Curious George Party Ideas
to Monkey Around With!

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To help you get into the Curious George theme party frame of mind, we've put together links to the best party supplies:

Curious George Celebration Supplies
Curious George In A Box Supplies
Curious George Cake Decorating Options
Curious George Supplies
More Curious George Supplies


CURIOUS GEORGE PARTY INVITATIONS

CURIOUS GEORGE SHAPED INVITATIONS - Create shaped invitations from card stock of yellow hats, balloons, or a bunch of bananas.
On front write, "Join Us For Some Monkey-ing Around At ____'s
Birthday Party." On reverse side write
party details.

CURIOUS GEORGE INVITATIONS - Cut 8 1/2" x 11" shiny yellow card stock into 4 pieces and create Curious George scene using stickers. Across top say, "Join Us For Some Monkey-ing Around At ____'s Birthday Party", or "Our Little Monkey Is Turning ___". On reverse side type or handwrite party details and end by saying "We'll go ape if you can't come." or "We'll go bananas if you can't come."

CURIOUS GEORGE PHOTO INVITATIONS - Cut 8 1/2" x 11" yellow card stock into 2 pieces and fold in half. Using decorative scissors trim edges of photo of your child in Curious George costume, so it is slightly smaller than card stock. Glue photo to front of invitation. Put "Curious About My Birthday Fun?" above photo.

Either type or handwrite on left side:

Calling all monkeys. Come one, come all.
Swing into action, it's sure to be a ball.
Add location and R.S.V.P. info.
Conclude with "I'll go bananas if you don't come!"

EMBELLISH READY-MADE CURIOUS GEORGE PARTY INVITATIONS - Buy ready-made Curious George invitations and embellish picture. For example, brown glitter around Curious George's head/body and mouth; tan glitter around hands/face; red, blue, or yellow glitter on balloons.


CURIOUS GEORGE PARTY COSTUMES

As guests arrive transform them into monkeys by giving each a Curious George Foam Mask and tail. Make tails from brown fabric. Tie strip around hips and attach strip (length appropriate for size of child) to hip strip that hangs down for the tail.

If you're in the market for a Curious George Costume, then here's a great option!

CURIOUS GEORGE PARTY DECORATIONS

Hold Curious George party away from home using Curious George books to inspire theme and location. For example, Curious George Visits the Zoo, Flies a Kite, Goes to the Beach, Goes to the Circus, etc. Or create a festive atmosphere at your home using some of the following ideas:

• Decorate ceilings with twisted streamers and clusters of balloons with curling ribbons in red, blue, green, and yellow. Here's a Curious George Streamer option that you might consider weaving into your other streamers.

• Decorate archways or doorways with red, blue, green and yellow streamers for monkeys to walk through.

• Decorate wider walkways with red, blue, green, or yellow sheets tied back with rope.

• Make signs that says "Monkeys at Play", "Caution! Monkey Crossing", "Enter At Your Own Risk! Monkey Business Going On", "Restricted! Monkeys Only."

• Cover tables with red, blue, green, or yellow tablecloths. Tie corners with curling ribbon in any combination of these colors.

• Decorate walls with oversized bananas, yellow hats, monkeys, and trees to create jungle atmosphere.

• Cluster Curious George red, blue, green, and yellow balloons throughout room. You might also consider using some of these adorable Curious George Balloons.

• Create tent atmosphere around dining room by attaching yellow streamers to ceiling center and at tops of 2 walls while making loops to create canopy effect. Let streamers fall to floor.

• Create tent atmosphere around dining room by attaching yellow streamers to ceiling center and at tops of 2 walls while making loops to create canopy effect. Let streamers fall to floor.

• Add Curious George happy birthday banner on wall.

• Use Curious George party plates, cups, napkins, tablecloth, party hats, honeycomb centerpiece, and wall cutouts.

• Attach Curious George mylar balloons to birthday monkey's chair and helium balloons in red, blue, green, and yellow to guest monkeys chairs.

• Hang Inflatable Monkeys, Inflatable Bananas, or a few of these Huge 44" Inflatable Monkeys around the party room.

• Arrange bananas in center of table and attach red, blue, green, or yellow balloons for a centerpiece.

