This was for my grandson, Jordan's 3rd birthday party. The invitations were basic jungle theme invitations, but instead of writing the guest's names on the envelope, we glued a realistic plastic banana to the front of the envelope and put the guest's name on it. We had approx. 30 children and 20 adults at the party.  We placed 6-8 tables under a 2 car carport and a few small tables on the patio. The carport itself was decorated with nets rubber snakes and small stuffed monkeys bought at the dollar store. We also brought out every stuffed lion monkey and elephant we had to help decorate. The tables were decorated with jungle themed napkins and I had found melamine plates with monkeys on them at the dollar store which the guests were able to keep.  My daughter (mother of the birthday boy) requested that the guests dress in animal costumes. Some of the adults joined in the fun with that. A friend from church is a photographer and agreed to photograph the party so we would not be bothered by trying to capture the memories. We had made arangement with a local trainer/rescuer of chimps to bring a baby chimp to the party.  The chimps name was Mikayla.  We placed a large Rattan chair under a tree behind the carport and Jordan was allowed to hold the chimp and feed her a bottle with my daughters help. The trainer used that time to educate the guests about chimps their habitat the difference between chimps monkey's and gorillas and answered all questions.  After that the trainer allowed every guest; chidren and adults to hold the chimp for a few minutes. The photographer was able to get photos of each guest with the chimp. Because only one child could hold the chimp at a time we also hired a clown to paint faces and make balloon animals. After the chimp and clown left we sanitized all the little hands and the food was brought out. We had made Mostocolli with meat sauce green beans ham and cheese served buffet style.  The cake was made by a local baker and they were able to duplicate the jungle design from the napkins. After the cake cutting Jordan unwrapped gifts.  And who could have a party without a pinata?  We found a monkey shaped pinata at Party City. Goody bags matched the Jungle theme napkins and were stuffed with banana "runts" and small plastic jungle animals. Everyone said it was the best pary ever. About a week after the party we sent out thank you notes.  Using ready made card stock plain cards I glued the picture of each guest with the chimp to the front of the card with extra candid pictures that were taken of the guest/family tucked inside. I think we made some memories that day."