Disney Cars Birthday Party!

"I'm happier than a tornado in a trailer park!"  -Mater

We set up the tables in a big square, the tables were the "track" decorated with white stickers to make the road lines, cups filled with Cars crayons, mini coloring pages, & Cars stickers, and small orange traffic cones with balloons tied to them.  The "infield" was left open for the pinata, tunnel, & a road rug set up with all kinds of cars.  That, coupled with the Melissa & Doug garage, kept them busy for hours.  The set up was great because the kids were in view of their parents {a plus at this age} and when it came time for singing & present opening, everyone could see.

The favors were mini pit crew bags that had a small bag of trail mix & a swirly sucker, each child had a pit crew pass with a Cars character on it, & a name tag to wear at the party.

On the right side of the entrance to the 'track' we had Ramone's House of Body Art set up for the kids to put temporary tatoos on.  They got into this SO much that everyone {including some parents} left with several tatoos.

We had a pull string Ligtening McQueen pinata filled with Cars superballs, die cut Cars characters, stickers, & candies.  It was fantastic because the kids age range was from 18 months - 8 years old, so they each lined up and chose a string to pull {only one string actually pulls the pinata open} and then used their pit crew favor bags to pick up the goodies.

We set up the drink table as Fillmore's Organic Fuels.  The Anti Freeze {lemonade dyed green} and Motor Oil {iced tea} were set up in beverage dispensers that we set up on small Ikea plastic stools to keep them away from small hands.

Food was set up at Flo's V8 Cafe.  The menu included: Sarge's Sloppy Joes, Doc's Guac & Chips, Fillmore's Fruit, Chick's Coleslaw, Sally's Pasta Salad, and 'Mater's Tater Chips.

Desserts were at Sarge's Surplus of Sweets.  I used 8.5 x 11 photo paper to make the "Finn is 3" bunting and simply strung it on ribbon.   The desserts included: stop light rice krispie treats, cookies, chocolate dipsticks, Cars cupcakes {thank you Adrianne!}, & a Lightening McQueen cake.  I made simple cupcake toppers that had Happy Birthday Finn on one side and the #3 on the other.  We also used some simple diecut Cars shapes {from Michael's} to make more cupcake toppers by simply gluing to a sucker stick.

  

 

Sources:

• Lightening McQueen pull pinata 
• temporary tattoos  
• Cars contact paper used to make elevation on the dessert table, red mylar star balloons - Dollar Tree
• mini orange traffic cones 
• diecut Cars stuff, Cars superballs, Cars crayons, Cars mini coloring pages, Cars stickers, paper for sinage, picture holders used for menu items, Cars candle - Michaels
• checkered flag bunting, pit crew bags, pit crew pass badge holders, checkered flag table cover - Oriental Trading Company
• road rug, straws, napkins, turquoise stools - Ikea
• beverage dispensers - Costco
• red tableware, temporary tatoos, Finnegan's Lightening McQueen hat - Walmart

And as a party favor to you, the signs I made are available for you to download FREE at my Google Doc Account {with the Disney characters removed} for you to use.  I would love to see how you use them for your parties, so be sure to link back and tell me to visit your blog.

Edited to add:  Just so everyone knows... I have said this previously, but I am reiterating it.  I will not send the originals with the characters on them.  Those were created for our own personal use.  

I have moved the signs from Scribd {because of issues with printing them and Scribd charging for them} to Google Docs.  You should have no problem accessing them now for free as I had intended.  Please contact me directly at sowonderfulsomarvelous {at} gmail, as I receive a large number of requests and don't always keep up with comments left on old posts.

DOWNLOAD the signs by right clicking on the sign you want, you can save or print from there.

And there you have it... Happy 3rd Birthday Finnegan!

Want more fun party ideas?  Check out Dr Seuss and Scooby Doo and Super Mario!