5 Ideas to throw
a Wild birthday party
for your child
For my nephew's fourth birthday, and in the heat of August, I decided to throw a safari-jungle party. Here are 5 big ideas to share with you from this wild and exciting event:
1. The table is set for the hungry explorers to come and grab food as they need it on their adventure around the safari party. Make animal themed food! Some of these ideas are from other blogs I've read, some are of my own creation! This table is complete with:
Not shown here but also served at the party included:
With a printer and printable business cards, you can make cute labels for the food, with images and fun fonts. Tape or glue a toothpick to the back of the printed cards and stick into the food or place cards by the food.
1. The table is set for the hungry explorers to come and grab food as they need it on their adventure around the safari party. Make animal themed food! Some of these ideas are from other blogs I've read, some are of my own creation! This table is complete with:
- Caterpillars: Sugar Snap Peas w/ ranch dipping sauce served in half a red bell pepper.
- Kookaburries: Cherries without the stems.
- Bamboo Shoots: Celery Stalks.
- Monkey Bites: (See Recipe Here)
- Gorilla Grapes: Scewer grapes with a strawberry to top. Stick scewers into green floral foam (non-toxic) wrapped in leopard print ribbon.
- Veggie Lion : slice yellow squash for face, carrots for the main, sliced red bell pepper for the nose and mouth, and olives for eyes.) See photo in slideshow above
- Blow Darts: Doritos Rolled Tortilla Chips.
- Watermelon Alligator (Click here to make your own)
Not shown here but also served at the party included:
- Fishes & Cream: Goldfish Macaroni&Cheese
- Ostrich Legs: Grilled Chicken Legs
- Hog Dogs: Hot Dogs
- Dirt Cups: Dessert cups filled with layers of crushed oreos and chocolate pudding, topped with a gummi worm.
With a printer and printable business cards, you can make cute labels for the food, with images and fun fonts. Tape or glue a toothpick to the back of the printed cards and stick into the food or place cards by the food.
2. Put a "Congo River" right into your backyard with a SlipNSlide or to really amp up the fun, rent a water slide! You can rent one for the day for about $100-130 dollars. The rental company will set it up and take it down for you. Fun for the kids, delivered right to your backyard!
3. Instead of blowing out the candles on a birthday cake, let them shoot them out with a water gun. All you need are bamboo poles, colored taper candles and a water gun or super soaker. However many years your child is turning, thats how many candles and stalks you need. Cut the tops of the bamboo poles off so there is space to stick the candle into it. Place the bamboo stalks into either a pot of sand or dirt, or straight into the ground. Stick the candles into the tops of the bamboo stalks, light the candles, and laugh as your child sprays them out with the water gun. (Warning: Children under 5 will have difficulty).
Ingredients:
5. To finish it off, decorate the house with green streamers, palm tree frons, and anything wooden to give it that nature look. Cut the letters of your child's name out of cardboard or cardstock, paint them orange, and draw squiggled lines to make them tiger printed, and hang them on a wall. Create a drying station for the kids so that before they're little elephant feet come stomping in for food and drink or a bathroom break, they'll be clean and dry.
Get creative, get excited, 'cause the kids are gonna have a blast!
- 1 Gallon of prepared Country Time Lemonade (or fresh lemonade if you want to make it extra healthy).
- 1 package of blueberries (frozen or fresh).
- A few sprigs of mint (the more the merrier).
- 1 Liter of Club Soda
- 1 Blender
- 1 Drink Server or pitcher
- In the blender, puree the blueberries and mint with a little of the prepared lemonade.
- Pour the puree into the pitcher of lemonade, chill and serve.
- Add Waterhole Punch Label to pitcher or serving display, and tie a bow around the server with animal print ribbon.
5. To finish it off, decorate the house with green streamers, palm tree frons, and anything wooden to give it that nature look. Cut the letters of your child's name out of cardboard or cardstock, paint them orange, and draw squiggled lines to make them tiger printed, and hang them on a wall. Create a drying station for the kids so that before they're little elephant feet come stomping in for food and drink or a bathroom break, they'll be clean and dry.
Get creative, get excited, 'cause the kids are gonna have a blast!