Curious George Food & Goodies

FOOD

We had some snacks out when the guests arrived.
When possible, we created more little signs to go with the theme...

-Donuts (sign: Curious George & the Donut Delivery)
-Veggie Platter (sign: Curious George and the Perfect Carrot)
-Banana Chips
-Trail Mix
-Popcorn

For lunch, we served Pizza.







Our birthday boy likes ice cream cake, so we got the fun watermelon & orange rolls from Friendly's, as well as a chocolate ice cream cake.

DRINKS

For the kiddos:  Banana Punch

Recipe:  Use a blender to mix the following ingredients, then split into smaller containers & freeze:

-2 mashed bananas

-1 cans (12 oz) Orange Juice Concentrate

-1/2 can (12 oz) Lemonade Concentrate

-1/2 can (46 oz) of Pineapple Juice

- 1.5 cups water

Before the party starts, place the frozen portions in a punch bowl.  Pour unrefridgerated 7-Up over it.

For the adults:

-Monkey Bay wine

-Golden Monkey Beer
-Coffee
-Soda

GOODY BAGS

After printing out a small copies of the "Curious George and the Birthday Surprise" book cover, I used a glue stick to attach the image to plain yellow bags.

Inside the bags, we gave bubbles, slinkies, twirly lollipops, fruit by the foot, and bouncy balls.

We also had some Godparents and adult family members attending (without kids).  

For those guests, we made a mason jar of Banana Bread ingredients with recipe attached, & sent them home with a bunch of bananas with balloons tied to them.

PLAYLIST

Songs to consider for background music... 
some of them are a stretch, but the subtlety is sometimes half the fun!

Curious George Main Title Theme (Dr. John)
Hey, Hey We're the Monkees (Pop Feast)
Upside Down (Jack Johnson)
The Happy Little Monkey's song (Ooh and Aah)
The First Mate is a Monkey (Randy Crenshaw)
Monkey Wrench (Foo Fighters)
Shock the Monkey (Peter Gabriel)
Baby Monkey (Parry Gripp)
Funky Monkey (Siedah Garrett)
I Wanna Be Like You (Phil Harris)
Monkey Song (Big Bopper)
The Monkey Song (Rhythm 'n Kids)
Curious George (JoBoxers)
Follow that Monkey (Jackie Greene)
Life Less Ordinary (Carbon Leaf)
Coconut (Harry Nilsson)
Bouncing Around the Room (Phish)
Proudest Monkey (Dave Matthews)
Baby Monkey (Parry Gripp)

OTHER IDEAS 

Things I've found after-the-fact, that I would have liked to use!
(isn't that always the way?)

Food:

Chocolate Fountain with fruit for dipping (sign: CG goes to a Chocolate Factory)

Pinwheel cupcake toppers
More pinwheel cupcake toppers
Monkey party picks
Pinwheel straws

Favors:

Monkey bubbles
Curious George Tattoos
Treat boxes
Curious George Rings
Bendy monkey figures

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Curious George Party- Games & Activities

The great part about this theme is that with such a large selection of books, you can make almost any activity tie in!  

We made photo copies of Curious George book covers to go along with the activites we had planned.  

After taping the image to a pinwheel, we stuck them in cleaned (labels removed) Starbuck's Frappaccino bottles to stand up.  

We glued an image of George to the front of the bottle, and stuffed it with blue tissue paper.

Some of the stations were organized activities, others were free play.

Here are the stations we had, along with the signs used (click on the link to see the image)

-Musical Instruments
sign: CG at the Parade or CG Parade Day
Have a basket of musical instruments- enough for each child to get one (tambourines, bells, drums, kazoos, etc.)  March around the yard with the birthday child leading the parade.

-Feeding/petting goats
sign: CG Feeds the Animals
Petting zoo with any animals you may own, or even stuffed animals.  We had goats for the children to pet & feed.

Feeding Goats

-Kite building
sign: CG Flies a Kite
Purchase blank kites and have children use sharpies to make their own design & color them.
A bit of advice- try putting them together ahead of time.  We somehow ended up with two different kinds of assembly, and they were a little bit tricky!

