Party Safari: Education is IMPORTANT
Please limit birthday party sizes to around ten kids. (There is an additional fee for over twenty kids.) Hand sanitizer will be provided and used by participants between each animal. Party Safari staff will wear a mask if anyone in the party would like.
Birthday Parties
Party Safari was created by the owner of Scales n’ Tails (a Colorado Exotic Animal Pet-Store Chain) fifteen years ago because parents wanted their children to have a hands-on, exotic animal birthday party.
Since then, we have added education as a cornerstone to the Party Safari experience.
Our knowledgeable staff will teach your family and friends about the amazing animals we bring. Hopefully this experience will impact your kids and help them become great stewards of our world. That is the whole point.
The cost for a one-hour birthday party is $250 with 12 animals.
WE ALSO OFFER ADULT ANIMAL PRESENTATIONS AT THE SAME RATES. If your birthday is a formal event, please let us know so we dress appropriately. (Nothing like champagne with tarantulas and snakes for a memorable evening.)
This includes:
Up to 30-min travel time to the event location (>30-min incurs $25 fee; >45-min incurs $50 fee; >one-hour incurs $75 fee); 30-min set up before and 30-min breakdown after the event takes place; transfer of animals to the presentation site; a carpet to cover flooring incase an animal goes to the bathroom during a presentation; and hand sanitizer for everyone who decides to touch an animal during the presentation. The price listed is for groups of less than 20 kids. >20 kids incurs a $50 fee.
Please Contact Us for availability.
Classroom Setting
Party Safari is all about education. As such, we offer a discount to schools (deemed schools by Randy Lewis) in a classroom setting with less than 26 students for a one-hour presentation.
The cost for a one-hour school presentation in a classroom setting is
$200 with 12 animals.
The cost for a two-hour school presentation in a classroom setting is
$400 with 12 animals.
Other Educational Settings
We welcome summer programs, after-school programs, and daycares with less than 25 participants per presentation.
Sometimes summer programs or after school programs desire more than 25 people in smaller time increments (i.e. 30 kids in 30-min time-slots) or are further away in drive-time. Pricing and number of animals brought to a presentation will depend upon specifics like travel time, number of students, number of presentations scheduled per institution, and length of presentation(s). Presentations at locations greater than one-hour drive time from Parker , CO, will incur an additional $75 fee. Please Contact Us for appropriate invoices.
The cost for each 30-min misc. educational presentation is $125 with 6 animals.
The cost for each 45-min misc. educational presentation is $175 with 9 animals.
The cost for each 60-min misc. educational presentation is $225 with 12 animals.
There is a $50 fee per presentation for over 30 kids per presentation.
The cost for any presentation with over one hundred total kids is a minimum of $450.
This includes:
Up to 30-min travel time to the event location (>30-min incurs $25 fee; >45-min incurs $50 fee; >one-hour incurs $75 fee); 30-min set up before and 30-min breakdown after the event takes place; transfer of animals to presentation site; a carpet to cover flooring incase an animal goes to the bathroom during a presentation; and hand sanitizer for everyone who decides to touch an animal during the presentation. The price listed is for groups of less than 26 people. Prices are listed for consecutive classes only.
PARTY SAFARI RULES
1. You do not have to touch an animal if you do not want to.
This usually involves a parent wanting their child to touch something that they are wary of, or a student experiencing peer pressure. If such a situation occurs, Party Safari staff will kindly remind the group that individuals are free to choose to watch from a distance if they desire. Sometimes this understanding allows the person to approach a similar animal later in the presentation, and may help them get over their fears.
2. You must be gentle with an animal if you decide to touch it.
People often forget that we are much more likely to hurt these animals, then they are to hurt us. Children are required to sit down and extend two hands if they desire to hold an animal. (Touching sometimes leads to poking, so “holding” is the preferred method on some species.) Our Party Safari staff will watch those involved and judge whether or not they will respect the safety of our animals. If our staff deems someone too nervous or an animal too stressed for a particular situation, that person or that animal will be skipped. This is non-negotiable and at the discretion of our Party Safari staff.
3. You will not touch the head of an animal.
I am always asked, “Does this animal bite?” The answer is, “Every animal bites something. I just don’t want it to bite you.” Therefore, bodies of animals will be held, and their heads will not be touched. ***Party Safari is insured, but we do not want anyone to have a negative experience.
4. Everyone that chooses to touch an animal MUST WASH THEIR HANDS afterwards.
Reptiles can transmit Salmonella (just like raw eggs and raw chicken). Food will not be consumed during a presentation and all participants MUST WASH THEIR HANDS after the last animal has been presented. (Multiple hand-washing throughout a presentation is fine.)
***Hand sanitizer is provided at every Party Safari event by our staff.
My name is Randy Lewis (B.S. Biology, M.S. Zoology) and I firmly believe in the value of teaching through firsthand experiences. My hands-on, enthusiastic approach, will leave those involved inspired by what they have learned and excited for more. Though I have taught at the university level, I feel that Party Safari is far more important because it allows me to impact kids before their fears take hold and they have lost their wonder for nature. Consequently, I am looking forward to sharing my exotic animals with you; be it at a birthday party or in a classroom setting.
