Construction Themed Birthday Party
I am excited to be back in the blogging world today after a short absence, and I am even more excited to share this post! It seems like just yesterday I was holding my little 7 pound newborn in my arms for the first time, and last week he turned 2…Where does the time go?! Well, I wanted my special little boy to have a special 2nd birthday celebration, so I decided to do a construction theme with lots of trucks. My son is “ALL-BOY” and this theme just seemed to fit him. I worked on the details for this party over the course of a few months. It took a lot of planning and time, but I had a blast putting it all together!
FIRST, THE DECORATIONS…
For the Happy Birthday Banner I traced different sizes of circles onto card-stock and then cut them out by hand. A circle cutter would come in handy for this, but I made do with regular scissors. I drew the dump trucks and cut them out as well. I found some black stick-on letters at Hobby Lobby that I used for the words. Then I assembled the banner with a little glue, a hole punch and some ribbon.
I made these diamond-shaped signs with yellow card-stock. Yes, I stocked up on card-stock for this party ;). Free Printable Below!
I made this welcome sign for the front door by printing the words on orange card-stock. I completed it with a truck and some more card-stock. Free Printable Below!
I set-up a kid table with some hard hats {from the dollar store} and some construction trucks that I found on Amazon.
ONTO THE FOOD…
I looked around on Pinterest for inspiration for this party, and I found several creative ideas for the food.
Every food had a “construction” related name. I made the food labels with card-stock, mason jar labels and truck stickers.
Nuts and Bolts = Trail Mix, Lumber = Pretzel Sticks, Pebbles = Recess Pieces
Boulders = Grapes
Wrecking Balls = Nectarines
Build-a-Sandwich = make your own sandwich
Rocky Road= Marshmallows dipped in chocolate and nuts
Spare Tires= Mini Chocolate Donuts
Fuel Station = Drinks
Last but not least…the cake! I made a marbled chocolate and yellow cake to mimic black and yellow caution tape. I decorated the cake with dirt {a combination of cake crumbs and crushed snickers}. I found a set of mini construction trucks on Amazon, and I used one to top the cake.
Of course, “tools” to eat it all with! Free Printable Below!
Such a fun party and my little 2-year old had such a fun time!!!
FREE PRINTABLE’S:
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Wish I could have been there–very creative. Micah looks much older than when we saw him. love, grandma
Wish you could have been here too Grandma! Micah is growing up quickly. Love you!
Very nicely done! You certainly were creative. I’m going to pin this post for reference. 🙂
Thank you and thanks for pinning!! Many Blessings, Hannah
Wow!! This is amazing!! How creative and fun. I love it!! :0)
Thanks so much Juliet!! I had so much fun with this party and the best part was that my little Micah had a blast! 🙂
Well done!! What a fun party. 😀
Thank you Valerie!! 🙂
Looks like he had a fun party! I remembered you mentioning planning a themed party before in a recent comment…everything turned out great! :). I especially love how all the food related to things found at a construction site. So clever!
Thank you! It also looks like your party for your son turned out great too! I accidentally clicked something by your picture and it made me unfollow you…oops, but I immediately followed you again. I blame my silly phone ;). Sorry for that confusion! Thanks for your kind words. Blessings to you!!
No problem! 🙂
Thank you for stopping by!
Have a wonderful day 🙂
You’re Welcome! Your blog is very encouraging 🙂
Thank you 🙂
You are sweet!!
Where can I download the little circle food labels?
Unfortunately I can’t find the copy of these labels that I made, but I will try to recreate some and add them to this post in the near future. They aren’t hard to make!
For now though, I can tell you how to make them if you are interested:
First you will need to buy Avery Labels Product #22818. Then you can create the labels here and they aren’t hard to make: http://www.avery.com/myavery/selectdesign.do?rpp=10&displyName=Round%20Labels%20-%20Brown%20Kraft&Ntk=All&pN=0&Ns=Rank
1. Once you go there click on “select & customize”
2. Off to the right you will want to click “Edit One” You want to edit one at a time since each label is different.
3. Then set the font to “Ashley Crawford”
4. Then click “Add circular text” Then some curve like icons will appear. Click on the one with the curve that looks like a “smile” and also click the 2ND “ABC curve (the text under the curve).
5. The you can “Type Your Text” and sometimes you have to delete the “type your text” for some reason. Click somewhere outside the text box and it will add you text.
6. Then move onto the next one by clicking on the 2nd label. Just keep editing one at a time until you are finished.
7. I bought some construction truck stickers which I found at Hobby Lobby and also Target—and added them to each label.
Hope this helps!
Well, sorry that link didn’t work. Just go to avery.com and if you type in the product # 22818 it will take you to the correct template.
I absolutely loved your construction theme birthday! Im planning my little guys 1st birthday and I got some great ideas from you, Thank you so much!!
Thanks so much! I had so much fun with this theme and I hope you do too! I’m sure your son’s party will turn out great!!
Your cake looks so yummy! good job with the theme, loved your food labels 🙂
Thanks so much! I’m so glad you stopped by!
Thank you for your like of my post on, “Meaningful Words.” You are very kind.
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You’re welcome, I enjoyed your post today. Blessings!
Thanks so much for posting the free printables! I’m doing a construction party for my Micah’s 2nd birthday in a few weeks. I hope it turns out as well as yours did!
Oh how fun about the party and that we both have a Micah!! I hope you have great party! 🙂