Your blueprint for a successful Construction Party

Boys love playing with cranes and dump trucks, a construction party is a fun way to get a crew together for a fun afternoon.

Construction Birthday Party Invitations

Stop And Join Us construction party invitation
Use red construction paper to make stop sign construction invitations. Make the front look like a stop sign complete with white trim around the edges. Then write "Stop and join us" Making the word stop large and adding the join us part in smaller letters. Put the party information on the back and mail to your guests.

Under Construction invitation
Cut out a yellow diamond shape and write Under Construction on the front, on the back you can write something like: Jons' Birthday is Under Construction and we need your help to build a day full of fun and memories. Please join us.

Street signs are easy to make but you can also use graphics of construction tools and machinery for the front of your invitations.

Construction Party Decorations

You can't turn your house into a construction site, but you can put up signs, and cardboard cutouts to make it look more like a building site.

Every construction worker has to have tools to do their job correctly. Use construction paper and trace hammers, screwdrivers and wrenches. Cut out the shapes and tape to the walls, doors, and bookshelves. Just make sure to put the real tools away before junior gets his hands on them or he will be doing construction where you don't want him to!

Typical party streamers just don't fit the construction party theme! Use yellow caution tape instead. You can pick up a roll of it at any hardware or home improvement store. Hang strips from the ceiling, place it into an x shape on doors, use it for the finish line in races.

Construction Party Games

Boys love to build things and use tools. Here are a few fun games that allow them to do both.

Hammer The Nail Game

Supplies Needed Per Boy: hammer, two nails, scrap piece of 2x4 wood, and safety goggles.
Prepare Before Party: Lay the piece of wood on a hard surface and hammer two nails into each piece of wood about 5 inches apart and deep enough that they won't bounce out. Make sure all nails are set at the same depth.
How To Play: Give each boy a pair of safety goggles and insist that they wear them. Each boy is given a hammer and the wood with two nails in it. On "go" the boys sink both nails as quickly as they can without bending them. The first person to get the nails completely pounded in without bending them is the winner.

Bricklayer Game

Supplies Needed Per Boy: 15-20 sugar cubes, a cup of frosting and a plastic knife.
How To Play: On the word "go" the boys should grab a sugar cube, place mortar (frosting) on it and build a wall three or four courses high depending on the number of sugar cubes they started with. Three courses if using 15 cubes, four courses if using 20. The first person to complete their wall with mortar on each brick is the winner. You can also give out prizes for the cleanest wall built.

House Builder Game

Supplies Needed: Boxes of various sizes and shapes.
Game Preparation: Have the boxes just tossed into the center of the room, divide the group into two teams. Place them on opposite sites of the pile.
How To Play: On the word "go" the first person in the team runs to the stack of boxes, grabs one and takes five steps to their right and places the box down, they run back to the line and tag the second person. That person runs to the pile grabs a box and runs to where the first box is and places it on top of the other box. The first team that builds a building 4 foot or higher wins the race. If during the building the boxes fall over, the person who is closest to the building has to stand them all back up before continuing.

Construction Party Favors

All construction workers need tool belts! You can get apron type nail holders at your local hardware or home improvement store. Personalize each one with the guests' names and then fill the pockets with bubbles, small plastic tool kits and candy. What a fun way to remind everyone of the good time they had at your Construction Party .

Construction Party Food

Brown Bag Lunch:
Most construction workers pack their lunches in brown bags or in plastic lunch coolers! Make each of your guests a brown bag lunch that includes sandwiches, a boxed drink, a cookie, a banana, apple or bunch of grapes and a napkin.

Construction Party Cake

This is a fun construction cake to make. My granddaughter wanted a construction cake rather than a Barbie cake for her fourth birthday.
The cake has green frosting to resemble grass. A toy backhoe is dumping soil which is made using crumbled chocolate cookies.
Red gum drops were used as safety cones and licorice twists were used as construction tape.
Yellow diamond shaped signs and her favorite candies were sprinkled around the cake.