Graduation Animal Theme Party

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All the fun down on the farm with cows, pigs, farmers, tractors, horses and your own Barnyard. Your kids will just love this excellent graduation party theme.

Kids will love the farm animals, music, cartoon characters and of course the games.

I hope to give you lots of graduation party ideas, including:

• Free invitations, invitation ideas and wording


• Costumes


• Decorating ideas


• Food


• Games


• Favors


• Graduation party ideas preparation and lots more

An animal theme party can be a simple graduation party and fun to do. Lots of fun and enthusiasm can make it amazing.

The venue could be simply at home, you could turn your home into a barnyard scene. Perhaps you have a local farm which specialises in kids entertainment.

Graduation Animal Theme Party - Invitations

There are lots of great farmyard images to use to give graduation invitations, and the graduation party ideas, a brilliant animal feel.You can put together homemade graduation invitations, use clipart, photo graduation invitations and brilliant free printables.

Paper

Regular white printer paper is just fine. You may be able to find stationery from a farm which you can customise with your own wording to make exciting invitations.

You can also use red construction paper cut out in the shape of a barn. Decorate the paper as a barn and add barn doors made from white construction paper. Personalise the barn with school or graduate colors. Write the graduation party details on the barn.

You could cut out the shape of a farmer in white construction paper. Add a photo of the graduate and decorate the paper as a farmer.

Also a tractor shape would be excellent.

Simpler options are to use normal paper and decorate with cow prints, pigs noses, or horseshoes, drawn with a pen or you may be able to find a stamp. Also you could use animal stickers. Just add the graduation party details.

Homemade Graduation Invitations

Once you have the paper organised you can move on to writing the invites.

Use lots of phrases like:

• Old McDonalds


• Pitching In


• Harvest


• Milking


• Join the herd


• Eee-I-eee-I-oh


• Oink, Oink


• Quack Quack


• Cock-a-doodle-doo

Wording

The farm (kindergarten name) invites you to a barnyard graduation party.
Come and play with the sheep, pigs, cows, goats and horses.
Play farmyard games, eat farm food and dance to the MOOsic
Venue (details)
Costume: farm animal
Time/date(details)
RSVP to (details)

Old McDonald (the graduate) invites you to the barnyard (venue) graduation party
Come and join the farm animals for singing, dancing and horsing around
Costume: farm animal crew
Time/date (details)
RSVP to (details)

Daisy cow (or Bertie bull) invites you to their farmyard (venue) for a graduation party
Dress up as a farm animal and join in the farmyard fun.
Time/date (details)
RSVP to (details)

Bubbles the pot bellied pig invites you to the kindergarten graduation party.
Sniff out lots of great food, games, dancing and prizes.
Time/date (details)
RSVP to (details)

The farmer invites you to the farm kindergarten graduation party.
Help round up the sheep, milk the cows and groom the horses.
After a hard days work have lots of great food, games, dancing and prizes.
Time/date (details)
RSVP to (details)

The vet invites you to the farm kindergarten graduation party.
Help look after all the farm animals.
After using all you medical skills have lots of great food, games, dancing and prizes.
Time/date (details)
RSVP to (details)

Come to the graduate's (name) elephant graduation party.
Help us raise money to save these magnificent animals.
Costume is elephant or other wild animal.
Venue (details)
Time/date (details)
RSVP to (details)

Clipart Graduation Invitations

The simplest way to complete the graduation animal theme party invitations is to use farm animal clipart.

• Copy and Past the farm animal graduation clip art image that you would like to use into your word document. Before you paste make sure your cursor is in the location where you want the clip art placed


• Click on the image and arrows will appear on the corners. Use these arrows to stretch the image to the desired size.


• Then I simply added wordart at the top of the page for a great title and added the party details in plain text underneath the graduation clip art.

Lots more detailed instructions on my graduation clip art page.

Photo Animal Theme Party Invitations

Also, simply arrange a good quality photograph of the graduates. Photograph the young graduates dressed up as farm animals or a farmer. That could be in a full costume or even just with a pigs nose. Just set the scene for the animal theme party.

