to organize everything and not to forget anything. Once you have chosen your party style, it will be easier for you to find pool decor ideas for party!
Movie night
- Get enough sun loungers, a couple of inflatable or soft frameless chairs.
- If you don't have a projector, just take your large LED TV outdoors and install it in a convenient place.
- Pick up your favorite movies: opt for some classic films (for example, "Jaws" or "The Godfather") or choose some of the new "Marvel" superhero movies.
Chic party
- Create a modern setting with a black and white theme.
- Put black and white sun loungers everywhere.
- Prepare everyone's favorite snacks, such as French fries or canapés.
- Come up with some signature cocktails and serve them in stylish glasses.
Hawaiian Luau
- Buy colorful Hawaiian shirts and make Hawaiian necklaces for the guests.
- Decorate the area around the pond with vibrant tropical flowers and plants, bamboo pieces, and Hawaiian-themed accessories.
- Make real torches and stick them around the tables!
Pool party ideas decor
Check out these stunning pool party decor ideas.
- Decorate the party area with poster stands featuring seascapes.
- Place large flower arrangements everywhere to add romantic vibes.
- Find a comfortable place for a bar, decorate it with reeds, making it look like a small hut.
- Create an arch of colorful beach balls, alternating them with lifebuoys and fixing the elements to each other with double-sided tape.
- Decorate the entrance to the party with a bright summer wreath made of large cocktail umbrellas.
- Color Chinese lanterns in the style of beach volleyballs.
- Create exotic planters from coconut shells, hang them on ropes, and fill them with flowers and greenery.
Party welcome banner
The more colorful your banner is, the stronger the intrigue will be! If you’re looking for stunning party decoration, pool party ideas from our collection will definitely get you interested.
- Letter balloons banner: this option looks very festive and bright, allowing you to create a three-dimensional invitation inscription. You can also add inflatable numbers to it if you want to highlight a specific date.
- A banner created from paper elements (these can be flags, circles, stars, stripes with letters). This is a classic solution that everyone loves.
- A banner with oven-baked letter cookies is a unique choice that both adults and kids will love (the kids might eat your banner later!).
Decorate drinking bar
- Build a brutal bar counter from an old door or wooden boards, install it on a couple of wooden barrels, and paint everything in your favorite color.
- Use the bamboo weaving mat on your bar tabletop.
- Make a neon "DRINKS" sign for your bar.
- Stretch a fishing net under the sign, attach dried crabs, seahorses, starfish, and urchins to it.
- Use coconut shells as vases (to prevent them from turning over, attach them to another part of the shell.
- Fill glass vases with whole or chopped oranges, limes, or lemons for guests.
- Create some “vintage” glass jar vases: add layers of sand, colorful beans, pebbles, dry flowers, berries.
- Complete the decor with bottles with notes (write funny wishes for guests)!
Pool balloon garland
With cool pool party centerpiece ideas at hand, you can easily create miracles with balloons.
- Installing an arch-shaped garland of helium balloons over the entire pond is a classic choice! Also, you can create several such garlands in a row, creating a kind of tunnel — it looks just amazing!
- Create a free-form garland of air-filled inflatables, the upper end of which you can fasten, for example, to a tree or a pole, and lower the other end of a garland directly into the water.
- Make a unique garland stretched horizontally right above the water. Opt for the voluminous garland (it should consist of bundles of several pairs of balloons). Then, you can attach shiny gold letters on top of it, laying out a greeting for guests or someone's name!
- If you have a water slide, create a beautiful hemisphere-shaped garland right above it — it will be even more fun to ride!
Rainbow balloon arch and stands
A magnificent inflatable rainbow arch is one of the brightest and most grandiose pool party balloons ideas. You can set it up right at your party entrance or above the pond!
Pick up quality balloons of all colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, green, blue, and purple!
On average, a 5" balloon arch contains 20 bundles and 2 bundles made from bigger 12" items that are used for the arch base. Large arches, made from 12” inflatables, include 32 bundles (about 128 balls).
Make a themed photo backdrop
Think of the perfect backdrop for your guests to provide an excellent photo shoot, and they will be there having fun all day long! Here are some cool ideas.
- Attach a variety of multi-colored disposable paper plates to a life-size piece of cardboard dyed in a plain contrasting color. Set the background vertically and secure it, then decorate it with colorful ribbons around the perimeter.
- Buy lots of party balloons of different sizes in all shades of green and inflate them to create the perfect tropical arrangement for your photo booth.
- Make a life-size sheet of cardboard and paint it sky blue. Then, attach a small garland of snow-white inflatables of different sizes to the top. Finally, fix a curtain of ribbons of all colors of the rainbow to it.
Don’t forget the pool raft
Buy several multi-colored pool mattresses in advance and select several participants. It's a good idea to pull several dividing strips in your pool. Ask the players to “saddle” their mattresses at one side of the pool and wait for your command.
When the whistle blows, they have to start to row with their arms and legs to be the first to swim to the other side of the pool, where a support team with refreshing lemonade will be waiting for them!
Sun protection zone
Everything is simple here: the main thing is to protect your guests from the sun rays when the sun reaches its zenith!
Try to find several ready-made tents that can accommodate your guests. However, you can always make cool comfy DIY tents!
It is enough to stick the life-size pegs into the ground, and attach the edges of a snow-white fabric to each of them, beautifully lowering the ends to the ground and securing it with small pegs. Then, equip your tents with sun loungers, blankets and pillows, hang a LED garland or a flashlight under the ceiling, and install a small low table for refreshments near the entrance of each of them.
To add some aesthetics, decorate your tents with colorful ribbons, greenery, and fresh flowers.
Don't forget the led lights
You can decorate the area with simple LED bulbs combined with Mediterranean-style decor elements by hanging them on tree branches.
Complement the decor with compact, portable battery-powered lamps, placing them on tables and the ground. With such a design, you can arrange fun beautiful parties all night long!
DIY photo zone
A hand-made wooden stand with large flower buds (opt for tropical flowers) and greenery (huge palm and fern leaves) is a perfect option for your pool celebration. Optionally, you can use artificial flowers, and then simply paint the entire flower wall with multi-colored spray paint.
Also, you can try creating fun life-size letters out of cardboard, cover them with foil, and place them under your balloon arch or in front of any other bright backdrop. You won't believe what amazing pictures you can take with such a backdrop!
Pool themed party activities and games
A pool party can be even more interesting if you add some exciting activities to it! We've put together some game ideas for you that will make your guests frolic like little kids!
"Find the Gem"
Everyone needs to prepare a little. The players will need coins, swimming goggles, and the ability to hold their breath underwater for a long time.
To make the game more interesting, throw real coins and some other things that look like coins at the bottom of the pool. Whoever collects the most coins in time is the winner!
"The battle"
This is a great game that needs at least 4 players — 2 boys and 2 girls.
The girls sit on their boys’ shoulders and start fighting in the pool, trying to hit each other with big twisting balloons. The one who loses their balance and falls into the water first loses the game.
"The beach cocktail"
Serve the cocktails in large jars. When the players hear the whistle, they need to drink their cocktails using as many straws as possible. The player who drains his jar with the maximum number of straws first wins the game.
Breathtaking theme pool party ideas
Most people enjoy the beach in different ways: some like to just lie on the sun loungers, others play volleyball all day long. But if you throw an unforgettable party with amazing decorations for your friends, the great time they’ve spent will be the thing that unites them!
