Noahs Ark Birthday Party
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First of all, to help get you in the Noah's Ark frame of mind, here are some party packages from which to select, along with some cute little animal costumes. If you would like a sneak preview, click on the links below to check them out and make a quick price comparison:

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ELEPHANT INVITATION - Cut out a large elephant head from gray card stock using a stencil or download a picture from the Internet. Glue on wiggly eyes. Make white tusks from white card stock and glue on head. Make a long gray trunk from construction paper and write, "Join Me For A Cruise On Noah's Ark." Then fold the trunk in an accordion pleat style. On the back, write the party details.

NOAH'S ARK-SHAPED INVITATIONS - Cut an ark shape from yellow mustard card stock. Place various animal stickers, 2 by 2, in the ark. For example, 2 elephants, 2 giraffes, 2 lions, etc. Cut out "waves" from blue card stock in a wavy shape and glue the ark to the water. Put on the ark, "Beat The Flood! Join Me On The Ark For My Birthday Bash! On the reverse side, provide party details.

NOAH'S ARK BIRTHDAY INVITATIONS #1 - Cut 8 1/2" x 11" card stock into 2 pieces and fold in half. Decorate with animal stickers like monkeys, elephants, giraffes, etc. Type or write party details in calligraphy on piece of scrapbook paper. Cut finished piece with decorative scissors to 3" x 4 1/2". Glue to back of card stock. Decorate corners with rainbow stickers.

NOAH'S ARK BIRTHDAY INVITATIONS #2 - Cut 8 1/2" x 11" card stock into 2 pieces and fold in half. Decorate with animal stickers on the front of the card stock. On left side either type or handwrite in calligraphy:

All the animals have joined together to invite you to my birthday party
We're flooded with excitement
Bring the whole herd!

On right-hand side type or handwrite party details on scrapbook paper. Cut finished piece with decorative scissors to 3" x 4 1/2". Glue to right side of card stock. Decorate corners with rainbow stickers.

NOAH'S ARK PHOTO INVITATIONS - Cut 8 1/2" x 11" card stock into 2 pieces and fold in half. using decorative scissors, trim edges of photo of your child in an animal costume, so it is slightly smaller than the card stock. Glue photo to front of invitation. Put, ""Join Me On The Ark! I'm Flooded with Excitement" above the photo. On textured white paper (finished size 4 1/2" x 7 1/2") either type or handwrite in calligraphy the party details and decorate edges with rainbow stickers.

STUFFED ANIMAL INVITATIONS - Cut 8 1/2" x 11" card stock into 4 pieces. Type or handwrite party details in calligraphy on scrapbook paper. Cut finished piece with decorative scissors to 3" x 4 1/2". Glue to back of card stock. Decorate corners with animal stickers. Hole-punch, run curling ribbon through, tie around neck of small stuffed animal, and hand-deliver animal invitations.

EMBELLISHED READY-MADE NOAH'S ARK BIRTHDAY INVITATIONS - Buy ready-made Noah's Ark invitations and embellish the picture with various colors of glitter to match the various animals.


NOAHS ARK BIRTHDAY COSTUMES

Invite your guests to wear animal costumes or transform them into various animals with face-painted whiskers, dots on their noses, headbands with ears, and tails.

If you're in the market for a costume, here's some adorable Noahs Ark Costumes for your little one.


NOAHS ARK BIRTHDAY PARTY DECORATIONS

• If possible, hold the party on a boat.

• Make a huge ark that covers one of the party room walls. Make windows and place a photo of each child in one of the windows. Add animal mylar balloons (2 by 2) on the ark, wavy blue water at the ark's bottom, and a rainbow and white dove in the sky.

• Decorate your ceilings with twisted streamers and clusters of balloons with curling ribbons cascading off of them in any combination of the rainbow colors of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

• Decorate your doorways and archways with streamers by alternating the various colors of the rainbow across the openings.

• Accent your wider walkways with strips of fabric sewn together to create rainbow curtains. Pull them back and tie them off with a coordinating tie.
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• Make various Noah's Ark-related signs, hang them on the walls, place them on yard stakes and line the walkway. Have them say things like "Caution, Flooding Ahead", "Welcome to (child's Name)'s Ark", "Animal Crossing", etc.

• Cover tables with Noah's Ark birthday printed tablecloth, or opt for a solid one, select one of the colors of the rainbow. Tie off corners with coordinating curling ribbon in the party colors.

• Create "rainbow" placemats by gluing ark-shaped pieces of construction paper in the various rainbow colors onto a solid piece of paper. Laminate for stability.

• Decorate the top of the table with small animals and animal confetti.

• Cut various animal shapes (2 of each animal) from craft foam or construction paper, using animal stencils as your guide and hang from the ceiling with fishing line.
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• Set large galvanized tubs around the room. Fill with water dyed blue using food coloring. Place a small "ark" in each tub and fill with various animals.

• Use Noahs Ark birthday printed plates, cups, napkins, and coordinating plasticware.

• Hang Noahs Ark birthday party banner, wall cut-outs, and posters on walls. You can also add posters and cut-outs of various animals.

• Attach Noah's Ark mylar balloons to birthday child's chair and helium balloons in the various colors of the rainbow on your guests' chairs.

