Thomas Birthday Party

My kid turned 2 in October (I'm pretty late posting this).

We had a Thomas party.  I unwisely neglected to take pictures of all my decorating, but here is a small amount of what we had.

Our food 'station' was this awesome Thomas train pulling various food cars (not yet filled with food in this picture). 
-The plush Thomas on the front is actually an Easter basket. 
-I made the train cars out of shoe boxes and placed bowls on them.
-The table runner that looks like railroad tracks is from Oriental Trading.

I had conductor hats and bandanas for everyone to wear (and take home as favors).
-The bandanas were also from Oriental Trading.
-The conductor hats were from Birthday Express.  They did cost a little more than the ones I originally ordered from a company off of Amazon, but those had to be sent back as they were quite terrible.

 

I made a simplistic little "photo booth" opportunity for the kids, but putting a Thomas poster on some large foam board and cutting out the head.  We staked this into the ground. 

(this is Jess' son)

Here's the cake I made.

-1 sheet cake and 2 round cakes (for the mountain)

-Buncha Crunch for the rocks

-Extra piece of plastic track and a birthday Thomas

 We had the party at a park but I also set up the following entertainment for the kids:

-Bubble Station which we called "The Washdown" (not pictured)

-The Thomas costume we made from cardboard!

-The train table we gave Jaden for his birthday (we bought it second hand from Craigslist - we already had most of the track and trains).

Thomas the Train Costume

Thomas the Train - Cardboard Costume

My son LOVES trains - most especially Thomas.  His birthday was in October so we decided to make this Thomas Train for his Thomas birthday party as well as for Halloween.

We started with two empty diaper boxes - because we never have a shortage of those.
(and hey!...it kind of looks like a train already)

We used a good deal of duct tape to hold all the pieces together - you can't see the tape anymore, once you start spray painting.

Our next hurdle was to find something that would create the rounded look of Thomas' boiler - which leads into his face.

We bought this form tube from HomeDepot and cut it to the shape and size we need.  We also had a lot left over - it might just be taking up room in our garage.

 

We had to cut an opening for fella's body to fit into - so here we are testing the size. He doesn't smile for many pictures, but he was quite excited to see this cardboard choo choo. 

My husband bought that small cardboard tube for the funnel from Home Depot while we was out...to my slight annoyance...because I was planning to use a paper towel roll.  Oh well.

Next up: blue spray paint and a creepy Thomas face...

 Need a giant Thomas face? Print it here!

We added black spray paint, the face, and Thomas' windows.  We bought red tape to do the lines on the side of Thomas, but you can easily paint it as well. Then Jaden got to wear it!

You can click here to download my .pdf of Thomas' windows and numbers. 

Most pictures of him wearing it are blurry because he never stops moving.  The one of him crying is post trick-or-treating on Halloween - ahhhh memories.