Monkey Birthday Party Ideas To Help You Swing Into Action!

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BANANA-SHAPED INVITATIONS - Create banana-shaped invitations from card stock. On front write, "Join Us For Some Monkey-ing Around At ____'s Birthday Party." On reverse side, write the party details.

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

MONKEY BIRTHDAY PARTY 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 a monkey costume, so it is slightly smaller than card stock. Glue photo to front of invitation. Put "Come Hang Out For A While!" or "Join Me--I'm Having A Swingin' Birthday Party" above the 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 MONKEY BIRTHDAY PARTY INVITATIONS - Buy ready-made monkey invitations and embellish picture. For example, brown glitter around the monkey's head/body and mouth; tan glitter around hands/face; red, blue, or yellow glitter on balloons, if there are any, etc.


MONKEY BIRTHDAY PARTY COSTUMES

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


MONKEY BIRTHDAY PARTY DECORATIONS

The best colors for a monkey birthday party are green, tan, and brown. If you want to add some jungle flowers, then you can spiff up your color scheme immensely! Create a festive jungle atmosphere at your home by using some of the following ideas:

• Decorate ceilings with twisted streamers and clusters of balloons with curling ribbons in your party colors.

• Decorate archways or doorways with streamers in your party colors for your little monkeys to walk through.

• Decorate wider walkways with sheets in your party colors and 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."

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

• Cluster helium balloons in your party colors throughout room.

• Add a happy birthday banner on wall that has a picture of a monkey on it.

Here's some ideas for to help you decorate your table for your monkey birthday party:

• Cover tables with tablecloths in your party colors. Tie corners with curling ribbon in any combination of these colors.

• Use monkey theme plates, cups, napkins, tablecloth, party hats, honeycomb centerpiece, and wall cutouts.

• Arrange bananas in center of the table and attach balloons in your party colors for a centerpiece.

• Attach monkey Mylar balloons to the birthday child's chair and helium balloons in party colors to the other kids' chairs.

• Hang blow-up monkeys around room.

• Hang vines of greenery around the room and from any ceiling chandeliers.

• Make palm trees using foam-filled brown poster board for the trunks and green for the palm leaves and place on walls. If you want to put some throughout the room, all you need to do is put the bottom of the trunk into a bucket. Weight the bucket down with something like bricks, rocks, sand, etc. Place some brown fabric around the bucket to conceal it.

• Using lightweight fishnet, string across ceiling and fill with light blue and white balloons to create the sky.

• Cover the walls with various shades of green streamers to create the jungle atmosphere.

• Hang monkey posters on walls, along with jungle food cutouts like coconuts, bananas, and pineapples.

• Make large trees out of butcher paper, cardstock, posterboard, and construction paper and put them on the walls. Then hang blow-up monkeys or cutout monkeys in your trees.

Here's an entire page with nothing but Monkey Game Ideas and Activities, such as:

• Monkey See, Monkey Do
• Banana Scavenger Hunt
• Hot Banana
• Monkey Structure
• Monkey Relay
• Monkey In The Middle
• Pin The Tail On The Monkey
• Monkey's Musical chairs
• Monkey Pinata

MONKEY TAIL SANDWICHES - Hot dogs of course!

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

ANIMAL-SHAPED NUGGETS - Serve chicken nuggets that come pre-made in various animal shapes.

MONKEY FRUIT & CHEESE PLATTER - Cut up various fruits and cheeses into bite-sized pieces. Soak the apples 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 green or yellow food coloring into cream cheese to slightly tint it to match your party colors. Spread on top of Pepperidge Farm decorative-shaped crackers and top with a piece of ham.

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

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 a wax paper lined cookie sheet and freeze for at least 10 minutes. Melt a 12 oz. bag of chocolate chips with 1 tbsp. of butter over a low heat. Dip the chilled bananas in chocolate and then 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 BANANAS - Make yellow Jell-O in rectangular pan. Add extra envelope of gelatin so it will hold together. When set, cut into banana shapes using cookie cutters.

BANANA PUDDING - Make pudding according to directions and add a few slices of banana and chopped nuts to the top of each serving.

MONKEY BIRTHDAY PARTY SUGAR COOKIES - Make your favorite sugar cookie recipe. Using a banana shaped cookie cutter, cut your dough, cover with yellow icing. and decorate with edible glitter, sprinkles, sparkling sugar, nonpareils, or cake gel.

JUNGLE JUICE - Pineapple juice or juice boxes that have jungle animals on them.


MONKEY BIRTHDAY PARTY CAKE IDEAS

JUNGLE SCENE - Make or buy a sheet cake or a two-layer round cake and frost it light yellow. Place a jungle theme cake topper or plastic monkeys and jungle trees on top of the cake to create a festive monkey scene.

MONKEY CUPCAKES - Make or buy banana cupcakes and frost them with yellow frosting. Add a monkey pick or create your own picks by affixing two identical monkey stickers to one another with a toothpick in the middle of them.

MONKEY BIRTHDAY PARTY CAKE - Bake one round cake and two cupcakes. Cut the cupcakes vertically in half. Place a half cupcake on each side of the round cake for your monkey ears and one in the center of the cake for the nose. Frost your cake with brown frosting. To create the face, use tan frosting. To create the nose, use white frosting. Finish decorating the cake with edible glitter, sprinkles, sparkling sugar, or gel icing.


MONKEY BIRTHDAY PARTY FAVORS

Fill cellophane bags or boxes decorated with monkey and jungle stickers and filled with any combination of plastic monkeys, a stuffed or beanbag monkey, Barrel of Monkeys, rubber snakes, jungle and monkey stickers, or books, coloring books and crayons with a monkey theme.





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