Safari gear

[disney631]

We're spending a day at Animal Kingdom and would love to dress my 6 and 3yr old girls in Safari gear. Has anyone done this? If so what did you do?

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[rachael95]

I was planning on doing this for our breakfast at Tusker house. We have a local zoo here, so my DS already has the $5 zoo hat (pith helmet style).

Then, I made up a graphic and am going to just put that on a white T-shirt using one of Amy's Iron Ons. Each of us will have the iron on shirts and DS will have the hat as well.

I got a map background, layered a picture of Donald tracking prints and then layered a picture of Tigger hopping up and down in front of the tracks so Donald ends up tracking Tigger. I put "First Trip" on DS's graphic in African font and then all of us have our names at the bottom of it in an Indiana Jones-style font.

 

[GadgetTheInventor]

If you have any sewing skills, you could make them a simple vest. I still have my GS Brownie vest from back in the day and would just use that as a pattern. If you made it a little big, they could use it to play with for a couple of years.

Are they old enough to use a camera? You could possibly give them each a disposable camera to record what they find on their safari trip that day. There are lots of interesting things to look at that are kid height at AK: foot prints in the cement, the animals, colorful artwork and patterns around the park.

And of course all good explorers need a hat for sun protection.

Just make sure that whatever you choose is quickly packable when you arrive at a ride and won't fall off easily.

 

[marymaya]

Well, I am not crafty, but I think that gymboree had a line of safari type stuff at one point. I would look online. You could make it disneyish with a T shirt or hat

 

[trara1375]

We actually picked up a safari shirt/short set one of the times we were at Disney Animal Kingdom. It was a while ago though...2007, maybe. They also had pith hats with mickey ears on them at that time. We're headed back next year, and I like the idea of dressing for safari...might just have to see if it fits our daughter...we bought it for our son.

Maybe someone knows if they still carry this?

 

[rachael95]

We went to our local zoo again this past weekend and I noticed they have the safari vests there too. $14. So if you have a zoo near you and if you're not very crafty (like me), you could get a vest there probably and then just do an iron on or a patch to "Disney-fy" it.

I bet you could find something similar at a sporting goods store in the fishing section too.

 

[cobright]

At Rainforrest Cafe (in AK and everywhere else I suppose) they sell a kid sized straw pith helmet safari hat.

At walkmart (and lots of places) they sell a line of educational toys called 'Backyard Safari' that includes a Safari Vest that is really quite good.

Backyard Safari also has some pretty cool edu-toys that are quite useful.

 

[FUNMAMADIS]

I just bought safari style vest at the Dollar store. I Disneyed them up by using fabric glue to attach Mickey heads to the back of them. I'm cheap and so I really didn't want to spend much on a one time wear item.