Holiday decoration
The theme is safari or zoo and is interesting to everyone and everything you need for a safari-style birthday decor is easy to come up with and prepare yourself. All ideas for the holiday lie on the surface.
Firstly, any striped elements will do - tablecloths, rugs, balls, napkins. Choose a striped color scheme according to your taste: black and white, like a zebra, and orange and black, like a tiger, will do. Add more greenery if you have a jungle: palm trees, vines, tropical plants.
The color of our African safari is brown in all shades, from sandy to almost black, and also the green color of grass and trees. For color variety, you can sprinkle spots of sunrises and sunsets.
Balloons, flowers, lampshades can be used, the same as on other birthdays, but color harmony should be observed.
For Safari's birthday, stock up on green paper and paper bags. You will need this in large quantities. Cut large leaves with slits out of paper, and let your birthday boy twist the bags into bundles, inserting the bags into each other and additionally lubricating them with glue. And then use glue or a stapler to connect the leaves and stems. All that remains is to figure out where to hang the vines...
Of course we need animals. Here is a partial list of animals participating in the holiday: tigers, lions, monkeys, elephants, zebras, giraffes, leopards, rhinoceroses and buffaloes...
A safari themed holiday gives you the perfect opportunity to add some wall decor and buy beautiful photographs of wild animals or paint your own. It will be especially colorful. You can knit animals from balloons or just buy them, you can cut out wild animals from cardboard or paper and hide them in secluded places or, on the contrary, put/hang/glue them in the most visible place. And if you already have a collection of toy animals, then it will definitely come in handy at a safari-themed birthday party.
And animal tracks on the floor, table and walls will add the right mood. Let the apartment turn into a place for a safari: hang signs - Zimbabwe, the Sahara Desert, Kenya or elephants, giraffes, tigers.
Party competitions
- Team competition - 6-8 people. Props: 6 chairs, 20 bananas and a rope. Arrange the chairs in a checkerboard pattern between them, stretch the rope, preferably at different distances from the floor and hang the bananas in different places along the rope. The presenter explains that the wild monkeys went crazy and scattered the entire banana crop throughout the jungle, which the teams have to collect. Participants are divided into two teams and collect bananas to the sounds of African music. The team that collects the most bananas wins.
- Darts. You will need a darts image of a lion glued to the darts and darts. Competition for the best hunter, give participants 3 attempts; whoever gets into the top ten the most times receives the title of unsurpassed hunter in the heat of Africa.
- Pair competition. Invite several couples to the dance floor and give them the task of dancing the most erotic primitive dance, to the music of the dark continent. Arrange a vote by asking the public which couple received the most applause, and that couple wins.
Good luck with your party and may you all have a blast! And come visit us more often. Lots of good articles on party topics!
Game equipment
If there are adult children at the holiday, they can be equipped for the trip with binoculars, compasses, backpacks, slingshots and cameras.
For a trip you may need a tent, and the first task is to break up a scarf or build one from scrap materials.
On the way to the safari, the children will be able to play a crocodile game: one person pretends to be an animal, while the others guess and conduct a photo hunt for it.
Little guests can transform into animals using masks or facial designs. They will happily take part in a simple quiz, such as a “believe it or not” quiz.
The further adventure may contain many dangers - an attack by lions, a fight with monkeys and a search for missing animals.
Anything that involves animals is suitable for a safari-themed party. Children can play, for example, snake, when everyone lines up in a line, the first one shows the movement, and everyone must repeat it.
And at a birthday party in Safari style, children might also enjoy acting out some small scenes from the cartoons Madagascar, The Lion King, Rio, The Big Journey...
Congratulations poster
For the Zoo holiday, I made a poster in the shape of a long boa constrictor with a congratulatory inscription all over its body.
The head is made of thick cardboard, the body is made of corrugated paper. The holiday was outdoors, so I had to wrap a boa constrictor around a tree. Advice for those who will wrap the poster around the tree: bring the un-glued parts from home and glue them onto the tree. It is very difficult to calculate the volume of the tree in advance, and the congratulatory inscription may appear on the back of the tree.
Table setting
Nowadays there are many different cutlery depicting wild animals of hot countries. So here, the task is simplified. But the opportunity to show originality remained. Use a basic color scheme on the table. Add a striped tablecloth. And so that the goodies don’t get lost among the stripes, use contrast - cover the top with a plain napkin or vice versa, let the napkin be striped and the tablecloth plain. Wicker baskets, trays or plates for candy will look good on such a table. Place small and large toys on the table.
And, of course, the cake will not leave children indifferent. Animals in any design will cause delight.
