Race cars have always been a hit at our house. They seem to be in every toy bucket or bin we have. We have yet to celebrate with a race car birthday, but I’ve come up with a few ideas and activities that might be fun for a party.
Food:
- Fuel up with with some Root Beer Floats
- Make these fun Cake Roll Cars. Stick 2 pretzels into the side of a cake roll. Add mini marshmallows for the wheels and m&m candies for the lights.
Cake: Here’s a change from cupcakes to donuts. These are Donut Tire Cakes, these won’t taste like rubber!
Games:
- Racing Cars – Set up this paper tube race car track to race 2 toy cars. See this Race Car Track post for details.
- Race Car Obstacle – I found a swimming inner tube at the dollar store that looks just like a large black tire. Have the child hold this around their waist or even roll it on the ground like a tire. Set up an obstacle course with a jump and orange cones, and a mini spray bottle car wash that they have to run through while holding their tire.
- Time to Wash the Car – Get all the toy bikes and cars out on the lawn for a good washing. We used water guns and these Water Sponge Toys to scrub them down.
Shaving Cream Cars - This is an easy table time activity. Squirt a quarter size of shaving cream onto the table in front of each child. Give them one or two cars to cruise around in the shaving cream with. You can use a table cloth, dinner mats, or just right on top of your table.
Party Time Filler: Put together a 20 minute clip showing some Monster Truck action or even some footage from a Nascar race. You could even show some of the Disney movie, Cars.
Written by Marie LeBaron
Marie LeBaron is the founder and managing editor of Make and Takes. Always having a love of crafts, she enjoys getting messy with glue and glitter. There’s always some sort of project going on, her kitchen counter is often cluttered with crafts. When she’s not crafting and creating with her kids, she loves to run, read, and blog! Read other posts by Marie
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Too cute! I love this idea and looks very affordable!
I LOVE the tire cakes! You’re so creative!
My boy will be three this year, and I will definitely keep this in mind.
So much fun! I like the little cake roll cars! My sons would love them. I wonder if I could mod them to make them into farm tractors? :)
I made the cars for my son’s class party. There was 24 kids total. It was very affordable and doable!! Thanks for the idea!!
Wonderful ideas! Thank you!
I made the race cars for my sons preeschool class and they loved them. Thanks so much for sharing !!!