Super Safari--birthday party for 6-year-old Boy: I was looking for an easy, inexpensive party for my son Nickolas and 8 boys.  The party was in January so I knew it would have to take place indoors. We found inexpensive safari-themed invitations (this helped us decide on a theme.)  When the boys arrived I had transormed our dining room into a jungle--took every tree/plant, etc. that we had in the house and then took streams of green crepe paper and hung them all over the ceiling (to look like vines.) I had jungle music playing.  I bought $1yard animal-print material which coverd my green table cloth and I laid snakes and animals over the table--it really looked cool. When the kids arrived there were "welcome to the jungle signs" on the front door and as they walked in there was a blown up version of a safari passport that I had done on my computer which listed the activities for the day.  My older son and daughter who were dying to be in on everything wore pith hats that we had around the house and some old animal vests and had their stuffed monkeys wrapped around them. We had made them Safari guide tags that hung around their necks (even used our digital camera to put their pictures on them.) The first thing each boy did when they came was to get their passport--The passports were done up on brown card stock they listed each game we would play so the kids could have them stamped after each game. (Again, we used the digital camera to take a quick photo of each child to put on the passport.) We had several indoor stations set up and each time a child completed an activity we stamped his passport. The stations were 1. amazon archery (we used a toy bow and arrow we already had and the kids had to shoot the arrow through a hula hoop my son was holding up) 2.  crossing alligator alley (I put a piece of tape on the floor that ran the width of the room--the kids had to walk the bridge(tape) to get across alligator alley. They had to carry a map on their head and cans of food in thier hands (their provisions) 3. wild animal eating (I made jello jigglers in the shape of animals and the kids had to eat them without their hands) 4. spear throwing (we had a toy spear from scout camp and the kids had to throw it and make it land on a certain line) 5. coconut crush (this was the kid's favorite activity--the pinata I had ordered didn't come in so I took small brown paper bags and filled them with candy and hung them by twine from our baement ceiling.  They were the coconuts.  The kids each whacked at their own coconut which they had a blast doing.  We served pizza for the party and I made an ice cream cake (very easy in Spring form pan) which I covered with graham cracker crumbs which looked like sand and plastic jungle animals from the dollar store and plastic shrubs from our lego set.  It looked great, was easy, cheap and kids love ice cream cake.  For treat bags I used old burlap sewed it into small bags (took less than a half hour and laced twine through the top to make safari draw-string bags. Inside we put a very long slimy looking plastic snake, some candy and a CD we made with some of my son's favorite jungle dance music--the label said Nick's jungle jams.  The kids loved the CD and were thrilled with their safari bags and the snakes.  The whole party cost less than $60 including the pizza and cake and even though it looked elaborate took less than a night to put everything together for it.  Best of all, my son thought his party was the "coolest one ever."