Construction Birthday Party Ideas
To Help You Build
An Unforgettable Party

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CONSTRUCTION BIRTHDAY PARTY INVITATIONS

A great construction party starts out with a fun invitation. To help you build high rise success, get all of your guests looking forward to your big event with a construction themed invite. If you have time on your hands, you might want to consider making them from scratch. If you're feeling a little pressed for time, or would rather devote your available time to other party details, then opt for a ready-made invite.

CONSTRUCTION SIGN BIRTHDAY PARTY INVITATIONS - Cut 8 1/2" x 11" yellow card stock into 4 pieces. Draw heavy black square around card leaving a yellow edge. Either type or handwrite on diagonal "!!!CAUTION!!! CONSTRUCTION AHEAD". On the reverse side type or handwrite:

Help Us Lay The Foundation To Build Big Birthday Fun!

Foreman: (Birthday Child's Name)
Work Hours: (Date and Time of Party)
Job Site: (Address of Party)
RSVP to Project Super: (Parent Name & Phone Number)
Construction Attire Required

CONSTRUCTION PHOTO INVITATIONS - Cut 8 1/2" x 11" yellow card stock into 2 pieces and fold in half. Using decorative scissors trim edges of photo of your child in construction attire, so photo is slightly smaller than card stock. Glue photo to front of invitation. Put "Join Us For Some Ground Breaking Fun", or "Construction Birthday Party Zone", or "A Celebration Is Under Construction For (Name)" above the photo.

Either type or handwrite the following on left inside:

Calling all builders, Come one, come all.
We'll dig a hole and have a ball.

On right inside:

Foreman: (Birthday Child's Name)
Job Date: (Party Date)
Work Hours: (Date and Time of Party)
Job Site: (Address of Party)
RSVP to Project Super: (Parent Name & Phone Number)
Construction Attire Required

Decorate corners with construction-related stickers.


CONSTRUCTION WORKER BIRTHDAY PARTY COSTUMES

Ask guests to wear clothes they can "work" in like jeans, overalls, flannel shirt, white t-shirt, plaid shirt, work boots, and suspenders.

As workers arrive, give them each a plastic hard hat with their name written on it in black. You might also consider giving them each an orange vest made from orange plastic tablecloths and black electrical tape.

For some more construction costume ideas, check out our CONSTRUCTION COSTUME photos and how-to tips. They are nothing less than fun and fabulous!


CONSTRUCTION BIRTHDAY PARTY DECORATIONS

Build a great foundation for your construction birthday party zone using some of the following ideas:

• Make construction yard signs out of yellow poster board, attach to stake, and insert in ground. They can read: "CAUTION! BIRTHDAY AHEAD", "CAUTION! WORK ZONE", "KIDS AT PLAY", "RESTRICTED! BIRTHDAY WORKERS ONLY", "DETOUR AHEAD", "YIELD", "DANGER", "NO ADMITTANCE"and HARD HAT AREA".

• Line your walkway to your front door with orange construction cones.

• Decorate ceilings with twisted streamers and clusters of balloons with curling ribbons in orange and black or yellow and black.

• Create "canopy" at entryway by loosely attaching orange and black or yellow and black streamers to center of ceiling and at tops of 2 walls while making loops which create canopy effect. Allow each streamer to go to floor. Periodically add strip of caution tape as a streamer.

• Decorate archways or doorways with construction caution tape or kids zone caution tape for construction workers to pass through.

• Cover tables with black tablecloths and bright yellow or orange table toppers. Tie corners with caution tape.

• Scatter brown sugar and beans on tabletop to serve as dirt and rocks. Create centerpiece with small toy trucks, bulldozers, and tractors.

• Decorate walls with oversized construction tools and blueprints.

• Add traffic lights to create construction zone atmosphere.

• Post "Keep Out" signs anyplace you don't want people to go into.

• Add personalized construction banner for birthday foreman.

• To make an extra-special memory, if you have access to a bulldozer, put it in your front yard. It will serve as the neon light that tells everyone where the party is. Also, each child can climb aboard and have a picture taken, to be sent with thank you's! If this isn't possible, consider adding a construction standee photo prop which would be perfect for creating a fun and memorable photo.

PRINTABLE GAMES - Here's a great site for some fun Print & Play Birthday Party Games that would be a perfect party game add-on:

Printable Birthday Games Ages 3-5
Printable Birthday Games Ages 6-7
Printable Birthday Games Ages 8-9
Printable Birthday Games Ages 10+

Here's an entire page with nothing but Construction Party Games and Activities, such as:

• Shovel Up Some Fun
• It's A Wrap
• Wheelbarow Race
• Worksite Cleanup
• Building Funtime
• Play-Doh Creations
• Build A Town
• Digging For Trucks
• Bulldozer Or Dump Truck Pinata

BUILD YOUR OWN SANDWICH - Set out various meats, cheese, spreads, lettuce, and bread and let workers construct their own.

JELL-O BRICKS - Make Jell-O in rectangular pan. Add extra envelope of gelatin so it will hold together. When set, cut into squares and let workers build with their squares before eating their handiwork.

ROADSIDE MUNCHIES - Serve chips, nuts, goldfish, pretzels, cookies, chicken nuggets, or french fries in new (clean) toy dump trucks.

BULLDOZER BURGERS AND DYNAMITE DOGS - Barbecue hamburgers and hotdogs for construction crew.

CONSTRUCTION CHUG-A-LUG - Serve orange and yellow Gatorade, Kool-Aid, or Juice.

CONSTRUCTION SUGAR COOKIES - Make favorite sugar cookie recipe. Using construction cookie cutters, cut dough into truck and tool shapes. Cover with orange or yellow icing and decorate with any combination of edible glitter, sprinkles, sparking sugar, nonpareils, or cake gel.

Photo courtesy of: Jennifer Schwalm

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
Gummi worms (one for each child)

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

CONSTRUCTION SITE CAKE - Make white cake and tint frosting appropriate colors to make roadways, dirt, sky, and grass. Top with plastic trucks and construction workers. Write "Happy Birthday Foreman (Child's Name) in cake gel.

CONSTRUCTION SHEET CAKE - Make a white sheet cake and frost white. Add an edible sugar cake art image of a construction scene to make your cake look spectacular.

CONSTRUCTION HARD HAT CAKE - Bake cakes in Pyrex bowl and small single layer cake pan. After cakes have cooled, place small cake slightly underneath hard hat for rim. Frost bright yellow and write birthday child's name and BOSS on front of "hard hat".


CONSTRUCTION BIRTHDAY PARTY FAVORS

Fill small hard hats with any combination of modeling clay, Play Doh, construction stickers, chewing gum, ruler, toy trucks, plastic tools, or Legos.

CONSTRUCTION BIRTHDAY PARTY SUPPLIES

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Construction Birthday Party Ideas

Do you have some favorite construction birthday party ideas? Do tell! Please share all your party tips and ideas for invitations, decorations, games, etc.