Transportation Birthday

My son had his 2nd birthday this past June. I had a lot of fun preparing for it and making it cute for him. The theme was Transportation because my little boy is obsessed with cars, trains, airplanes, and boats. I searched Pintrest and other sites until I got my ideas all together. Hopefully this can help put a lot of good ideas I saw into one place. 

I started with the cake. This is the cake I ended up making him. It was a lot of fun and I loved the bright colors. 

We had the party in our backyard and so the "Pit Stop" was up on our deck. We had many fun food items and labels. The included: Boats on a Stick (Watermelon slices on a stick), Spare Tires (Oreos dipped in chocolate), Lube and Oil (Gogurts), Spare parts (Chips)

My mom is very hand with Illustrator as she is a graphic designer, so I had her make a template of a car, boat, plane, and train that I could use through out the party. Below is my centerpiece with all of the transportation. 

There was a Traffic Light Toss. This was fun and easy for the kids to play with whenever during the party.

Here is the "Fueling Station". I put cute labels on the water bottles, had a mix of green cool-aide with a sparkling lime-aide as "Antifreeze" and Gasoline. 

Here are some more pictures of the Pit Stop. 

Lots of yummy food.

A close up of my banner that I also used for his first birthday. (So glad I saved it?)

For activities I had tons of cars all around the yard for the kids to drive and play with. ( I really wanted to do a road on our retaining wall, but I didn't have enough time.) The kids loved the cars. The pic below is not the best, but another activity was the pull string piñata. It was a cute idea, but the kids all just pulled the strings at once and game over. I got it on Amazon for $11 I think. It was a cute idea.

My son loved his party and really loved his cake. 

After the cake was cut up. I loved the fun colored layers. I just used white cake and then added food coloring to make the cakes the layers I wanted. 

Well, that was his 2nd birthday. It was a lot of work, but a lot of fun. I think the most time was spent figuring out what to do, so if this helps anyone my time was better spent.