Last month, I produced a party for a sweet little boy's 2nd birthday at the Reston Zoo! The result was colorful and playful and so much fun. Here are the details in case you need a little birthday inspiration:
The Reston Zoo is an attractive park with clean pavilions, super staff and great entertainment like wagon rides and animal shows, as well as petting and visiting the animals ... but my client wanted a little more - like festive decorations, catered picnic lunch and nicer goodie bags. So this is what I created ...
We leveraged the colors and animals from the invitation (top collage, middle photo) and incorporated them into decorations, birthday cake, even the disposables.
To bring the Zoo-fari experience to life, I covered the picnic tables in natural burlap and placed plush animals in red square boxes embellished with fresh tropical greens on top. I added pops of color with clusters of paper lanterns and a large welcome sign.
As children arrived, they received a safari hat, toy binoculars and animal crackers, as well as feed for the animals which I placed in a colorful striped handle bag from Target and embellished with a "Don't Feed the Animals" tag.
Children were invited to visit and feed the animals before a private wagon ride through the park and then, an animal show at the pavilion. The Zookeepers brought a baby lama, an iguana and little chick for the children to explore.
After the animal show and much hand sanitizer, guests were invited to a picnic lunch that included assorted sandwiches, sliced fruit and bags of kettle chips.
My camera died before lunch so I didn't get photos of the picnic buffet or desserts but these adorable fondant animals topped the 8" smash cake and cupcakes; you should have seen the piggy's squiggly tail! Assorted cookies and bars were also offered.
As children were leaving the party, they received a goodie bag filled with an animal coloring book with animal shaped recycled crayons, an animal paperback book and trinkets from the Zoo. The goodie bag is a gift tote (again, from Target) embellished with a strip of burlap, red curly ribbon and a yellow notecard. Super easy!
Contributing vendors included:
Reston Zoo
Windows Catering
Two Sugar Babies
So what did you think of my client's enhanced Zoo party? Did it inspire you to celebrate at the Zoo? Please leave me a comment to let me know!
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