'Route 3' Red Car 3rd Birthday Party

What little boy doesn’t love playing with cars? This adorable “ROUTE 3” RED CAR 3RD BIRTHDAY PARTY was submitted by Katie Malandrino of Green Apple Paperie. I love how Katie decorated the party from head to toe in red car themed items. I’m sure the 'fast lane' punch and spare tire cookies were a hit. Everything is oh so cute!

Katie said-- “This party was for my son, Luca, who turned three back in September. I went with a simple car theme but wanted to incorporate his age into the theme in a creative way. So the idea of the Route 66 signs came to mind. I used his age inside the route sign for the cake topper, cake pops flags and the cookies as well.

The cookies were done by A Dozen Eggs Bake Shoppe in Vermont. They went above and beyond in creating custom cookies for me. I ordered them right after Vermont got hit with a major storm that caused tremendous flooding and damage around their bakery. I was very impressed that they were able to still send out my order despite the conditions of their area. Great customer service!

I made a table runner to look like a street and placed painted wooden cars on the runner to add some fun to the dessert table. My sister-in-law crafted the birthday cake.”

Credits:
Photography - Caryn Scanlan
Cookies- A Dozen Eggs Bake Shoppe
Printables- Green Apple Paperie

Toy Themed Birthday Party

Today I am featuring this darling TOY THEMED BIRTHDAY PARTY submitted by Luciana Perali of Atelie Festejar from Brazil. How cute is this classic party theme? I love all the homemade DIY touches. 

As the children arrived they were given a fun vintage toy bag, including a do it yourself kite kit. All the moms received “playground kits”, including sunscreen, moisturizer & bandaids! Such a cute idea. 

The toy themed treats and desserts couldn’t be displayed more perfectly. I love all the airplanes and kites. And look at the cute aviator goggles on the drink bottles!

Here is what Luciana said about the party- "First of all I am a mother of boys and know that innovation in their party is very complicated because we can not use many things that are so available in the US. The theme of this party was toys. An airplane was built to showcase some of the treats and we decorated the chairs with fabric kites made out of scented sachets. The details on the desserts are incredible. Look at the intricate work on the cupcakes and cake. Other sweet treats included bala de coco, macarons, cotton candy and cake pops.”

Vintage Train Station Birthday Party

And next up...this amazing VINTAGE TRAIN STATION 3RD BIRTHDAY PARTY submitted by Belinda Ramanauskas of Styled By Belle. What a party. I am in awe. So many darling details. I had to stare at each picture just to soak it all in. Love the box cars holding all the treats and desserts. And the burlap everywhere couldn't be more perfect. I'm just lovin' burlap these days! This party is definitely a heart stopper. You'll want to scroll through all the lovely photos slowly.

Here is what Belinda said about the party- "For my son Aidan’s 3rd birthday party I wanted to create a train party, but keeping away from the commercial Thomas that he absolutely loves. I decided to create Aidan his very own train station called “Aidansville” and used the colour palette of sky blue and red.

I created a super long (4.5 metre) dessert table and covered it with hessian to give it a rustic feel. I spent many late nights painting and building props including – a custom train station backdrop that I drew and hand painted myself. The station was of course called “Aidansville”, the clock was pointing to “3 o’clock” (being Aidan’s age) and I had 2 windows representing “Tickets” and “Luggage”. I got my little man dressed up as a train driver and took photos of him before the party to stick in the windows (you might notice one is of him holding tickets for the ticket booth window and the second photo of him holding mini suitcases for the luggage window)

I built a wooden train track to line the front of the table and bought plastic tubs that I painted red & blue and put wheels on to create “train carriages” to hold the food platters. Aidan already had a cute vintage red ride-on wooden train that headed the table and “pulled” the carriages along the tracks!

The menu consisted of: caramel popcorn, chocolate bars in custom wrappers, train sugar cookies, cupcakes, jelly jars, oreo cookie pops, wild berry yogurt push pops, chocolate ripple cake and fruit skewers (of which I used a train shape cookie cutter to cut the watermelon pieces). I also had lolly jars filled with red & blue candy: jaffas, bon bons, jelly beans, raspberries, sour straps and clouds.

I had a wonderful train & carriage birthday cake made by my friend Kylie Bourban and she did an amazing job! The train and carriage were each a different flavour: chocolate mud, white chocolate mud, jaffa mud & banana mud. Yum!

To set the scene, I had a relative dress as the “Fat Controller” and he greeted guests as they arrived. I made train boom gates and had them positioned along a train track we stuck on the ground using black tape. I also made a “Railway Crossing” traffic sign and had a STOP sign along the tracks.

The kids received lots of little train paraphernalia to take home – train shaped crayons, train whistles, train driver hats and train drink bottles. I also had wooden train toys that the children were able to paint themselves and take home.

A really great party that was “choo-choo” fun!!

Vendor credits: 

Photography – Lee Bird Photography 
Birthday cake – Kylie Bourban 
Train Collection Stationary Printables – Parties by Hardie