I can’t believe my littlest is 3! We celebrated the big t-h-r-e-e with a construction-themed birthday party for the little dude. Thanks to good ol’ Pinterest, there was no shortage of inspiration to plan the décor and DIY projects for the party. Today I am paying that inspiration forward with lots of construction birthday party ideas, including food for a construction party, construction birthday party décor, construction party favors, and free construction party printables! Click here to follow my construction-themed party planning inspiration board on Pinterest, and click here to follow @fabeveryday on Pinterest for ongoing inspiration.
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Construction Birthday Party Food and Drink Ideas
Cake inspired by Pinterest, this construction themed birthday party cake is a layered chocolate round cake with crushed Oreo cookie “dirt” and these CAT Mini Machines purchased from Amazon.
For the candles, we used these construction cone candles, also from Amazon.
Construction birthday party beverages included water bottles (with labels removed, and wrapped with construction stripe tape) and Sunny D in an orange Igloo cooler (or “Crew Punch”). Cups from Party City.
What’s a construction themed party without some building involved? Guests served themselves from a Build-a-Burger bar with mini ground chicken and cheese sliders.
Condiments were stored in empty paint cans from Home Depot, with mini paint brushes (also from Home Depot) to spread. Perfect and simple construction party ideas!
Snacks and other foods were stored in toy dump truck buckets and plastic hard hats (link below in the favors section) to continue the construction party theme.
We had a few yellow and orange-colored snacks to go along with the construction birthday party décor color scheme. Super healthy, I know!
Paint cans were also great to hold dips, like this spinach dip and salsa.
Some sweet construction birthday party treats included wafer cookies (lumber), and Rice Krispies treat pops dipped in yellow candy melts (wet paint). These were hits with both kids and adults!
Cutlery were wrapped in yellow napkins (all from Party City) and tied with a “Dig In!” label. They were displayed in one of the boys’ toy plastic tool boxes.
Yellow square plates from Party City, and extra cutlery stored in empty paint cans wrapped with construction tape trim.
Construction Themed Birthday Party Décor
Extension cord and plastic tool wreath.
Ahem… I may have purchased a real barricade for décor… I got it from Amazon here. Hopefully I can sell it on a local BST so another family can enjoy it for their construction party!
I may have also purchased a wheelbarrow from Home Depot. But this one we can actually use again!
Construction Party Favors
One of the construction party favors was this yellow and brown candy buffet displayed in these yellow plastic storage bins, and using these toy shovels as scoops.
The yellow candy came from Party City, the Whoppers and chocolate covered raisins were from a grocery store, and the Reese’s Pieces were purchased in bulk from Amazon.
We had other fun construction party favors for the kids that included yellow plastic hardhats, these canvas work aprons from Home Depot (only $0.97 each!) each with two plastic tools in the pockets, and little goodie bags (details below).
All crew (kids) entering the construction site (party) had to put on their hardhats and tool belts.
Goodie bags included Reese’s Pieces (purchased in bulk from Amazon), plastic toy shovels, and mini plastic toy construction vehicles wrapped in clear favor bags from Party City with an “I Dig You!” printable label.
Construction Birthday Party Activities Ideas
S was in it before the party even started, and stayed out there pretty much the whole time!
Construction themed birthday party game idea: Orange cones provided not only party décor, but also props for this cone ring toss game. 10 pack of cones purchased from Amazon.
I also printed several copies of these construction themed coloring pages for the kids to play with inside with some jumbo crayons: dump truck, excavator, bulldozer, and toolbox.
Construction Party Printables
All my free construction party printables are available in this post here. These printables are free, but I would appreciate a follow for @fabeveryday on social media (you can find me on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram) in return. If you post pictures of your parties, tag @fabeveryday in them so we can see what you do! Finally, if you blog about your party, please link back to fabeveryday.com in your blog posts to credit the construction party printables and inspiration.
Another birthday party done, and another good time had by all, especially our birthday boy! I wonder what theme G will have in store for us next! Don’t forget to share and pin if you are inspired!
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Jaisy Bonie says
Our planner knew tons of vendors but knows which vendors would work well with my event and venue. They were all great. The event planner would try to attend as many vendor meetings as she could. Which was very helpful.
Winter Steet says
Do you have free printables for the food signs?
ramonaruby says
@Winter Street – email me at [email protected] with the signs that you are interested in. I am pretty sure I still have the printable files for most of this.
ramonaruby says
I have been getting several requests for printables, so I went ahead and posted links to download all of them in this blog post here: https://fabeveryday.com/2016/06/fab-everyday-party-printables.html. Enjoy, and please give @fabeverydayblog a shout out on social media if you are inspired!
New Mommy says
How many bags of sand did it take to fill the pool?
ramonaruby says
@New Mommy – I am sorry, but I don't remember!
Kaylee Jenkins says
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for the printables. I have been searching for HOURS for something exactly like this. I appreciate this so much! What a fun party!!!
ramonaruby says
@Kaylee I am so glad the printables are helpful to you!
Yıldız Ekşioğlu Ulakoğlu says
Hello
Couldyou please tell me the brand of the truck dumper
Thanks
ramonaruby says
@Yildiz – the large dump trucks are Tonka.
Madeliene Ritter says
any chance of getting a copy of the printable files?
lenacharles says
I like the helpful info you provide in your articles. These are the great ideas for celebrating birthday party for boys. Thanks, and Keep sharing!
haritha maringanti says
Where can I get that banner?
venus says
OK this is soooo great!! I will definitely follow you! Your construction party was so great and thank you for the printables! I am so not crafty so this really helps. Also I love the "I DIG YOU!" small cut outs. Did you hand draw and cut out each one or did you find stock paper that already had that shape perforated?
venus says
OK this is soooo great!! I will definitely follow you! Your construction party was so great and thank you for the printables! I am so not crafty so this really helps. Also I love the "I DIG YOU!" small cut outs. Did you hand draw and cut out each one or did you find stock paper that already had that shape perforated?
ramonaruby says
Venus – I have a punch in that shape, so didn't have to hand cut them!
Madeliene and Haritha – all the printables should be linked in the blog post.
Grisel says
Hi! Where did you get the paint cans/pales? Planning my son’s 3rd birthday party and I love your “Build-A-Burger” station!!!
Ramona Cruz-Peters says
I am pretty sure I got them at Home Depot, but Amazon has some! Check these out: https://amzn.to/2JT6Q9j
Good luck with the party! Feel free to share pics!
Sarah says
I stumbled upon this wonderful construction-themed birthday party post and was blown away by the creativity and attention to detail. From the construction cone cupcake toppers to the bulldozer cake, every aspect of this party was carefully thought out and executed. The DIY ideas and tutorials provided are incredibly helpful and make it easy to replicate the party at home. As someone who loves hosting parties, I can’t wait to use some of these ideas for my next event. And what’s great is that there are so many other party ideas and inspiration to be found on sites like https://babeled.com and https://lystok.com, which offer a plethora of creative and fun party themes.
Ramona Cruz-Peters says
Thank you so much!
Cartoon Color says
Here are all the construction vehicles coloring pages 🚧 https://cartoon-coloring-page.com/transportation/construction-vehicles/
Ramona Cruz-Peters says
Thanks for sharing!