Curious George Birthday Party Theme Ideas

Curious George Theme - Fun ideas for a Curious George birthday party

Curious George Invitation Ideas
Banana invitation - Send party information written in permanent marker on a plastic banana.
Puzzle invitation - (Curious George Goes to the Hospital) Buy blank pre-cut puzzles (at craft stores) and write party information on them. Make sure to leave one of the pieces blank. Send all of the pieces *except the blank one* out to guests for the invitation. Save the blank piece and use it as a thank you note. Wrap it up like the nurse did at the end of the story.

Curious George Party Decoration Ideas
Yellow with blue and red accents - yellow table cloth with red helium balloons or
Jungle theme with raffia skirts on the tables and jungle vines.
Place large yellow hats (straw sun hats will work) upside down on the party table and place containers of snack food inside.
If using helium balloons tie them to bunches of bananas on the party table.
Hang kites around the room (from the book Curious George Flies a Kite).
Make a Happy Birthday Banner using pictures of the letters from the book Curious George Learns the Alphabet. Print or draw the letters for the banner and color them. Glue or tape to heavy weight cardstock or paper plates in bright colors (alternate yellow, blue and red). Punch holes in the sides of each paper or plate close to the edge. Tie the letters together in order with curling ribbon and hang in party area.

Curious George Party Activities
Bounce House - Rent a jungle theme bounce house.
Piñata - Choose a banana, monkey or jungle themed piñata.
Directions and ideas for having a pinata at a birthday party.
Make paper boats out of newspapers (from Curious George Rides a Bike) - http://www.laits.utexas.edu/hebrew/personal/toolbox/acm/boat/boat.html then decorate them and if you have a wading pool let the children float them in the water.
Letter Fun - (from Curious George Learns the Alphabet) Print out copies of the first letter of the party guests names using a very large font. Give the guests crayons and markers and ask them to make an animal out of the first letter of their name.
Create a puzzle station where children can put together puzzles. (From Curious George Goes to the Hospital).   You can also turn this into a relay race game by dividing children into two teams and one by one they have to try and put 1 piece of the puzzle together. Then they run back to their team and the next person goes.
Put on a puppet show - (from Curious George Goes to the Hospital) Let the children make puppets from socks or paper bags. Pre-cut eyes, noses, ears and mouths out of paper (for paper bag puppets) or felt (for sock puppets). Then let the children sit behind a table covered with a table skirt and put on a puppet show for the adults.
Fly Kites - If the weather permits and you have a large open space take the party guests and let them fly a kite! (From Curious George Flies a Kite)

Curious George Party Games
Monkey Relay
Set up several relay races using Monkey themes. Divide party guests into 2 teams and line them up one after the other. Set up a turn around point (mark it with an orange cone or big banana) about 20 - 30 yards from where the teams line up. Guests take turns going through the course - when one person makes it back to the line the next person can go. First team with all of their members across the finish line first wins. Some fun examples of monkey relay races are:

Monkey walk - Guests monkey walk (with their hands almost touching the ground) as fast as they can to the cone and back.
Banana on a Spoon - Give each team a wooden spoon and a banana. They must balance the banana on the spoon and walk the course. If the banana falls they must return to the start and begin again.
Peel bananas - Guests are given a pile of bananas and one by one they must peel the bananas ... using only their feet!
Monkey in a barrel - Using two barrels of Monkeys (one for each team) tell the guests they must hook together two monkeys and run the course - then the next person in line will run the course with three monkeys and so on.
Carrying a banana - Guests must run the course while holding a banana under their chin or between their knees (or both!)
Make the relay races more challenging for older children by placing obstacles in their course such as crawling under ropes, going up and down a slide, jumping through hula hoops, climbing over the trampoline, etc.

Bubble relay - (from Curious George Earns a Medal)
This is a fun relay race to play outside in the summer - caution ... kids can get wet!
You will need two large tubs filled with water (add some dishwashing soap to make bubbles) and two smaller containers that are equal in size. The idea is to get water from the larger containers, run across an area (more then 20 feet) and put the water into the smaller containers. The team that fills their container first wins. There are several ways to do this - you can transfer the water using spoons, sponges or, our personal favorite, plastic cups with a few holes punched in the bottom. Divide the guests into two teams and have them line up behind one another. One by one they take their "water carrier" and dip it into the big bucket - run across the play area and then put the water into the smaller container. Then they run back and hand off to the next player on their team. This continues until one team has filled their water container to the top - or to a pre-determined mark.

Monkey Wrap - (from Curious George Takes a Job)
Curious George breaks his leg and has to get a cast in the book Takes a Job. For this game party guests will be wrapping up each others legs using rolls of toilet paper for casts.   Divide party guests into teams of 2. Give each team a roll of toilet paper (make sure they are small rolls - not the double ones!) and tell them that they need to fix their partners "broken leg". They will roll the toilet paper around their partners leg to look like a cast. First team done with using all the toilet paper on their roll first wins. Play again switching places so everyone gets a turn.

Monkey in the Middle
Fun outdoor game for little monkeys! To begin have the party guests form a large circle around the birthday child. The birthday child is the "monkey". Give one of the children in the outer circle a small ball, plastic banana or a sock monkey. The children on the outer circle have to throw the object over the head of the "monkey" to someone on the opposite side of the circle. The "monkey" tries to catch the object as they are throwing it back and forth. When the "monkey" catches the object he/she then goes to the outer circle and the one who threw the object is the new "monkey".

Newspaper Throw (from Curious George Rides a Bike)
Roll up several newspapers tightly and secure with rubber bands. Set out different containers or targets for the children to try and hit with the newspapers. New garbage cans, hula hoops, laundry baskets or tubs work great. Put points on each target and give the guests several chances to throw the newspapers and gain points.

Curious George Party Food Ideas
Banana Bread
Fruit kabobs
Grapes
Spaghetti (from Curious George Takes a Job)
Banana Cream Pie
Banana Pudding and Vanilla Wafers
Frozen Chocolate covered bananas
Banana Splits
Large soft pretzels (monkey tails)

Curious George Party Favor Ideas
Banana Chews
Barrel of Monkeys
Curious George book
Binoculars
Bubbles (from Earns a Medal)
Bugle (from Rides a Bike)
Alphabet Book (from Learns the Alphabet)
Stuffed Dinosaur (from Gets a Medal)
Parachute Men (from Gets a Medal)
Stomp Rockets (from Gets a Medal)
Medals (from Gets a Medal)
Beach balls

Goody / Loot Bag Ideas
Yellow straw hats
Green caps (from Rides a Bike)
Safari Hat
Solid yellow bags with a red helium balloon attached

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