MonSteR TruCk PaRtY!!

My little Monster turned 4 last week.  It seems a lot longer than that already.  But I just checked the calendar and it was only a week ago.  The Monster Truck Party was a hit!  I was a bit afraid that people might not come because it was forcasted to snow.  And it did.  Wasn't too bad though.  Only half the invited kids made it to the party, and being the party was at home, that was just fine!

Here was the door sign and various other signs:

 I didn't make him a "real" cake.  Instead I made him 2 out of cake pops.  One he took to school with him and one we had at home for the party.

 We played "Pin the Driver on the Monster Truck" using a picture a friend drew and "drivers" that I made from cropping pictures of the kids.

Then we played "Monster Wheels Toss" using  Pom Pom Poppers I found on Pinterest.

Instead of using marshmallows or pom poms, we used rolled up balls of black crepe paper streamers.  Two teams, two boxes and a ton of happy screaming kids with "puff-puffs" or AKA Monster truck wheels.  Team to make the most puff-puffs into their box won.  It wasn't as easy as I thought it would be.  But it was a lot of fun.

We also played "Red Light Green Light 123" and the finale was the Monster Truck pinata that took me 4.5 days to make.

I took lots of pictures of the process of making it.  But I won't post them anymore.  My intention was to have a tutorial here.  But perhaps I should have listened to all those questioning me "Are you sure it will break since you made it out of cardboard?"  My answer was, "Of course.  I only made it out of flimsy shirt gift boxes.  And it's only held together with a few pieces of scotch tape". 

The Birthday Boy whacked the poor pinata with all his 4 year old might.  ALL the kids took turns hitting it as well.  Finally, I had to step in to break that thing open.  Guess it wasn't as fragile as I thought! 

And finally the party favors filled with bubbles, monster truck bouncy balls, monster truck tattoos and gummy candies.

It was a blast!  Happy Birthday Big Boy!!