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Party Themes. Zoo Party.

Time to monkey around at a Lions, Tigers, and Bears Party. Turn your party room into a real zoo! Invite the wild animals over for some animal-antics, and see if you can tame them before feeding time!

INVITATIONS
COSTUMES
DECORATIONS
GAMES
ACTIVITIES
FOOD
ZOO CAKE
FAVORS
VARIATIONS
HELPFUL HINTS

INVITATIONS up

Welcome your guests to your homemade zoo with homemade Cage Invitations. Using a yearbook or borrowed snapshots, photocopy pictures of the invited guests. Cut out cards from black construction paper and fold them at the side. On the outside of the card, cut out bars to make a cage. Place the picture of one of your guests on the inside of the card, so he or she appears to be inside the cage when the card is closed. Write the party details in white ink on the inside of the card.

COSTUMES up

Have the kids come dressed as favorite zoo animals.
Dress the kids up as animals when they arrive. Use large sheets of crepe paper to create the costumes.
Have the kids create costumes for one another using crepe paper.
Instead of costumes, make or buy animal masks or snouts for the kids to wear.

DECORATIONS up

Make the party room look like a zoo, with cages cut from large cardboard appliance boxes. Paint the boxes with poster paints, cut out the fronts to look like cages, and cut back openings for the "animals" to enter. Label each cage with an animal type and wait for the creatures to come to the party.
Decorate the party room with stuffed animals (have the kids bring stuffed animals to the party).
Be sure to have a camera ready!

GAMES up

Play Animal Noises. Write the names of animals or draw pictures of animals on individual cards. Some examples include lions, tigers, bears, and so on. Pass the cards out to the kids as they sit in a circle. Have them make the sound representing the animal on their card. Have the other group members try to guess the animal.
Play a variation of Animal Noises. This time, act out the animal's walk, instead of imitating the animal's sound.
Play Pull My Tail. Stick cloth or paper animal tails onto the backs of each player with tape. Have the kids try to collect as many tails as they can from one another, while trying to keep their own tails. Whoever collects the most tails wins a prize.

ACTIVITIES up

Let the kids use face paints to create animals on each other's faces. Have some animal books handy to give the kids ideas.
Have a professional face painter come to paint the kids' faces.
Make necktie snakes. Have each kid bring a necktie, or provide neckties by shopping at a thrift store. Open the large end of the ties by pulling out the threads, then stuff the tie with polyester fiberfill, using rulers or sticks to push the stuffing deep into the ties. When the ties are stuffed, glue them closed using a glue-gun or sew them up. Glue on buttons or pom-poms for eyes or use puffy paints. Then glue or sew on red felt tongues.

FOOD up

HServe the kids zoo food, such as peanuts, popcorn, hot dogs, and sodas.
Cut sandwiches into animal shapes with cookie cutters.
Let the kids make individual animal pizza faces using English muffins as the heads. Offer condiments to use as decorations, then bake in the oven until hot and ready to eat.

ZOO CAKE up

Bake a rectangular cake; cool.
Frost the cake with chocolate frosting.
Sprinkle the cake with brown sugar to look like dirt.
Set small plastic animals on the cake.
Let each Kid have an animal to take home!

FAVORS up

Give the kids plastic animals to enjoy at home.
Let the kids keep their animal masks.
Hand out books about animals.
Give each kid a small stuffed animal.
Find recorded songs about animals and give them to the kids.
Hand out posters featuring funny animals.

VARIATIONS up

Go to the local zoo and have a real zoo party!
If you know someone with an exotic pet, such as a boa constrictor, an alligator, or a parrot, have them bring it to the party.

HELPFUL HINTS up

This party is better outdoors, where the "wild animals" can run free, so set your cages outside if possible.
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