If you're planning a birthday party, why not give it a different spin with the Finger Tips paradise island party! Why not decorate your room with tissue paper flower garlands. They're just circles of tissue paper. You need three layers per flower. Pinch them and stick together in the middle. Stick them onto a long piece of string, evenly spaced. You can also make palm leaves from green crepe paper. How about some colourful exotic birds. They're made by cutting out a bird shaped template, and sticking on tiny pieces of different coloured paper for feathers. Add a tail from straight strips of coloured paper. You can make them curl by running a ruler along each strip of paper. Food-wise, serve up barbecue food like chicken or fruit on skewers. For an added twist you could dip the fruit ones into melted chocolate! Mmm! How about melon boats with banana peel sails? Or why not serve ice cream and fruit in a pineapple boat with a banana sail? And you can even make your own fruity cocktails! Decorate them with bright drinking straws, umbrellas and slices on fruit. You could make small cakes iced with green icing and decorated with mini palm trees made from a drinking straw with green crepe paper for leaves. For a birthday cake, a sponge cake decorated to look like a paradise island with lapping waves, tiny chocolate boat and friendly parrot. Finger Tips would like to thank Renshaw Scott for supplying the sugar paste used in decorating the cakes. Dress in grass skirts and bright t-shirts, and make sure all your friends look the part with their own tissue paper flower garland. And for a game, how about palm tree limbo? The idea of limbo is to see how low you can go, without falling over or knocking the cane off. Start with the cane at the top and try to walk underneath, bending over backwards. As the pole gets lower, the game gets harder... You're not allowed to support yourself with your hands to stop you from falling over. Whoever manages to get the lowest is the winner. To make the limbo game, you need to get your hands on a load of polystyrene or paper cups, and paint them brown. The bases are made from two empty pop bottles, filled with sand. Put a garden or bamboo cane in each. You need 32 cups in all - 16 for each palm tree. Carefully poke a hole in the base of each with a sharp pencil. Thread the first two cups face down over each bamboo cane. This process neatly hides the bottle tops! As you can see, we've used to shades of brown paint for added realism. The rest of the cups go on the other way up. Once you've threaded one on, pop in a little paper ball. This will make the one on top appear to be slightly raised. Add 14 more to each palm tree. For the leaves of the palm tree, cut a leaf shape out of green crepe paper. Fold it in half, and then cut slits from the outside in to make it look more realistic. Take two bendy straws and join them long end to long end by squeezing one into the other. Have the bendy bit sticking over one end, and stick into place with tape. Add the leaves by putting a bit of sticky tape on the bendy end of the straw, and sticking to the inside of the top cup. Fill Cyril using the hole you made at the back of the head. Cover the bottle at the bottom by wrapping green crepe paper around. Cut slits into this, just as with the palm tree leaves, to make it look like grass. Add one or two colourful flowers to make it look even more exotic! Pop some lolly sticks in between the top two cups. These will hold the bamboo cane in place so that you can play the game. As the game advances, just move the lolly sticks and the cane lower down. No cheating, mind!