Scan it onto your computer.

Using photo editing software, change the picture dimensions to the size you need.

Then simply print onto your choice of paper.

Free Printable Graduation Invitations

Graduation Animal Theme Party - Costumes

For a farmer, use overalls, bandannas, caps, jeans, checked flannel shirts, straw hats, boots and work gloves. This should be free to do!

For animals you could choose to be a horse, pig, cow, or sheep.
For a pig you can make a pigs nose from part of an egg box, paint it pink and attach ribbon. Perhaps wear a pink t-shirt and some face paint. Of course you may be able to get pigs noses at a local store.
For a cow, face paints, cows ears and a t-shirt which you can decorate with a cow print.Or this great cow mask.
A horse can simply be a horse mask with a brown t-shirt. A sheep could be sheeps ears with face paint and a white t-shirt.

You could easily put together a vets uniform which could be quite like a doctor. Our daughter had a white lab coat with vet written on it, a kids doctor's bag with stethoscope, and rubber boots.

Animal graduation party ideas are simple and cheap to do!

Graduation Animal Theme Party - Decorations

Some areas that you can construct which can give a real farmyard look to your graduation party ideas:

• Create an entrance to the graduation party that will allow photographs to be taken. A Barn door with a sign like Old McDonald's Graduation Party, or a very large cow (or horse) standin.


• Make a Barnyard area. Perhaps in the backyard set out poles and use brown twine for fencing. Put in bales of straw, and make wagon wheels from cardboard.


• Create a Barn. If you have a garage you can use that for the barn. Fix very large sheets of paper to the outside to decorate. Create barn doors from cardboard and paint them red. Decorate with white tape and write Old Mcdonalds Barn on it (this can also be done for an area of the backyard, hanging the doors from posts). Again, decorate with bales of straw, buckets, wheelbarrows and old fashioned lanterns


• Create a corral for any kind of animal. For a horse corral add straw bales, riding saddles, reins, horseshoes, and riding hats. If you have a rocking horse that would be a great extra.

More Decorations:

• Seating can be bales of straw, as well as normal chairs.


• Balloons can be made into many decorations. They can be colored pink, add a nose and a curled ribbon tail for a pig. They can have a horse, sheep or sheepdog drawn on them. You could put cow prints on some too.


• Decorate with cowboy hats, boots, scarves and checked shirts.


• Use lots of farm animal toys


• Use lots of pictures of farmyard animals, and farms. Before the graduation party perhaps the kindergarten can paint their own animal pictures.


• Decorate with farmer clothes, bandannas, denim overalls, work boots, and checked shirts.


• Set out drawings of animal foot prints around the venue.


• Hang up signs with Corral, Barnyard, Pig Pen, Duck Pond, Old McDonalds Farm


• Display blow up animals


• Find free to use publicity material for a TV show on animals. The BBC, for example, have some natural world shows.


• Use some pumpkins


• Hang streamers everywhere, including the entrance, with lots of colors.


• Make a scarecrow from old clothes and straw


• Set out buckets and baskets of eggs.


• Lay out toy farm equipment such as tractors, combine harvesters, and pickup trucks


• A picket fence is a great addition


• Bunting in the shape of farm animals.


• Decorate the walls with a gossamer. You could draw a barnyard and animals on the gossamer, for example.


• Create an animal mural with a barnyard, grass, fencing, animals, people, straw bales and pails. The kids can color in a piece of it, they can draw on it and they can write their names too.


• Make large animal shapes from card and color them in to look like real animals. Stand them up around the party venue.

Decorate your guests, this is a brilliant way to add to the graduation animal theme party, and getting your guests in the graduation party mood!

• Face paints, painting pig, cow, sheep and horse faces on your guests cheeks.


