Mermaid Party Decorations

Turn your party space into an underwater oasis with these fun mermaid party decorations:

• Scatter seashells, sand dollars and plastic starfish and seahorses on the tables and windowsills around the party area.
  
• Cover the ceiling, walls and floor with transparent cellophane wrap to give the impression of being underwater. Print out photos of mermaids and attach them along a broad strip of ribbon. Hang the ribbon along the edge of the food table or along the top of the entranceway. Or hang a mermaid banner near the entrance to the party.
  
• Tie groups of three or four balloons together and tie them to the backs of chairs. Anchor them with balloon weights and set them near doorways or in the corners of the party area. Scatter blue, non-helium balloons around the floor.
  
• Fill fish tanks or fish bowls with water and plastic sea creatures, such as fish, crabs, and starfish.
  
• Hang plastic fish from the ceiling using clear fishing line.

Little Mermaid Birthday Party Eats

• Serve blue jello in clear cups. Before the jello sets, add a gummy fish to each cup.
  
• Let your guests get creative by making and decorating dough dolls to eat or take home.
  
• Serve goldfish crackers, sour gummy fish and octopi, and chocolate turtles in large, clean, plastic seashells.
  
• Cook seashell-shaped pasta and serve chilled with a little butter.
  
• Use cookie cutters to cut fish and seashell shapes out of peanut butter sandwiches, cheese slices, watermelon, and apple slices.
  
• Serve soda, water, fruit punch, blue gatorade, or nanaberry smoothies with silly straws.
  
• Tint cream cheese with blue food coloring and spread on bagels cut into fourths. Add one goldfish cracker to each.
  
• Make a Mermaid cake by baking a 9”x13” cake and frosting it in blue frosting. Place a mermaid figurine in the center. Add decorations like gummy fish, wisps of seaweed drawn with green food gel or icing, and an octopus made by surrounding a red gumball body with 8 red licorice string tentacles.