What do you want to be when you grow up? A train engineer, to fly planes, and a police officer.What do you want to eat for your birthday dinner? My favorite Mexican place with the yummy chicken.Favorite thing to take to bed? Snuggle Puppy.Favorite thing to do outside? Ride my bike and Jeep.Favorite song? I Can Make Your Hands Clap by Fitz and the Tantrums.Favorite outfit? T-shirt and shorts (His too small on him Never Give Up shirt and navy blue gym shorts.Favorite lunch? Peanut butter and Chocolate (Nutella) sandwich.Favorite TV show? Mighty Machines, Sarah & Duck, and Tayo the Little Bus.It’s never too late to start this birthday tradition! This is my favorite part because I love looking back on past years’ and seeing how his answers have changed or even stayed the same. Pretzels, vanilla Chex, caramel popcorn, dried blueberries, banana chips, yogurt covered raisins, sour gummy worms, and candy corn. For the trail mix we combined just about anything that sounded yummy. Guest were sent home with trash bags (doggie trash bags) containing Trashy Trail Mix and sidewalk chalk. The most time consuming is gluing on the strips of crepe streamer. It truly isn’t as hard to put together as you would think. This was a DIY made from used cardboard boxes, packing and/or duct tape, crepe paper streamers, fringe scissors and scrapbook paper. When I first asked Sam what he to do for his party, all he said he wanted was to have a trash truck piñata. If only mine were as excited about picking up their toys □ But, what they ended up LOVING was simply having the trash tossed over the lawn and then running around to pick it up as fast they could. We started off by having them try to toss the trash (wadded up newspaper ads) into the can from a distance. The first activity was a tin can toss followed by a trash toss, which was a much bigger hit with the kids than I imagined. We had three activities planned along with a rented bounce house. To go with the trash theme they were served in tiny metal cans lined with newspaper ads. We went with Sam’s favorite cupcakes, white cake and plain buttercream frosting for the birthday treat. Love the color and texture they add!įor a larger crowd of younger kids, it’s much easier on everyone if you don’t have to cut up a cake. The newspaper ads were cut into strips and then ran through the sewing machine to create the garland. You can check out my tutorial on how to make them here. In addition to the trash streamers, I made some gathered green streamers. Instead of tossing them I collected a few and used them to create trash garland streamers. We get so many newspaper style advertisements. Honestly, I had no idea how I was going to decorate for this party until inspiration struck while going through the mail. She also had a full up party set you can download to make things easy and cohesive. I found the cutest trash truck invitations through Delight Paperie. I’ll post photos first and link to the sources at the end of the post, along with his yearly birthday interview. He knew exactly what he wanted his party theme to be this year. They’re so cool about it, saying hi and honking their horn for him every single time. It has been a few months and I still can’t believe it! He completely adores our awesome trash men and runs to the door to say hello whenever they drive past. Sam turned five at the end of November last year.
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