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Last year, I had the priv­i­lege of help­ing out one of my best friend, Har­ri­et, with her son’s third birth­day par­ty. At the time, Noah just adored Thomas the Train, so we worked on his All Aboard par­ty with a rail­road theme. As Noah was prepar­ing to turn four, his new obses­sion cen­tered around all things con­struc­tion-relat­ed and thus, deter­mined the theme of his cel­e­bra­tion this year: a con­struc­tion par­ty! I designed the invi­ta­tion with graph­ics from Lit­tle Fairy Land and prints from Woofy World, which set the tone for the par­ty and were just per­fect, as the lit­tle con­struc­tion guy resem­bled Noah so much!

The par­ty was held at an indoor play­ground called Peek­a­boo Play­land, which pro­vid­ed an amaz­ing set­ting. The food and desserts were placed all on one table, which was anchored by large paper mache let­ters spelling out Noah’s name and tied togeth­er with ropes as if it were still being built, along with a tiered tray of cup­cakes! I made con­struc­tion-themed fon­dant top­pers to adorn the cup­cakes, but because the guest list was fair­ly large, we decid­ed to dec­o­rate them with both fon­dant and paper top­pers. The lat­ter were also designed uti­liz­ing the coor­di­nat­ing graph­ics. This is a great way to not only pro­vide diver­si­ty in the cup­cake pre­sen­ta­tion, but also to keep down costs. Though I made sure to make enough fon­dant dec­o­ra­tions for all the kids to avoid any arguments!

To achieve a more indus­tri­al look, I pur­chased some tex­tured foam tiles for the table from Big Lots. Along with the gal­va­nized trays and buck­ets, I also used some trucks and toys to present the food, which con­sist­ed of “break time sand­wich­es”, “exca­vat­ing empanadas”, “wreck­ing pota­to balls” and “nuts and bolts fruit sal­ad”. I had found a cir­cu­lar saw made out of wood at Hob­by Lob­by and decid­ed to paint it sil­ver and glue it to a can­dle­stick, which turned out to be a cute lit­tle stand! We cut out some parch­ment paper to put on it and dec­o­rat­ed it “spare tire donuts” and “choco­late con­struc­tion hats”. The “stuck‑o & cement piz­za” was served direct­ly to the kids at their tables.

I insert­ed decor all along the table and the counter behind it relat­ing back to the theme, inclu­sive of mini hard hats, cones and flash­lights. Addi­tion­al use of tool box­es aid­ed in hold­ing nap­kins and extra uten­sils and drinks were found at the “fuel­ing station”.

I could­n’t be hap­pi­er with the table set­ting for the kid­dos… I mean, con­struc­tion work­ers! The loca­tion had two pic­nic tables with bench­es and we mim­ic­ked the food table with the foam tiles and added plates and orange cone cups from Cel­e­brate Express. The fab­u­lous ladies work­ing there laid out the con­struc­tion hats on the bench­es and were ready for the crew to put on and get to work! And by the way, we real­ly appre­ci­at­ed their help in set­ting up, as we only had 15 min­utes to do so! I picked up some yel­low tool belt attach­ments, which we used to hold the plas­ticware and pro­vid­ed some extra fun details.

The favors were prob­a­bly my favorite aspect of the par­ty! I was orig­i­nal­ly plan­ning on uti­liz­ing lit­tle met­al buck­ets to store the gifts, but when brows­ing the aisles of the 99c Only Store for ideas, I found the per­fect plas­tic tool box­es for, well, 99 cents! I designed the thank you tag to fit into a plas­tic i.d. badge hold­er and attached it to a match­ing striped lan­yard. Inside the tool­box, the guests work­ers found tools, a cou­ple of con­struc­tion vehi­cles and adorable bub­bles in the shape of a con­struc­tion guy ~ all found at The Dol­lar Tree!

I was so grate­ful to not only have had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to plan yet anoth­er birth­day for Noah, but to be there with my fam­i­ly to help him cel­e­brate anoth­er amaz­ing year with a con­struc­tion par­ty! Noah and my daugh­ter, Anabelle are just THE cutest togeth­er and we are so extreme­ly thank­ful to have him (and his par­ents) in our lives! We are hon­ored to be part of his crew! ♥

Construction Party ~ Lynlee's

Merci Beaucoup!



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Comments

  8. Wow! I love your design and of course those cup­cake top­pers are amaz­ing! I am super impressed that you put this all togeth­er at an indoor play place and with such a small amount of time. 🙂

  11. I LOVE it Lyn­lee!!!!! I agree with the oth­ers, there was no detail left out here — every­thing is per­fec­tion!! 😀 I’m TOTALLY “dig­gin” it my friend! you have an amaz­ing skill and eye for detail!

  12. Lyn­lee, this par­ty is the CUTEST par­ty!!! I love the theme and all the great details. How much fun it must have been for all the kids! You’re the BEST!♥
    Deb­bie

  15. where did you buy the tiered gal­va­nized cup­cake stand and the foam squares that you use as “Table runner”?

    • I pur­chased the cup­cake stand at Home Goods a few years back, but I know they also car­ry sim­i­lar ones in stores like Pot­tery Barn and on-line. The foam squares were pur­chased at a Big Lots store. 🙂

  16. Where did you get the ID badge with black and yel­low strips!? I am work­ing on get­ting my boys con­struc­tion birth­day par­ty and your web­site is full with tons of ideas. I am also look­ing for the plas­tic tool box hope­ful­ly the Dol­lar tree still have ti in stock! 

    Thank you so much
    Yajaira Cascuberta

    • Hi Yajaira! I made/designed the ID badges with the clip art I pur­chased from the ven­dors Lit­tle Fairy Land and Woofy World (links in the post). Good luck with the tool box­es! Def­i­nite­ly check out the Dol­lar Tree AND the 99c Only Stores! Hope this helps! 🙂

      • Thank you! I had vis­it­ed about six Dol­lar tree stores here around my town in NJ and not luck find­ing the bub­bles and the tool box­es! but, I did find the tool box­es online for $6.99 ouch! i like the .99 cents price bet­ter LOL Thank you so much, love the con­struc­tion birth­day theme get­ting lots of ideas from your post, thank you again 😉

  17. Beau­ti­ful par­ty. The invi­ta­tion link is not work­ing. Do you still have the file saved from when you made his? I would be will­ing to pay you to send the file or to add in my son’s name.

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