Construction Parties For A Truckload Of Fun!

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To help you get into the construction birthday party frame of mind, we've put together links to the best party supplies and party packages from which to select. If you would like a sneak preview, click on the links below to check them out and make a quick price comparison:

Construction Pals Party Supplies
Under Construction Party Supplies
Construction In A Box Supplies
Construction Cake & Party Supplies
Under Construction Kit-N-Kaboodle Kit


CONSTRUCTION PARTIES - IDEA FOR INVITATIONS

CONSTRUCTION PARTIES SAW INVITES - Cut your invitations out of cardstock in the shape of saws. On one side write, "Caution! Party Zone Ahead." On the reverse side write, "Join Us For Some Ground Breaking Fun" and then put all of your party details.

CONSTRUCTION PARTIES HARD HAT INVITES - Cut hard hat shapes out of yellow cardstock. Put on one side, "We're Building A Great Party & You're Invited." On the reverse side put all of your party details.

CONSTRUCTION-SHAPED DIE-CUT INVITES - Cut an 8 1/2" x 11" piece of white cardstock into either two or four pieces, depending upon the size you want your invites to be. Glue die cuts in the shape of dump trucks, hard hats, cement mixers, tools, etc. to decorate and create your construction themed invitations. Write "We're Building Big Birthday Fun For Foreman (Name)." On the reverse side, write all the party details.

CONSTRUCTION SIGN INVITES - Cut yellow cardstock into two large squares. Using a black marker, draw a heavy black line around the card leaving a 1/4" yellow border. On one side, write on the diagonal, "!!!CONSTRUCTION PARTY ZONE!!!" On the reverse side, write the party details.

Suggested wording for invites:

Calling all builders, Come one, come all!
Help us dig a hole and have a ball!

Project Super: (Birthday Child's Name)
Work Hours: (Date and Time of Party)
Construction Site: (Address of Party)
RSVP to Site Boss: (Parent Name & Phone Number)
Dress To Work The Dirt!

Decorate the corners with construction stickers.


CONSTRUCTION PARTIES - IDEAS FOR COSTUMES

Ask guests to wear construction-related clothing like overalls or jeans, with a plaid or flannel shirt, or a white t-shirt, and work boots, and suspenders.

As your little workers arrive, give them each a Construction Hard Hat with their name written on it in black and an orange vest, which can be made out of 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 PARTIES - IDEAS FOR DECORATIONS

Build a great foundation for your construction parties using some of the following ideas:

• Use yellow and orange "Caution" tape, which can be purchased at your local hardware store. In the alternative, you can use the birthday party version of Caution Tape instead. It also works great instead of ribbon when it comes time to wrap presents.

• Make large construction yard signs out of yellow, red, and orange poster board. Attach your signs to a yard stake and insert them into the ground. Have them read: "RESTRICTED AREA! BIRTHDAY WORKERS ONLY!", "CAUTION! BIRTHDAY PARTY AHEAD", "CAUTION! BIRTHDAY WORK ZONE" "YIELD TO PARTY WORKERS", STOP FOR A GOOD TIME"KIDS AT PLAY", etc.

• Line your walkway to the door with orange construction cones

• Line your walkway with caution tape attached to yard stakes.

• Decorate your party room walls with these fun giant Construction Wall Decals. After the party, transfer them to your child's bedroom walls.

• Decorate your ceilings with twisted streamers or caution tape. Add clusters of balloons in the corners and at the center of the ceiling. Hang lots of curling ribbons from the balloons.

• Cover tables with black plastic tablecloths and create a "road" on the table top using masking tape or electrical tape.

• Create a construction themed centerpiece using a dump truck, bulldozer, or tractor. Attach a bouquet of helium-filled balloons with curling ribbons. If you use a dump truck, you could fill it with some wrapped candy.

• Create traffic and construction signs out of posterboard to hang on your walls. Have them say things like "No Admittance", "Hard Hat Area", "Children at Work", "Yield", "Caution", "Danger", "Work Zone", "Construction Zone", "Work "Hazard", etc. If you're pressed for time or just don't want to make everything, here's some great Construction Traffic Signs that would be perfect. Here's some more Fun Construction Signs to consider.

• Decorate your party room walls with Oversized Tools and blueprint pages.

• To create a construction zone atmosphere, you might consider adding a Traffic Light.

• If you have a non-folding wood ladder, hang it from your ceiling and then hang construction-related decorations, balloons, streamers, etc. off the rungs.

• Place saw horses around the party room to create the construction atmosphere.

• If you have any areas that you don't want your guests to venture into, post "Keep Out" signs on the doors and hang "Caution" tape down hallways or across a closed door to keep people from entering.

• Hang a personalized birthday banner that has a construction theme.

• A party's not a party without a fun pinata. Here's a great Tractor Pinata that could also serve as a decoration.

• To create an extra-special photo-op, here's a fun Construction Zone Photo Op, which is a fun way to memorialize your little one's big day. You can send the picture with the thank yous!

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MONEY-SAVING TIP

Before you purchase anything, be sure to check out the construction parties birthday party supplies that are being offered on eBay. Many times, you'll find great new items at a fraction of the retail price.


