Elephant Party Ideas

Did you know that elephants use their trunks as snorkels when swimming and on hot days they flap their ears to cool their blood? They also have the largest brains of all land animals.

Many people believe these majestic creatures are a symbol of good luck. For elephant themed gifts, toys, costumes, pictures, puzzles and more browse the shops below.

• Games & Activities:
  • Adapt traditional party games to have an elephant theme. Dumbo Says, Pin the Trunk on the Elephant.
  • Play musical chairs while listening to Baby Elephant Walk.
  • Colouring in: 0to5 have an elephant colouring template which is free to print from home.
  • Elephant craft ideas: Use kitchen paper or wrapping paper tubes for trunks, grey paper attached to Alice bands make great elephant ears.
• Food & Snack Ideas:
  • Everyone knows that elephants eat peanuts, but before you serve anything with peanuts in it check with parents that no one is allergic!
  • Give all the children bendy straws to drink with and call them 'trunks.'

Toys and Gifts for Elephant Lovers

• Blue Dog Posters in Sydney is Australia's largest online poster shop. From the latest and greatest to the bizarre and obscure, choose from over 7000 posters and prints. Get your poster laminated or delivered as is. Check out the elephant posters.
   
• PeeDee Toys - Based in Melbourne, PeeDee Toys have a huge range of brand name toys. They also offer gift wrapping, birthday cards and gift vouchers. Flat rate delivery Australia wide.
  • Schleich - A range of collectible animal figurines including elephants.
  • Russ - For a beautiful range of plush elephant rattles which come in blue or pink.
  
  
• Young Minds - Children's educational products and toys catering for all ages from newborn up. The site features free gift-wrapping, an Australia wide parcel postage flat rate for educational toys and a combination of toys and DVDs. Their elephant toys include
  • Folkmanis WebWilds Elephant Hand Puppet (with internet access) (Animals, Safari and Farm) From Young Minds
    Folkmanis WebWilds African Elephant (with internet access) Hand Puppet 37cm Long x 20cm Tall The puppet features workable mouth and trunk. WebWilds - Designed to educate, encourage & inspire children to take an active role in protecting…
  
  
• Yogee Toys delivers popular brand name and character toys to Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the USA. Based in NSW with flat rate delivery Australia wide. See Best Ever for soft elephant SnuggleChums, puppets and pillows.
   
• Peanut Gallery - Wooden, educational and traditional toys including Anamalz wooden animals, which are organic maple wood toys, and Jellycat soft toys. They are based in Victoria with Australia-wide delivery. See these elephant toys:
  
  • Anamalz Elephant (from Peanut Gallery)
    This superb quality, environmentally friendly, wooden elephant from the Anamalz range measures 10cm in height and 10cm in length. She has a moveable…
     
• Picture Store - Based in New South Wales with Australia wide and international delivery. Choose your favourite elephant print from the selection below or browse elephants for more. Have your print block mounted, transferred to canvas, framed or laminated.
  • A herd of drinking elephants - Etosha National Park Poster Print by Dennis Jones (from PictureStore)
    Copyright 2007 Lonely Planet Images - for personal use only. Canvas printing available on request. From the exclusive Lonely Planet Images collection. Available either unframed or custom framed via our online framing studio - 100% satisfaction guaranteed.
  • Mother and calf elephants (Loxodonta africana), Moremi Wildlife Reserv by Andrew Parkinson (from PictureStore)
    Copyright 2007 Lonely Planet Images - for personal use only. Canvas printing available on request. From the exclusive Lonely Planet Images collection. Available either unframed or custom framed via our online framing studio - 100% satisfaction guaranteed.
  • Leader Of The Herd Poster Print by Guy Coheleach (from PictureStore)
    Published by a world leading publisher. Available either unframed or custom framed via our online framing studio - 100% satisfaction guaranteed.
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• Simply Gifts - Luxury gift shop based in Warriewood, New South Wales. They offer complimentary gift wrapping and take great care with gift presentation. Select the recipient's favourite colours for the ribbon and add a personalised gift card for free! Their elephant gifts include:
  
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Elephant Costumes

• Costume Box - Thousands of quality costumes for adults, pets and children. Based in Sydney with flat rate delivery Australia wide, they have full body elephant costumes as well as hats for children and adults. See elephant costumes.
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