Thomas The Tank Engine Birthday For Toddler Birthday Party To Keep You On The Right Track!

Photo courtesy of: Jim The Photographer

To help you get into the Thomas the Tank frame of mind, we've put together links to the best party supplies:

Thomas And Friends Deluxe Kit-N-Kaboodle Kit
Thomas the Tank Engine Deluxe Party Kit
Thomas The Tank Supplies
Thomas The Tank Party Supplies
Thomas Pinata & Supplies
Cake Toppers & Edible Sugar Art Thomas The Tank


THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE BIRTHDAY PARTY INVITATIONS

TRAIN TICKET INVITATIONS - Make giant train tickets out of colorful cardstock. On one side put, "Come Join (Name) For The Ride Of Your Life!" On the reverse side, put the party details s follows:

Boarding Date: (date of party) Arrival Time: (time party starts) Departure time: (time party ends) Station Location: (address of party location)

On a piece of decorative scrapbook paper, type out the itinerary as follows:

Check in at the train station and enjoy coloring a Thomas the Tank Engine Birthday picture while you wait for the other passengers to arrive.

Lunch shall be served in the Dining Car. A feast of roadside munchies will be available for all passengers of the (Birthday Name's) Express.

There will be a layover at the depo with many Thomas the Train activities available for all to enjoy.

All will be asked to depart via the Baggage Claim area to claim their special packages.

Place the train ticket and itinerary into the manila envelope and embellish with Thomas the Tank Engine Birthday stickers. On the front write, "(Name's) Train Station" as part of the return address. On reverse side around the edge of the flap write, "Enclosed: Travel Documents & Itinerary." Seal the envelope and mail to your guests.

TRAIN PARTY INVITATIONS - Make three train cars out of various colored cardstock and glue them onto black cardstock that is cut and glued into the shape of train tracks. You can use train-shaped cookie cutters as a pattern. Decorate cars with train stickers, glitter, buttons for wheels, etc. Put, "(Name's) Party Express" across the three cars. On the reverse side put the party details and have them span across the various cars.

THOMAS THE TANK POSTCARDS - Get some postcards that have pictures of Thomas the Tank on them and put the party details on the reverse side. Add on the front of the postcard a small word bubble that says, "Toot! Toot! All Aboarrrrrd!."

THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE BIRTHDAY PHOTO INVITATIONS - Cut 8 1/2" x 11" shiny black card stock, or some other party color, into 2 pieces and fold in half. Using decorative scissors, trim edges of a photo of your child dressed in a Thomas the Tank Engine birthday costume or a train conductor costume, so photo is slightly smaller than the card stock. Glue the photo to the front of the invitation. Glue a word bubble to the front that says, "Now Boarding (Name's) Birthday Express."

Using scrapbook paper in a coordinating light print design, (finished size will be 4 1/2" x 7 1/2", type or handwrite in calligraphy the party details. Using decorative scissors cut inserts and glue to inside of the cardstock. Decorate the corners with Thomas the Tank Engine Birthday stickers.

EMBELLISH READY-MADE THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE BIRTHDAY INVITATIONS - Buy ready-made Thomas the Tank invitations and embellish them with glitter, buttons, ribbons, sequins, etc.

The following wording is provided as a guide for your invitations:

All Aboard For A Thomas the Tank Engine Birthday Party!
Party Train Boards At:
Party Train Returns At:
Meet At Bryson Street Station (use last name) Located At:
RSVP To: Conductor Mom (name) At (phone #)

Chuga-Chuga Choo-Choo!
I'm Having A Thomas the Tank Birthday Party And I'm Inviting You!
Bring This Ticket To Claim Your Seat.
Party Train Boards At:
Party Train Returns At:
Meet At Bryson Street Station (use last name) Located At:
RSVP To: Conductor Mom (name) At (phone #)

Be sure to tell everyone to bring their tickets in order to gain admittance. As the kids arrive, use a one-hole punch or a scrapbook punch to clip their ticket as they enter the "depot", aka the party room.


THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE BIRTHDAY PARTY COSTUMES

Invite the kids to come dressed in theme-related costumes. For example, a train engineer could wear a classic striped cap, bib overalls, and a red bandana tied around their neck. A Thomas the Tank Engine, James the Red Engine, or Percy the Small Engine costume are other great options.

In the alternative, as your passengers arrive, give them each a Thomas the Tank conductor cap, red bandana for their neck, and a whistle.


THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE BIRTHDAY PARTY DECORATIONS

Many color options are available with a Thomas the Tank birthday party theme. Select any combination of red, blue, green, yellow, and black to bring your Thomas party to life.

• Create a large yard sign to identify your "train station" for your passengers. Use the first or last name of the birthday child and their age. For example, "Lancaster Birthday Station - Track #4."

• Create a railroad track for your walkway. Attach planks of wood the width of your walkway to long boards on either side to add stability and paint black.

• Create a train track on your walkway using black electrical tape to make the tracks or draw them on with chalk.

• Make Thomas the Tank Engine birthday party signs out of poster board and hang them on the walls in the "train depo." You could also attach them to wood stakes and place them throughout your yard. Sign ideas: (Cut a big red circle, Glue big white "x" on circle, and add a white "R" on the left and right sides of the "X"). They could also say things like, "RAILROAD CROSSING", "THOMAS THE TANK PARTY CROSSING", "MEN AT WORK", "DO NOT STOP ON TRACKS", "CAUTION! TRAIN AHEAD", "RESTRICTED! BIRTHDAY WORKERS ONLY", etc.

• Create a ticket booth out of a cardboard refrigerator box or build a simple wood box. Position it at your entrance and require your passengers to check in with the ticket master (mom or dad) or the conductor (birthday child) and give that person their ticket in order to gain entrance. Be sure to have extra tickets on hand in case the kids forgot to bring theirs with them.

• Create a balloon tunnel along your walkway for all of the passengers to walk through.

• Use disposable theme tablecloths or create a train track tablecloth using one of the party colors as the foundation and adding black electrical tape in the shape of train tracks to run down the center of the table. You can also use construction paper or streamers to create your tracks.

• Place clusters of balloons and curling ribbons in party colors throughout the train depo and especially in the corners.

• Hang a Thomas the Tank Engine Birthday banner on one of the walls.

• Decorate train depot's ceilings with twisted streamers and clusters of balloons with curling ribbons in party colors.

• Create a "canopy" at the entryway by loosely attaching streamers to the center of the ceiling and at the tops of two walls while making loops to create the canopy effect. Allow each streamer to go to the floor.

• Decorate your archways and doorways with streamers for railroad workers to pass through.

• Sprinkle train-shaped confetti onto the tabletops.

• Create a table centerpiece by placing a Thomas the Tank Engine birthday pinata with balloons attached to it in the center of your tables.

• Hang train postcards from ceiling on streamers, fishing line, or curling ribbons.

• Make signs to hang in your various rooms to identify your train cars. For example, Dining Car, Engine Room, Baggage Room, Train Depot, etc.

• Set up a train to run during your Thomas birthday party to add ambiance and keep everyone in the train mood.

• Scatter brown sugar and beans across the tabletop to serve as dirt and rocks. Make a centerpiece by using small toy trains, trees, railroad signs, buildings, etc.

• Decorate the train depo walls with various train posters.

• To create a railroad zone atmosphere, add traffic lights made from cardboard.

• Make signals or traffic lights from cardboard and attach to your doorways.

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

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THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE BIRTHDAY PARTY GAMES & ACTIVITIES

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

• Mae A Choo Choo Train
• Make A Train
• Station Master Says
• Coal Toss
• Pin The Caboose On Thomas The Tank Engine Birthday Train
• Find The Train
• Red Light, Green Light
• Train Birthday Pinata
• Train birthday Party Activity Stations

TRAIN SANDWICH - Make several peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and cut them in half. Spread a clean tablecloth on a table. Create your train tracks using carrot and celery sticks going down the entire length of the table. Place a toy train engine at the start of the tracks and line up the train cars (sandwiches) behind the engine. Use a dab of peanut butter to secure banana wheels to each car.

