So, you want to Build a Construction Party for your son’s next birthday. Okay, then we’ve got some party supplies, games and party favors to discuss. Of course, you are going to need a fun birthday cake and some game prizes too…kids love games and prizes, and what is a birthday party without a cake?

A Construction birthday theme is a popular boys party theme. What boy doesn’t love to build things? It starts when they are very young with building blocks and graduates on to construction trucks and LEGO toys. Building stuff is fun and that means a construction theme party is fun…and that is what a party is all about.

You can start your decorations with the personalized party banner. Let everyone know right away they are in the right place and they are in for a good time! This party banner is perfect. It has a back hoe and a dump truck along with some construction cones. And your son’s name right across the middle.

There are also some party packs filled with construction party supplies and they come in different sizes so there is sure to filled with just what you need. The largest construction party pack is the Ultimate party pack. In it, you will find everything you could want for a little boy’s birthday party except for the birthday cake and the birthday guests. Oh, and the birthday boy…of course! This Ultimate party box has party supplies galore. Invitations start the party off to a good start and then you have dinner plates, cups, forks, spoons, activity placemats, 16 napkins, solid-color tablecover, centerpiece, mylar balloon, 18 balloons in three different colors, curling ribbons in 3 colors, crepe paper rolls in three colors, star confetti, cake candles and construction cone candles. Sounds great, huh? Well there is still more for the kids. 8 Favor boxes (with favors), plus Construction Pals giant wall decals, a bulldozer pinata & pinata fillers, 8 Construction Pals thank-you notes, dessert plates, 8 cone cups, 8 construction hats, 8 candy filled tools, and 4 (5″) construction cones. Plus you save money when you buy a party pack.

Is this package too filled with goodies for you? Then check out the deluxe party pack or the basic party pack. These are filled with everything you need to host a party…except again, the cake and the kids. Be sure to look each one over and decide which is perfect for the construction party you are planning. The children will be thrilled with the supplies in any of these packs.

Party favor ideas are fun to think about. The candy filled tools sound like a winner, but so do the construction hats. The pinata is a fun party game and this one is a tough looking bulldozer truck. The only thing I don’t like about this bulldozer pinata is that it is not a pull string model. My suggestion is to buy the pull string conversion kit. The pull string pinata is the safe pinata. And you know the golden rule, Safety First!

There are plenty of ideas for construction party games. Let the kids build something! Get out the LEGO toys or the construction vehicles. Got trucks? No? Well then buy a set of mini trucks to hand out to your guests and let them roll them around the yard or your party room. How about a game of Red Light Green Light. All construction vehicles have to obey the traffic laws so why not make your guests obey them too?
Have a relay race planned around building something. Form two teams. Decide upon a start and a finish line. Have the first team member race to the midpoint, and stack a box. Then he can rush back to the start line and it’s time for the second player to rush to the midpoint. He can stack another box…and keep going until one team has assembled all their boxes. Watch it though, as the stack grows higher it could fall! Relay games are always lots of fun at a kids birthday party.

Plan a cake with a construction theme. Use the construction cone molded birthday candles on a cake. Put some cupcakes or brownies into a clean Dump Truck and serve the kids from that. There are so many wonderful, fun and unique ways to plan your son’s construction birthday party. Sometimes building a party is as much fun as being invited to one!

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Invitations: A fun and easy way to create a construction themed invitation is to cut poster board into shapes of tools like saws, hammers or safety hats. On the front of the invitation you could write something like “Caution! Construction Party Ahead!” You can make the invite more interesting by visiting your local dollar store and purchasing some construction pencils, rulers, safety goggles, measuring tapes or work gloves and attaching the invitation to it. There are tons of items that you can grab, often priced at 2 for $1.00 so just use your imagination. The little themed gift will definitely get the excitement brewing for the upcoming party.

Decorations: A must have is yellow and black caution tape which can be found at any hardware store. A neat idea is to use orange construction cones all around the party area with yellow and black helium balloons tied to them. A cool do-it-yourself idea is to make several diamond shaped “Caution, Birthday Zone, Men at Work & Kids at Play” signs out of yellow poster board and hang them around the area. Traffic signs are also excellent decorations. Old blueprints look great hanging on walls or on a table underneath a clear plastic tablecloth. Here’s a great opportunity to clear out your garage by pulling out some ladders, saw horses or any building decorations to use as construction party decorations.