• Decorate your guests with animal tattoos


• Decorate your guests with animal ears


• Decorate your guests with animal face masks


• Funtoos


• 2012 Glasses


• 2012 Beads


• Graduation caps


• Cap Medallions


• Lots of glow sticks and bracelets

One of the great graduation party ideas is to have a box of guest decorations at the animal theme party entrance and hand them out liberally! You can help guests with simple things like pigs noses, horse and cow faces. Also face painting available to help guests make the best of their costume.

Graduation Animal Theme Party - Food and Drink

Animal theme party food and drink can closely follow traditional farm food, which you are sure the kids will eat. The graduation party ideas may even be at a farm!

• All kinds of sandwiches, cut in animal shape.


• BBQ, with burgers, chicken and sausages. Particularly brilliant for an outdoor graduation party.


• Hot dogs


• French fries and baked potatoes


• Animal shaped pizza slices, the kids can create their own pizza decoration at the party.


• Corn bread


• Coleslaw


• Baked beans


• Green salad


• Boxes of raisins


• Bowls of fruit


• Carrots and dips


• Ice cream


• Pie


• Marshmallows


• Animal crackers

To drink have lots of milk, sodas and water.

Graduation Animal Theme Party Cake

The graduation animal theme party cake is very easy to make as all the ingredients are mixed together in the same bowl.

The Graduation Cake page gives all the details you need on the recipe, cooking tools and ingredients. The cake pages have lots of cake decorating ideas, themed decorations, cup cake ideas, cap cakes, how to use fondant and how to use photos plus lots, lots more.

Simple Decorating Idea for Your Graduation Animal Theme Party Cake

1) Decorate the cake with white frosting. Using the right color of frosting create a pig, horse, cow or sheep. Then using colored frosting of your choice add the graduates name and congratulations.

2) Alternatively once the cake is frosted with green frosting, add toy animals and congratulations to the graduate. yellow colored coconut could be used as straw.

3) Use a horseshoe shaped cake pan to make a horseshoe cake.

Graduation Animal Theme Party - Games

Try these great animal theme party games.

• Set up a coloring in table with farm animal coloring in books. Have prizes for the best coloring in.


• Set up a lego table for quieter play.


• Balloon round up. Each guest has to kick 4 balloons similtaneously along a short course. Decorate the balloons as pigs or horses or cows, for example.


• Animal noises contest. Who can make the best pig, sheep, cow, horse and goat noises.


• Pin the tail on the donkey, first arrange a picture of a donkey, a donkey tail and a blindfold. Spin the blindfold guests around and have them pin the tail on the donkey.


• Sing Old McDonalds Farm


• Duck Duck Goose, just play this classic kids game.


• Make animal face masks. Cut out the shape and give the kids all they need to draw and color the mask.


• Farm Animal Charades. Put the names of animals in a hat. Split the kids into teams. The guests have to act out the animal and their team must guess which animal it is.


• Treasure Hunt, hide toy animals around the graduation party venue. The guests have to find one of each animal to win. You could give them a start by adding animal footprints.


• Face painting area can be set up where the kids can get their choice of farm animal.


• Youngsters can play “What is the Time Mr Wolf“.


• Play the game where you keep reading out more clues on the identity of an animal. The first team to guess the animal is the winner. For example, “I live in the jungle. I have 4 legs. I eat plants only. I have thick skin. I have a horn.


• Decorate an animal t-shirt. Provide a t-shirt and t-shirt pens and ask each guest to make their own animal design. Prize for best design.


• Cow Pinata


• Kids craft kit making animal magnets.


• Guess the footprint, put various animal footprints in sand around the venue. Guests have to guess the animal that the footprint belongs to. You can give them a sheet to complete.


• Observation test - discretely display 6 to 10 particular toy animals, around the venue. Near the end ask guests to complete a sheet on what they observed. Ask for the people in the pictures and location of the pictures. Have prizes for those getting all answers correct.


• Guess the animal, cover large photos of well known farm animals almost completely except for say a distinguishing feature. Guests must guess who the animals are, and again give prizes for getting them all right.


• Disguise a guest in an animal costume. Video them walking around for 2 minutes. Show the video at the party. Guests must guess who they are. First to guess wins the prize.


