Jungle Adventure
A Jungle Adventure theme mixes the idea of a safari, nature, tribes, wild animals and adventure all together to create a fun party theme. One of the best parts of a Jungle Adventure party is that you can do so many parties from this one idea. Plus you can pick and choose what you want to include.
Party Decorations
Shipping Crates - (cardboard boxes - use a marker to make look like crates)
Palm branches, bamboo, jungle trees, Fishing nets to hang from the ceiling or corner
Plastic snakes and spiders, animal photos, inflatables or standees
Dress
Adventure Outfit: Khaki shorts, tan short sleeve shirt and jungle hat
Be a tourist and dress anyway to enjoy the adventure
Theme / Story
Set up your decorations so you are in camp or in the jungle. Then Craft a story that you and your guests are all on a Jungle Safari and that while on our trip we have been asked to learn about the animals and observe the wildlife.
Games and Activities
1. Learn about wildlife
Play: Who Am I? Animal Game using Jungle Animals
After the game is complete, review who was what animal and share interesting facts about each animal.
2.
Talk about the local tribe and tell them about how they live off the land. Also share that they do dances and for their special dances make masks like this one. Some masks ward off spirits, others bring good luck and other represent the land and sky. Now you can do an activity to create their own good luck mask. One option after creating the masks would be to do a happy dance as that would make the locals happy and bless these masks for good luck. (So if you do this then the Adventurer / Guide must make up a dance to teach to your guests.)
After the mask making and possible dancing it may be time for a break, this might be a good time to have dinner or a snack. Near the end of eating it is now a good time to share some of the local artifacts that your team has found in the area.
3. Consider showing items like an arrowhead used for hunting, a gold necklace worn during a special ceremony that bring the tribe good luck, a hat or headdress worn by the locals, then move your crew to another room or outdoors to look at additional masks or shrunken heads. FYI - Just hold up the items to show rather than passing them around.
After showing them something in another area of the house, return to the treasure room (where other artifacts were) and walk in and pause. Oh my, hmmm, now I did put the gold necklace back in it’s place didn’t I? Most of the kids will say yes. Now continue, it has got to be here somewhere. Continue looking and also say it appears that some additional items that you were going to show them are missing too!
Oh no! It appears that someone has stolen the Golden Necklace and other Tribal Treasures! It looks like we are going to need search the jungle to find these treasures. Continue looking around and then stumble upon a clue.
Then you need to find a clue…
Thanks for the treasure
It suits my fine
You’ll never find it
Unless you can tell time
Now you must recruit the group to take on the challenge and become Adventurer’s who can search for the treasure. If the kids are young coach them to go to the clock and find the next clue. I recommend 8 - 12 clues.
Another option is to discover a treasure map and let them find the clues that way. A little more preparation.
Just make sure you have all the clues set up in place for a Jungle Adventure treasure hunt and then at the end have the treasure. You may or may not want to include a bad guy being captured as part of the story. Make sure to include chocolate coins, beads and other fun items.
Other Jungle Adventure options
Do a Jungle archeologist dig
Visit a science museum to learn about the jungle and the people who live there
Outdoor fun – Jungle water balloon battle
Movies: Adventure – Indiana Jones, The Mummy, King Kong, etc
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