A jungle safari party?
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Play some great jungle safari party games and let your little explorers tackle cobras, tigers and jungle survival!
Your guests will love finding the mystery animal in a jungle pass the parcel.
And if you don't know what a mudskipper is - you'll soon have a houseful of them hopping about!
So - mystery, danger and excitement all bundled up into a fab jungle safari party! Mind those mosquitos and off we go!
Jungle safari games for little kids
This game is based on the traditional version of pass the parcel. Instead of each child unwrapping a layer and finding a favor, they will have to identify the mystery animal.
Collect enough small animal figures for there to be one for each child. Some ideas for you:
- spider
- scorpion
- coiled snake
- tiger
- monkey
- parrot
- frog
- lizard
- crocodile
- fish
Put each animal in a small paper or cloth bag. Or even a jungle safari party favor bag. The children will feel the animals and try to identify them - so make sure they can't be seen!
Use different colored wrap for each layer. You could start with a favor for the winner in a small box and wrap that. Continue wrapping, putting your mystery bags in between each layer.
Ensure every child gets a go when the music stops to feel the bag and guess what's in it. Then for the last round, the winner will get the favor.
Mudskipper Olympics
Here's an original kids' game for a jungle safari party!
You'll need two teams for this (an adult can always make up the numbers!) and enough space for a fun relay race.
You might like to show the kids a picture of a mudskipper before you start. They are fish that love living above water! So your little mudskippers are going to skip and jump over "water" using some paper stepping stones.
Prepare two paper or card "stones" for each team. (You might want to prepare a couple of spares, too.) They need to be big enough for each child to stand on. You'll also need to place two chairs an appropriate distance away for each team to mudskip around.
Line up your two teams. The first child in each team holds their two stones. They put one stone at the start and stand on it. When the game starts, they must put their second stone in front of them and stand on that.
Then they must turn round - without falling off that stone - pick up the stone behind them, put it in front of them, and step on that.
Have a practice run first so everybody knows what to do.
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A safari party... in your backyard!
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Great tips from a hostess of a petting zoo with a difference!
Jungle safari party cobra conundrum
You'll need a big blanket, or two sewn together - big enough to cover your snakepit of kids! This game is best played by kids who all know each other.
One child, the guesser, leaves the room for a moment. All the other children lie together on the floor, with the blanket over them. They need to wriggle about a bit, but keep the blanket on them. They'll be wriggling and giggling a lot at this point - but you can tell them to hissssss!
The guesser comes back in. Now they have to guess who is who under the blanket. They can poke and prod a bit if necessary. Give them a few moments to have a look, then start the guessing. If you want a winner, keep count of who guessed the most correctly.
Midnight safari
Imagine it's pitch black in the heart of the rainforest... yes, it's a jungle safari party blindfold game!
Set up an obstacle course along the length of a room. Put a snake and a spider on two piles of boxes. Cut out a paper swamp. Use long pillows as a crocodile.
Across the middle of the room, prepare your river to step over - marked by strips of blue paper. At the end of the course, place a small table or chair with a bottle of water.
One child is blindfolded. Now the other kids have to give directions, perhaps taking it in turns, to guide the child through the jungle to the water bottle.
If your kids are not sure of left or right, stand the other children on either side of the obstacle course to say "over here!" or "this way!" so that the explorer can be guided by sound as well as instructions.
Can you drink it?
In this jungle safari party game, the children have to decide whether different kinds of liquids are safe to drink or not.
For younger children who might be tempted to taste the undrinkables, it's better for them just to look unless supervised. Keep the lids on. Older kids can look and smell.
Fill clear plastic bottles with a selection of drinks and liquids. For example, water, cola, milk, different juices, washing up liquid, shampoo, mouthwash. Label each bottle with a number.
With little kids, you can sit in a circle and look at each bottle in turn. Pass a bottle round. You could let them smell the contents, keeping hold of the bottle yourself. Can they guess what each is?
For older kids, line the bottles up on a table. Remind them not to taste anything. To keep things orderly, let the first child start, then move onto the next before letting the second begin.
Let them look at each bottle and take the lid off and smell. Give them a numbered list. They can check or tick next to the ones they think are fine to drink, and a cross next to the ones you mustn't drink.
Then discuss the answers quickly, and see if they were able to identify what was in the bottles.
Dead tigers
An ideal game for a jungle safari party. Play your jungle music, let your tigers prowl and growl, and when the music stops - they must all drop dead and stay absolutely still. Any child moving is out. Then the music starts again. The last child left is the winner!
