Resources for a Construction Party
- Have a crafty construction party with LittleDebbie.com
- Get a hero: The Construction Worker PEZ (emergency 911 hero) will make a fine
display or special prize for the party.
- Construct an interesting favor: This clever construction party favor is a bouquet of
construction cookies cleverly propped in yellow buckets.
- Safety cones. Make your own construction cone Piñata with an idea from Family
Fun.
- Get picky and personal. Put your little guy's mug shot on cupcake picks. Send a
digital picture along with the number you want to appear on the hard hat and
you'll get personalized construction party picks for use on cupcakes or
appetizers. You'll find a variety of personalized photos from Bug&Boo found on
ETSY.
Construction Party
How to have a cute construction theme birthday party for boys
Construct the best party of his little life: a crafty construction party that will forge fond
memories for years to come. You will lay the foundations for fun when you build a
birthday party with imaginative play in mind, and you can do it right at home.
A construction theme party starts with bright and happy display of yellow toys, candy
and decorations. Start by covering the table with a yellow tablecloth, then layer the
look with black place mats made from construction paper, crepe paper, or black
corrugated board. Pair yellow plates with black cutlery. Sprinkle lemon yellow
jellybeans and black licorice on the tables like confetti. Fold black napkins with yellow
ones and secure with curling ribbons or use licorice to tie into napkin rings and finish
the look with a display of small truck toys and street signs.
Here are the nuts and bolts of a crafty construction party:
Build a construction zone:
How to have a cute construction theme birthday party for boys
Construct the best party of his little life: a crafty construction party that will forge fond
memories for years to come. You will lay the foundations for fun when you build a
birthday party with imaginative play in mind, and you can do it right at home.
A construction theme party starts with bright and happy display of yellow toys, candy
and decorations. Start by covering the table with a yellow tablecloth, then layer the
look with black place mats made from construction paper, crepe paper, or black
corrugated board. Pair yellow plates with black cutlery. Sprinkle lemon yellow
jellybeans and black licorice on the tables like confetti. Fold black napkins with yellow
ones and secure with curling ribbons or use licorice to tie into napkin rings and finish
the look with a display of small truck toys and street signs.
Here are the nuts and bolts of a crafty construction party:
Build a construction zone:
- Kids at work! Here are some easy ways to create a construction zone:
- Lead the entrance of the party with safety cones.
- Use real caution tape to demarcate the party zone.
- When the kids "report to duty" top them with hard hats and make them
punch in. - Sure, you could construct your own signs, but the Beistle Company has
done the work for you with 16-inch construction sign cutouts, pictured left.
- Dump the candy in clever places. Buy him some new construction toys, like a
Tonka Dump Truck, and dump a pile of pebble candy into the back of the truck for
a table centerpiece. Fill extra hard hats with candy and chips for table decoration. - Slow down! You've been thinking about getting one anyway, so you may as well
get one of those kid Alert safety signs. It's a fun way to direct party goers and
you'll find it useful in the years ahead. A construction party is an opportunity to
teach kids about safety at the home site.
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Construction Party Invitation and Thank You card Ideas
Caution: it may be tempting on your invitations to invite parents to "dump off the kids,"
but parents with kids under five generally are apprehensive to leave their children
unsupervised, even if it's a small party. Construct your invitations accordingly.
Construction party food
Construction Party activity
Set up activity stations for your construction party, pair the kids, and then have kids
rotate the circuit. Blow a whistle every ten minutes for rotation to allow every kid some
of the fun. Blowing a whistle enables you to provide a structured theme and makes it
seem like you're on a real construction site.
Caution: it may be tempting on your invitations to invite parents to "dump off the kids,"
but parents with kids under five generally are apprehensive to leave their children
unsupervised, even if it's a small party. Construct your invitations accordingly.
- Construction Party invitations and wording ideas:
- A party is under construction for Jack's Fourth Birthday
- Please have the entire family report for duty.
- Shift: Saturday August 22 from noon to 3:00
- Construction site: 123 main street
- RSVP: Foreman Bob or General Contractor Jane at 867-5309
- Construction Party Thank You Card Ideas:
- I had a truckload of fun with you at my party.
Construction party food
- Brown bagging it? You may be tempted to brown bag the birthday meal,
construction worker style, but that just says "school lunch" to kids. It's a party
after all, and you should add some party pizazz. If you can't resist the
temptation, then at least put the bag in an upturned construction hat and add a
construction party favor inside to make it a happy meal.
- Turn the cake into a construction zone. Buy small truck and dig a messy hole into
the cake to reveal to party goers the flavor inside. Or dump crushed cookies and
pretzels into an amazing dump truck cake. Or shovel chocolate graham crackers
on the Bulldozer cake.
- Dig up new uses: Fill a new dump truck toy with a pile of brownies to create an
appetizing display of edible dirt. Or supply a napkins or utensils from the truck
for a buffet.
Construction Party activity
Set up activity stations for your construction party, pair the kids, and then have kids
rotate the circuit. Blow a whistle every ten minutes for rotation to allow every kid some
of the fun. Blowing a whistle enables you to provide a structured theme and makes it
seem like you're on a real construction site.
- Hammer in the morning. You know how the song goes. "If I had a hammer, I'd
hammer in the morning, I'd hammer in the evening..." Kids love to hammer, so
allow them the opportunity (supervised) to test their hammering skills. Drive the
nails a quarter of an inch so that kids don't injure their thumbs.
- Make Legos part of the construction fun. Lego is a combined word in Danish
meaning "Play Well." The little construction workers will have loads of fun moving
Lego blocks to a construction site with a Tonka truck and constructing their own
building. Set a timer to see how high they can go in the allotted time and take a
picture with their masterpiece. This will be useful for thank you cards. Be sure to
give the kids Lego block candy in their favor bags.
- Dig a Quarry. Dump the trucks in one spot, and let the kids have at it. Forget the
sand! Kids love gravel as they don't get much opportunity with the texture of
the heavy rocks. Set up a wash station where kids can dip their hands in soapy
water, rinse in another bucket, then wipe their hands with a cloth after this
activity.
- Build a house! Everyone at the party can decorate a section of the cardboard
playhouse, pictured right.
- Construct a construction museum. Protect your table with butcher block paper.
Provide crayons in small buckets with sand so the colors stick out of the sand
and allow your little artists to color. Provide a few stickers too. Here are some
construction coloring pages. There are lots of coloring pages from loaders to
scoopers to steam rollers and more. Display the works of art in a museum
fashion by framing them.
- Dump some good reading. Load a large dump truck with a library of construction
books. You may have your favorites. Some good books available on Amazon
include:
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