My three-year-old son loves animals, so I planned a jungle party for his birhtday. I got quite a few ideas from this site. For invitations, I drew animals and coloured them with crayons, allowing my son to give me a helping hand. Behind it, we wrote Dear so-and-so. I'm celebrating my birthday and all the jungle animals have promised to come by. So make sure you come and join the fun" and my son handed them out to his friends. My idea was to make the children curious about the environment and the forest life like a pond and the animals around it a nest with a bird and eggs a tree and the life living on it etc. We coloured and cut out several animals made a paper tree with a beehive and I cut out several smiling bumble bees and hung them with a thread from the bee hive giving it the effect that they were actually buzzing around it. I drew birds and stuck them on the tree. We created a thicket around the tree using green chart paper and craft paper. Then I stuck drew and cut out insects: grasshoppers butterflies crickets fireflies... I bought a plastic catterpillar and stuck it on a leaf and then showed its transition into a butterly. We also had a lizard climbing the tree. I made a bright sun which was shining bright and our paper lion hippo tiger and fox were peeping out of the bushes. We had a little paper pool and the crocodile and tortoise were stuck nearby. So we had several little ecosystems that the children could come and look at. We also used real leaves and branches to create the effect. I made animal ears and upon arrival each child could wear the ears of any animal of his choice. He or she also got stamped with a cute doggy face tattoo. For games we had a little art exhibition I handed each child the drawing of a bug or an animal and they had to paint and display it.  Then we played 'match the tail' a tiger fox and rabbit were peeping out from behind the tree trunk and I had stuck their tails on the other side so the children had to match the tails. Then we played feed the monkey the children tried to pop plastic fruits into the mouth of a monkey we made out of cardboard. I also made a stick horse using felt and wool. In India stick horses are not available in toy stores. The children rode on it for a while and then settled down with the goodies.  The children came dressed as animals or wore masks we had a cat a bunny a tribal girl a tiger and an elephant. I gave them a jungle theme loot bag with a bugle a facemask flourescent animal stickers animal shaped erasers and pencils. We also filled it with toffee and chocolates.  Teh cake was shaped like a horse and the childred had chicken nuggets mashed and fried potato home-made pizza jelly and fruit juice. I served them in plates and cups that had cute animals printed on them. Our little animals had their fill and were mighty pleased when I handed them jelly sticks as they headed back home. By the time it ended our drawing room definitely looked like a bunch of little animals had romped all over it!"