• To make an "ark" centerpiece, start by filling a large ark with various animals and set the ark upon blue shred. Tie balloons to ark.
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• String lightweight fishnet across ceiling and fill with pearl and light blue balloons to create "sky" atmosphere.

• To let everyone know where the Noah's Ark birthday party bash is being held, by attaching balloons in the colors of the rainbow to your mailbox, or hang from a tree, or tie to your car antenna.

• Decorate room with stuffed animals, placing them 2 by 2.

• Hang Noahs Ark birthday banner on wall.

• Attach rainbow colored balloons to wood stakes and line walkway.

• Draw various animal footprints (2 by 2) with chalk on the sidewalk leading up to the front door.

PRINTABLE GAMES - Here's a great site for some fun print and play toddler party games that would be a perfect party game add-on!

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

• Noah's Ark Puppet Show
• Noah's Animal Charades
• Noah's Animal Game
• Noah's Animal Parade
• Noah's Ark Bean Bag Toss
• animal Relay Races
• Pin The Trunk On The Elephant
• Animal Sponges
• Balloon Animal Game
• Make A Rainbow

Serve the food in dishes that are shaped like boats or have animal prints on them.

ANIMAL COOKIES - Make favorite sugar cookie recipe. Using animal-shaped cookie cutters cut into shapes. Frost in appropriate animal colors and decorate with toasted coconut, edible glitter, sprinkles, sparkling sugar, and gel icing.

NOAHS ARK BIRTHDAY MUNCHIES - Goldfish crackers, animal crackers, Chex cereal, Honeycomb cereal, and Cherrios. Put a sign by the munchies that says, "Please Don't Feed The Animals"

MACARONI & CHEESE or SPAGHETTI

ANIMAL PIZZA - Shape your pizza dough into wild animal shapes. Top with pizza sauce and then layer white and yellow cheese in rows to create the animal stripes.

PEANUT BUTTER & JELLY SANDWICHES - Cut sandwiches into animal shapes with cookie cutters.

NOAH'S ARK GRILLED CHEESE - Cut grilled cheese sandwiches into ark shape.

MINI PIGS IN BLANKET - Cut each crescent roll dough square into 4 pieces, wrap around mini sausage or hot dog, and cook according to crescent roll directions. Serve with ketchup and mustard.

NOAHS ARK BIRTHDAY FRUIT BOAT - To make boat cut away unwanted shell of pineapple or watermelon and scoop out melon fruit, leaving shell about 1" thick. Fill boat with soft fruits like watermelon, cantaloupe, and honeydew balls, cut-up strawberries, raspberries, bananas, and kiwi.

HEAVENLY FRUIT DIP - Mix together 1 (12-oz.) container of whipped topping, thawed; 1 small jar of marshmallow cream; 1 (8-oz.) pkg of cream cheese softened; and 2 small cartons of strawberry yogurt. Refrigerate until ready to use. Serve with cut-up apples, strawberries, grapes, and pineapple.

RAINBOW JELL-O - Make Jell-O in a bundt pan by layering various colors. After it is completely set, cut the circle in half and lay the 2 halves on plates with dollops of whip cream at the bottoms of the rainbow.

ALLIGATOR JUICE - Gatorade.

NOAHS ARK BIRTHDAY PARTY PUNCH - Combine into large punch bowl 46 oz. Hawaiian punch, 46 oz. apple juice, 46 oz. cranberry juice, 2 liters ginger ale, and ice. Float a plastic ark in the punch bowl.


NOAHS ARK BIRTHDAY PARTY CAKE IDEAS

Photo courtesy of: KC Koenig

NOAH'S ARK BOAT CAKE #1 - Bake 1 round cake and 1 square cake. Cut round cake in half and stack two pieces on top of each other using frosting as "glue." Trim rounded portion of stacked cake to create a flat boat bottom. Place flat bottom of cake onto blue paper covered cake board and frost entire cake with chocolate frosting. Cut 2 squares from square cake to create boathouse and stack two pieces on top of each other using frosting as "glue." Place stacked square on top of boat and frost. Make a flag by wrapping piece of fruit roll-up around pretzel and place at top of boathouse. Either place pairs of animal crackers or clean plastic animals on and around ark.

NOAH'S ARK BOAT CAKE #2 - Make cake as noted above except lay cake on cake board rather than standing it up.

NOAHS ARK BIRTHDAY SCENE CAKE - Bake sheet cake or 2-layer round cake. Frost and place Noah's Ark cake topper, edible sugar image, or plastic ark and animals on top to create festive scene.

NOAHS ARK BIRTHDAY CAKE - Bake cake using Noah's ark cake pan and decorate with edible gitter, sprinkles, sparkling sugar, or gel icing according to pan's decorations.

Here's some great cake photos of NOAH'S ARK BIRTHDAY CAKES.


NOAHS ARK BIRTHDAY PARTY FAVORS

Use cellophane bags or small paper bags decorated with Noah's Ark stickers. Fill bags with animal finger puppets, stickers, animal crackers, goldfish crackers, and small plastic animals or stuffed animals.

MORE NOAHS ARK BIRTHDAY IDEAS

Just in case you're still on the hunt for some more Noahs Ark Party Ideas, here's several ideas to check out. There are lots of options and ideas for creating invitations, decorations, party food, favors, and games.

NOAHS ARK BIRTHDAY PARTY IDEAS FOR PARTY SUPPLIES

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