

Visit a local petting zoo or full-size zoo for an animal adventure. Some zoos even provide special tours and party areas for groups.
Or create a mini-zoo at your home or nearby park by having a petting zoo come to you.
Fun Invitations
Use a drawing or photo of a favorite zoo animal (monkey, zebra, tiger giraffe, etc.) or make large ZOO letters decorated in animal prints (zebra-striped Z, cheetah-spotted O, and tiger striped-O)
Fun Decorations
Decorate with plastic or stuffed jungle animal toys and posters or photos of zoo animals. Use green, yellow & orange balloons and lots of green streamers.
Fun Games & Activities
Have an animal safari... make a game card and have guests check off all the animals they see. Play pin the tail on the zebra, pony, goat, pig, etc. Have a friend paint faces with whiskers and stripes.
Fun Foods
Serve peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, animal crackers, and bananas. Decorate cupcakes with plastic zoo animals or animal crackers or make funpenguin cupcakes, a panda cake or tiger cake.
Fun Favors
Give guests inexpensive plastic or stuffed animals, animal finger puppets, or a box of animal crackers.