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Lion and Lamb Birthday Party Theme
Lion and Lamb birthday party theme - great for twin or sibling
birthday parties.
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Lion and Lamb Birthday Activities
King of the Jungle Crowns -
Decorate paper or foam crowns with stick on jewels.
Handprint Lamb - Make a cute
picture of a lamb using the handprints of the party guests.
You will need heavy construction paper, cotton balls and black
or pink paint. Pour paint into a container that is fairly
large (at least 8" wide) and shallow. The paint should
only be 1/4" or less. Let the guests place their
hand in the paint one at a time and then stamp their hand onto a
piece of construction paper. Show them that the
fingers of their handprint will be the lamb's legs and the thumb
will be the lamb's head and neck. Let them glue
cotton balls to the palm of the print to make the body.
Draw eyes and ears with markers.
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Lion
and Lamb Masks - Create Lion and Lamb masks with paper plates.
Lion mask: Before the party punch holes around the outside of a paper
plate about 1" apart and 1/2" from the outside of the plate. Cut
holes for the eyes. Lay out different colors of yarn in "lion"
colors - orange and brown - that are cut into 4" pieces. Show the
guests how to fold a yarn piece in half, put the looped end through the
hole of the paper plate, then take the two ends and put it through the
loop. Pull gently to tighten the yarn around the paper plate.
Continue all around the plate to make the lion's mane. Let the
guests decorate their mask with paint or markers. OR: instead of
yarn let guest staple long rectangular pieces of brown construction
paper around the outside of the mask. OR: Cut the end of orange
and yellow post-it notes into shaggy strips and then stick them to the
back of the paper plate for a mane.
Lamb mask: For the lamb mask first cut holes where the eyes will
be. Set out cotton balls and let party guest glue the cotton balls
round the paper plate for wool. Then let them color or
paint.
Lion and Lamb Party Games
Catch the Lion's Tail
This is a fun tag game for when you are outside or have plenty of space
to run. Guests will line up and hold hands. They can not let
go of each other's hands for any reason. The first person in line
tries to tag the last person in line. When the first person has
tagged the "lion's tail" then the "tail" comes to the front of the line
and becomes the "tagger". Continue until everyone has had a chance
to catch the lion's tail.
Pin the Tail on the Lamb
Played like the traditional game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey only
substitute a picture of a Lamb. Use cotton balls or large white
Pompoms for the tails they have to stick on the Lamb.
Lamb, Lamb, Lion
Played like the traditional game Duck, Duck, Goose -
Children sit in a circle on the floor. The birthday child (patter)
starts by walking around the outside of the circle
and patting the head
of each child. Every time they pat a head they call out "Lamb". Then
they choose one person
to be the Lion and yell "LION!" when they pat
their head. The “patter” then runs clockwise around the
circle
and tries to sit down in the place of the Lion before they are tagged by
the Lion. If the Lion tags the patter then the
Lion sits back
down and the patter starts again. If the Lion doesn’t tag the patter
then the Lion becomes the
patter and the game starts again.
Lamb relay
Teams (or individuals) try and blow cotton balls across the floor to the
finish line. Before the party decide if you will be playing the
game as teams or will let the guests compete individually. For
teams mark 2 sets of 6 - 7 cotton balls in seperate colors using
markers. For individuals mark 2 - 4 cotton balls in different
colors (one color per guest). The idea is to herd the lambs
(cotton balls) across the floor to the finish line by blowing on them.
They can not use their hands or touch the cotton balls in any way.
The finish line can be a straight line across the floor from the start
line or "pens" can be set up using electrical or masking tape and making
a 10" circle on the floor that all the cotton balls have to be put into.
For older children and more of a challenge use ping pong balls (decorate
them to look like sheep with a permanent marker) and use the "pens" as
the finish line.
Lion and Lamb Roundup
You will need 2 balloons and 1 broom for each team. Before the
party decorate balloons to look like Lions and Lambs. Lions:
orange balloons balloons with eyes and noses drawn on with permanent
marker and a piece of brown curling ribbon tied to the tied off end of
the balloon for a tail. Lambs: white balloons with pink or black
"tails". Divide party guests into 2 teams. At one end of
the playing area line the teams up one behind the other and at the other
end of the playing field place 2 cones or objects that the children will
have to run around before they can come back to their line.
Give each team 1 broom and 2 matching balloons. One by one they
must "herd" the balloons with the broom to the cone and back.
First team with all their players done wins. Make extra
balloons just in case some of them pop on the course.
Lion and Lamb Treasure
Hunt
Children search for hidden Lion and Lambs and turn them in for prizes
after the hunt. Before the party buy lots of large Pompoms in
white (lambs) and orange (lions). Hide the pompoms around the
party area, backyard or park before the party guests arrive. Tell
the guests to search for the lost lion and lambs. When all the
lions and lambs have been found let the children trade in the Pompom's
for candy or small toys.
Party food ideas
Some fun ideas to make Lion and Lamb cupcakes:
For Lion cupcakes use any of these items to make a lion mane around the
edge of the frosted cupcake - shredded coconut, orange gumdrops, jelly
beans, cornflakes or colored frosting. Use marshmallows or coconut
to decorate the lamb cupcakes.
Lion and Lamb Party Favor Ideas
Bubbles
Animal crackers
Cotton candy
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