Hot Wheels Party

Does your child love to play with Hot Wheels cars? These classic toys are super popular and would make an excellent party theme!

For the Invitations:
For a fun invitation, make your own party card-sized checked flags. Use white card stock and black strips of paper, and add a stick to one end to make the flag look authentic. Write all of the party details in race language (such as, “Race on over to my party!”) on the back of the flag.

For the Decorations:
Check out Celebrate Express for Hot Wheels Tableware.

Also, Birthday in a Box has some great themed items…

…including personalized banners.

As an alternative to using thematic partyware, use Solid Red, Blue and Yellow supplies, and accent them with thematic cups or a tablecloth. A mix-and-match approach is budget-friendly and looks great.

Additonally, racing and solid-colored balloons would make the party area festive, or some hot wheels streamers. A race car balloon would be a lot of fun to attach to the birthday child’s chair.

Use red and yellow crepe paper to create a start and finish line. When kids enter the party, have them cross a red start line. When you send the kids home, set up a yellow finish line for them to cross as they depart.

Set orange cones around the party area to create a race course.

If you are holding the party outdoors and you have large tires available, place them on the ground and cover them with a white tablecloth—you can use them for the party table!

For the Activities:
Use a car cookie cutter to make some Hot Wheel sugar cookies. At the party, let the kids frost them with black icing and decorate them with candies. They can eat their cookies at the party, or you can place the cookies into cellophane bags to take home.

For a craft, purchase plain white T-shirts and fabric markers, and let the kids create their own Hot Wheel designs. This is a great goody item for the kids to take home. They can also wear the shirts at the party. When each child’s parents RSVP, make sure to ask what size T-shirt the child wears.

Create a ramp and let the kids race their Hot Wheels cars. Have different competitions: fastest car race, slowest car race (the person who comes in last wins!), car flipping (the person who flips their car while racing wins!), etc.

If you have a set of small, old ties available, have the kids split up into teams and roll the tires back and forth for a tire race. If you don’t have any tires, you can probably find some at a junk yard.

Set a large tire upright and have the kids do a ring toss through it. The kids must toss the ring through the center of the tire.

Create an obstacle course with cones, tires, rope, etc., that the kids must race through while pretending to be Hot Wheels cars.

Purchase wooden race cars and have the kids paint their own Hot Wheels. Set up a covered area in your home where the kids can complete this activity, and make sure they have smocks on. Again, this wooden car can be used as a party favor.

For the Menu:
Use either a race car cookie cutter or a wheel cookie cutter to cut out sandwiches that match your theme.

Serve hot dogs as race cars: attach pieces of carrots with toothpicks for the wheels and olives for a driver.

Serve Oreo cookies for a tire treat.

Use the race car cookie cutter to create festive cheese slices, brownies, Jell-O Jigglers, and any other food you can cut out to match your theme.

Create a crank oil sundae bar where the kids create their own sundaes with ice cream, chocolate syrup (oil), nuts, cherries, sprinkles, and whatever else sounds good.

For the Party Favors:
Send the kids home with their cookies and T-shirts.

If you are looking for other ideas, decorate a lunch bag with red, yellow, and green dots so it looks like a traffic light, and fill it with Hot Wheel stickers, gummies, and other thematic items.

A prepackaged Favor Box is easy, matchs your party, and is a wonderful timesaver!