For my son's 2nd birthday I decided to do Cars theme since he was obsessed with McQueen. I'm going to be showing how I put his party together. I don't have pictures of everything because I didn't know I'd ever be writing about it but I will post links to explain everything.
The birthday boy
INVITATION
I wanted an invitation that looked like a ticket. I searched Etsy and found someone that would make it and send me a copy through my email. I ordered it from Kids Party Kreation
. I printed out the tickets on card stock at home, but you could also go to a retail outlet like Staples etc.
DECOR
For the decor I used red and white streamers. I went to Party City and bought a checkered flag table cloth roll. It cost around $20. I did about 6 or 7 tables and there's still some left on the roll. I also bought a couple Cars table decorations . I printed out signs on card stock to put up at every game. If you would like the templates click
here
I made pit passes for each kid to wear with their names on it. I printed them off on card stock and laminated them at home. If you would like the template click
here. To protect them I bought a plastic "lamination kit" from the dollar store, which served its purpose perfectly. I cut out the size I wanted and put a piece on both sides of the pit pass and trimmed the edges. I then hole punched the top and added string.
FOOD
For food I kept it simple and ordered pizza. I also had chips, and a fruit and veggie tray. I bought Cars plates for the kids and red plates for the adults to use. For the cake I made a 3D McQueen cake and cupcakes.
For this cake I used the Wilton 3D Cruiser pan. I looked up a McQueen picture and did my best to copy it.
The cupcakes are hard to see in this picture but I just used white buttercream icing and stuck flags in them. I bought the flags at Party City.
GAMES AND CRAFTS
I had different stations set up with activities for the kids.
Colouring Table - I had a table set up with boxes of crayons and pictures of some of the
characters of Cars. I downloaded some pictures and took them to
Staples to make copies.
Sticker's McQueen - I bought a poster of McQueen and downloaded a picture of his smile and
made a pin the mouth on McQueen game. I made copies of his smile at
Staples and used tape to have the kids stick it on.
Ramone's House of Body Art - I bought Car's tattoos for the boys and princess tattoos for the girls.
Pinata - I bought a Cars pull string pinata from Party City and filled it with candy. His party
was 2 weeks after Halloween so I went on the search for candy on sale the week
after Halloween.
Bean Bag Toss - I hadn't put on my winter tires yet so I used them to toss the bean bags in.
GOODIE BAGS
To make the bags I downloaded the Cars logo and printed it on to paper lunch bags. I did this at home and it was not as easy as I thought. I had to do one at a time putting the paper bags into the printer. When I was done filling them I folded the top down and hole punched 2 holes and tied ribbon on it. Even though it was a little bit of work I was very happy with how they turned out.
I don't have a picture of what was in the goodie bags but I will post pictures of where I got the ideas from.
In the goodie bags I put some candy that was left over from filling the pinata. I also put Cars stickers in them.
I found a template for Cars bookmarks. So I printed them on card stock and laminated them.
If you would like this template click
here.
I found a bag topper template which I also downloaded and took to Staples to print. I used snack size ziploc bags and filled one with Oreos and another with Bugles. I folded the topper on top and stapled it.
If you would like the template click
here.
If you have any questions please comment below. I hope you found some ideas for making your little boys birthday special.
Jenn
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