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Here are some cute car themed birthday party ideas for kids, from hot wheels themed birthday party ideas to best race car birthday party ideas - for a car themed 1st or 2nd birthday all the way up to car themed 8th birthday party ideas - and beyond, for every age!
Best car party themes
• First lap around the track
• Formula One
• One for the road
• Two fast
• 1, 2, 3, go!
• Our little ferrari is three
• Three laps down
• Three for speed
• Fourth lap down
• Need four speed
• Race four glory
• Our lam-four-ghini
• Fast, fearless and five
• Drive into Five
• Grand Six
• Route number six
• Revvin' for Seven
• Furious 7
• Eight up the track
• The beach eight me!
• Reach for the cars
Best car themed party ideas
1. Make a standout cupcake pullapart
Just take a whole bunch of un iced cupcakes, then arrange them in a certain design that matches the theme, for example, in the shape of a car, wheel, flag or symbol/logo - then ice over all of them as one, before adding more layers of different coloured frosting and some finer details to bring the design to life!
2. Play a game of pin the wheels on the car
The cutest themed twist on the traditional party game, Pin the Tail on the Donkey! You could craft this out of paper or cardstock, then challenge guests to place the wheels on the car design, whilst blindfolded!
3. Make some 'coolant' water bottles
A really fun option for a car themed party - why not dress up water bottles as 'coolant' themed bottles as a cute nod to the theme!
4. Make some colourful popcorn
Make this by using blue and red food colouring along with corn syrup and butter (follow this recipe here!) Guests will adore the novelty and you could even add some edible glitter to make it extra magical! You could make little popcorn parcels as party favours for guests to take hope, super cheap, easy and affordable!
5. Sugar cookie medals for party favours
For guests to wear and take photos with! This would be great for a racecar theme - try tying a ribbon to each one and even create a cool party favour display for them.
6. A sugar cookie medal decorating activity
Just right for a racecar theme! You could even award some prizes for the neatest, most colourful, messiest and most creative etc (so all guests sneakily get one!)
7. A 'fuel up' snacks area
Turn the party snacks area in to a 'fuel up' station to match the theme! You could even create a big banner sporting the phrase to show guests where to eat/snack/head to on repeat.
8. A chalkboard decorating message board setup
So all guests can write, draw and scribble their own messages on it! You could set up a giant rustic style chalkboard canvas that guests can decorate, with photos, drawings and messages! This would make an amazing photo backdrop for the party, for guests to take photos in front of. To create the canvas backdrop for guests to decorate, grab some black paper or cardstock and staple it to a base, such as a wall, fence or giant board made from cardboard. Provide guests with some chalks and liquid chalk markers and let them decorate to their hearts content. You could frame the board with balloons to tie it in with the party space!
9. DIY some pennant flags as party decor
These would work so well, especially for a racecar themed party! You could craft these from cardstock, decorate with phrases such as 'birthday boy' and attach them to skewers, then use them to decorate walls, balloon displays or even create a party table centerpiece using them!
10. Try a car themed scavenger hunt
An oldie but a goodie! You could hide mini motifs or mini toy cars or prizes around the party space for guests to find.
11. Set up a donut wall with chequered donuts
For party treats and decor in one! You could ice each one with a checked or chequered design, then arrange on a donut wall to create a standout display!
12. Make a donut tower cake
You could even make the donuts look like tyres to create a tower of tyres, just as seen in a mechanic's garage, like 'casa della tires' in the Cars movie!
13. Some chocolate coated oreos as party favours
You could style them to look like wheels or car tyres! To make these, you could melt some colourful melting wafers - or batches of white cooking chocolate then mix in a tiny amount of oil based food colouring to each, before encasing them in chocolate in a special tray - layer some chocolate in each of the moulds before gently pressing an Oreo in to each, then carefully cover it with a little more chocolate until the Oreo is completely submerged, then smooth over the top and pop in the fridge to set, once each mould is filled.
Once the chocolate is set, you could then ice and decorate them to theme them to fit your party theme.
Chocolate covered Oreo making tray 👈🏻
14. DIY some themed candy bark for party favours
You can tailor it to match the theme of your party! Make some super cool candy bark/chocolate slab, then break it into pieces and parcel up as party favours! This is super easy to make and requires no baking and all you will need is some cooking chocolate or melting chocolate (milk chocolate or white chocolate is fine) and some sweets or candy pieces.
You could even change the colour of your candy bark by melting down some white cooking chocolate and stirring in a few very small drops of oil based food colouring. All you need to then is pour in to a mold and decorate with all the cutest sweets and candy of choice, with a sprinkle of edible shimmer or glitter!
