A birthday for train-fanatic son...

I know it's a tad too early to be planning a March birthday party. But knowing that I might have to think about several things to do I might as well put my thought in my blog.

At least I know that there is one certain thing. The party will be a train theme and most likely Thomas the Tank Engine. We did have Thomas cake last year for him but there was nothing plan to coordinate that since it was 3 years old birthday. But now that he will be 4 and can participate more I want to add extra little things to make it more special.

I have read several great ideas online about planning Thomas birthday. But a lot of it involves too much planning and making. I need to really think about it.

Here are some of the tips that I want to consider:

1) Mark the driveway as a train track. This seems to be simple to do by using the masking tape to create a train track.

2) Create a train box for each kid. This might be a bit of a stretch depending on how many kids we want to invite. I still don't know if I want to do boys only party or all ages party. I think at this age he doesn't discriminate yet. :) The train box idea is neat I might just cut it down to just one and the kids can take turn. But again, it might be begging for a disaster since we know how sharing work so well in little kids. The box is created from diaper box and painted it then attached a string so they can wear it. The wheel makes some plastic plate. Seems easy enough. I do have a diaper box so if I want to do one I can.

3) Indoor or outdoor... This will depend on the mother nature and how the weather will be then. I would love to do it outdoor to minimize the disaster in my house.

4) Projects will include coloring train pictures when they arrive. Then I will have them do the project for painting the train car when everyone is here. There are several good ideas for the craft projects including decorating a picture frame, decorating door hanger. I will have to see the cost on this one.

5) If we can do it outdoor, I also plan something along the line of decorating the wagon to be a train and attach it to our ride on car. Not sure how well that will do but gotta try it. Well, I admit I originally want to rent trackless train.. But the price is way too over our budget for a little boy birthday. So we have to be creative on this.