Transportation theme party ideas. (2024)

For a transportation theme dinner put together a race track withcars in the middle of your table for your party centerpiece.

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Transportation Dinner Menu

A great appetizer to start your Transportation kids dinner party,make sailboat eggs out of deviledeggs and a red pepper sail.

Fruit Boats

Create a fruit boat with banana and kiwi slices for the boat andpineapple rings cut in half for the sail. Hold together with largeplastic toothpicks.

Car Sandwich

• Hoagie rolls
• Sandwich fillings
• Cucumber cut in circles
• Pretzel sticks

Prepare hoagie sandwiches with desired meat and cheese fillings.Place two cucumber circles on the end of a pretzel stick. Makeanother for the back wheels of the car. Place hoagie "car" on top ofits wheels and watch it get eaten up.

Cucumber Boats

Cut a large cucumber in half and scoop out insides. Fill with tunasalad, chicken salad, whatever you'd like. We filled ours with aGreek salad and added flags for fun. Perhaps we should have added aGreekflag but didn't have one!

Apple Cars

Use apple slices and grapes cut in half to create cars. You'llneed to use toothpicks inserted into the apple slice to keep yourwheels in place. Add little drivers, if desired.

Transportation Party Dessert

Edible Stoplight

• Graham cracker or other rectangle crackers
• White frosting or cream cheese if using a salty cracker
• M&M's or other candies red, yellow and green colors

Break a graham cracker into rectangles. Spread frosting over eachgraham cracker rectangle. Place a red, yellow and green candy on topof the frosting to resemble a stop light.

Candy Race Cars

• Mini size candy bars
• Teddy Grahams
• M&M's or other round candies
• Chocolate frosting

Cut a small hole out of the top of the candy bar for the driver. Adda dot of frosting and add a teddy graham. Add a dot of frosting inspots for the candy wheels and steering wheel. Add M&M'son top of the frosting.

Dump Truck Cake

• Clean dump truck toy
• Chocolate cake or brownies cut in squares
• Crushed chocolate and vanilla cookies

Add crushed cookies to clean dump truck. ( cookies will look likedirt and sand) Add the chocolate cake squares to the cookie crumbs.Sprinkle more cookie crumbs over the cake.

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How to Make a Sail Boat Cake

A simple method for making a sailboat begins with a 13 x 9. Followthe recipe and after it is baked:

• Allow it to cool
• Cut into a square, leaving a rectangle on the end
• On the square, make a diagonally cut to form two triangles
• Cut one triangle in half for the sail and the bottom of yourboat.
  

The other rectangle will be used to make small boats.

Rearrange your pieces to have a bottom and the sails as shown below.Set aside your extra rectangle and frost and decorate the arrangedpieces.

To make the small boats, divide the rectangle in three smallerrectangles. Frost and add paper sails, or additional details topersonalize the sailboat for the guest of honor or to match theevent's theme.

Frost and decorate how you would like. To make the small boats.Cut your rectangle in three smaller rectangles. Frost and addpaper sails or whatever details you'd like.

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