Safari Birthday Party Ideas - Your Child Will Go Ape Over!

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ELEPHANT INVITATIONS - Cut a large elephant head with a long wide trunk out of gray construction paper or cardstock. Glue goggle eyes to the face. Write on the trunk, "Friends Of The Jungle Have Gathered To Say, Join Us In Celebrating (Name's) (Age) Birthday!" Place all the party details on the back. Then fold up the trunk in an accordion fashion and place into a safari colored (brown, tan, forest green) envelope that is embellished with safari animal stickers. If necessary, fold down the elephant ears to make your invite fit.

PASSPORT INVITATIONS - Cut an 8 1/2" x 11" piece of navy blue card stock in half to make each piece 8 1/2" x 5 1/2". Then fold in half to make it 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". On the front write, "Passport to Birthday Safari Party." On a piece of light blue paper, write or print out the following:

This Passport Entitles (Name of Guest) Entrance to A Fun-Filled Birthday Safari.

(Birthday Name) Will Lead An Exciting Expedition through the African Jungle located at (Party address).

The adventure starts on (Date) and will last from (Time Party Starts And Ends).

Safari Attire Required (Optional).

Please Contact The Customs Office at (Phone #) To Confirm Your Safari Reservation.

MAP INVITATIONS - Cut up an old map into large squares. On the blank side write all of your party details. If there isn't a blank side, then glue the map to a blank piece of paper and put all your party details on it.

STUFFED ANIMAL INVITES - Select small stuffed or beanie-type jungle animals to attach your invites to. Cut 8 1/2" x 11" cardstock into four pieces. Then type or handwrite your party details in calligraphy on decorative scrapbook paper. Cut the finished piece using decorative scissors to be about 3" x 4 1/2". Then glue it to the back of the card stock. Decorate the corners with some Safari stickers. Hole-punch the invite, run curling ribbon through, tie it around the neck of the stuffed animal, and hand-deliver your animal invites.

PLASTIC ANIMAL INVITES - Follow the instructions for the stuffed animal invites except attach the invite to a plastic jungle animal.

ANIMAL CRACKER INVITES - Follow the instructions for the stuffed animal invites except attach the invite to a box of Animal Crackers.

EMBELLISH READY-MADE SAFARI BIRTHDAY PARTY INVITES - Buy ready-made jungle themed invitations and embellish the picture with various colors of glitter to match the animals. Glue tiny goggle eyes onto some of the animals, a ribbon around the neck of an animal, or perhaps a tiny silk flower near the ear of an animal.


SAFARI BIRTHDAY PARTY IDEAS FOR COSTUMES

Khaki shorts, polo shirt, vest, thick socks, lace-up boots, bush hat, binoculars, and a knapsack, along with any safari type of animal costume are all great options for the kids to wear to a safari party.

Set-up a table and as guests arrive, transform them all into wild animals with face paint. Hire a few teenagers to do the deed. Here's a great step-by-step guide that makes Face Painting so easy, that even us non-creative types can paint like the pros!


SAFARI BIRTHDAY PARTY IDEAS FOR BIRTHDAY PARTY DECORATIONS

Generally, your party colors for a safari birthday party will be brown, tan, yellow, and green, with perhaps some vibrant colors for flowers. Here are some fun safari birthday party ideas for decorations:

• Draw big animal footprints on your driveway, up the walkway, and leading up to the front door.

• Another fun addition to your safari party is a baby zebra standee. You can place it at your door to greet your guests or use it to create a photo op.

• If the party is at night, line the walkway with tiki lights.

• If the party is held during the day, you could line the walkway with helium balloons, in your party colors, attached to wood stakes.

• Hang a sign on the front door that says somethings like, "Welcome To Africa" or Safari Adventure--Enter At Own Risk!."

• Make signs on posterboard and staple to yard stakes and place in yard. Have them say things like, "Zimbabwe--->200 Miles," "Burkina Faso--->55 miles," "Algeria--->750 Miles," etc.

• Attach helium balloons in your party colors to your mailbox, hang from a tree, or tie to a car antenna to alert guests of the party location.

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

• Hang leaf vines all throughout the party room.

• Hang leaf vines in doorways for everyone to walk through.

• Hang various colors of green streamers in doorways.

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

• Hang blow-up monkeys around room.

• Water fountains set on tabletops or the floor.

• 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.

• For decorating magic, you'll want to be sure to check out some fun zebra and tiger printed gossamer. You can use them to cover your walls, ceilings, table, and furniture, to instantly transform your party room into a wild safari.

• Hang wild animal printed fabrics on the walls, ceilings, or cover furniture with it.

• Decorate room with jungle stuffed animals.

• Put a crib in the party room and hang greenery all over it. Put jungle stuffed animals in the crib, along with a sign that says "Petting Zoo" or "Danger! Wild Animals!"

• Hang posters of jungle animals on the walls.

