Madagascar Party

It is time to host your very own Madagascar party and explore living on the “wild” side. By using these party ideas, you can make your party “crakelaking” as Alex would put it. Gloria, Melman, Marty, the penguins, even Alex are all ready for you to take the stage and give your best “roar” to entertain the crowd.

Madagascar Party Invitations

There are so many fun ways to make your own Madagascar party invitation:

Classic invitation - Cut out a 5 x 7 inch piece of white construction paper. Then, using watercolors, paint out the shapes of a lion, zebra, hippo, and giraffe, penguin, and lemur, representing the main animals in the movie. Then, using a black ballpoint marker, write out your party information with one of the fun sayings below.
Animal cutout - Trace out your favorite character from Madagascar onto a corresponding color piece of construction paper: yellow for Alex and Melman, black and white for the penguins and Marty, gray for Gloria, and brown for King Julien.
Zoo ticket - Cut out a 2 x 5.5 inch piece of white construction paper. On the left quarter of the “ticket” sketch out pictures of the Madagascar characters. In the middle, have large bubble letters for a title saying “Welcome to ____’s Madagascar Party” and with smaller lettering, write out your party information. On the right quarter of your ticket, draw out a barcode, pretending it would be used to enter the party or “zoo” theme.

Some fun sayings to add to your invitation:

“Move it…Move it. Time to make your way to our wild Madagascar party”
“Hop, skip, get on a ship, get on a plane, and roar your way over to _______’s Madagascar party”

Madagascar Supplies and Decorations

When hosting a Madagascar party, there are many other party themes that you can incorporate. When throwing this party, it may be fun to incorporate more ideas from other party themes. Here are some examples:

Have party colors of bright and dark green, orange and yellow
Bright and dark green streamers with tropical leaf cutouts
Balloon tree with brown balloons as the stem and bright and dark green balloons for the leaves
Balloon pineapples - four orange balloons at the bottom in a square with three yellow balloons on top in a triangle with three long balloons coming out the top like pineapple leaves
Marty, Alex, Gloria, and Melman cutouts
Lots of fake grass
Create a platform like Alex’s giant rock in the zoo and see who has the biggest “ROAR”
Add lots of tropical plants and flowers. Often you are able to rent plants from local flower and garden supply stores.
Have a direction sign with all the locations mentioned in the movie and estimated distances to the locations. Have all the locations painted in different colors. You can have your birthday guest of honor help with the painting.
Bamboo outdoor teak torches

Madagascar Games and Activities

Lion’s Den - Have all of your guests in one area of a room or section of your yard. From your guests select one to be the lion. All the rest of the guests are tourists. The tourists need to try to sneak past the lion and take a picture. If the lion hears them then roar and open their eyes. If they see the tourists moving the individual tourist needs to return to the start and begin again. Then the lion closes their eyes and the game begins again until you have a successful tourist. Then you select a new lion and the game begins again. Make sure all guests get to be the lion if they wish to have a turn.

Photo Booth - Do a photo shoot with Alex the lion. Have lots of animal masks, leaf fans, direction arrows to all the places mentioned in the movie. Use a fan and confetti.

Go on a scavenger hunt with the Penguins. They are trying to break out of the zoo. They are looking for something magical, somewhere like Antarctica. You will need shovels for the first step. Dig your way out. First stop should be at Grand Central station. Where are your trains? Next, you need to open a box with a lock with a key. At the end find a prize. Have your last discovery in your freezer, so it is cold like antarctica.

Visit a local zoo for the day.

Have a small petting zoo come to your home. Maybe they could come with one or two animals.

Gloria’s Swimming Hole - have a portion of the party a swimming party. Hire a local teen that has their lifeguarding certification to have an extra set of eyes on the kids in the pool.

Alex and Marty’s karaoke - start with the song New York, New York.

Alex and Marty’s three legged Race - pair up with your best partner and race to the wild. Use a scarf to tie the partner's leg together.

Target practice with nerf guns to represent the tranquilizers that hit Marty.

King Juilian’s Dance Party - start off with You Like to Move it. Show off your robot dance. Have available or premake hats, hula skirts and flower leis to wear

If at night do star gazing. Tell stories about what you see in the stars

Try walking on stilts like King Juilian. Or you can get balance beams that look like plastic logs that your guests can try to walk across.

Paint a scene from madagascar, try to make it like the mural Melvan looked at in New York City Zoo.

Gloria and Melmin’s spa day. At all ages it is fun to pamper yourself. Think of a simple mask and manicure.

Pin on tail tag - have tails that are easy to attach and play a simple game of tag.

Madagascar Food

Steak, potatoes and vegetables on a skewers
Sushi
NY style hotdog
Tropical fruit platter with pineapples
Coconut water
Make sure you sing the whole birthday song, including you look like a monkey and act like one too.
Have 4 cakes shaped like a tiger, hippo, giraffe and zebra
Have a cupcake tower with penguins on the top
Make sugar cookies with the monkeys on top
Have a jungle themed candy bar

Madagascar Cake, submitted by Diana

Steak, potatoes and vegetables on a skewers
Sushi
NY style hotdog
Tropical fruit platter with pineapples
Coconut water
Make sure you sing the whole birthday song, including you look like a monkey and act like one too.
Have 4 cakes shaped like a tiger, hippo, giraffe and zebra
Have a cupcake tower with penguins on the top
Make sugar cookies with the monkeys on top
Have a jungle themed candy bar

Madagascar Cake, submitted by Diana