CONSTRUCTION PARTIES - IDEAS FOR GAMES & ACTIVITIES

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

• Pin The Hard Hat On The Construction Worker
• Monster Truck Madness
• Construction Zone Obstacle Course
• Wheelbarrow Race
• Hot Tool
• Digging For Construction Treasures
• Skyscraper Success
• Wrap 'Em Up!
• Dynamite

Make little diamond-shaped construction signs and place them by each of your dishes so everyone will know they are eating genuine construction food.

BROWN BAG LUNCH - Pack your crew a brown bag lunch. Put your guests' names on each of the bags.

CONSTRUCT YOUR OWN SANDWICH - Let your little workers "construct" their own sandwiches. All you have to do is set out various slices of cheese and meats, along with any condiments, lettuce, and bread.

NUTS, BOLTS, & SCREWS SALAD - Make your favorite pasta salad recipe using the corkscrew-shaped pasta. Add some chopped walnuts (nuts) and raisins (bolts) to your salad.

JELL-O BRICKS - Make a pan of Jell-O in a rectangular pan. Add an extra envelope of gelatin so the Jell-O will firmly hold together. After it has set, cut it into mini squares and then give all your little workers several squares to use for constructing a house, building, or whatever. You can make several pans of Jell-O using different colored Jell-O's.

ROADSIDE MUNCHIES - Use clean toy dump trucks and clean upside down hard hats to serve chips, pretzels, goldfish, nuts, cookies, chicken nuggets, french fries, etc.

WOOD CHIPS - Potato chips or Sun Chips.

GRAVEL - Serve rock candy that looks like pebbles.

DUMP TRUCK DIP - Serve your favorite dip in the back of a clean dump truck.

CARPENTERS' PENCILS - Carrot sticks. Trim one end to be skinny like a sharpened pencil.

PAINT DIP - Make your favorite guacamole dip (green paint) and your favorite salsa (red paint) to go with your roadside munchies.

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

CEMENT DRINKS - Make thick vanilla shakes. Add a few drops of black food coloring to make it look gray like cement.

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

CONSTRUCTION SUGAR COOKIES - Make your favorite sugar cookie recipe. Cut the dough into construction sign shapes, frost the cookies with orange or yellow icing, and decorate them to look like construction signs. You can also, cut the dough into truck and tool shapes. Decorate your cookies with any combination of edible glitter, cake gel, sprinkles, sparking sugar, etc.


CONSTRUCTION PARTIES - IDEAS FOR PARTY CAKES

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TOOL CAKES OR COOKIES - Make your favorite sugar cookie recipe and create various tool shapes like a hammer, saw, screwdriver, and wrench. In the alternative, bake a sheet cake and then cut out your tool shapes from the cake. Frost your cookies or cakes and decorate them to look like tools.

CONSTRUCTION HARD HAT CAKE - Bake two cakes, one in a tall, round Pyrex bowl that looks like a hard hat, and the second cake in a small single layer cake pan. After the cakes have cooled, place the small cake slightly under the other cake, which is inverted to look like a hard hat. The small cake will create the hard hat rim. Frost both cakes with a bright yellow frosting and write the birthday child's name and "BOSS" before or after the name on the front of the "hard hat".

DUMP TRUCK DIRT CAKE

Make or buy two pound cakes. Hollow out one of the cakes to create the back end of a dump truck. Be sure to leave enough cake around the edges and bottom so it still has a support system. Place the two cakes, small end to end, and cover them both with yellow frosting. Fill the back end of the dump truck with broken Oreo cookies to represent the dirt. Use small chocolate covered donuts as the truck wheels.

CONSTRUCTION SITE CAKE - Make or buy a sheet cake. Airbrush the top in appropriate colors to create your grass, sky, roadways, and dirt areas. Then top it off with small plastic trucks, tractors, excavators, etc., along with little construction workers. Write "Happy Birthday Foreman (Child's Name).

TONKA CAKE - Make or buy a sheet cake and top it with this Tonka Cake Decorating Kit.

CONSTRUCTION CAKE #1 - Make or buy a sheet cake and top it off with this cute Construction Dig Cake Decorating Kit.

CONSTRUCTION CAKE #2 - Make or buy a sheet cake and top it off with these cute little Tool Cake Decorating Kit.

TOOL CUPCAKES - Make or buy cupcakes and top them with these cute little Tool Pics.


CONSTRUCTION PARTIES - IDEAS FOR PARTY FAVORS

If you're looking for a ready-made Construction Favor Kit, here's a few options to consider.

If you want to put together your own favor assortment, you might want to consider giving the kids a hardhat or lunchbox filled with construction stickers, toy trucks and tractors, blowouts, Play Doh or modeling clay, plastic tools and ruler, Legos or building blocks.


CONSTRUCTION PARTIES - IDEAS FOR PARTY SUPPLIES

Here's some fun and fabulous Construction Pals Party Supplies, which offers lots of wonderful options.

Your party won't be complete without a fun colorful Construction Themed Pinata. They also offer Under Construction party supplies.

Here's some great Construction In A Box Supplies, including ideas for partyware, invitations, favors, and lots of decor!

Here's some fun Construction Cake Decorating & Party Supplies.

Here's some great Under Construction Kit-N-Kaboodle Deluxe Kit


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