Coolest Safari Kids Birthday Party Ideas

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Kids birthday party ideas for a safari party let your imagination run wild. It is a great theme for a party held at the local zoo or hobby farm.

If you would rather party at home, simple decorating ideas will quickly make for a great safari party.

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Invitations

Brown construction paper is the perfect material to start with a safari birthday party invitation. From there, you can shred green paper for grass, add animal cutouts or magazine pictures to dress up the face of the card.

Plastic trees can be hot glued to the front of the cards to add to the scene. To let your child in on some of the fun, trees can even be cut out of paper or drawn on to the front.

For more kids birthday party ideas, you can also try animal print invitations. Animal print fabric can be purchased from the fabric store. Then you simply need to glue the cloth onto white card stock and use letter stickers to make the wording.

You can also write what you would like to say onto card stock and cut it out in an animal shape. Yet another option is use pencil crayons or chalk to add your animal print around your words.

On the face of your safari birthday party card, you can write "The Great Explorer (your child's name) Is Turning (X years old)." On the inside, try "Join us at (your address and time of your party) for a safari party and walk on the wild side. Dress as your favorite animal or as a jungle explorer and come have some fun!"

Do not forget your phone number and e-mail address for RSVP's. For fun, draw out a jungle map showing the location of your home and include it in the envelope. Include a neat compass whistle to help the guests "find their way."

Decorations

You and your child can have lots of fun coming up with kids birthday party ideas for safari party decorating.

Green plastic tablecloths or fabric can be hung on the walls in order to transform the room into a wild jungle. Roll up several layers of newspaper and tape them shut. Then cut down the end several times and start pulling at the cut ends. This makes great palm trees that your child can paint or you can leave them as they are.

A zebra piñata can be hung from the ceiling and other stuffed jungle animals can graze amongst the trees.

For the jungle party table, the Animal Planet deluxe pack makes a table setting the guests will not soon forget. The cutlery, placemats, and tablecloths look great with the cute animal plates and cups. Each animal on the plates and cups have a cute saying to give the kids a chuckle.

If the birthday takes place in the summer, the safari squirter set is ideal for decorating the table and keeping the kids busy after they have finished eating. If the weather is too cool for that, use these sweet little safari animal bean bags to add life to the table. Afterwards, the bean bags can be used for "animal toss" and other safari birthday party ideas for games.

Costumes

Paper plates and construction paper will work great for inexpensive animal masks. To make these, cut out a space for the eyes in the paper plates and use this as the base for the mask. The construction paper can then be used to make noses, snouts, beaks or other animal features to the mask. Lengths of yarn (one tied to each side) can be used to keep them on. For things such as manes or ears, use plastic headbands to mount the cardboard or material features on.

Safari party costumes can also include an explorer costume consisting of khaki pants or shorts, a tan button up shirt, binoculars, and a pith helmet.

Safari Kids Birthday Party Ideas for Food

Animal Cakes

Animal shapes make quick and easy safari themed cakes. Even though they seem ordinary, use different tips and icing colors to make them your own. For instance, after using different colored icing to cover the cake, a tip with multiple round holes or the star tip can be used to add texture to fur. A small round tip can be used to define the outside. To give the cake some dimension, use scrap pieces of cake that were trimmed from the top of the cake. Cut them into the general shape of an ear, mane, or beak and lay them onto the corresponding spot on the cake. Then, you simply cover it over with icing to make it blend in. If you find a large empty space between the scrap and the base, use icing to fill it in before covering it over with the colored icing.

Safari Birthday Party Ideas for Food and Drinks

Main meal ideas can include:

• "Hunter sandwiches" are crackers with meat and cheese cut into fun animal shapes.
• "Giraffe grub" can be a vegetable tray with "adventure sauce," which can be a few different kinds of salad dressing
• Aanimal shaped pasta with spaghetti sauce or the prepared type in the can
• Jungle Snacks can be a mix of "jungle rope licorice", the classic "animal crackers"
• "Lions mane" also known as cotton candy
• Bug or animal shaped candies

Animal Drinks

• Use different types of fruit drink and call them "snake sap," "lizard liquid," or "jungle juice."
• Use jell-o or candy molds to make ice cubes in animal or bug shapes.
• For a girl's party, freeze edible flower in the ice cubes.
• "Jungle Sludge" is orange juice mixed with cola.

Safari Kids Birthday Party Ideas for Favors

When looking for safari party favors, the Animal Planet favor boxes really fit well into the theme. They contain crayons, a notepad, binoculars, and an animal bean bag. If you give them to the kids as they arrive for the party, they can use the items for various party games and activities.

There is also a set of animal stickers along with a few other items the kids can use after the party. The cute animal printed boxes make it easy for the kids take all of their special items home. If you would like to add your own personal touch to the boxes, add pom-pom animals (that could be made with the kids at the party), animal coloring sheets, and animal-shaped fruit snacks to the box.

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