• Hang signs on the walls that say things like, "Caution! Buffalo Stampede," "Enter At Your Own Risk! Monkey Business Going On!," "Restricted! Wild Animals Only!," "Beware Of Lions, Tigers, And Bears, Oh! My!," etc.

• Create placemats by laminating pictures of jungle animals.

• Cluster together tall potted plants to create a jungle look.

• Hang mosquito netting on the walls or ceiling. You can also lay it on the furniture.

• Arrange real or artificial jungle fruits like bananas, oranges, and coconuts.

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 Safari Birthday Party Ideas For Games and Activities, such as:

• Jungle Animal Transformations
• Decorate Your Snake
• Animal Cracker Guessing Game
• Wild Animal Sounds
• Wild Animal Safari
• Snake Jump
• Wild Animal Charades
• Catch The Lion By The Tail
• Pin The Tail On The Zebra
• The Great Peanut Hunt
• Jungle Parade

Make signs and put them by each of the foods you serve. Give them all fun jungle food names. Here's some fun safari birthday party ideas for food:

WILD BOAR OR PIGS IN BLANKETS - Hot dogs.

ZEBRA PIZZA - Cover your pizza with mozzarella cheese and then add stripes of sliced or chopped black olives.

SNAKE SUB - Make turkey, roast beef, ham, and cheese sandwiches on French rolls. Cut them into individual servings. Then Lay them all out in a snake-shape formation. Create your snake face by putting toothpicks into olives for eyes and cut a forked tongue out of a red Fruit Roll-Up.

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

TIGER TAILS - Make bread sticks and lays strips of cheese across the "tails" to create stripes.

CRITTER CRUNCH - Trail mix.

ZEBRA CANDIES - Hershey Hugs. They have stripes!

ELEPHANT GRUB - Peanuts.

MONKEY GRUB - Bananas or dried banana chips.

TROPICAL FRUIT KABOBS - Pieces of cut-up fruit on bamboo sticks.

SNAKE EGGS - Grapes.

MONKEY TAILS - Cut a banana into 3" long pieces and insert a popsicle stick into each piece. Dip pieces into melted chocolate and roll in chopped nuts.

SPIDER COOKIES - Dip crispy Chinese noodles in melted chocolate and add them to Oreo cookies for spider legs.

SAFARI SAUCE - Ketchup.

MONKEY PUNCH - Your favorite punch.

JUNGLE JUICE - Fruit punch with animal straws.

SWAMP JUICE - Place a piece of dry ice into a plastic container. Punch holes into the container lid. Before serving drop the plastic container into your punch bowl. It will create a foggy look. Remember, dry ice can burn when it touches bare skin. Be sure to wear gloves or use tongs when handling. Also, it's not edible, so don't let it touch the punch.


SAFARI BIRTHDAY PARTY IDEAS FOR BIRTHDAY PARTY CAKE IDEAS

SNAKE CAKE - Bake your favorite bundt cake recipe. After cake cools, cut it into three pieces. Lay the pieces out to form an "S" shaped snake. Cover them with green frosting and add a fun snake face using M&M's for eyes, and a fruit roll-up for the tongue. If you need more cake, just double the recipe and make your snake longer.

ZEBRA CAKE - Make your favorite cake in a round pan. Cover the cake with white fondant. Then cut out of black fondant various sized black stripes and lay on top of the cake to create the zebra print.

TIGER CAKE - Make your favorite cake in a round pan. Cover the cake with golden yellow fondant. Then cut out of orange fondant various sized orange stripes and lay on top of the cake to create the tiger print.

GIRAFFE CAKE - Make your favorite cake in a round pan. Cover the cake with golden yellow fondant. Then cut out of brown fondant brown circles and lay them on top of the cake to create the giraffe print.

ZEBRA CUPCAKES - Make some white cupcakes and frost them with stripes of white and black frosting.

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SAFARI BIRTHDAY PARTY IDEAS FOR BIRTHDAY PARTY FAVORS

Safari party favors can be anything that have to do with the jungle or jungle animals. Here's a few jungle favor ideas: Finger puppets, stuffed or beanie jungle animals, jungle animal stickers, box of animal crackers, jungle coloring books and crayons, toy binoculars, tiny flashlights, and compasses.


SAFARI BIRTHDAY PARTY IDEAS FOR BIRTHDAY PARTY IDEAS FOR PARTY SUPPLIES

Here's some fun and fabulous Zoology Party Supplies.

Here's a little Animal Print Giraffe party set and a Animal Print Zebra partyware that you might like to check out.

Here's some great King/Queen Of Jungle Supplies.

Here's some super Animal Jungle Theme Party Supplies.

If you didn't find everything you were looking for, here's another option for some Jungle Buddies Supplies.

Last, but not least, here's some Safari Partyware, Decor & More.

Safari Birthday Party Ideas

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