Safari Party Ideas
Need the kind of safari party ideas that are sure to get your kid’s birthday party off to a roaring start? Then follow these safari party ideas and party decorations and get ready for some serious jungle fun.
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SAFARI PARTY DECORATIONS
Welcome the great down-under to your home with these great safari party ideas for décor. For the outside decorations, use chalk to draw big animal footprints on your driveway, up your walkway and in through your front door. For an added touch, line your walkway with Tiki torches. In the entrance, hang a custom made Surfin’ Safari, On Safari or Safari Time banner.
Inside, create a truly wild atmosphere with green, lime and brown streamers, matching balloons and mosquito netting strewn about jungle-style. Make colorful critters like parrots, hippos, tigers, lions, giraffes and zebra out of oversized construction paper and place them around the party area. Arrange real or artificial fruit like bananas, oranges and coconuts randomly around the rooms. Haul your plants, artificial or real (borrow some from friends and neighbors), into the main rooms. Twist red, yellow and pink pipe cleaners into butterflies and lay them on streamers and plant leaves. Get some stuffed animals in an old crib and clip a sign on their that says “The Petting Zoo.”
Set up a life size tent with a sleeping bag as an extra play space and call it “The Safari Campsite.” Hang up signs around the house that say “Monkey’s Around”, “Beware of the Lions”, “ and “Zebra Stampede.” Finally, make the safari atmosphere complete with a CD of jungle sounds!
SAFARI PARTY GAMES AND ACTIVITIES
OSTRICH AND ELEPHANT RELAYS
The goal of the ostrich game is to transfer an ostrich egg safely back to the nest without dropping it. Divide teams evenly into two and have equal amounts of balloons about fifty feet away in big garbage bags. The first child from each team must run to collect the balloon or ostrich egg , and, without dropping the balloon, run back with it between his or her legs, flapping his or her arms and making ostrich sounds all the while. Whichever team gets the balloons back to their side first wins. In the elephant relay, the mama elephants are trying to herd their baby elephant home. The first child of the pair hangs one arm in front of his or her body as if it were a trunk and pulls the other through his or her legs as if it were a tail. The child behind grabs the elephant’s tail and, as pairs, they both race against the other team, making mama and baby elephant sounds all the while. If a child falls down or lets go of the other half in the pair, both must start over. This will create quite a bit of fun as the kids stampede to and fro!
JUNGLE CHARADES
Let the first child pick out an index card with an animal picture on it from an overturned variety of animal choices. Now time the child while he or she tries to act out the animal (no words allowed, but animal noises are encouraged!) and the others try to guess its identity! Once the animal is guessed, get the rest of the children to jump up and act out the same animal together. Sure to bring out all the little monkeys in your group!
CATCH THE LION BY THE TAIL
The only prop you’ll need for this tried and true safari version of “Duck, Duck, Goose” is a piece of golden tassel frayed at the end. Makes for a cute and simple lion’s tail! To begin the game, get the children to sit a circle. The first child, the lion, tucks the lion’s tail in his or her waistband and begins running around the outside of the circling, touching each child on the head and saying “lion,” until the lion taps a child on the head and shouts: “Hyena!” The lion then dashes around the circle to take the hyena's place before the hyena can grab the lions tail. If the lion’s tail is snatched, the lion must sit in the hyena’s place. If the lion manages to get away with his tail “intact”, he or she gets to remain the king of the jungle.
JUNGLE FOOD
For the meal, set the table in green and Animal Print Cups and Animal Print Plates. To be extra festive, light up a Toucan Candle, a vibrant parrot shaped candle, as the table’s centerpiece. Try serving something exotic to eat like “Wild Boar” (hotdogs), “Fried Ostrich” (chicken nuggets), “Tarzan Taters” (french fries) and “Safari Fruit Salad.” For a beverage, try “Jungle Juice” (fruit punch) with Animal Straws. For the birthday cake, bake your child’s favorite and ice on the image of a lion’s face with yellow, brown, black and white icing.
SAFARI LOOT BAGS
For loot, pack them up little plastic bags filled with chocolate raisins and labeled “Chocolate Covered Ants,” a funky pair of leopard print sunglasses or Animal Print Retro shades, Animal Finger Puppets and Jungle Beads.
And you thought your child’s birthday party last year was attended by a bunch of wild animals! With these great safari party decorations and safari party ideas, all those little monkeys and apes will be having a swinging great time for sure!
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