Train Birthday Party Ideas

Does your son or daughter love Thomas the Tank Engine, The Little Train That Could or Engine, Engine Number 9, going down the Chicago line? This site is all about trains, trains and more trains!

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Ideas for Train Party Invitations:

• "ALL ABOARD!" on the front, and held the flap down with a puffy Thomas sticker I bought at my local department store (Wal-Mart). When you lift the sticker to "open" the top flap, underneath was written "BOARDING PASS" on the bottom flap. Amy in Murray, KY USA #12506

• I took a picture of my son in an engineer hat, blue stripped overalls and wearing a red bandana around his neck. I had a picture of Thomas in front of him and train tracks all around the border. With the wording of Make tracks to Amar's 1st Birthday Party. Cherie in Granada Hills, CA USA #11983

• I made an official-looking logo on my computer that said "(Last Name) Railways, Inc. Home of Stewart the Steam Engine and Patrick the Puffer Train" with our address underneath. I found a great-looking line-art steam engine online. Allison in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA #11884

• I used an old ticket and came up with a mock ticket for each person being invited. On top it had the date and time of the party. Then it read Hobo lunch provided, Leaving form Cozart Town Station. Su in Edgewood, WA USA #11413

Ideas for Train Party Decorations:

• I took two PVC pipes and painted them red and white, and tied two red balloons up at the top to look like railroad crossing guards at the end of our driveway. I took black construction paper and made railroad tracks to our front door. I two old time red train lanterns hanging by the front door, and had a big poster (made with markers, glitter, and poster board) that said Station 454 (Our address number).Kelli in San Marcos, Texas #12330

• I made signs out of paint sticks that read "Railroad crossing" and placed them in silver tin buckets with coal around them. I got the paint sticks from home depot (free) painted them white and then used the glue gun to make the X. These were placed at the cake table on each side of the cake. I also made train tracks on the floor starting at our drive way and going through the garage and into the house. Cherie in Granada Hills, CA USA #11983

• We had planned on hiring a "train" for in the garden, but decided in the end to paint several cardboard boxes blue (one for each child) and cut a hole in the top (wide enough for a child's waist). We then cut two slits for handles on each side so that each child could easily manage their own "train". Bernadine in Cape Town, South Africa #10115

• For train tracks, I cut out long rectangles from brown grocery bags and laid them along the driveway and sidewalk going around the house. To hold them down, I ran two strips of 2" masking tape the entire length of the tracks. Belle in Mililani, Hawaii #1677

Ideas for Train Party Food & Cakes:

• I baked my own train cake using three loaf pans, keeping two uncut and dividing the third into two equal halves The first loaf formed the base of an engine, with the cab being formed from the one half loaf. The coal car followed as the other half loaf and I used the last loaf as a cargo car. Rebecca in Ventura, CA, United States of America #12572

• I made two separate cakes in the shape of steam engines with a 3-D cake mold. I used blue icing on one and decorated it in red and yellow with Stewart's name and a #4. For the other, I used green icing and put Patrick's name with a #2. Allison in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA #11884

• I put popcorn (very popular) in the carriages of his large toy trains; Arranged square crackers (with cheese & tomato) & little round crackers (mini ritz) into basic shape of train with many carriages; & brownies. Kylie-Anne in Mt Colah, NSW, Australia #10140

• We also served choo choo kastle burgers (small New Orleans style burgers), a tray of king cake donuts, toot toot hot dogs, chugga chugga chex mix with mini mms, fruit tray, chicken potato salad, cheddar fish chips, 7 layer dip, cream cheese pecan roll, hot chocolate w/ marshmallows, hazelnut coffee, kid drinks, soft drinks, wine and bottled water. Terri in Metairie, LA USA #5577

Ideas for Train Luau Party Activities:

• Each page had a picture of a different portion from the Island of Sodor---Brendam Docks, The Quarry, The Engine shed. In our backyard, I had already recreated these same scenes represented in the book. Rebecca in Ventura, CA, United States of America #12572

• I TiVo-ed LOTS of "Thomas and Friends" shows, which were playing all during the party, and at the end of the 30-minute segment, they sing the Thomas theme song. Amy in Murray, KY USA #12506

• Coal races - I had teams of five kids with an adult at each end. There was a pile of 5 coals (made out of black socks filled with marbles) at one end and a boxcar at the other. The object was to get the coals one at a time to the boxcar. When the boxcar was filled, the adult at the end with the boxcar had to run to a line I made in our grass and blow a whistle. Kelli in San Marcos, Texas #12330

• I also had a pin the #1 on Thomas , which is just like pin the tail onthe donkey. And had made a bean bag toss game for kids to throw bean bags into the hole of a thick cardboard. The cardboard was covered with pictures of different types of trains. Cherie in Granada Hills, CA USA #11983

• I gathered everyone around and read the book CLICKETY CLACK which is a great rhythmical story that lends itself well to audience participation. Allison in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA #11884

• Pass The Parcel For this age you have to have a prize under each layer - one for each child. Younger & more impatient kids should be first - outer layers. Sit older kids between younger kids to help keep parcel moving. Kylie-Anne in Mt Colah, NSW, Australia #10140

Ideas for Train Luau Party Favors:

• Thomas treat bags (filled with Thomas stickers, and various candies and toys from a variety bag I picked up at the store, and wooden train whistles I got from orientaltrading.com), and asked each of his friends "TICKETS PLEASE!" and the kids would give him a ticket, and Brendan gave them their treat bag. Amy in Murray, KY USA #12506

• So the bags had trains all over them, and small Destination labels all over them with one label at the top (after I rolled down the bag at the top) that said "Engineer's Luggage". Inside I had Thomas stickers, Thomas blower, a pink train playset for the girls and blue train playset for the boys. Cherie in Granada Hills, CA USA #11983

• Over the summer, I found at an Oshkosh outlet store conductor caps for boys (blue striped caps) and girls (pink striped caps).  I also found some wooden train whistles at a good price so I went ahead and got those as well for the kids. Since they had the caps and the whistles all they would need from there were the bandanas to complete their conductor attire. I located pink bandanas for the girls and red ones for the boys Terri in Metairie, LA USA #5577
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