Tiger Party-- My five-year old requested a tiger party.
We bought yards and yards of orange butcher paper and decorated it with tiger stripes with black permanent markers. We used it to make table covers and to cut out tiger shapes to make a "tiger toss" game (a large moving box with a tiger on each side, with holes cut out for tigers' mouths--to toss beanbags into). We served pizza in the shape of a tiger (using alternating strips of white and yellow cheese), orange soda, and a tiger cake (baked in a round bowl, with top cut down to make snout). We also made "tiger paws" ice-cream, scooping one large scoop with a regular ice cream scoop and surrounding it with four melon scoop sized scoops (like toes) and freezing them on cookie sheets between waxed paper. We started the party with a tiger hunt--we made tiger tails for each guest out of orange felt and hid them throughout the back yard. Party hats were a band with tiger ears, also out of orange felt. We played a musical chairs-like game with "eeny meeny miney mo, catch a tiger by the toe" and pin the tail on the tiger. Prizes were stuffed tigers and books about tigers. Goodie bags were made of lunchbags stamped with orange "tiger paw" potato stamps (large one in the center, with four smaller ones on top. It was gggrrreat fun!