Safari animal costume ideas are best suited for young girls and boys who love to dress up as animals of different kinds: chicken, bunny, lion, monkey, bear, tiger, cheetah, cat, etc..

Creature Reacher Mad Ape Adult Costume

This theme involves dressing up as animals of various species such as birds, mammals, reptiles, insects (house flies, butterflies, dragonflies, lady bugs, etc.) and so on.

Generally the safari animals refer to those that are found in the jungles.

Cheetah Girls Galleria Child Costume

So, dressing up as a cheetah, lion, tiger, bear or hippopotamus can be a good idea. The costumes can be purchased from costume showrooms that stock a huge range of animal costumes. Some people, however, prefer to make these costumes at home, to meet their requirements.

Safari animal costume ideas are used by designers for manufacturing outfits that are based on animal themes. The yellow and black striped tiger dresses along with the yellow and black dotted cheetah dresses are picked up by many youngsters.

Lil’ Lion Infant & Toddler Costume

It comes as a full length suit or can be a two piece suit. The pant and T-shirt is striped or dotted and these can be used with special headbands available along with the dresses or purchased separately. Tails can also be attached to it.

If the dress is worn for a fancy dress party or a safari themed party, some false whiskers can be attached to the face.

Wizard of Oz Cowardly Lion Child Costume

A hippo costume can be made at home using a frog pattern dress bought from any local fabric store. Every part of the outfit has to be made a little wider and rounder.

This would give the look of a real hippo. Adding eyes, nose and ears would create a cute costume. Similarly bear costumes can be made at home. Using dark and light brown felt fabric, a costume can be stitched with a few snap buttons. The panda costumes are also a favorite among many children. They like to dress up in the cute white and black costumes.

Bear Oatmeal Infant/Toddler Costume

Various types of patterned clothing can be purchased for imitating the safari animal costume ideas. The alligator costume, for example, can be created with some adjustments.

Ridges can be placed on the head for framing the big bulging eyes and the ridge of the tail can be made pointed. Such adjustments are also possible with other animal costumes as well. The Safari theme provides ample opportunity to dress up as numerous wild animals.

Huggy Bear Mascot Adult Costume

Various kinds of dresses are available in the market and costume showrooms generally stock such features as headbands and tails that give the costumes an authentic look. Therefore, it is possible to choose costumes of different types and then accessorize them with different features.

Masks are also available in the market and these can be utilized for getting the exact look. The safari theme is not only good for fancy dress parties it can be used for Halloween parties as well.

Now that we’ve discussed a variety of animals for your costume ideas, let us also take a closer look at actual animals and a few fun facts about them.

Cats — a) Most cats in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada have six toes, b) Cats cannot move their jaws from side to side, c) Cats have 32 muscles in their ears alone and 4 rows of whiskers.

Pigs — Pigs get easily sunburned and could derive benefits from sunscreens.

Armadillos — Female armadillos always have identical quadruplets of the same gender at any given birthing event.

Reindeer — Reindeer’s favorite fruits are bananas.

Bear — Bears have 42 teeth.

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