• If you're looking for a fun focal point that could also serve as providing a photo op, you might want to consider this Inflatable Palm Tree With A Monkey And Lights. Here's another Monkey Photo Stand In option that would be perfect for taking photos of two of your little monkeys at a time.

• Using lightweight fishnet, string across ceiling and fill with balloons. Cover walls with green streamers to create jungle atmosphere. Make large trees to put on walls and hang blow-up monkeys or cutout monkeys in them.

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MONEY-SAVING TIP

Before you purchase anything, be sure to check out the Curious George party supplies that are being offered on eBay. Many times, you'll find great new items at a fraction of the retail price.


CURIOUS GEORGE PARTY GAME IDEAS & ACTIVITIES

Here's an entire page with nothing but Curious George Party Games and Activities, such as:

• Banana Scavenger Hung
• Monkey See, Monkey Do
• Monkey Structure
• Monkey Relay
• Hot Banana
• Pin the Tail on Curious George
• Musical Monkey Chairs
• Monkey Pinata

MONKEY MIX - Either buy ready-made or make your own by mixing granola, raisins, chocolate chips, dried fruit bits (banana chips, cranberries, apricots, etc.) shelled sunflower seeds, and nuts.

CHOCOLATE DIPPED BANANAS - Peel and cut crosswise 4-6 bananas into 16-24 pieces. Place peeled bananas onto skewers, and lay on wax paper lined cookie sheet and freeze for at least 10 minutes. Melt 12 oz. bag of chocolate chips with 1 tbsp. butter over low heat. Dip chilled bananas in chocolate and roll in chopped nuts, sprinkles, granola, or coconut. Refrigerate or freeze until ready to serve. If frozen, allow 30 minutes to thaw before serving.

JELL-O HATS AND BANANAS - Make yellow Jell-O in rectangular pan. Add extra envelope of gelatin so it will hold together. When set, cut into hat and banana shapes using cookie cutters.

CURIOUS GEORGE SUGAR COOKIES - Make favorite sugar cookie recipe. Using hat or banana shaped cookie cutters, cut dough, cover with yellow icing and decorate with edible glitter, sprinkles, sparkling sugar, nonpareils, or cake gel.

MONKEY TAIL SANDWICHES - Hot dogs of course!

MONKEY FRUIT & CHEESE PLATTER - Cut various fruits and cheeses into bite-sized pieces. Soak applies in lemon juice so they don't turn brown. Use toothpicks with red, blue, green, or yellow tops.

MONKEY CRACKER MUNCHIES - Mix chopped pecans and either red, blue, green, or yellow food coloring into cream cheese to slightly tint to party colors. Spread on top of Pepperidge Farm decorative-shaped crackers and top with piece of ham.

MONKEY MAC & CHEESE - Prepare favorite Mac & Cheese recipe.

ANIMAL LOGS - Cut celery into 3" pieces. Mix chopped pecans and either red, blue, green, or yellow food coloring into cream cheese to tint to party colors. Fill celery with cream cheese or peanut butter. Stick animal cracker in center of each piece and add a couple of raisins on either side of cracker.

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CURIOUS GEORGE SCENE - Bake sheet cake or 2-layer round cake and frost it light yellow and place Curious George cake topper or plastic George and jungle trees on top to create festive scene.

CURIOUS GEORGE CAKE - Bake cake using a Monkey Cake Pan and decorate with edible glitter, sprinkles, sparkling sugar, or gel icing.

MONKEY CAKE - Bake 1 round cake and 2 cupcakes. Cut cupcakes vertically in half. Place half on each side of round cake for ears and 1 in center of cake for nose. Frost with brown icing and face with tan icing. Decorate with edible glitter, sprinkles, sparkling sugar, or gel icing.


CURIOUS GEORGE PARTY FAVOR IDEAS

Fill Curious George cellophane bags or boxes with any combination of Curious George stickers, bubbles, binoculars, sunglasses, balloons, plastic monkeys, stuffed monkey, or Barrel of Monkeys.


CURIOUS GEORGE PARTY SUPPLIES

Here's some great Curious George party supplies including ideas for partyware, invitations, favors, and lots of decor!

Here's some more fun Curious George Celebration Supplies.

Here's a few more Curious George Supplies for your consideration.

Here's some Curious George Cake Decorating options.

Last, but not least here are some additional Curious George Supplies.

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