Around Town
Toddler Theme Party

Do you travel Around Town in a car, on a bus or train? Use your favorite mode of transportation for a toddlers around the town birthday party.

Around Town Transportation Invitations

Making your own invitations is easy.
Print a picture of a car, truck or airplane. Add your party information to the back or top of the page.
Add some truck, car, airplane and boat stickers to the envelope for a nice touch.

For a unique invitation, send each guest a small toy car with the party information attached to it.

Decorations For Walls

For a personalized party that is fun and inexpensive make your own street signs! You can make them using materials from around the house.

My favorite "poster" material is old rolls of wrapping paper. They have a white back to them that is perfect for drawing large designs.

Roll out the paper on a table and pencil in the shape of your signs. Rectangular shapes for street signs, triangular shapes for caution signs and hexagons for stop signs. Once you have the outline done and a phrase penciled in you can fill in the signs with crayons, paint or markers.

Fun Town Decorations

Make a mat of your town on canvas fabric. Make street signs out of cardboard tubes and poster board, and houses out of cereal boxes. Place the signs, houses and several toys cars around the mat. Allow the children to play around town while waiting on all the guests to arrive.

Town Party Activities

Sing along
Gather all the kids in a circle and sing "The Wheels on the Bus" song.

Car Race
Give each child a toy car that rolls. Mark a starting line and a finish line on the floor with masking tape. The lines should only be a few feet apart. Line all the children up behind the starting line, when you say "go" they should push their car away from them. The car that comes the closest to or passes over the finish line first is the winner.

Car Relay
Divide the group into two lines. Set a box filled with toy cars on the opposite side of the room. The first child in each line should run to the box and grab a car then run back to the line. The next child in line runs and gets a car for themselves. The first group to get a car for each member wins.

Party Favors

Party favors don't have to be expensive to be enjoyed by your guests.

Build a goodie bag by putting toy cars, coloring books, stickers, and note pads into a bag and decorating the outside with stickers.

Gift certificates and coupons for child friendly restaurants around town also make great party favors.

Around Town Car Cake Instructions

Bake a round cake per instructions on the box, you'll be able to make two car cakes.
Place the cooled cakes in the freezer for a half an hour to an hour. Freezing a cake keeps the crumbs to a minimum when you cut it.

Cut the cakes as shown by the dotted lines in the diagram.
Align the two cut sections on the sides of the larger piece to form the front and back bumpers.
Frost the cakes.
Use chocolate donuts or stacks of cookies as the wheels.
Windows can be added to the car using frosting, but my favorite way is to use a fruit roll up snack and cut the shapes from it using a pair of scissors.