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"Construction Party"

DECORATIONS
Decorate with caution tape instead of streamers. Order a load of dirt, if you have room, or use an existing dirt pile, unused garden or sand box. Table-serve snacks from the back of Tonka dump truck, other trucks, and upside-down hard hats. Put a cone at each end of the table and run a piece of caution tape between the two.

CAKE
Make a "Dirt" cake using crushed Oreos on top for dirt. Use Matchbox or other construction vehicles to decorate, along with small plastic signs, workers and cones. Edge the cake with orange to look like construction tape.

Or, make a "Construction Hat" cake. Bake the cake in a Pyrex bowl. Trim off the bottom of the cake to use as a rim. Frost in yellow and use black for lettering. Write your child's name and BOSS on the front.

GOODY BAGS
Find hard plastic hard hats and fill them with small construction vehicles or mini tools.
Make a tool belt goodie bag out of paper sacks. Fill with toy tools, Lego candies and tool stickers.

GAMES AND ACTIVITIES
Dirt Pile Play: Let them at the dirt. Have available all kinds of construction vehicles, small shovels and buckets.

Dump Truck Relay: Make teams and give each a Tonka-like dump truck and a pile of rock. Each team should have the same amount and the same size truck. Have the first team member fill the truck with the rocks and push it to the designated "drop area". They must drop the rocks and push the truck back for the next team member. This person pushes the truck to the rocks and loads them up and brings them back to the next in line....continue until one team finishes.

Shovel It: Need two large bowls, cottonballs, small plastic shovel, and bandana. Blindfold each person on their turn. Have them scoop the cotton balls from one bowl into the other bowl using the shovel within a time limit. Count the cottonballs and the one with the most in the other bowl wins. You could give each child a prize determined by the number of cottonballs.

Lego Building: Bring out the Lego and let them build.

Be an Architect: Give the group all sorts of items to "construct" with - boxes, egg cartons, cotton balls, utensils, books, cushions, etc. These can be items built with glue or just put together in a room if you have the space. Lots of fun taking the cushions off the sofas, using tables and sheets to make little rooms.