So way back in November after Lindsay’s birthday party, I asked Logan what kind of party he wanted when he turned 3 and he said he wanted a tractor party. Ok. Done and done. I went online and looked for ideas and found a bunch of them! There are so many creative people out there! I also found some construction cups, favor boxes, bulldozer pinata and caution tape from a party store online and had those shipped here. The rest we made. Here were the decorations.

This is the backhoe we printed out to play ‘Pin the Bucket on the Backhoe’.


I made the table and the island look like roads by putting pieces of tape on black table cloths. Cute, huh?

I made construction signs to hang all over the house.


In the basement we had a game where they would build a big tower with boxes and them knock them down with the big tractor he got from grandma and grandpa. It was a favorite!


These ones are hard to see, but one says Road Work Ahead the other says Hard Hat Zone.




This one is upside down, but it was our Scavenger Hunt Game.

The cute pinata!

The favor boxes. I put a little thing of bubble bath in each one because they all worked so hard during the party, it was time for them to go home and get all cleaned up.

Logan was so excited for his party to start! He was so excited that when Ashlee came, he jumped on her and gave her the biggest hug. She was able to hold on to him so it worked. He did the exact same thing with Hannah, except Hannah is not strong enough to hold Logan up, so they fell over backwards and Logan hit his head hard on the carpet. So, after he calmed down from that, we could start the party.

The first thing they did was put their names on a hard hat with some letter stickers. We didn’t remember to get the camera out until we had already played two games, but here is a picture of the kids hats.

Next they played pin the bucket on the tractor. Again no pictures, but here’s how it looked at the end. Ashlee and Haleigh tied for the closest.

Next came the scavenger hunt for the tools and trucks. Laura hid the things upstairs for me and then we let the kids loose. They each got to find at least one and there was only one meltdown by the birthday boy.

The last game was the building game with the boxes. I saved boxes for about a month and with those boxes they would build a big tower and then they would drive into it with the big tractor (thanks Grandma and Grandpa Madsen!) and knock it over. It was by far their favorite game of the party! They each got a turn and it was really fun!

Then it was presents and cupcake time!







Then the last thing we did was the pinata. Like always Jeff just held it and the kids each got a few turns and then Jeff had to break it open.