Corporate event in African style
I have to perform in a corporate New Year's performance as the leader of a fictional tribe. According to our director’s plan, I should say some standard phrases like “I congratulate and wish everyone.” But! I want some originality. I’ve already made a mask for myself, found a wig, the image turns out to be quite vivid - a kind of African leader - a bone in the nose. I found the texts in Swahili transliteration, it turns out an interesting language accompaniment. Now I want this text to supposedly be “translated,” but with jokes. Possible for some guests separately, possible for all together.
Please help us play up this translation so that there are no standard New Year's hackneyed jokes and it becomes funny and interesting for everyone.
By the way, if it can help, the team works in the trade sector - we have a very large shopping center.
Thank you in advance!
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A piece from the Internet: African rhythms sound. Such a recording can be made easily by watching several programs dedicated to travel in Africa. King Kong shows the movements, the guests repeat after him. Such exotic entertainment as Papuan dancing will certainly be received with enthusiasm by our people. King Kong names the best dancer, in his opinion, and proclaims him leader, decorating his head with Christmas tree rain. As for the key, not everything is so simple with it: you need to pass the test.
King Kong (explains the task to the leader). If you are cunning and lucky, You will find the magic key. It is not hidden, not buried - it hangs next to the inscription. This inscription contains advice, the most necessary from an early age. As you get closer, it gets warmer and you will find it.
The “Chief of the Papuans” is looking for the key, focusing on King Kong’s clues: “cold”, “warm”. Finally, it becomes abundantly clear that both the inscription and the key are on the body of King Kong himself. He has to unbutton his shirt, and, to everyone’s horror, an inscription is found on his chest: “Don’t go for a walk, children, in Africa!”, as well as a drawing - crossed bones and a skull. The above-mentioned horror is mixed with glee, since the long-awaited key hangs on the monster’s neck, which he gives without resistance. The “Chief of the Papuans” receives a gift from the bag from the presenter, the second key is placed in a place of honor next to the first one obtained earlier, King Kong says goodbye to the guests and leaves. Guests can use the resulting respite to have a snack.
Yurik71
, Have you visited your boss to put him in the cauldron?
He'll give it to you later. what if the director is not well-fed? non-singing
, Not bad with the dance, but here
Kalinka_Anna
, clearly writes that she is a leader, a problem. Need reprises like
— I wonder why it is profitable to invite the leader to lead such events? Of course - you work all evening for beads and one mirror.
Or a refrain like
First time - What do white people do when they feel good? Are they drinking? Why are we worse? We feel good, so that everyone always feels good. Second time - What do white people do when they feel bad? Are they drinking? Why are we worse? I haven’t received the award yet, and I feel bad without it - but let’s drink to the fact that everyone will always feel good. Third time (scratching his throat) - Oh, I don’t understand whether I’m feeling good or bad. Ahhh (with a wave of his hand he naturally raises a glass of water, the presenter must always control the situation, but I guarantee an explosion of laughter).
This is so quick, but you can think about it thoroughly, but this is already a script and knowledge of the team.
It's probably too late. but I did something like this the year before last. Here is a short excerpt from my script. where the leader is the leader of the African tribe. At the beginning of the evening, the Jazz Music Ensemble plays for the guests in a repertoire of music from the “Southern Continent”. The musical background plays, accompanied by the “cannibal” girls, and the presenter runs onto the stage. The presenter is dressed like a large Papuan leader in a loincloth decorated with feathers, covered in beads, with a crown and three feathers on his head. The leader dances with the cannibals the dance “Warrior Going to Hunt.” In essence, this is a kind of shamanic action that takes place in a frantic rhythm to the sounds of tom-toms and drums. The dance accompaniment leaves the stage and the leading shaman of the tribe “Tumbo Yumbo” and the translator in a loincloth remain. /
Themed invitations and gifts for guests
Animals will become central figures here too. Invite your children on an exciting trip to Africa.
You can sew small felt figures as souvenirs for your little guests. Or get the kids involved in creating gifts on a stick. And you can make prints with images of animals.
Let your guests leave your birthday party Safari style with a “trophy”.
After the ball
A very important part of the holiday is the rest of the organizers. After preparing and holding a children's party, especially for children 2-3 years old, the parents of the birthday boy can be compared to marathon athletes at the finish line. We, parents, need rest, otherwise we will not have the desire to organize the next holidays. Therefore, with a clear conscience, you can allow yourself to make a mess in your apartment, wallow in front of the TV and order pizza for dinner. We deserve it!
If you have never organized birthdays for family members, then start with the nearest holiday. Some parents believe that young children will do without a birthday. But there is no wrong age for a holiday. The youngest children and the oldest parents deserve to be the heroes of the occasion. And if your family doesn’t have such a tradition, then it’s time to start one. After all, as long as family traditions are alive, so is the family!
Author: Olga Gre
