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Wild Thing!

By Barbara Rowley

Zoo Story:

• Hold an elephant-stomp race (players wear big cardboard feet tied to their shoes) or a push-a-peanut-with-your-nose relay.

• Play zoo animal charades.

• Serve lion cupcakes

• Give away tiny stuffed animals  -- from the pretend petting zoo you've set out  -- as party favors.

Please Bug Me

• Play ladybug tag (try not to get tagged with a stick-on homemade ladybug).

• Make antennae headbands.

• Enjoy a gummy-worm-topped "dirt" cake (with crushed Oreo cookies on top).

It's a Jungle in There

• Have guests beat on drums they've made out of oatmeal containers and rubber sheeting.

• Challenge little monkeys to pick up shelled peanuts with their toes.

• Tape-record Tarzan yells and then vote on a winner.

• Serve a cake decorated like a drum, along with tropical fruit punch, of course.

Super-Fast Breakfasts for Crazy Mornings

Fruit milkshakes, easy quesadillas, and more tasty eats you whip up in no time