To turn any room into a tropical jungle, start by cuttinglarge leaves from green paper and create large flowersfrom construction paper in pink, purple and red.Tape the leaves and flowers to the walls and windows. You can also cut out additional leavesand glue the ends together to make a leafy streamer.Hang one strand or many from the corners.

Use more construction paper or poster board inbright colors to create large butterfly shapes. Youcan start with a shape like a heart and fold it in the center to make butterfly wings. Either stick theseto the walls like the leaves, or use fishing wire to hang them from ceiling hooks to make it look likebutterflies are flying around the room!

For jungle animal party masks, see the template in the other PDF on the Barefoot Books site!

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Turn a birthday party into a jungle adventure using these ideas for decorations, food, party favors

and masks inspired by The Animal Boogie!

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Jungle Food & Drink

Buy sugar cookie dough or make your own. Cut the dough into animal shapes and bake. Makebrightly colored icing using food coloring in red, green and blue. Provide sprinkles and gummy candies for the kids to decorate their own animal cookies with fun and delicious toppings!

For a healthier snack, cover plates in lettuce and top with a variety of bright and crunchy vegetables— use carrots, cucumbers, celery sticks and baby tomatoes. Serve with a variety of dips and dressings.Make a juicy jungle treat with a fruit plate of berries, melons, grapes and cherries. Serve with honeyor whipped cream as delicious dippers!

For fun fruity drinks, add fresh fruit like apples, berries or watermelon to several kinds of juice.Smoothies made from fruit, yogurt, ice or ice cream will also be a big hit!

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Tropical Decorations

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Decorate regular brown lunch bags by gluing or tapingsmall paper leaves and colorful paper or plastic flowers tothe bags. There are many great options for jungle-themedparty favors, like animal patterned pencils, erasers, pens,stickers and small note pads. Rubber animals, snakes andcreepy crawlies make great party favors too! As atasty addition, add gummy worms and other jellycandies in bright colors.

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Party Bags

Dance PartyTo break the ice, start with a dance off! Play the music from The Animal Boogie. You can create several fun games fromjust this one song. You can play musical chairs by stopping thesong at random intervals. Or you can ask the children to act outthe movements of their favorite animal. After everyone is in the dancing spirit, put on some of the children’s favorite music. It’s time to boogie, woogie, oogie!

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“It’s a BIRD!He goes flap, flap, boogie, woogie, oogie!Flap, flap, boogie, woogie, oogie!Flap, flap, boogie, woogie, oogie!That’s the way he’s flying in the sky!”— from The Animal Boogie