My nephew Jack celebrated his 3rd birthday with a Truck Party.  For anyone who knows Jack, you know that it really could not have been any other theme for his birthday. He LOOOOVES trucks.  He can seriously name EVERY SINGLE type of truck made.  I have on several occasions asked him (yes, my 2-year-old nephew) “What type of truck is that again?”   He squeals with excitement in the car every time he sees a truck on the road..”Look a flat bed…a dump truck…a cement mixer…” It really is so stinkin’ cute!!!  Anyhow, it was a lot of fun developing this party for him as I knew that he would get super excited over every little  truck detail. 

The table design started with inspiration from Bruder Trucks.  Jack has several of these toy trucks and plays with them all of the time. They are probably the best made kids trucks out there.  They have all of the detail of the real truck with working parts.  I even used their logo as   inspiration for the color scheme of the party!  Of course with the high quality comes the high price tag….they run about $75-80 each.  So you can imagine my excitement when my mother called from Florida to say that her local Marshall’s had them for $20 each!!   I love a deal!! I used the cement mixer and crane as the centerpiece for each table and topped them with paper mache letters from Michael’s.  The napkins were made from fabric found at a local fabric store as was the tablecloth.  I bought keys and key chains and put them on the  table for decoration.  The kids loved them and it took about 30 minutes of searching to get them all back!

I think my favorite element of the table were the chairs. I really wanted to have the kids sitting on tires of some sort…we tried several different designs and finally came across these lawn mower tires at Lowe’s.  Hubby drilled them to upside down trash cans from IKEA and voila..perfect truck party seating!  After sitting on them for a few minutes, we quickly realized that they were not very comfortable. So we made seat cushions to pad the seats! Much, much better….

The games of the party consisted of activities that the kids did to become a truck driver.  They had to stack their spare tires, fill up their truck with fuel,  know how to pay the tolls, and find the missing truck keys.  I was amazed at how all of the party guests really got into these games…we had a pretty wide age range (18 months to 10) and all of the kids got involved.  This party was such a success I am going to add a few more elements and create a party package for my business.

Happy 3rd Birthday Jack!  We Love You!!