LOVE the rectangular food boxes pictured above! Available in the Kara’s Party Ideas Shop HERE.
Here’s what Laila said about planning the party- “This year for my daughter’s third birthday party, I decided to celebrate her love for animals and throw her a colorful animal centered party. I started the design process by illustrating silhouettes of her favorite animals and then deciding to go with a bright and very colorful color palette. The invitations featured all the colors and so the party began to take shape. I fell in love with the look of succulents and enlisted Isabel Isaac from Isaac Farms to create the three centerpieces I used for the adult tables. My daughter’s only request was that actual animals showed up to the party (well that and lots of candies and a cake of course) so I searched and found through my talented baker, Safari Edventures here in Miami. I always team up with Brantley from Sweet Brantley’s for anything that has to do with sweets. She translated the invitation and the look of the party so well into our 3 tiered cake!
For the party favors, I found perfect safari themed puzzles at target and wrapped them in kraft paper. I used the patterns I had created to print a large sticker to wrap around the presents and did a circular tag with each child’s name on it to put on top of that. I knew from the very beginning that I wanted crates, the problem was that I wanted a more vintage look than most of the store bought crates have, so I collected hand stamped wine crates that I found had more personality. To give the party a more festive look, I added the crates full of tillandsias and the moss around the crates. I bought plastic animals I used to decorate the tables and to fill the piñata as well.
For the linens, I knew I wanted burlap to offset the colors of the bright decorations I had done, so I did an off white linen and a burlap overlay in all the food tables, I used colorful linens for the rest of the tables. To make it even more colorful, I purchased balloons, I wanted to add a special touch to some of the balloons, so I purchased 1″ confetti (in the colors of the party) and hand filled clear balloons with them. I found they gave the party that extra special touch.”
Items used in this party available in Kara’s Party Ideas Shop: Rectangular Food Boxes Striped Paper Straws Polka Dot Nut / Candy Cups Chevron Paper Bags Balloons Wooden Utensils Cupcake Liners Rock Candy Swizzle Sticks Burlap
This exquisit SAFARI + ZOO THEMED THIRD BIRTHDAY PARTY was submitted by Cassia Schutt of Meemo Party Accessories!
Cassia said- “This party was designed by Meemo, my party accessories business that is established both in Macau (China) by me and in Brazil by my friend and partner, Thais. We both decided to create Meemo when we realized we couldn’t find pretty partyware for our kids’ birthday parties. How come we can’t find good stuff for retail in China, where practically everything is produced and exported to the world??!
So living in China, I was very happy to celebrate my son Noah’s birthday for the first time in Brazil, where our family lives. One of Noah’s biggest passions are animals, and after we went on a Safari in Bali, earlier this year, I got the inspiration to throw this wild party to celebrate his 3rd birthday!
Everything was DIY with the great help of my family, friends and partner at Meemo party Accessories. Both of us share the love for simple and beautiful celebrations, that are handmade with care and joy. Every detail of this party was carefully thought of and even the buffet staff was dressed as Safari keepers! All the decor and party printables had a touch of Balinese ikat patterns, and rustic jute and wooden materials were used everywhere! Also the wooden animals that were used as table decoration came from Bali. For the sweets I chose the famous Brazilian chocolate “brigadeiro” that was also given as a party favor in small burlap bags. Also as party favors, the kids took home cotton bags that were hand painted with an elephant stencil, with binoculars, a wild animal mask and a safari hat!!
The recreation staff were amazing and kept the children entertained the whole time with storytelling, face painting, fake tattoos, and cute songs that brought up some sweet memories of my childhood! Happy Roarrrr Birthday Noah boy!”
Vendors and Credits:
Plants- Horto Verde and Sandra Lincoln
Furniture- Festa Clean
Buffet- Hanna e seus Bichos
Recreation- Circo Macaco Prego
Truffles (brigadeiros)- Patricia Doces
Party decor, styling, favors and printables- Meemo Party Accessories
Cake- Torta & Cia
Photography- Clivia Fanzeres
Items used in this party available in Kara’s Party Ideas Shop: Safari Giraffe Plates Safari Giraffe Napkins Safari Giraffe Cups Jute Twine Burlap Bags Striped Paper Straws Fabric, Burlap Napkins Wooden Utensils Tissue Pom Poms
Items used in this party available in Kara’s Party Ideas Shop: Safari Giraffe Plates Safari Giraffe Napkins Safari Giraffe Cups Jute Twine Burlap Bags Striped Paper Straws Fabric, Burlap Napkins Wooden Utensils Tissue Pom Poms
Such a darling WILD KINGDOM 5TH BIRTHDAY PARTY submitted by Katelyn Meekel of Events by Kate! I love how Kate dressed up the party by wrapping jute/twine around various party things!