Then pop in the fridge to set and break in to pieces when cool, to parcel up and tie with a ribbon! There's so many ways to get creative with this and you could add a sprinkle of freeze dried raspberries or incorporate a swirl of melted milk chocolate to create a pretty pattern. Sprinkle in some jelly sweets and add some popping candy, a must have ingredient, to finish, before setting it to cool!
15. DIY some cookie decorating kits for party favours
These creative party favours are easy and low cost to put together! Bake some sugar cookies, then prepare some small sized or mini piping bags with ready to ice colourful frosting inside. Package them into parcels for guests and voila!
16. Some paper mache cups or trophies filled with sweets or candy
For prizes or party favours! You could even craft some origami paper trophies and fill them with wrapped candies, to award to your recipient!
DIY Paper trophy template to fill with candy 👈🏻
17. Arrange some chequered flags as a party table centerpiece
A cheap and easy party centerpiece idea - you could even try crafting these from paper, pens and some skewers to make a standout party centerpiece!
18. DIY some 3d letters as a centerpiece
These are so much fun to make and make a striking and adorable party table centerpiece idea!
19. Set up a milkshake or freakshake making stall
With all the toppings available! You could even make a freakshakes stall with oreos, donuts, cakes and squirty cream that guests can add to their creation - freakshakes being the perfect combination of milkshake and cake!
20. Stripey straws for soda
To make party drinks a little extra!
21. A funny timed playdough contest
Where each guest is given playdough and a certain amount of time to create a shape decided by the game host - ideas could be a truck, a wheel, a flag, a steering wheel - this is a fun and hilarious activity that kids will love!
22. Some fun 'super speed' drinks
Add cool labels to drinks to make them seem like super speed potions, to grant guests the ability to zoom/move super fast! You could have names like 'blast off blueberry' or 'off in a flash fast fanta' or 'gravity defy grape'!
23. Set up some races
Why not make a fun obstacle course, using cushions to jump on and objects to balance on, mini traffic cones to dodge, or even a climbing wall if you have one! If anyone lands outside of the course, they have to start again at the beginning. Just be sure to make it nice and safe for guests of all ages! You could implement activities such as throw the beanbag in the hoop and dodge cones as part of the obstacle course!
You could even try a tyre stepping game or activity if you have some old tyres to hand - this would fit the theme so well!
24. Some ombre candy cone party favours
These are a lot of fun to make and put together and are low cost, easy and quick to make too! You could match the colour of the sweets/candy with your party scheme eg you could layer some red candy gradating into purple, then blue candy - they look so striking!
25. DIY some traffic candy cones for party favours
To make these you will need some orange coloured card or cardstock, some simple craft supplies and some wrapped sweets/candy to fill them with!
Gently fold over the sheets of card so both sides are touching, to create a hollow tube with one pointy end, to make the cones and use tape or similar to secure them in that shape. Then fill the cones with sweets/candy, then cut the orange cardstock in to square shapes and stick them to the base (widest part) of the cones so that they resemble traffic cones! You could even paint/decorate them further so they look realistic - and attach some thank you party favour tags!
26. Try a hoop throwing game
You could craft the hoops from cardstock to look like wheels - and make the aim of the game to try to throw them over the mini traffic cones!
27. Upcycle old tyres and use in your party displays
To display party favours and similar!
28. A car themed pass the parcel game
You could include some funny dares or tasks to complete, as well as prizes within the parcel - some ideas could be 'do an impression of a ferrari' or 'name three different types of car'.
29. Stack some black iced donut 'wheels'
To make a tower of tyres! This would make a great party table centerpiece and make cute party decor as well as treats.
30. Make some 'traffic light' graham cracker snacks
Make these by dipping graham crackers in dark chocolate and dipping some mini oreos in coloured melted chocolate wafers - one in red, one in orange and one in green - then arrange them to resemble a traffic light!
31. Make a 'start' overhead banner to welcome guests
Instead of a traditional welcome banner, why not welcome guests with an overhead flag style banner reading 'start' - perfect to immerse guests in the theme!
32. Decorate different areas to represent different types of cars
You could create different party zones for different types of cars eg Ferrari, Porsche, Lamborghini etc - or even deck out different party zones to represent different Cars characters from the 'Cars' movies! You could then play a party quiz, where guests have to guess which car or character is the answer, based on trivia. They run and stand in whichever zone of the character they think the question pertains to. You could deck out each zone with the character's colours and get super creative, you could even create some different themed cupcakes for each area!
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