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Can we fix it? That’s Bob the Builder’s™ question to which his friends always answer Yes, We Can! This TV show is a huge hit with small children who love to watch Bob and his gang do renovations, construction, and repairs with one another to help solve problems in Bobsville. This is a great thematic construction party for your kids.
Purchase plastic tools and tie your invitation card to the tool and hand-deliver these to your guests. Request that the kids bring their tools with them to the party.
Use thematic language in your invitation Foreman (your child’s name) is turning (age), which means there’s a lot of work to do. Come party with us at (your last name) Construction site, (day of the week) (date) will be Dynamite!
Your shift begins at (time) and lasts until (time). We will have lots of fun! Plan on getting dirty!
Remind your Bob the Builder™ birthday party guests to wear orange t-shirts and denim shirts, and to bring a change of clothes, just in case.
Decorations
Tape plastic tools to your front door.
Hang some fun signs like Bob at Work, Fresh Cake, and Party Zone Ahead, which you can make yourself with some construction paper and markers.
Create a purple road by purchasing two plastic purple tablecloths, cutting them in half and taping them down to your floor. Use wide white tape to lay down solid and dashed lines on the road. Have the birthday child help create this decoration.
Hang plastic tools around the party area to make it look like Bob’s tool shed, or hang construction machine poster board cutouts to make it look like a construction site.
Hang balloons and streamers in Bob the Builder™ colors such as orange, black, yellow, blue, and red.
Bob the Builder partyware is at Celebrate Express.
Games and Activities
Greet the party guests as they arrive by giving them a carpenter apron (or nail apron) and a plastic hard hat (or paper Bob the Builder™ party hat). Consider using a plastic hard hat for the birthday child, and paper party cone hats for the rest of the guests. These can serve as party favors.
Invite the kids to decorate their hard hats with theme stickers (and other decorative items) while they are waiting for others to arrive.
Build a Town. Collect as many building toys (blocks, plastic building blocks, construction set, wood logs and more) as you can find. Ask neighbors or the parents of party guests to bring some (but make sure to label them so they can be returned properly at the end of the party). Spread the building toys throughout the party area and encourage guests to build a town. Try having each guest act like a different piece of construction equipment.
Bob’s Mobile Phone Search. Hide plastic cell phones (one per guest) throughout the party area. Announce, “Oh no! Bob’s lost his cell phone again! Could everyone please look to find Bob’s cell phone?” For special effect, if you have a cell phone or other ringing device, have it ring at the start of the game. Let the guests keep the toy cell phones they find.
Construction Race. Break up the party guests into two teams. Give each team a bucket of plastic blocks and other construction toys. Challenge each team to build the best-looking Muck the Dump Truck. Give the teams ten minutes then have them race to make a Lofty the Crane, Scoop the Digger, or Dizzy the Cement Mixer.
Fill the Bucket. Gather the guests into two groups and explain that the first to fill their bucket with sand wins, but they may only use spoons.
Bean-Bag Rock Toss. Have guests stand in a line. Each guest gets several chances to toss a “rock” (beanbag) into the bed of the dump truck.
Brick by Brick Relay: Before the party, save empty cereal boxes and other cardboard packaging to use as bricks. Divide the bricks into two piles and divide the kids into two teams. The first players grab a brick, race a specified distance, and lay their bricks down to begin the wall. Each player in line continues until one team builds their wall with all of the bricks. First team done wins.
Play Block Builder. Use large blocks that connect to each other. Before the party, hide the blocks around the party area so the kids have to go hunting for them. Send the kids off in small groups to find as many blocks as they can. The group with the largest set of connected blocks is the winner.
Party Menu
Build a party menu based on Bob the Builder’s characters:
- Lofty’s Grilled Tires: Burgers
- Muck’s Mashed Potatoes
- Wendy’s Bolts and Screws Salad ─ add raisins and nuts to the salad
- Roley’s pasta ─ twist pasta to resemble screws.
Construction Worker Brown Bag Lunch. Prepare a brown bag lunch for each guest, just like real construction workers. One sandwich, bag of chips, apple and juice box makes a basic lunch. Use cookie cutters to turn the sandwiches into fun shapes.
Lofty Wheels. Split English muffins in half and arrange on a cookie sheet. Spread thin layer of baked beans on top of muffin halves. Sprinkle cheese on top of beans. Cut hot dogs into thirds then cut each length-wise into four strips. Arrange 6 hot dog strips for wheel spokes on top of each muffin. Bake at 375° for 10-12 minutes, or until cheese melts.
Bob and Wendy’s Tea and Biscuits. Serve tea and biscuits, just like Bob and Wendy do on the show.
Brownie Boulders. Prepare brownies according to recipe. Instead of cutting the brownies in equal rectangles, cut them in random messy shapes and serve them in the bed of a new toy dump truck, so the brownies look like boulders of dirt. Add-On: to add “grass” to the dirt brownie boulders, dye shaved coconut with green food coloring, then sprinkle on the brownie boulders.
Party Favors
Use plastic hard hats (like the ones you gave out at the beginning of the party) and fill them with small construction vehicles, construction and Bob the Builder™ stickers and tattoos, miniature tool sets, carpenter pencils, bubble gum tape a ruler, a whistle, flashing lights, etc.
