Jungle and Safari Parties

Jungle safari parties are great fun, there are lots of activities and games you can play that tie in with the theme. If you don't have too many kids to look after (or you have help from other parents) you could take a trip to a zoo and see the real thing.

Browse down the page for party ideas, costumes and food ideas.

Invitations - Make the invitations in the shape of the birthday child's favourite animal. Some jungle animals include tigers, giraffes, lions, elephants, monkeys, zebras, gorillas and hippos.

Jungle and Safari Costumes

• Costume Box - Thousands of fancy dress costumes for adults and children for all occasions. All costumes displayed are in stock and most are dispatched within 24 hours. See their children's animal costumes for wrap and ride costumes and full body suits or search for their favourite animal. Based in Sydney with flat rate delivery Australia wide.

Jungle and Safari Decorations & Catering

For decorations, hang lots of green and brown streamers from the ceiling, in doorways and around furniture. Place cardboard cut-out animals or soft toys around.

• Parties Online - Sydney-based party products store in operation since 1991. They specialise in themed and coloured tableware, balloons, and costumes for birthdays, kids parties, hen's parties, weddings, christenings, Christmas, and Halloween. Their themed party products include Jungle or Safari Party
   
• Party Products Australia - Over 6000 party supplies online - fast flat rate delivery Australia wide. They have themed party products including decorations, tableware, balloons, party hats and invitations.
  • Jungle party products
  • Green party products
  • Brown party products
  • Crepe streamers
  
  
• Packaging Products Australia - For a zoo safari meal box, see kid's meal boxes. Each child can have their own safari car that holds a cup, a slice of cake, treats and more. Flat rate delivery Australia wide.

Jungle and Safari Gifts

• PeeDee Toys - Have a wide range of brand name toys. They also offer gift wrapping, birthday cards and gift vouchers. The are based in Melbourne and have flat rate delivery Australia wide. See
  • Schleich - Collectible figurines including lions, zebras, giraffes, rhinos, meercats, cheetahs and more.
  • and Tomfoolery - Has pink and blue giraffe rattles, plush lions, giraffes and more.
  
  
• Peanut Gallery - Carefully selected kids toys that are great fun and educational. Flat rate delivery Australia wide and free gift wrapping service. For animal themed gifts see Soft & knitted toys including zebras, elephants and other animals. Also see their Anamalz wooden animals and their Nici soft toys
   
• Young Minds - Children's educational products and toys including safari-themed products. Based in Sydney, they offer free gift-wrapping and flat rate Australia-wide parcel postage. See Animals, Safari & Farm Toys.
    
• BCL Books - Online bookstore with thousands of titles, based in Sydney. For kids interested in animals, see their children's animal non-fiction section with books on apes, elephants, big cats, animal welfare and more.
   
• Picture Store - Stock over 160,000 prints and posters. Have your poster framed, laminated, transferred to canvas or block mounted. Based in New South Wales with Australia-wide and international delivery. See prints with lions, giraffes and cheetahs or type your favourite jungle animal into the search.   

Jungle and Safari Games & Activities

• Garden safari - Hide animal cut-outs or soft toys around the garden or park. Give the children a list of animals and let them find them all.
• Go to the zoo - You'll probably need some other parents to help with this, for transport and keeping an eye on everyone. While you're at the zoo give everyone their own toy binoculars so they can spot all the animals.
• If buying a pair of binoculars for every child is not an option, they can make their own as part of the party. Have cardboard tubes (like toilet rolls), scissors, colourful paints, glue and tape and some string or wool (to make a neck strap). Craft Online have heaps of craft supplies.
• Craft activities, such as making animal masks, sculpting animals out of play doh, drawing animals and colouring in. See 0 to 5 animal templates for some animals to colour in.
• Adapt traditional games to have an animal or jungle theme:
  • If you're playing tiggy/tag then the person who is 'it' is a park ranger and everyone else is an animal. You could assign a different animal to each child and they have to make animal noises as they run.
  • Pin the tail on the donkey becomes pin the tail on the tiger/monkey or pin the trunk on the elephant.

See Themes4Parties.com.au for an adults jungle party theme.

More Animal themes for Gifts, Costumes & Parties

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• Elephant themed gift ideas
• Frog themed gift ideas
• Horse themed gift ideas
• Marine animal themed gift ideas
• Monkey/Gorilla themed gift ideas
• Panda themed gift ideas
• Penguin themed gift ideas
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• see also
• Dinosaur Party and Gift Ideas
• Farm Animal Party and Gift Ideas
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