Hi everyone,
I am having a birthday party for my 6 year old son at home in a few weeks. It will be for about 10 kids. He wants a race car theme. He does not want to do stuff from the Cars movie. I was wondering if you have any ideas for the party - games, activities etc. Any suggestions are welcome. I have looked online and come across some ideas - but there are always some great replies to my posts here.
Thanks in advance.
If you have a local craft store, you can probably find little wooden cars for the kids to paint.
For my sons race car birthday, I put two 8 inch cakes next to each other and made a figure 8 race track on top. Added two hot wheel cars, and surrounded the edge with chocolate covered oreos to make it look like tires around the track. used two sugar cookie tubes on each side of track to make a finish banner over the track. If you give me your email I can email you a pic of the cake.
We decorated car shaped cookies. You could take the kids to the race track for the day and come back for cake. Set up a small peice of wood as a ramp and let the boys race cars down it. Have a contest to see who can make the best car out of leggos. Who can draw a car by putting a peice of paper on top of thier head and drawing it without looking. Do freeze dancing with a song from cars. hold up photos of different kinds of cars and gather the kids around to see who can identify them first. Throw the kid a peice of candy if he is the first to get it right. Pin the wheel on the car game.
You could have them assemble Lego racecars. The small kits for this are around $5 to $7. That may seem pricey.... but just think.... they will use up some of the birthday party time by building these together AND this can replace the goody bag that goes home! You may need another adult helper to assist with the Lego building since the kids are 6 yrs. old.
Maybe let them bring a car to the party to share with and do show and tell at your house. Create streets by putting masking tape on floors and let them drive their cars around the house.
another thought is to let them assemble cars out of random routine stuff you have around the house. toilet paper rolls, buttons for wheels, glitter, glue stickers etc. kids love to do art stuff. or maybe let them each make a race track game (we did this with a book) make a game track sort of looking the candy land board they can make up their own pitfals glat tires out of gas etc and do their own drawings with maybe matchbox cars to use for the game.
I know you said no Cars movie themed stuff, but we went to a cars party, and the party favor was a bottle of bubble bath that looked like a bottle of oil with the cars logo on it - the kids loved it. Target maybe?