Kite Making

Flying Kites

Making Kites

-Pinata
sign: Curious George Pinata Party

Pinata

Pinata

-Tee Ball
sign: CG at the Baseball Game

Tee Ball

-Curious George Movie on TV 
sign: CG goes to a Movie

-Dress Up area 
sign: CG goes to a Costume Party
Get out all of those old Halloween costumes!
Make sure you have a variety of sizes for the children invited.

-Dinosaurs 
sign: CG Dinosaur Discovery or CG & the Dinosaur
Set up an area with plastic dinosaurs to play with.

Dinosaur Play Area

-Bowling 
sign: CG goes Bowling
You could set up any toy bowling set, but I found this really cute monkey bowling set!

-Train set 
sign: CG takes a Train or CG at the Railroad Station
Create a play area with wooden or plastic train sets.

-Sandbox 
sign: CG goes to the Beach

-Tumbling/climbing Area 
sign: image of CG doing a forward roll
Put out gym mats, crawling tunnels, and any climbing toys/equipment for children to play.

-Monkeying Around game
Use game as a centerpiece on the kids table.  If you have more than one table, other good ones to use would be Tumblin' Monkey game, or Barrel of Monkeys

Monkeying Around game in center of table

-Monkey Mouth game 
sign: CG Goes to the Dentist
I don't know if Discovery Toys still makes this game, but it's a cute concept where you take playdoh & make teeth for the plastic monkey.

-Storytime- Before lunch (pizza) we read "Curious George & the Pizza Parlor"
Other CG books were scattered around for reading.

More CG Books for kids to read

-Pin the Banana on George
Print  up bananas with each child's name.

Pin the Banana on George

-Limbo 

We used Giraffalaff Limbo game.

Below is the flow of our party.  
We were lucky that the weather was nice, so we could do many activities outside.  

As children arrived, they were able to do some of the indoor free play stations.

Dinosaurs
Monkey Mouth
Monkeying Around Game
Dress up

Storytime (CG and the Pizza Parlor)

Lunch

Go outside for activities:

        Kite Building

        Kite flying

        Parade- Musical Instruments

        March to Feed Goats

        Baseball 

Go inside for cake- sing Happy Birthday

Pin the Banana on George

Limbo

Pinata & outside free play

Free Play (outside)

Bowling
Tumbling / Jungle Gym
Sandbox
Trains

Additional game ideas:
Hide & Seek (CG Finds a Friend, CG Hide & Seek)
Seed/Flower Planting (CG plants a Seed or CG plants a tree)
Ride on vehicles/bikes (CG Rides a Bike)
Tent or smores making (CG goes Camping)
Scavenger Hunt (CG Lost & Found)
Elefun (image of CG with butterflies)
Finger Painting (image of CG with paint)
Musical Chairs
Paper bag monkey puppets
Monkey See / Monkey Do (aka Simon Says)
Monkeying Around ring toss
Monkey in the Middle
Hula Hoops
Bananagrams (for older siblings that might attend)
Curious George Bingo - get images of CG show characters and make into bingo cards
      I got pretty far into doing this, but then figured we wouldn't have enough time to play it.
Here's the sample I created...

 

More Curious George Book Titles (It might spark an idea for an activity that will work for you!)
CG and the Dog Show
CG at the Zoo
CG Builds a Home
CG Cleans Up
CG Tadpole Trouble
CG Takes a Trip
CG The Boat Show
CG The Donut Delivery
CG to the Rescue
CG and the Birthday Surprise
CG and the Dump Truck
CG and the Firefighters
CG and the Hot Air Balloon
CG and the Puppies
CG at the Aquarium
CG gets a Medal
CG goes to a Chocolate Factory
CG goes to the Hospital
CG in the Big City
CG in the Snow
CG Learns the Alphabet
CG makes Pancakes
CG Takes a Job
CG Visits a Toy Store
CG Visits the Library
CG Visits the Zoo
CG First Day of School


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Added:  Here is the banana I used for the "Pin the Banana on George" game...