SAFARI PARTY

SAFARI PARTY INVITATIONS:

• Cut up some old maps and attach to brown cardstock. Randomly mark a big red X on the cards and draw the points of a compass. The Great Adventure takes place on (date/ time) in the swamps and tropical rainforest of his yard. Daring explorers can bring a sleeping bag and sleep out under the stars.

• Make your own birthday party passport invitations by folding white cardstock in half and make a little frame in the top corner with (attach photo here) written inside the frame. “This is your passport for (your child’s name) safari birthday party. All explorers should bring their completed passports with picture.”

SAFAR PARTY DECORATIONS:

• Make signs to prop up around the back yard such as “No Monkey Business, Do not feed the Tigers, Caution Wild Bears, Danger Swampland Ahead…”

• Set up various tents around the yard- use instant pop-out tents, pup tents, tee-pees, and old sheets slung over washing lines.

• If you have large trees, you can tie two lines one above the other between two trees so the kids can walk across.

• Set up a table to create a look out post and cover with a camouflage net or animal print gossamer and place pith helmets and binoculars around the table.

• Have jungle music or wildlife music playing outside.

• Prepare little survivor sacks filled with sandwiches and snacks. Serve food on leaf plates and bowls and prepare jungle juice served in animal cups.

• Have a bonfire to roast marshmallows and sip hot chocolate.

SAFARI PARTY GAMES/ACTIVITIES:

• Frog or Bug Catching- explorers have to catch frogs or interesting insects and then encourage them to make up stories about the adventure they had when they were hunting in the jungle.

• Play a fun game of leap frog

• Relay Race- Have 2 empty backpacks at the starting line. Divide guests into 2 teams. They are instructed to run to the other side and pick up an item (map, compass, magnifying glass, wild stuffed animal, etc) and place in the backpack, then run back to the line and handover to the next player. You can change up the relay by having different Safari clothes (brown shirts, hats, boots, etc…) and have the players run down, put on the outfit, then run back to the line and take off the clothes and give to the next player to dress up.

• Wild Safari Search- hide all sorts of animals around the yard and see how many the kids can find. You can use stuffed animals, plastic dinos and snakes, the Rainforest Café has a great selection of animals to use.

• The Stalking Game- Have quiet stalking games where the “hunter” is blind-folded and has to find their animal.

• Jungle Limbo- How low can the monkey go? Have guests line up and attempt to go under the bamboo bar. The animal that can go the lowest wins.

SAFARI PARTY FAVORS:

• Make goody bags out of camo material, or take brown handled bags and decorate with animal stamps.

• Make goody bags with brown lunch sacks and overlay the front, bottom of sack with green paper and fringe the ends of paper to look like grass and line acros the bottom of sack. Add birds or animals onto the top of sack by coloring, drawing or using stamps or stickers.

• Fill with items that encourage adventure such as snapstick light (available from camping stores), small compass, dull pocket knife, energy snack bars, small bottles of water, small travel toothbrush/toothpaste, waterguns, binoculars, notebook to collect amazing adventures, gummy worms, animal crackers, plastic frogs, and small safari animals.