Prepare to see plenty of lions, tigers, and giraffes with these Safari Adventure Binocular Party Crafts. These fun binoculars will make amazing DIY party favors for a safari and jungle-themed party or as a part of a unique costume! Have your kids help out when making this very easy recyclable craft using only toilet paper rolls, duct tape, and string. You've never seen a duct tape craft as cool as this one. Your kids will loving playing with these binoculars as you watch their imaginations take them to exotic places beyond even their wildest dreams!

Wildlife Photo of the Day - November 18, 2018: Part of a group of 9 puppies with a large number of adults. The pack was lounging when a few of the adults decided it was time to go hunting. It was like a pep rally in that a few of the adults began yipping and nipping at the others and drummed up a frenzy of excitement among the whole pack. Then suddenly they were all off to hunt with one adult staying a bit behind with the pups.

Oh my, it is nearly two years later and I am FINALLY posting pictures! I have seriously got to get a handle on that! We have SO much fun putting together our Epic vacation bible school every year and I wanted to share with you what we have been up to! With it nearing VBS season again I thought I would take a trip down memory lane and share with you some great ideas that you can use for your own VBS! This year (2014) the theme was Wilderness Survival. The vision was to decorate the church with both desert and jungle themes! This was my first time in the role of "lead decor" and I had NO idea what I was doing (picture having to keep this all in fire code, yikes!) but luckily it all came together in the end! I will try to explain my technique for making things as I go... Here we covered the wall in kraft paper (Lowes or Home Depot in the painting section). Using tan wall paint and a large rectangle sponge, we "stamped" the wall to create bricks then went back and outlined sections in dark brown to make them stand out. It goes really fast if you stick to groupings of stone instead of every single one. The "sand" is just tan fabric by the yard from Joann's. I believe we ordered a few bolts online. The camel prop was ordered from the VBS catalog (we have since created out own VBS curriculum). The rocks are painted pieces of styrofoam. Keep going to see how we did the palm trees and vines. This large hallway I wanted to look like a cave! We used brown paper bags (amazingly cheap on dollartree.com) and crinkled them up and stapled them to the wall. WARNING: this took forever so I would suggest you stretch them as your staple to cover way more wall with less bag. And MUCH less staples! The effect in here was amazing! Here are our palm trees! We used pool noodles to create these. Cut a hole in a box a tad smaller than the noodle (so it stands up), cut the bottom off brown paper bags, and string them onto the noodle! I put a large paper plate on top to tape the leaves to. The leaves are just traces and cut from a roll of non-fade green paper. Drape the base in burlap or tan fabric to look like sand. That last picture is of our class photo area! The vines were my favorite craft! We used plastic table cloths from the Dollar Tree in a couple of different shades of green. These were really easy and each table cloth yeilds a ton of vines. Fold your tablecloth the long way a few times will it is about 5" wide. Trim the sides so you end up with long strips. Cut diagonal lines to the middle. TIP: make sure you stagger them so you dont ever cut all the way through! And even if you do you can always use short vines too! We used these EVERYWHERE! They were great fillers and really tied the theme together! As you will see in the second picture, we also used nets and hula skirts (dollartree.com) everywhere! The monkeys were also ordered online and below I will tell you how we made the rope vines... These rope vines were made using cut, twisted and staples brown paper bags. If I did this again, I would use skinny strips of rolled kraft paper instead. If would have gotten done much faster! We stapled leaves (again cut out of the non-fade paper) when we were done. These also went everywhere and were great for covering large expanses like the ceiling in the cafe. We also wrapped them around the check in area. Also on the ceiling you will see colorful paper lanterns. These are from Oriental Trading Company. This giant tree was my biggest project! The frame is made from PVC. It ended up being 12 feet tall! We used the rolls of brown kraft paper here as well. It is simple... roll it out, wrinkle it up, stretch it out, and tape it on top to bottom! The last picture shows you what it looked like from the inside. The branches were made the same way but left wrinkled and twisted. I wanted to add more but we ran out of time! This hallway is always the kids favorite. The black light hallway! Luckily one wall was already dark, the other we wrapped with a roll of black non-fade paper. The volunteers had fun make fish, octopus, turtles and other sea creatures using white paper and fluorescent paint! These were then stapled onto the wall. The floor was covered in clear balloons that we squirted with the florescent paint on the inside. The jellyfish are paper lanterns lightly painted with fluorescent paint, with streamers and white string hanging from them. The ceiling also had streamers and nets. The openeing to this hallways was made to look like a waterfall. We used clear celo wrap, paper bags (done in the same way as the cave hallway) and the flowers were made using more non-fade paper. And because the nursery kids are important too... we gave them a little decor!

I had my students each design a class flag. Then we anonymously voted on them. The design that had the most votes became our class flag for Track and Field 2015. It is on half of a white twin sheet; I saved the other half for another year. My mom, who can draw, came over and helped pencil the design onto the sheet. Then, I cut open a large black trash bag and taped it to the floor. The flag was placed on top of the black sheet, and each student helped with the coloring. We used black Sharpies to trace over the pencil, and then we used Mr. Sketch Scented Markers to fill in the flag with color. The black bag helped to keep the marker from seeping onto the floor. The kids had a wonderful time marching onto the field for Track and Field Day, to Katy Perry's "Roar," while carrying this beautiful flag. For more information on Track and Field Day, like our great games, click this link: Read More

If you’re feeling the call of the wild, check out these whimsical safari parties to get inspired. Then… go bananas.

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Children love having themed parties, especially if it is for a birthday. Themes can be as varied as princesses or toy cars. In fact, some children enjoy a jungle or safari themed party. Activities can include pin-the-tail on the tiger or creating paper snakes. Another fun activity is creating safari hats.

A LUAU is ALWAYS in-style! And to decorate your luau with pizazz.... do it in BALLOONS! (Photos courtesy of Marci Shill Photography...the nice ones are, that is. The others are courtesy of a few cell phones.) As guests entered, they were "washed-ashore" by a giant balloon rip curl! (About 1000 balloons in the "water" alone.) A balloon "surfer dude" rode the balloon wave as well. (Seems most every guy that sees this claims it was modeled after him...) A very "touristy" balloon tiki hut served as a backdrop for a refreshing frozen tropical drink station for the teenagers (12' wide, 3' deep, and 9' tall). Sure hope those tiki torches don't catch the hut roof on fire! "The Balloon People" came and set-up beautiful tropical palm trees throughout the room that we decorated with a variety plants, flowers and animals. (Thanks, Francine!) We built a framed, non-helium, 32' Tropical Floral Arch that spanned the dance floor - a colorful, elegant backdrop for the Polynesian dancers that performed that night. This is my wonderful husband JOE - I consider him to be the backbone of Balloon Happy AZ, LLC. He engineers and builds all the framing I need for my balloon project designs.... and helps with most everything else. What a guy! Marta Hoburg (Bee Happy Balloons) and Kristy Edel (Twisty Kristy) - Two FABULOUSLY talented balloon artists! We all work together as a team on large projects like this. Thank you, ladies! And the rest of the team who made this all possible.... Amy & Jed Seiter Matthew Millett Shaun Skaff

I know, we’re all going a little over the top with Halloween costumes right? It’s every parent’s perogative to go nuts around every holiday. But every time my head is grinding it’s gears thinking of all the head-to-toe possibilities, I’ll suddenly remember I live in the great white North. You know, where the chances of …

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