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Jungle Animals Birthday Party

Invitations

Children love jungle animals from the toddler stage all the way through the primary grades. Bright jungle animal pictures set your invitations apart and tell your young guests that this is one birthday party they don’t want to miss. If you will be hand-delivering invitations, consider delivering them in the form of signs attached to the paws of tiny bean-bag jungle animals.

Decorations
Colorful cartoon-figure jungle animal party supplies emphasize your party theme. A three-dimensional crepe-paper and cardboard jungle animals centerpiece sets the tone for your child’s birthday party, and a jungle green or animal-print tablecloth completes the effect. Suspend a jungle animal pinata from the ceiling and hang streamers and balloons to create a starburst effect. Add jungle animals party ware, balloons, party favors and a “happy birthday” sign to complete the theme. To get the ball rolling, place a medium-sized stuffed jungle animal on a small table in the foyer with a “happy birthday” sign in it’s hands to greet guests as they arrive. After the party, present the animal as a gift to the guest of honor as a reminder of the best jungle animals birthday party ever.

Dress Code
Encourage your guests to wear clothing depicting their favorite jungle animals, or ask them to dress as jungle animals.

Games and Activities
Allow older children to use craft items to make masks out of paper plates. If your guest list is made up of pre-schoolers, let the children color pre-cut masks with non-toxic, washable crayons. Alternately, have a face-painting station set up where children can have animal faces applied with non-toxic face paint. A costume parade or best-mask contest is a fun way to help the guests get caught up in the jungle animal theme. Play jungle animal Bingo and have a backyard safari, complete with take-home canteens and butterfly nets, and let your young guests hunt in the back yard for hidden beanie animals.

Food
Ants on a log, made by arranging raisins in marching order across peanut-butter-filled celery sticks, grilled cheese sandwiches cut into jungle animal shapes and jungle juice served in themed tumblers enhance the party theme.

Birthday Cake
Jungle animals-themed cake decorations transform an ordinary airbrushed green cake into a lush jungle full of exotic animals. Jungle animals edible transfers also make beautiful cakes, and cupcakes arranged in the shape of a zebra, lion or elephant head and decorated as a unit to look like the chosen animal can easily double as centerpiece and birthday cake.

Party Favors
Fill jungle animal goody bags with lion, tiger, zebra and elephant-shaped erasers, miniature stuffed animals, hand-held games, animal-shaped fruit snacks and stickers.