Race Cars Birthday Party

I had a lot of fun putting together Jack’s fourth birthday party. Pinterest was a huge help to inspire me and I found a bunch of things to copy.  This is the end result.

We taped down black tarps from home depot with black duct tape.  Then we went around with a broom as a measuring tool and put down road lines with white duct tape.  I found blow-up road signs and racing banners from Oriental trading.  This was the bulk of the set up – it took four hours in all.  Of course, we could do it in half that time now that we know how to do it.  You know how it is…

We invited our friends to bring their “vehicles” to join in on races and free play.  We think it turned out great and no one got hurt!

We tried our hands at making our own cars, but they didn’t work so we helped things along by setting up a ramp to have them slide down.  I think the kids still had fun making the cars, anyway.

We played, we created, we ate, we hit a pinata and we ate cookies.  I made red ones that said stop and green ones that said go.  I’m really sorry that I don’t have the link of where I found this idea but believe me when I say that I didn’t make this one up.

They were easy to make, were whipped up in no time and served a bunch of people.  That’s a good deal to me!

The party was low-key, fun to do, and made Jack smile.  All in all, I’d call this one a success.