Safari Party Kit: printable games and decorations
A wild safari birthday with games ready to print. Lions, zebras and jungle greens carry through the invitations, bingo and banner.
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What is in the kit (32 pages)
- Fill-in invitations, 2 per page
- WELCOME sign and HAPPY BIRTHDAY sign
- Party Bingo: 10 unique cards plus calling cards
- Scavenger hunt, 24 charades cards and a word scramble with answer key
- 12 cupcake toppers
- HAPPY BIRTHDAY pennant banner
- Thank-you cards
Every page, in order
The kit is one PDF. Print the whole thing or just the pages you want.
- Page 3: Invitations (2 per page)
- Pages 4 to 5: Welcome + party signs
- Pages 6 to 17: Party Bingo (10 cards + calling cards)
- Pages 18 to 23: Scavenger hunt, charades & word scramble
- Page 24: Cupcake toppers
- Pages 25 to 31: HAPPY BIRTHDAY pennant banner
- Page 32: Thank-you cards
The safari party bingo words
Ten cards, each one different, drawn from these 22 words. Calling cards are included, so nobody has to make a list up on the day.
lion, zebra, giraffe, elephant, hippo, monkey, cheetah, rhino, jeep, binoculars, savanna, waterhole, mane, stripes, tusk, jungle, parrot, crocodile, camp, tracks, acacia, sunset
What the charades cards ask kids to do
There are 24 cards. A few of them:
- Roar like a lion
- Stretch tall like a giraffe
- Stomp like an elephant
- Swing like a monkey
- Run fast like a cheetah
- Yawn like a sleepy hippo
- Gallop like a zebra
- Snap like a crocodile
The scavenger hunt list
12 things to find, written so they work indoors or in a garden. Nothing has to be bought or hidden in advance.
- Something with spots
- Something with stripes
- Something tall like a giraffe
- Something gray like an elephant
- Something green like the jungle
- Something yellow like the savanna
- Something soft like a lion's mane
- Something you would pack for a trip
- Something brown like safari boots
- An animal (toy or picture)
- Something that makes a wild sound
- Something orange like the sunset
Word scramble
10 words to unscramble, with an answer key on the next page for whoever is running it: safari, elephant, giraffe, cheetah, monkey, jungle, zebra, savanna, crocodile, parrot.
Ages, timing and printing
- Ages 4 to 10. Younger children usually need a grown-up to read the bingo calling cards and the scavenger hunt list out loud.
- About two hours of party. Bingo runs 10 to 15 minutes, the scavenger hunt 15 to 20, charades as long as they are still laughing.
- Plain paper is fine for the signs, banner and hunt sheets. Card stock is worth it for the bingo cards, charades cards and cupcake toppers, since those get handled.
- US Letter, colour, single sided. Print the invitations first if the party is more than a week away.
- The cupcake toppers say GET WILD, ROAR!, LET'S PARTY, HAPPY BDAY, WILD ONE, SAFARI TIME.
Safari party ideas for little explorers
- Hand out paper binoculars for the scavenger hunt safari walk.
- Animal crackers make perfect bingo markers.
- Face paint one whisker set per guest and the photos take care of themselves.
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