Choo-Choo Train Birthday Party

Plan a train party for the little boy who is fascinated by choo-choos. Turn the fascination into a train birthday party or even a Thomas the Train birthday party. Gather your ideas and train party supplies, and then sit down to plan the invitations, decorations, food, and favors.

Take advantage of these train party ideas:

• Invitations: Make a list of guests for the Thomas the Train party, and then create your event on Punchbowl for a variety of train party invitations. Customize your free invitations to fit your train theme. Include information such as the name of the event, name of guest of honor, date, time, and location.

• Decorations: Decorate for the train party theme with items representative of Thomas the Train and the whole Shining Time Station gang. Use silver duct tape to create railroad tracks up the driveway. Next, use cardboard boxes to create train cars along the tracks. Create railroad signs and hang them strategically around the yard as well.

• Food: Plan the menu for the party and include items such as sandwiches, fruit, and cookies. Use train-shaped cookie cutters to create train-shaped sandwiches.

• Cake: Treat the kids to a delicious cake after the main course. Serve a traditional sheet cake or round cake and use icing and candy to decorate the top to look like a train. For another option, make the entire cake look like a train with each car carrying various candies. Make the wheels out of cookies.

• Favors: Pass out train party favors, such as conductor caps, to each child at the party. Hand out the hats at the beginning of the party, and let the kids enjoy them throughout the celebration. Use a fabric pen ahead of time to write each child's name on their cap to eliminate confusion during the party when the kids misplace their caps.

Incorporate these ideas to put together a fun and enjoyable choo-choo train party for your little guy and all of his friends. All aboard!