Race Car party

I wanted to share with you a special party that I am doing for my neighbor. I normally don't mix business with pleasure. However, my neighbor has had a string of really horrible things happen within the last couple of months. First, her 25 yr old sister died from H1N1, she has been fighting for custody of her niece (her sister was a single parent). Then last Sunday (Valentine's day) she had her son's birthday party planned and it was cancelled due to her being at the hospital because her other sister's 6 week old baby had died of SIDS. My heart just ached for the family.

I didn't know how I could help then on Wednesday it hit me that at least I could help with her son's rescheduled birthday party. He wanted a race car theme. I had 2 parties this week so didn't have a lot of time for preparations so wanted to show my peeps how you can still have a nice coordinated party without a lot of time and money.The party is tomorrow (Sunday~ I post at night when Maddy goes to bed) so I will have a complete breakdown of everything tomorrow but wanted to share a couple of things.

I made a "race track" using a black plastic tablecloth roll. Got the roll from Party City for $14.99 for a 30 ft roll. I found the white duct tape at JoAnn's for $4.99. As you can see the kids could hardly wait to start racing down the track!! My daughter used an airplane???? What is that a sign of???

I took a Styrofoam block and spray painted it black then cut the white duck tape for the street lines. This is what I used to display my marshmallow pops. I love using marshmallow pops for kids parties. (1) They are so easy to make. (2) Kids love them. (3) They are inexpensive...downright cheap!I'm really sorry for the dark pictures ~ I will get better ones tomorrow but wanted to share these treats with you. You know I always say that I am not a pretty baker. I so wish that I could make beautiful culinary bake goods but honey, mine always look a hot mess! However, if I can do marshmallow pops than anybody can. I used the colors of the party~ blue, orange and red. I used Paper & Cake race car cupcake rounds as my tags.

It is late (11:45) so we will chat more tomorrow!