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On New Year’s Day, we celebrated my daughter's second birthday with some of her favorite things: elephants, giraffes, zebras, and tigers. It was Two at the Zoo!

Ever since a very young age, Hayden has been an animal lover. When she was about one year old, she developed this crazy affinity for elephants. One of her first words was “El” which morphed into “Ela” and then “Ele-Faant!” About six months ago, I decided that her birthday would be zoo-themed. Knowing I would have a one-month-old at the time of the party, I knew I had to keep it simple. Once I found the darling party package from Land of Nod, inspiration and planning began!

The decor consisted of cute zoo animals and polka dots. Hayden already had tons of plastic animals that I knew would make an appearance, but for a few other decorative touches I purchased the Animal Parade Garland, Toot Sweet Party Table Cloth, and the felt garland in three colors from Land of Nod. Typically I would’ve hand made all of the decorations, but I knew with a new baby and Christmas that was out of the question!

I designed the background poster and some signs to match the invitation and tie everything together, and found some wrapping paper from Target to act as a table runner for the kid table, along with the plastic animal party favors.

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Party Highlights

  • What People Ate

    The biggest example of keeping things simple was just ordering a bunch of pizzas. For the adults we also had a few salad options too. For the kids we had zoo animal PBJ sandwiches, fruit kabobs, juice boxes, animal crackers, and Skittles.

  • Desserts

    Purple ombré cake and cupcakes for the kids

  • Party Favors

    Little plastic animals that were set out on the kids' table

  • Activities / Games

    We had the party at a friend’s lovely home that had plenty of outdoor toys to entertain the little ones, like a playhouse, slide, wagon, and much more. I also set up a play tent and had an animal mini golf set. There was also a “petting zoo” with large stuffed animals, and remote control moving animals for the kids to interact with.

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Party Helpers

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