Wild Animal Party

Grab your pith helmet and come on in, this Wild Animal party is packed full of fun, games and excitement.

Play a tape of wild animal sounds throughout the party. Have a feed the elephant contest, feeding an elephant isn't as easy as it looks! Bring your animal party to a close with a fun animal cake and some ice-cream .

Wild Animal Party Invitations

Use a coloring book to trace animals onto card stock. Have each guest bring their invitation to the party for an on-site coloring contest.

Send a box of animal crackers as an invitation.

Animal Party Decorations

Hang posters and pictures of animals throughout the party area. You can even have your child color pictures from a coloring book and display his/her artwork. Let the guests color pictures while waiting for everyone to arrive and hang those up with the rest.

Display stuffed animals throughout the party area. Have some peeking out from behind lamps, plants and even the television.

Cage some of the animals in boxes. You can cut an opening in the side of a box and create bars by taping black strips of paper over the opening.

Activities for a Wild Animal Party

Peanut Zoo Animals
Provide each child with a couple of peanuts, some markers, glue, wiggle eyes, pipe cleaners and paper towels.
Let them create some fun zoo animals using those supplies. You will need to create a few simple ones as models.

Animal Charades:
Place pictures of animals into a hat. The first child picks one and has to imitate that animal without speaking while the others try to guess which wild zoo animal he/she is.
Continue until everyone that wants to participate has had a turn.

Feed the Elephant:
Cut the top of a 2-liter plastic bottle off to where the label is. Wrap the bottle in grey construction paper. Set it on the ground surrounded by a piece of grey fabric or crinkled grey tissue paper.
Give each guest ten peanuts to toss into the container.

Animal Party Favor Ideas

Some really fun wild animal party favors are:
Pith helmet
Stuffed wild animals
Coloring books
Binoculars

Wild Animal Food and Drinks

Animal Cake
Frost a round or rectangular cake with chocolate frosting.
Sprinkle green shredded coconut around the sides of the cake.
Top with plastic zoo animals.

Another Animal Cake
Frost the cake as above using chocolate frosting and green coconut. Instead of the plastic animals stick animal crackers into the top and around the edge.