Kate said- “For my latest work I was asked to design a party for a gorgeous 5 year old “Savannah” with the theme “Wild Kingdom”…I picked out bright greens, yellows and a simply gorgeous deep orange to model the colors for my printable designs. Using silhouette animals and these colors, I brought the wild kingdom theme to life by incorporating unique shadowed animal effects, fun “leaf” prints for the table cloth, and themed to match party favors. I also used modern style animal prints like Zebra, giraffe, as well as cheetah as well!
Party Favors included “Animal observer” binoculars, zebra and leopard print take home bags, coloring pages, as well as themed animal print pencils to draw with!
Jungle foods: Rhino grub (which had tropical fruit powdered sugar, as well as jungle worms) Panda cookies, Gazelle (5 flavor) Drink, and a cake designed by Savannahs talented mother!
Games: We enjoyed Madagascar, played the template EBK games I created, and colored pictures! Everyone was able to stick little jungle creatures onto their EBK party hats!
So much fun creating this party, can’t wait to do another one!”
Vendor Credits:
Creative design, printables, party hats, tablescape, party favors & décor- Events by Kate
Event Photography- De nijs Photography
Items used in this party that are available in Kara’s Party Ideas Shop:
Jute TwineJungle Ribbon
This darling JUNGLE THEMED 1ST BIRTHDAY PARTY was submitted by Linnette of Paper Glitter. What a fun take on the classic jungle themed party! The best part- this party was created overnight! Can you believe it?! WOW!
Linnette said- “We decided not to do a “party” for my son’s 1st birthday and we decided on cutting a cake for him instead. It would have been for just us 4 and his grandparents. He had been sick, so this past Sunday when he was feeling better we figured would be a good day to finally cut him a cake (he had been officially one year for almost a month now)! On the night before, around 10 pm, I decided to print a cake topper for him….then I decided to print bunting ….then one thing led to another, I printed like 15 pages of the Printable Jungle Party Kit, yada yada yada, it was 5 am and I had a whole cute set up done!
I didn’t have time for a “dessert table” as we have been all used to seeing and it shouldn’t always be about making one. Don’t get me wrong I LOVE me some cute dessert tables. But it can be very unrealistic to create one for every single get together you may have. I think it’s nice to work with what you have, some times. So aside from the basic sweets I added items for my 2 kids, the silverware and some monkey plates :) I must say…since this was very last minute I could only work with what I already had around the house anyways and you know what???? I had very little stress since all the items of the table were already there for me–I had no choice but to use what I had. It was all about making a pretty table for my 2 kids who I ADORE.
So in keeping this post real, let’s talk about what was on the table. I had the jungle coloring sheet backdrop printed weeks ago, as I test them before putting them on sale–so I was lucky to have it handy. My husband had bought a small ice ream cake from Coldstone the night before. And we also bought some cupcakes just because…..well…… cupcakes + ice cream = yum! The next day, we got 1.5 ounce hershey bars from Walgreens–one for each one of us. That orange package on the right were coloring books for my kids. And we had some animal crackers laying around so I filled only one of the train boxes with them. But I always line paper/ printed paper with wax paper, etc…for these train boxes I used coffee filters. My mom made the cute hats on that Sunday. Are they not the cutest! I told her I loved craft paper mixed with fiery colors like the yummy colors in the color spectrum between yellow and orange and she worked her magic. And let me just say that none of this could have been possible without printables !!! How awesome was it to decide last minute to need decorations for anything and be able to print and make them in the wee hours of the night!?
I hope you enjoy these photos of our humble get together. I really do hope they inspire you to always remember that you can create a pretty scenery for anything whether it is huge party or a small get together.
If you want to recreate something similar to this, I have the printable jungle party kit in the shop and I will add the extra items that I made for this celebration into it in the coming days. You can find the kit as it currently stands in the shop HERE. The coloring sheet backdrop can be found HERE.
Interesting fact–I put this party kit on sale right about the time I was having my contractions a year ago. I remember uploading the photos of the kit to the Etsy shop and I was “feeling funny”. 9 hours later my son was born and he had a party kit already designed for his first birthday :).”
This “RIO” THEMED 4TH BIRTHDAY PARTY submitted by Belinda Ramanauskas of Styled by Belle will blow you away! Everything is just perfect and soooo cute!
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