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Jungle Theme Party

Ages: 4 to 9

Invitations:

Make a lift the flap invitation by creating a jungle theme on a 4x5 piece of paper. Cover an animal with a leaf that can be lifted up and write under the leaf “It’s (your child’s name) birthday! Add another leaf in a blank area of the card and write the party information underneath it.

Decoration Ideas

Hang lots of green streamers from the ceiling to make it feel like a jungle. Put plants in the party area. If you are doing it outside fill a wading pool with water and add plastic fish to make a pond. Put out jungle stuffed animals.

Craft Ideas

Gather clean mismatched socks, buttons, felt, googly eyes and other items to decorate puppets. Let the kids make their own snake sock puppet.

You could also let the kids make their own binoculars by gluing toilet paper tubes together and decorating them.

Game Ideas

Safari game

Give the kids binoculars (bought or made out of two toilet paper rolls) and tell them that they are going on a safari to find jungle animals. Before the party hide small stuffed animals or plastic figurines in the party area. When the kids find an animal have them pretend to take a picture of it.

Jungle Freeze Game

For this game tell the kids that you want them to move around acting like a certain animal. They do this while the music is playing. As soon as you stop the music they need to freeze. If someone is still moving they are out (let them pick up their goodie bag and start looking through it). You can vary the game by telling the kids a specific animal to act like for each round.

Food Ideas

Make a cake that looks like your child’s favorite jungle animal, or create a jungle theme on a sheet cake. Offer animal crackers, banana bread, trail mix, goldfish and fruit punch.