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This Noah's Ark first birthday party idea is the perfect party for a little one who loves animals. Before you gather the animals and get ready for the flood of compliments and gifts :-) , take a look at these Noah's ark supplies so you can compare and find the best deal.
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Noah's Ark Invitations
An excellent Noah's Ark first birthday party idea for an invitation is the elephant invitation where the trunk is folded like an accordion over the party details. Take gray or brown paper and cut out the shape of an elephant's head and trunk. Then draw eyes (or glue on wiggly eyes) and tusks and fill in all the party information (also asking the kids to come with a stuffed animal).
You can ask that the kids dress up as any animal. Write all the needed information on the trunk, then fold it up accordion style and also fold up the ears. You can write something like: "Join us on the Ark as we celebrate (baby's name) 1st birthday!". To make it cute, write some letters so that they're flipped and look as if a small child wrote them. A cool Noah's Ark first birthday party idea is to ask every guest to bring a stuffed animal to be part of Noah's Ark.
Noah's Ark Printables
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Noah's Ark Decorations
A good first birthday party idea is to provide stuffed animals and toys to play with (if toddlers will also be coming). Disperse the stuffed animals you have all around the party area. Hang animal print balloons, or just colorful balloons and streamers everywhere.
This Animal print gossamer is excellent to set the scene - you can drape furniture with it, hang it on the walls and cover the party table.
Use chalk to draw big animal footprints on your driveway and leading to your front door. Inside you can put construction paper animal prints that can guide the guests to the party area.
A fun Noah's Ark first birthday party idea is to create animal ears fastened to a headband for everyone to wear.
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Noah's Ark Icebreaker Activities
If there'll be young kids joining the party, it's important they have several activities to take part in as they arrive.
Animal Sponges
Here's an excellent Noah's Ark first birthday party idea. Cut animal shapes out of ordinary kitchen cleaning sponges (older kids will enjoy cutting out their own sponges). You can do this by tracing animal patterns on the sponge prior to cutting them out. For younger kids, parents will want to already have them cut out and just let the kids stamp them into washable paint to create pictures or they can take the sponges home as a favor and fun bath toy.
Animal Masks
(For the older kids if any are coming…) To get everyone into the animal mood, a cool Noah's Ark first birthday party idea is to make animal masks from paper plates. Supply them with big white paper plates, glue or tape, scissors, felt pieces, buttons, sequins, markers or crayons, etc. (If you want, you can cut eyes and a hole for the nose beforehand in all of the plates, tie a string to both ends so that they can put them on their face, and then let them decorate.)
Homemade Noah's Ark Cakes
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Here's a fun Noah's Ark first birthday party idea for a cake. Prepare and bake a cake from a packaged cake mix just as the directions instruct on the package (in a round cake pan). Then cut the cake in half after the cake has cooled off and frost one side of one of the halves. Then place one layer on top of the other on the cake board. You will now have two halves of a cake on top of each other (with frosting between them to hold them together).
Trim the rounded side so that you have a flat base to stand the "boat" on. Gently tip the cake so that the trimmed edge is placed on the cake board and then frost the entire cake with the chocolate frosting. Next, cut a pound cake in half and using only one of the halves, trim the top, to create a roof-like appearance. Frost the "hut" and add it to the top of the ark. As a finish, place animals around the ark in pairs (could be animal shaped cookies, animal crackers, or just clean plastic animals). Remember to put the animals in pairs!!
Noah's Ark Party Food and Drink
First Birthday Party Idea for Food
- Cut sandwiches into animal shapes
- Tiger treats: Orange cheese balls
- Animal-Striped Pizzas (you can be very creative with this one by making your own pizzas using alternates of white, yellow and orange cheese strips to look like animal print. You can also add toppings in alternates, like a row of olives in a diagonal, then a row of cheese, another row of olives, etc. for tasty animal stripes.
- Pigs in blankets (hot dogs)
- French Flies (fries)
- Peanut Butter and Jellyphant sandwiches (Cut these out with an elephant cookie cutter)
- Toad-slaw (coleslaw)
First Birthday Party Idea for Drinks
- Alligator-ade (green Gatorade!!)
Tip: Make frozen ice cubes with raisins in them so it looks like flies are floating in their animal juices (the older kids just love this!)
First Birthday Party Idea for Treats
- Monkey bites (chunks of bananas)
- Rabbit pellets (raisins)
- Animal crackers
- Gummy bears and other animal fruit snacks
- Jell-O with gummy sharks in each container
Noah's Ark Party Favors
Here's the best place to get a whole bunch of miniature animals and animal trinkets.
You can also take a look at these plastic jungle animals which make for great favor items. Other items can include stuffed animals, animal print accessories, etc.
Noah's Ark Games and Activities
Here's a whole page with the coolest Noah's Ark party games, such as:
- Animal Parade
- Guess Your Animal
- Animal Story Time
- Pool Babies
- Animal Charades
- and many more (including visitor-submitted game ideas)...
You should also read these VERY important tips to help you survive (and enjoy) game time!
Your Noah's Ark Parties and Ideas
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