Animal Jungle Birthday Party Guide

Cut several one-to-two-foot-long pieces of curling ribbon. Curl the ribbon by pulling it between your thumb and the blade of your scissors. Lay the resulting curls on your table for added color. Hang balloons in bunches for the best effect. If you choose to fill balloons with helium, wait until the party day to ensure they float well!

If you really want to go animal then drape streamers from the ceiling and walls. You can also hang beanie babies in clumps of streamer.

Use balloons to mark the party spot; hang them on the mailbox, near the front door, or tie them to the birthday child's chair to mark the seat of honor.

Place balloons anywhere that strikes your fancy. The more the better!

Gather six or eight streamers and attach them to the ceiling in the center of the party room (or over the table). Use a light fixture over the table, if you have one, as the center point for the streamers.

To create colorful two-tone streamers, put two differently colored streamers back-to-back, twist as you walk them to the wall, and attach at shoulder height.

Animal Jungle activities should be the name of the game. 

Pin The Tail On The Monkey
A animal jungle twist on the popular Pin the Tail on the Donkey.  Take a big piece of poster board and make a monkey.  Then make a number of tails.  Write the name of the child on each tail and you have the perfect animal jungle activity.

Jungle Decorating
Cover one wall in green paper.  Break out the crayons and let the kids color in the jungle.  The one thing to be careful of is to make sure they stay coloring on the correct wall.

Jungle Tracking
Hide beanie babies or some other stuffed animals around the jungle party area and/or the house.  They can take home the animals they find.  Or you can give a reward for the person that tracks the most jungle animals.

2. Plan a safe, comfortable place for the party where the children can have fun, but will not hurt themselves or your home. If planning an outdoor party be sure to have a backup plan in case of bad weather.

3. Limit the party time to two hours or less for children under six years of age. Up to three hours is fine for older children.

4. Prepare more activities than you plan to use in advance. Activities often take less time than planned and you may want to keep the children busy.

5. Include the birthday child in preparations as often as possible. Let him or her stuff the party favor bags, make suggestions for games, help with the decorations, set the table, and mail the invitations - even if that only means putting them in the mailbox.

6. You can get into this animal jungle theme as well.  Dress up as a safari guide and take the kids through the jungle to the animal jungle party area. 

Animal Crackers
With the animal jungle party theme one party favorite is boxes of animal crackers.  The kids will have a blast playing with their jungle animals.

Animal Snacks
To make animal snacks you need to gather a number of cookie cutters in the shape of your favorite animal shapes.  You can then make any type of food and cut them in the shape of those animals.  Things that are at the top of the list are animal brownies, jungle jello, animal jungle cookies, and safari sandwiches.