I can't tell you how excited I am to show you this party! it is awesome. In this cars party, you will find lots of boys birthday party ideas as well as just blog birthday party ideas. This has sort of become a kids birthday party blog lately with the amount of party posts I have needed to create. Anyway, on this post you will find all of the homemade birthday party tutorials that will jazz up any race car party theme. We have a mater cake which I think tops the coolest birthday cakes ever. We also have some birthday party printables from this party. You can find those on the party kits page.
We borrowed a projector from a friend and set up the movie in the backyard. We used a white sheet for to play it on. It worked really well. You will need to have a laptop and speakers to set up as well.
birthday bbq
my SIL vanessa helped created the lightning mcqueen on her cricut. their were lots of layers and little pieces to glue but it turned out amazing. the water bottle labels were simple and easy. the napkin rings as well. I just taped them around a napkin. we had a bbq with hamburgers, hot dogs, potato salad, and chips. I have the checkered printables available here for free.
we created the radiator springs sign and the movie time sign on the cricut. that was so easy and awesome. I used my SIL's but am now really wanting one for myself. the treat bags I showed earlier but I found those bags at target in the dollar section, I punched holes in the top and tied it off with ribbon. I put a garbage bag over the high chair to go a long with the decor and used duct tape on it to create roads just like I did on the
plastic table cloth.
mater cake
logens cake idea I got from bakerella.com, It was a bit tidious and I had to buy a package of white
m n m's and blue m n m's when I only needed 2 of each. I couldn't find the cookies that bakerella used so I had to substitute with some chocolate round pretzel cookies I found. I had to substitute his nose as well with a chocolate candy. I used an edible black marker for the eyes. Maters eyes are actually green but blue worked out well. his teeth are gum (I would suggest taking that out before letting a 1 year old try to eat them, lol). The cake is actually 3 cupcakes put together and frosted.
I used crumbled oreos on the base and on him. I actually have him sitting on 5 small cake boards. I wrapped a ribbon around them just to give him a little stand so he looked taller and I simply frosted the top cardboard and put the oreo on that.
Tractor cupcakes
For the cupcakes, I made chocolate brownie cupcakes with a whipped cream frosting. I used a 8 oz. whipped cream, 1 cup milk, 1 vanilla pudding mix, 1 cup powdered sugar, and I melted chocolate chips and added them as well. I liked the frosting. It wasn't too sweet or heavy. I also made some
vanilla cupcakes with the same frosting. I crumbled oreos and put them on top a
long with some pearl sprinkles. I printed out a bunch of the tractor pictures online, and taped them a cake pop stick.
gift box party tray
My husband was a trooper to wear this and hand out the popcorn and cotton candy to everyone before the movie. We watched Cars on a projector in the backyard. That was our big activity. Anyway, we simply used a gift box and my husband made the cones using a simple template. He then measured a hole to fit them and traced and cut them all out. We used scotch tape and red copy paper to make the cones. My husband cut a slit on both sides to hold the ribbon around his neck.
The race car favor bags
#1. I found these bags at target in the dollar section. I can't remember how many was in a pack but I want to say 6 or 8 for 1.00. If you can't find Cars paper bags, you could just use regular paper bags and attach a picture or graphic of lightning mcqueen, or even the birthday boy or girl.
#2. I found cheap dollar store finds for his party favors. simple and easy.
#3. I folded the bag and punched two holes in it and tied ribbon through.
#4. sit and stare at them. easy! wa-lah! done!
lightning mcqueen INVITATIONS
1. for the invitation itself, I created it on picnik. I used some cars clipart and used a texture photo editing application. I also created a movie ticket for the show. Click here to get the cars free printables
2. for the envelopes, I used some old gold envelopes I had but I wanted it to look "textured" just like the invitations and so I took pieces of duct tape and would carefully tear the duck tap of off the envelopes to remove some of the gold paint. It made it speckled and full of fun. It took a while but I didn't have too many people on my guest list so it worked out.
check out my other cars party posts.