CHOO-CHOO DOGS - Hot dogs.

ROADSIDE MUNCHIES - Use clean train cars to serve your munchies in. Fill them with chips, nuts, goldfish crackers, pretzels, or cookies. To make it more fun, create railroad tracks for the cars to sit upon. Use construction paper, posterboard, or ice cream sticks.

TRAIN WHEELS - Mini doughnuts, white, chocolate, and coconut.

TRAIN COOKIES - Cut out train engine, caboose, various train cars, and railroad crossing sign-shaped cookies from your favorite sugar cookie recipe. Decorate accordingly.

KID-FRIENDLY FOODS - The following foods are a hit with just about all children:

• Applesauce
• Carrots & Ranch dressing
• Chicken nuggets
• Crackers & cheese
• French fries
• Fruit - bananas, strawberries, grapes, apples
• Graham crackers
• Macaroni & cheese
• Pizza
• String cheese

A train birthday party lends itself nicely to several options for creating a train birthday cake.

Click To Play Thomas Engine Cake Video

CHOO-CHOO TRAIN CAKE - Use Wilton's 3-D train engine cake pan. It comes equipped with complete decorating instructions to create a 10 x 6 x 4 inch deep cake. This is a fun cake that everyone will want to board.

TRAIN-SHAPED BIRTHDAY CAKE - Use Wilton's cake pan that is shaped like a locomotive. It is the perfect train to use for filling the cargo compartments with cookies and candy. It comes with decorating instructions. This adorable cake will have all your passengers lining up to watch this train pull into the depot.

MINI TRAIN-SHAPED CAKES - Use Wilton's mini train pan set which will create six individual train-shaped cakes. The pans come complete with instructions and pictures to give you ideas for decorating three different trains. When your guests see these little engines, they will shout, "Full Steam Ahead."

THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE BIRTHDAY CAKE - Make or buy a sheet cake and frost it white. Add an edible sugar art image of Thomas the Tank Engine Birthday design to make your cake look spectacular.

TRAIN BIRTHDAY PARTY SHEET CAKE - Make or buy a sheet cake and frost it white. Create a train track using black or red string licorice. Top with a plastic train set, plastic railroad signs, trees, and shrubs.

THOMAS & FRIENDS BIRTHDAY CUPCAKES - Make or buy white cupcakes. Decorate each cupcake with piped frosting in green, blue, or yellow. Add a few swirls of colored cake decorating gels and top each cupcake with a Thomas cupcake ring or use one of Thomas' friends.

TRAIN CUPCAKES - Cover a long piece of cardboard with foil. Pipe out black tracks down the entire length of the foil. Using train cupcake molds, make enough train cars as there are guests. Frost and decorate each car differently. Using cake gel, spell out each guest's name on a train car. Lay the cars on the tracks and either have them slightly touch one another or pipe out a "hinge" to connect the cars to each another. Decorate the locomotive engine extra special for the birthday child.

Check out our visitor-submitted TRAIN CAKES photos and how-to tips.


THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE BIRTHDAY PARTY FAVORS

Use a red bandana or decorate a box like a train car to hold your party favors. Fill them with Thomas or train-related goodies like toy trains, train stickers, train puzzles, train coloring book and crayons, train books, Thomas the Tank book, etc.


THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE BIRTHDAY PARTY IDEAS FOR PARTY SUPPLIES

Here's a great Thomas And Friends Deluxe Kit-N-Kaboodle Kitwhich contains just about everything you need.

Here's another great option for a Thomas the Tank Engine Deluxe Party Kit which contains just about everything.

Check out these great Thomas The Tank Supplies. Includes lots of fun options for partyware, balloons, tablecovers, favors, decor, and more!

Here's some fun Thomas The Tank Party Supplies for you to check out.

If you're in the market for a fun pinata in the shape of one of your superheros, here's a few options for a Thomas Pinata, along with options for partyware and decor!

If you're short on time and looking for a quick and easy way to make a fun and fabulous birthday cake, here's some great cake toppers and edible sugar art images in the Thomas The Tank theme.




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