Zoo Party

It was party time again and this year we decided on a Zoo party, because Lella loves going to the Zoo and with the animal theme one can do so much.

                              

We had a banner that said "Lellas Zoo" and a few "party animals" greeting the friends.

The invitation was a photo of Lella and a monkey inviting friends to join the "wild"party and dressing up as their favourite animal. (she dressed as a giraffe). The invitation also gave an optional trip to the zoo that we will take, weather permitting.

We made a zoo cage with the gazebo frame and some duc tape, hung green streamers to get the jungle feel and added some balloons.

The centre piece was a crate with stuffed animals inside and play animals on fake grass on the top.

We had "grass" party packs (recycled from 2 litre bottles and tissue paper modge podged on), inside the friends found some zoo cookies, a banana, chomps, animal mellow, animal shape jelly sweets, cheetos chips etc. and each friend got a different animal juice bottle.

Activities we did include making animal masks and making your own "lion" face pizza.

The cake I made this year was a zoo cage with animal cake pops(which was not such a great success, first time I try this, but you could get the right idea, and it tasted good. She loved to blow the candles with the help of her best friend.

                             

This year it was not as cold a day, so they could play outside on the jungle gym (get it?) and we got to go to the zoo after the party. Another highlight: she understood what the fuss was about and was so excited to be having a party! And of course, this year we were blessed because baby brother was here to join in the fun;)