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Do trains fascinate your child? Does he just love all types of choo choo trains, and would he love to be a train conductor? If so, a train theme may be just the ticket for his upcoming birthday party!
For the Invitation:
Create a train ticket invitation. Write all of the party details on it, and have your guests bring it to the party to gain entrance to your party train! When the kids arrive, make sure to clip their ticket as they enter the party.
For Decorations:
For for thematic Train party decorations, check out Birthday in a Box.
A personalized banner would make great a decoration:
Create a train out of large appliance boxes from a local store. Cut out windows and make an engine at the front. Paint the boxes to make a train body that the kids can play in.
Place train signs around the party area made from colorful heavy card stock.
Create train tracks on your driveway and the path leading to the front door.
Use balloons and streamers to decorate your party area in the colors you have chosen for your party.
Cover your party table with a red table cloth. Draw a train tack down the center with red and white markers, and place your child’s favorite train toys on the track. The kids can play with the toys while they wait for the party meal.
For Activities:
When the kids arrive, provide them with conductor hats that they can wear at the party and take home as a party favor.
Purchase small wooden trains that the kids can paint while they wait for everyone to arrive. These can also serve as party favors.
Play Conductor Says, like Simon Says.
Play Musical Caboose, like Musical Chairs, but create train cabooses out of construction paper and let the kids walk on the cabooses as they play the game.
Let the kids free play in the train you made with train toys you have left out.
Have a Coal Race. Divide the kids into two teams. Put five pieces of coal at one end of the party room (these can be fake black rocks). The kids must pick up the coal with a shovel and dump the coal into a bucket across the room from the coal. The first team that fills their coal bucket with all of the coal without dropping any, wins!
For the Menu:
Using a train cookie cutter, cut out a full thematic party menu of sandwiches, cheese slices, brownies, cookies, etc.
Bake a standard round cake, and, using cake gel, pipe a train track around the cake.
For the Goodies:
Let the kids take home their painted trains and conductor caps, and be sure to take pictures at the party with the kids in their caps for a perfect thank you note memory.