Games: Some simple games are “Pass the Tool Box” and “Skyscraper” that will work well for the under 4 crowd. In Pass the Tool Box you simply sit the kids in a circle and pass around a box to music. When the music stops, the child holding the tool box gets to open it and choose a candy! In skyscraper the object is to build the highest tower of blocks possible within a designated period of time. For guests a little older than 4 perhaps you can try games like”Dirt Mover” or “Wheelbarrow” as these require a bit more instructions. In wheelbarrow you set up an obstacle course using orange cones. Each player must push a child sized barrel around the course without spilling the contents (stuffed animals, crumpled paper etc.) If you spill you must start again and the best time wins! In dirt mover, separate the kids into 2 teams and provide each team with a kid safe shovel. Place 2 empty pails a reasonable distance apart from a pile of dirt and have the kids shovel from the pile and run back to fill their teams bucket one at a time. When one teams bucket is full the relay race is over.

Activities: A really neat idea to add to this type of themed party is to give the little workers a chance to see a backhoe or any small machine in action! Perhaps you do that yourself or know someone who does? Perhaps hiring someone as you would hire a clown or a magician. The idea is kind of out there but could you imagine how excited the little one’s would be! Its amazing what the driver’s can do – just set up a small area and let them do their thing. The kids can even st in the machine and have their pictures taken!

Cake Ideas: Make a simple sheet cake of your favourite flavor. Ice it with green icing and make 2 or 3 “dirt mounds” with crumbled up chocolate cookie crumbles. Top with toy dump trucks and bulldozers to create a construction yard scene. Another neat idea for a cake is to use a large dump truck toy with a large and very clean box. Fill the box with layers of chocolate pound cake, vanilla pound cake, crumbled up Skor chocolate bars, crumbled up Oreo cookies and scoops of ice cream. Top with plenty of whipped topping, and sprinkles. Add your birthday candles and voila, a perfect “dirt” cake.

Loot Bags: Pass on the traditional and use a small plastic tool box, a plastic hard hat wrapped in cellophane, a sand pail with shovel or even a tool pouch. Fill the item of your choice with simple things like toy construction vehicles, plastic toy tools, notepads and pencils, paints and paint brushes, mini tool sets, bubble gum tape and plenty of candy treats! Just walk the aisles of your local dollar store – you will be amazed at all the trinkets you will find!

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If you’re planning a construction birthday party or a Bob The Builder birthday party, and are in need of some quick and easy ideas for creating a fun and fabulous construction cake, here’s a few possibilities to get your creative juices flowing:

CONSTRUCTION CAKE #1

Make or buy a sheet cake and frost it with chocolate and green frostings. Create mounds of “dirt” by placing blops of chocolate frosting onto the cake and sprinkle with cookie crumbs or brown sugar. Add plastic dump trucks, bulldozers, excavators, trees, shrubs, signs, etc. to finish your site.

CONSTRUCTION CAKE #2

Make or buy a white cake and tint frosting appropriate colors to make roadways, dirt, sky, and grass. In the alternative, you can use brown sugar to create your roadways, and airbrush blue onto the cake for your sky and green airbrushing for your grass. Also, you could tint some coconut green and add it to your airbrushed grass area to enhance the look of grass. Top with plastic trucks and construction workers. Write “Happy Birthday Foreman (Child’s Name) in cake gel.

DUMP TRUCK DIRT CAKE

1 pkg. Oreo cookies
1/2 c butter, softened
1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese, softened
1 c powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 (3 1/2 oz.) pkg. instant chocolate pudding
3 c milk
1 (12 oz.) tub Cool Whip, thawed
Gummy worms (one for each child)

Crush Oreos. Put 1/3 of the Oreos into a new or clean, foil-lined dump truck. Beat the butter, cream cheese, sugar and vanilla together. Set aside. Combine the milk and pudding mix. Fold the Cool Whip into the pudding. Fold together pudding mixture and cream cheese mixture. Alternately, layer the pudding mixture and the cookie crumbs in the dump truck. Put worms in “soil” so they are seen emerging. Chill 3-4 hours and serve with plastic shovel.

EDIBLE DUMP TRUCK CAKE

Fill a new or clean foil-lined dump truck with chunks of chocolate pound cake. Right before serving, add scoops of ice cream and top with whip cream or whipped topping and sprinkles.

DUMP TRUCK BROWNIES

If you are looking for a cake alternative, you could fill a clean, foil-lined dump truck with brownies. They will look like your truck is filled with dirt. You can have ice cream and/or whip cream available for topping the individual servings.

CONSTRUCTION HARD HAT CAKE

Bake your cakes in a Pyrex bowl and a small single layer cake pan. After cakes have cooled, place the small cake slightly underneath the hard hat to create the hard hat rim. Frost them both bright yellow and write the birthday child’s name and “BOSS” on front of the “hard hat.”

CONSTRUCTION CAKE QUICKIES

Buy a frosted sheet cake and top it with an edible sugar art image of a construction scene or a construction cake topper. Add your Happy Birthday message and you’re good to go.

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