Safari Baby Shower Games

Print a safari game sheet for each guest: baby animals, herd names or a word scramble, with the answers.

Safari Baby Shower Games

Name

  1. Baby animals: write what each baby is called.
  2. Blanks: write the word for a group of that animal.
  3. Capital letters: unscramble them into a safari word.
  4. When the host reads the answers, tick each one you got right. The most ticks wins.
  5. Party games are for the host: tick the ones you plan to play.
  1. Baby zebra
  2. Baby giraffe
  3. Baby elephant
  4. Baby lion
  5. Baby hippopotamus
  6. Baby rhinoceros
  7. Baby cheetah
  8. Baby hyena
  9. Baby crocodile
  10. Baby flamingo
  11. Baby ostrich
  12. Baby baboon
  13. Baby warthog
  14. Baby meerkat
  15. Baby wildebeest

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How it works

These safari baby shower games are three sheets to print and a list of party games. Guests write what a baby zebra is called, name a group of giraffes, or unscramble safari words. The sheets print plain, with no pictures.

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Print one sheet for each guest

The page opens on Safari babies. Press Print this list: each animal prints with a line to write on and a box to tick, and the answers print on a last page, which you can leave out of the guests' copies. For another sheet, open the box under the button and choose Herd names, Safari word scramble or Safari party games. On All rows, Pick 15 new rows deals a mix of the four.

Jungle theme baby shower games from the same sheets

A jungle theme uses the same animals, so these sheets fit it as they are. Safari party games is the host's list: 15 classics played with safari props, such as a binocular hunt and feed the hippo. It has no answers.

Tips
  • Many herd names are playful and rarely used in practice. Count herd as right wherever the answer page lists it.

Questions and answers

What is a baby zebra called?

A foal, like a young horse. A young male is a colt and a young female a filly. On the same sheet the baby giraffe, elephant, hippopotamus and rhinoceros are all calves, and the baby crocodile is a hatchling.

What is a group of giraffes called?

A tower. Wikipedia's list of animal names also gives corps and herd. Zebras make a dazzle, rhinoceroses a crash and flamingos a flamboyance. All twelve are on the Herd names sheet.

Is there an animal pregnancy game to go with these?

Yes, on a page of its own. The animal pregnancy baby shower game asks how long a giraffe, an elephant and 34 more animals are pregnant, and prints with an answer key.

Do the sheets have safari pictures?

No. They print plain, black on white: the title, the rules and a line for each answer. The theme is in the animals and the words, so the sheets sit beside any safari or jungle decorations.

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Safari babies 15

  • Baby baboon Infant.
  • Baby cheetah Cub. The list of animal names also gives kitten.
  • Baby crocodile Hatchling.
  • Baby elephant Calf.
  • Baby flamingo Chick.
  • Baby giraffe Calf.
  • Baby hippopotamus Calf.
  • Baby hyena Cub.
  • Baby lion Cub.
  • Baby meerkat Pup. The list of animal names gives meerkitten.
  • Baby ostrich Chick.
  • Baby rhinoceros Calf.
  • Baby warthog Piglet.
  • Baby wildebeest Calf.
  • Baby zebra Foal. A young male is a colt and a young female a filly.

Herd names 12

  • A ______ of cheetahs A coalition, which the list gives for males.
  • A ______ of crocodiles A bask. Also on the list: congregation, float and menace.
  • A ______ of elephants A herd. Also on the list: memory and parade.
  • A ______ of flamingos A flamboyance. Also on the list: stand.
  • A ______ of giraffes A tower. Also on the list: corps and herd.
  • A ______ of hippopotamuses A bloat. Also on the list: herd, pod and school.
  • A ______ of hyenas A cackle. Also on the list: clan.
  • A ______ of leopards A leap. Also on the list: lepe.
  • A ______ of lions A pride. Also on the list: sawt.
  • A ______ of rhinoceroses A crash. Also on the list: herd.
  • A ______ of wildebeest A confusion. Under gnu, its other name, the list gives herd and implausibility.
  • A ______ of zebras A dazzle. Also on the list: cohort, herd and zeal.
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Safari word scramble 15

  • CAIACA Acacia: a spiny tree.
  • CLURBIANOS Binoculars: you look through them.
  • DEPTEMAS Stampede: a sudden rush of frightened animals.
  • DRAVARKA Aardvark: a burrowing animal that eats ants and termites.
  • FARASI Safari: a trip to see wild animals.
  • GACEFLAMOU Camouflage: coloring that helps an animal blend in.
  • HIKAK Khaki: a yellowish brown cloth and color.
  • LACKAJ Jackal: a wild relative of the dog.
  • LAPAMI Impala: a leaping African antelope.
  • OBBAAB Baobab: an African tree with a very broad trunk.
  • PELTONEA Antelope: a swift animal with horns.
  • SOONGMEO Mongoose: a slender animal with a long tail.
  • TURLUVE Vulture: a large bird with a bare head.
  • VANSANA Savanna: grassland with scattered trees.
  • ZELLGAE Gazelle: a small, swift antelope.

Safari party games 15

  • Binocular hunt: hide toy animals around the room; guests spot them through paper-tube binoculars.
  • Count the animal crackers: guess how many are in the jar; the nearest guess takes the jar home.
  • Draw an elephant blind: hold a paper plate on your head and draw; the room votes for the best.
  • Elephant trunk pickup: with a sock over one hand, move cotton balls into a bowl before the song ends.
  • Feed the hippo: beanbag toss into a laundry basket with a paper hippo face on the front.
  • Lion says: the leader-says game with safari moves, such as stretch your neck like a giraffe.
  • Pass the coconut: pass-the-parcel with a round parcel; unwrap one layer each time the music stops.
  • Pin the tail on the zebra: the blindfold classic, played on a zebra poster with paper tails.
  • Ring the rhino: ring toss over a paper-cone horn taped to a box.
  • Safari charades: draw an animal from a sun hat and act it out without a sound.
  • Sleeping lions: everyone lies still as a sleeping lion; the last guest to move wins.
  • Watering hole relay: teams move water by the spoonful from a full bowl to an empty one.
  • Which animal am I: wear an animal name on your back and ask yes-or-no questions to find it.
  • Whose coat is it: number swatches of spotted and striped cloth; guests write the animal for each.
  • Zebra stripes: teams wrap one player in white streamer, then add black paper stripes before the song ends.

How this list was compiled: Own work. The Game Night Generator editors wrote four lists on the animals of the African savanna: 15 animals and the name of their young, 12 animals and the word for a group of them, 15 safari words given ready-scrambled, and 15 party games played with safari props. On 2 October 2026 each young name and each group name was read in the table of Wikipedia's List of animal names (text under CC BY-SA 4.0); the ostrich and the warthog, which that table does not list, were read in the Wikipedia article on the animal, and so was the meerkat: the answer page gives the article's word, pup, and adds the table's, meerkitten. That list says of group names that many are playful and little used in practice, so the answer page gives the best-known word first and names the others the list holds. Each scramble word and its short meaning was read the same day in the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, fifth edition. The party games are the editors' own versions of classic games, each named after the classic it is built on; they are not facts and have no source. No animal of the first list is asked on this site's baby animals game page. Licence: own work