Kids will race to this fun, Hot Wheels birthday party with party games, crafts, and decorations.
HOT WHEELS PARTY DECORATIONS
Hang car cut-outs, posters, or calendar pictures from the ceiling and on the walls. Use clean tires stuffed with pillows for chairs.
Cover your table with white butcher paper. Tape black construction paper down the middle to represent a road. Add Yellow lines using paint or paper. Use a car pinata or remote control car as a center piece.
Candy Race Cars
These edible cars make a super place setting and double as a fun party favor!
You'll Need:
- Large packs of gum 3"x1" -- car body
- Snack size candy bars --spoiler and headlights
- Round hard candy or peanut butter cups -- tires
- Low temperature glue gun and glue sticks
Directions: Use the glue gun to attach the tires onto the sides, spoilers off the back and and headlights on the front of the pack of gum. Positioned the back tire candies lower on the pack of gum, to simulate a "dragster".
Tips: the new mini candy bars no longer have silver wrappers. We covered ours with aluminum foil to make headlights. If you don't have a lo-temp
glue gun, a standard glue gun can be used, but it will melt the chocolate, so be cautious.
A Special Welcome
Place a large piece of poster board, glue, scissors, magazines, crayons or markers on the floor or table. When children arrive direct them to help make the birthday child a card to save. Cut and glue magazine car photos, add stickers, write notes or color pictures. Your child can save it for a poster and you can save it for a memory.
HOT WHEELS PARTY GAMES
Keep your Hot Wheels fans entertained, with a few of these party games. Activities designed especially for younger children, can be found
a bit further down the page.
Road Rally
Have your own race with balloon race cars. Before the party, write each child's name on a car and place masking tape to signify the starting point and a few other pieces for finish markings. Hand each player the car, with their name. Use a flag or cloth to start your race...Winners get a piece of candy or blue ribbons.
Obstacle Course
If you have the space... Use old tires, cones, chairs and boxes. Prepare the obstacle course buy creating challenges. The children are cars. They must get through the challenge course. Around Tires, under tunnels (cut boxes), jump rivers (streamers on the ground) Etc. You can have your Birthday Child help with the set up of this activity. Don't forget to make car sounds! They run the course as many times as they want, receiving a candy or small treat every time.
Hot Wheels Pinata Activity
Fill a race car pinata with Hot Wheels stickers, candy and fruit snacks!
Bucket Drop
A fun activity that can be adapted depending on your child's age.
You'll need:
- Clothes pins
- Pictures of cars (magazine cut outs etc.)
- Bucket or box
Directions: Place bucket or box lower than the child. You can use stairs, a chair, a stool or the back of a sofa.
Attach car cut outs in 5 clothes pins. Take turns trying to drop the clothes pins/cars in the container. Adapt this game for age by increasing or decreasing the size of the opening in the container. No need for winners or losers everybody has fun and gets a candy or sticker to add to their goodie bag.
VARIATION: Use a wide mouth plastic container and plastic cars for dropping.
What Am I?
A great party guessing game.
You'll Need:
- One 3x5 card for each child
- Pictures of cars or car parts (tires, seats, steering wheel etc.)
Directions: Attach one picture to each card. Prepare these cards before the party. Have the children form a circle. Tape a card to each of their backs. When you say go…players look at each others cards and give clues until every player has guessed what's on their card.
Example: You are black. You are round. You roll.
"Am I a Tire?"...Yeah, you guessed!
Add a challenge for older children by using NASCAR Drivers, more advanced auto parts and well known races.
Paint Your Own Hot Rod or Your Favorite Car
Make your own car to take home!
Directions: Purchase wooden cars, kid-safe paint and paint brushes, or use with spray painted shoeboxes. Be sure to provide large shirt smocks and a protected space for painting. A large tarp on the ground will do just fine. Also provide wet-wipes for messy hands. Encourage the children to decorate their cars with racing stripes, numbers etc.
ACTIVITIES FOR YOUNGER CHILDREN
Set these party activities in "stations", much like a preschool. Enlist an adult helper at each station. Allow the children to play freely at the individual activities.
Hot Wheels Free Play
You can find plastic or carpeted mats at most stores these days for under $10.00. Set the mat out with a basket of cars.
Make your own Goodie Bags
Provide plain favor boxes, or bags and car stickers, with which the children can decorate their own bags. You can then add the favors afterwards.
Car Painting
A great way for kids to have their own craft to take home.
You'll need:
- Old matchbox cars
- Black paper
- White and yellow paint (or any light color)
Directions: Pour paint in meat trays, or cookie sheets. Place a few cars in each paint tray. Children "drive" the cars through the paint and then drive them onto the paper. Use a white crayon to label each picture. Very little paint is actually used so that these dry quickly.
PARTY TREATS
- Make Cookie Tires with Oreo cookies. Use a dollop of frosting to attach a life saver in the center. Then, top a frosted cupcakes with a tire cookie.
- Re-fuel with car shaped sandwiches. Cut kid's favorite sandwiches like P,B& J or ham and cheese, using a car shaped cookie cutter. Serve with carrot sticks,orange slices and grapes.
Hot Wheels Birthday Cake
Directions: Frost a sheet cake with blue or yellow frosting. Use black licorice ropes or Fruit by the Foot for a road way. Place miniature cars on the road. You can also find street signs and other accessories at local craft or party store. Cake topped with Matchbox cars.Rev It Up Punch
Every party needs a special fuel!
You'll Need:
- "Hot Wheels Fruit snacks"
- Fruit punch frozen concentrate
- 7-up
- Large punch or mixing bowl
Directions: Place a hot wheel Fruit snack in each cube section of an ice cube tray. Fill with water and freeze. Mix the punch using less water than required. Add ice and 7-up just before serving. Be careful to let the children know about the fruit snack car so they won't swallow it.
HOT WHEELS PARTY FAVORS
Use colored paper bags found in the gift wrap department of most stores. Provide the children with stickers of cars, markers crayons etc. for decorating a favor bag. Then fill the bag with Hot Wheels favors. Hot Wheels are as popular as ever, so you can easily find, candies, cards, stickers or mini-puzzles.
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