Noah's Ark

Age of Birthday Girl: 2 years old

Age Range of Guests: 1-6 years old

Gender of Guests: boys and girls

Potential Age Range of Theme: 1-6 years, depending on specific focus & activities

Invitations: Our daughter (turning two at the time) helped us make these simple invitations. We cut out a boat shape from brown construction paper & placed it on a blue piece of paper. We attached a brown flap for the ark door in the front and glued a white piece of paper with party info on the back. Insdie she placed a variety of animal stickers for decoration.

Cake: We baked two cakes for this creation - one 9x13 and one 9x9. We covered the 9x13 with blue frosting and cut the square one in half.

One half of the square was covered in brown frosting and became the bottom of the boat. We cut about 1/3 off the end of the other half, and then sliced some off the long edge so it would fit nicely on top of the base. This was also covered with brown frosting. The remaining 1/3 was cut into two pieces diagonally so they could form the roof of the ark. This was also frosted.

Small chip sticks were used for the roof but pretzel sticks or other candy and snack foods would also work. We found fish sprinkles to add to the water, but you could also use gummy candy or plastic fish if you have those. Animals pairs (found at a party store) were placed around the ark and we also came across animal candles to stick on top. Cupcakes had blue frosting with the fish sprinkles.

Games & Goodies: The kids all made an ark out of paper plates and construction paper. They added stickers and/or drew pictures of animals on their ark. We gave them colored cereal O's to make a rainbow bracelet. We played animal games - making animal noises to a story, searching for animals in a treasure hunt - and read them the account of Noah's Ark.