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Jungle Safari Invitations: On pie plate size paper plate, make a lion's face with crayons and yarn -- glue yarn around edges for his mane -- draw face other side and print: "We'll have a Roaring Good Time!" Costumes: Have children make a different animal masks out of paper plates, monkeys, lions, zebras, etc. Party Games: 1. Jungle Sounds - Have the children pick a jungle animal with a special sound. Tell a story, when you say the name of that animal, the child makes the sound. 2. Jungle Trash Safari - Give each child a decorated trash bag. (They can even decorate their own bag if time allows.) Hand out plastic gloves and head out. Keep your eyes peeled for garbage at the park or around the block. Teach them that keeping their own backyard jungle clean is their responsibility. 3. Pin the tail on the giraff. 4. Lion. lion where's your bone? - Children make a circle; one child is blindfolded in the center. Children in circle pass a 'bone' while saying "Lion, lion where's your bone? Somebody took it from your home. Guess who. It might be you. Might be in your tennis shoe." When the rhyme stops the person in the middle guesses who has the bone. Food: Serve animal crackers, fruit, bananas, popsicles. Party favors: Animal cookies on a stick. (recipe in sweets section) South Seas Paradise Invitations: Fold a piece of construction paper in half and cut a scallop shell shape, placing the hinge of the shell along the fold, and write your invitation inside. Buy or collect a dozen or so of the really small seashells and insert a couple of real seashells and a teaspoon or two of play sand in the envelope for fun! Costumes: Greet your guests with flower leis, and then have them go about making leis for others. Cut 24-inch lengths of yarn. Tie one end of the yarn onto a plastic darning needle. Tie a button on the other end of the yarn to prevent the flowers from falling off. Cut straws into one-inch lengths. Cut flower shapes from construction paper, or take apart silk flowers. String flowers or flower shapes onto the yarn alternating between the flowers and straw spacers. Tie ends together and remove the button. Create hula skirts for everyone by stapling green crepe paper streamers to a piece of wide ribbon, and let the children tie them around their waists. Party Games: 1. Sand Pictures - Arrange seashells on a poster board and draw around them. Remove shells and trace drawings with glue. Sprinkle sand over glue. Wait till the end of the party; gently shake off the excess sand. 2. Limbo - Need we say more? 3. Hula Contest - Find some hula music and have a blast dancing! 4. Pineapple Bowling - Make five pineapples by covering the tops of empty 2-liter soda bottles with green leaves and the bottom with yellow and brown paper. Arrange them in a triangle and take turns rolling a ball at them. 5. Hula Hoop Game - Players form a line holding hands, the first person in line steps into a hula-hoop and then attempts to move the hoop to the next person without dropping hands. Food: Serve pineapple, kiwi, and other tropical fruits. You can make fruit kabobs with bamboo skewers, chunked fruit, cherries, and grapes. For punch, combine a quart of cranberry juice with two quarts of pineapple juice, add a quart of ginger ale and pour into cups -- add a paper umbrella for fun. Bake a sheet cake, frost with bright yellow icing, cut large marshmallows into four pieces with scissors to look like flower petals. Make a flower lei with five petals around a gumdrop for each flower. Arrange the flowers on top of the cake. Party Favors: Foot Prints in the Sand - Fill a dish pan with play sand, moistened with water. Have each child put his/her foot in the moist sand, leaving an impression of his foot, pour quick drying plaster in the imprint. While the plaster is wet, write the guest's initials and the date of the party in the plaster and let dry. Send this gift home with your guests as a remembrance of their South Seas Paradise experience.  BackNext |