For my sons first birthday we decided to have a Jungle Safarie themed party. I started with the invitations.  I made them by taking a 8 1/2 by 11 inch sheet of gray paper and cut out the shape of an elephant head and trunk. I then drew tusks and added googley eyes to each one.  Next I folded one ear over the face and then the other. On the top ear I wrote your invited and on the second one I wrote to Ian's unforgettable and on the back of the first ear Jungle and back of second ear Party. I wrote all of the party info on the trunk and then folded it accordion style then folded each ear over the trunk and then placed it in an envelope.  For the decorations I bought zebra stripped and cheeta spotted balloons and hung them around the party area along with orange and black streamers(tiger stripes) I hung my sons stuffed monkeys from the trees and his stuffed lions on the tables. I also had a lion and a monkey that I made out of cardboard by the food table. These made for great photos.  For the kids table I had a jungle themed table cloth, jungle animal shaped plates (walmart), diffrent colored silverware, plastic animal mugs and garilla cups with straws for the younger kids.(oriental trading)  Each child got to take thiers home.   In the center of the table I had a safari hat turned upside down and filled it with animal crakers. I also had my sons highchair beside the table with a mylar ballon that had a lion and elephant on it tied to the back.  For activities I blew up beach balls that had elephants, lions, monkeys, and girrafes inside of them for the kids to play with.(oriental trading) I took my sons wagon and turned it into a safarie jeep. It had wood sides on it already so it was easy to transform.  I just took a brown plastic table cloth and wrapped around the bottom and wrote Ian's Safarie Adventure on it with black marker. I put seat cushions inside of the wagon for the kids to sit on.  We gave each child a safarie hat and a pair of binoculars. My husband and I took turns pulling the kids around the yard.  The older kids loved looking through the binoculars and looking for the animals and the younger kids loved going for a ride. We also had my sons swimming pool set up for the kids to play in. I had I sign hanging above it that said the swamp.  I also had plastic alligators and frogs floating in the pool for the kids to play with.  We also had a table set up for the kids to make snakes. I bought a tie for each child and opened the large end and carefully cut the thread apart. Then stuffed it with cotton balls making sure they were all the way to the skinny end and then sewed it shut. I placed them on the table along with felt, glitter, googly eyes and buttons for the kids to decorate them. Make sure you have an adult to help the younger kids with this.  For the food we had Snake Dogs(hot dogs with multiple diagonal cuts filled with ketchup, mustard and relish) Tiger Sandwiches(pulled pork on hamburger buns with pretzel whiskers and olive eyes), Toad Slaw(cole slaw), Monkey Pops(Frozen bananas dipped in chocolate), animal crakers and animal fruit snacks in safarie hats turned upside down. To drink I had soda, juice and Alligator-aide with flies(Green Gatorade with ice cubes that had raisins frozen inside to look like flies. The kids loved this and so did the adults. We also had jungle cupcakes and frog icecream. For the cupcakes I made chocolate lolliepops shaped like lions, monkeys, giraffes, and elephants and stuck them in the center of each cupcake with green iceing for the grass.) The icecream was a scoop of green sherbert or vanilla icecream with green gummy candies for the eyes.  Finally for the favors. (I bought almost everything from Oriental Trading.) I filled animal print gift bags with jungle animal finger puppets, animal stampers, animal masks that I made, animal fruit snacks, and lion, tiger, or elephant jumbo sticker. This party was a great success and everyone had fun including the adults.