• Story time, ask a great story teller to read part of one of the kids‘ favorite animal themed books or relate their own excellent story.

• Bobbing For Apples

  Set up a large pail filled with water and enough apples to cover the surface. Lay out plenty of towels. The guests using only their teeth must try and get an apple out of the pail. Usually hilarious and very messy!
  

• Octopus Tag

  A first person is chosen who is the octopus. The rest of the group are the fish. Each person tagged joins the octopus. Play continues until there is one fish left. Of course you could call this wolf and sheep.
  

• Horseshoe Pitch

  Put a stake in the ground and have the contestants stand say 6 to 12 feet away depending on their age. Give each player some horseshoe to throw at the stake, the nearest wins. You can use balls if need be.

Click here for an amazing free collection of graduation party games.

An animal theme party needs great music to make it come alive.The kindergarten or graduate's favorite music, bearing in mind the audience, will be fine. You could play barnyard animal noise CDs for a time.

Graduation Animal Theme Party - Favors

Fill a cowboy hat or bandanna with lots of animal party favors to delight the little guests.

• T-shirts with a farm animal design and the graduate's name (or the guests name)


• Farm Animal Stickers


• Animal water bottles.


• Animal coloring in books


• Animal toys


• Animal posters and photographs


• Fake animal tattoos


• Fun stuff like glow bracelets and glow necklaces


• Cowboy hats


• Cake


• Candy with animal pictures on the wrapper


• Farm toys such as tractors


• Pens

Graduation Animal Theme Party Preparation

The animal party day does need a good schedule of events. You will need it to get through everything, even if you are having the party at an airport.

• Plan the start of the animal party, when each game will roughly occur, when the food will be served and when the party will start and end.


• Know exactly which animal theme party games will be played


• Have the music, prizes, helpers and materials ready in advance.


• Each helper should know exactly what they have to do. Hopefully they will also be in an animal costume.


• Have the animal theme party favors ready in advance, and in running order.


• Know exactly who is helping to clear away afterwards.


• Give each child an animal theme sticker with their name on it.

Graduation Animal Theme Party - Ideas

More ideas to make the graduation animal theme party just brilliant:

• Make sure everyone has their photo animal theme party taken, especially if you have a great barnyard entrance


• Video the animal theme party


• Ask a farmer to bring in some farm animals to the animal theme party and teach the kids all about them. This will bring some realism to the animal theme party.


• Save money and have a joint animal theme party with other graduates.
  This can give excellent cost sharing, lots of people to do the work and help find items at cheaper costs. One of the better graduation party ideas.


• Save money and use Bargain Graduation Party Supply Ideas!


• Save money and book animal theme party venues for the cheaper weeknights, perhaps giving more money to decorate your graduation animal theme party.


• Hire a buckaroo, a great addition to an animal theme party.


• Hire a bouncy castle


• Show kids DVDs like "Barnyard", the original party animals film.


• Play the Barnyard Wii game to compliment the animal theme party.


• Display wildlife and farming magazines.


• Have a TV monitor showing natural history shows.


• Play the best bit on video of those daredevil naturalists like Austin Stevens. They handle deadly snakes, get near hippos, bears, polar bears and crocodiles. They also help everyone learn about the animals in a very entertaining way at the animal theme party.


• Make animal shaped cakes and cookies to eat at the party and to be part of the party favors.

Share Your Graduation Animal Theme Party

To help inspire your family, friends and other visitors please take a moment and submit your graduation party ideas.

If you would like to share your complete animal theme party with us send us your graduation party story and photos and we will create your own animal party page and photo gallery hosted on our site. (Family and friends will be able to find inspiration from your graduation party and comment on your ideas.) If you share your complete animal theme party details you will be automatically entered into our next contest. This year we are having a bumper $300 prize fund. There will be an overall winner and runners up prizes. The winner will be the best overall graduation party story and photos.

Good luck with your graduation animal theme party. An animal theme party for graduation will be lots of fun.

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