I am still in the middle of end of school chaos, so I have had very little time to make things this week. Instead I thought this would be the perfect time to share another one of our favorite parties. I mentioned in an earlier post that Kara has a love of animal themed parties. The year she turned 7, she wanted a zoo animal party. The closest zoo is about 45 mins away, so it was not ideal for us to travel to the zoo. Instead, we did our best to have a pretend zoo at our house. For our photo op, we had each child pose in the monkey cage. A friend who has a blinds business gave me the cardboard inserts to make a monkey cage. Originally, I had hoped to make a standing cage wall to stand in front of our deck to look like there were two sets of cage bars. That did not work out so well, so instead we attached the "bars" to our garage and the girls stood behind it and posed like a monkey.
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We played pin the tail on the lion. I made the lion out of yellow poster board and brown card stock.
We played a game called Please Feed the Elephant. Each child was given a spoon and a marshmallow circus peanut. They had to jump over a series of pool noodles and feed the elephant as quickly as possible. My oldest daughter is holding the elephant board. There is a small hole at the top of the trunk, to insert the circus peanut. I was able to use this game board at two of our parties, this party and our safari party for my son.
Each of the girls were given an animal bucket hat. Here they are playing a jumping frog game I found at Target.
For our craft we make a monkey paper plate craft that can be found on Oriental Trading here.
For our craft we make a monkey paper plate craft that can be found on Oriental Trading here.