We borrowed a projector from a friend and set up the movie in the backyard. We used a white sheet for to play it on. It worked really well. You will need to have a laptop and speakers to set up as well.
plastic table cloth.
mater cake
logens cake idea I got from bakerella.com, It was a bit tidious and I had to buy a package of whitem n m's and blue m n m's when I only needed 2 of each. I couldn't find the cookies that bakerella used so I had to substitute with some chocolate round pretzel cookies I found. I had to substitute his nose as well with a chocolate candy. I used an edible black marker for the eyes. Maters eyes are actually green but blue worked out well. his teeth are gum (I would suggest taking that out before letting a 1 year old try to eat them, lol). The cake is actually 3 cupcakes put together and frosted.
I used crumbled oreos on the base and on him. I actually have him sitting on 5 small cake boards. I wrapped a ribbon around them just to give him a little stand so he looked taller and I simply frosted the top cardboard and put the oreo on that.
vanilla cupcakes with the same frosting. I crumbled oreos and put them on top a
long with some pearl sprinkles. I printed out a bunch of the tractor pictures online, and taped them a cake pop stick.
My husband was a trooper to wear this and hand out the popcorn and cotton candy to everyone before the movie. We watched Cars on a projector in the backyard. That was our big activity. Anyway, we simply used a gift box and my husband made the cones using a simple template. He then measured a hole to fit them and traced and cut them all out. We used scotch tape and red copy paper to make the cones. My husband cut a slit on both sides to hold the ribbon around his neck.
The race car favor bags
The race car favor bags
#2. I found cheap dollar store finds for his party favors. simple and easy.
lightning mcqueen INVITATIONS
1. for the invitation itself, I created it on picnik. I used some cars clipart and used a texture photo editing application. I also created a movie ticket for the show. Click here to get the cars free printables
2. for the envelopes, I used some old gold envelopes I had but I wanted it to look "textured" just like the invitations and so I took pieces of duct tape and would carefully tear the duck tap of off the envelopes to remove some of the gold paint. It made it speckled and full of fun. It took a while but I didn't have too many people on my guest list so it worked out.
2. for the envelopes, I used some old gold envelopes I had but I wanted it to look "textured" just like the invitations and so I took pieces of duct tape and would carefully tear the duck tap of off the envelopes to remove some of the gold paint. It made it speckled and full of fun. It took a while but I didn't have too many people on my guest list so it worked out.
check out my other cars party posts.
16 comments:
It was fun and yummy and we're so glad we got to be a part of Logen's birthday party!!
That looks so fun. I have a little guy turning 2 today. I might have to borrow a few of your ideas.
omg~! my daughter loves mater, she'll love this! And i LOVE it too! And your hubby is super!
I am loving this cars party! I am totally going to use some of these ideas this summer. Cars 2 comes out around my son's birthday. So glad you stopped by my blog!
xoxo, Jenny
This is adorable. I know a ton of young boys who would love this. Good job - and thanks for visiting my blog and leaving a comment.
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Thanks so much for leaving your comment on my blog today. I'm so happy you found a little inspiration over at my little piece of blogland. I'm thrilled you took the time to comment because it allowed me the chance to stop by and check out Dragon's Fairytail and I'm so glad I did.
This Cars birthday party is amazing. I'm you're newest follower!
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how fun! Looks like the party was a blast, love the ''cars'' theme!
What a fun idea, I really love Mater! Last year I did a cars cake for my little boys birthday, I made a race track and put some toy car characters on top... He LOVED it, he keeps saying he wants another cars cake, so I might have to try out this mater cake! I am glad we found eachothers blog!
Carlee
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Love this party idea!!! And my boys would too ;)I better not show them, because my oldest hast his Birthday next week :D
Thanks for your kind worts at my blog and thanks for following!!!
Rita
What a lot of great ideas! I'm your latest follower... come visit us at bookwormfun.blogspot.com, maybe you'll like what you see and become a follower, too!
That is so stinken cute!!! You are so creative!! :)
How cute!! Love everything, especially the cotton candy and popcorn!! I'm doing cars for my son's first bday. I got the cars juice boxes, pretzels, ck nuggets & mac and cheese. I don't have the water lables...so I was wondering how did you make the lables? I have to steal that wonderful idea! Thanks!
From Motherx3
yes...love the water bottle idea...how did you make those?
Your Mater cake is ADORABLE!
Fantastic Ideas love it x
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