Invitations - Make your own or use our pre-made invitations or make your own with construction paper. Draw railroad tracks on the paper and use the Thomas Stickers on the tracks on the front of the invitation.

Cake - Frost a cake in white. Add Railroad tracks with frosting and "Happy Birthday". Then add on a Thomas train. Either the Wooden Railway Thomas or the Take Along Thomas (less expensive). Could also frost it green by just adding green food coloring to the frosting.

Or follow this tutorial on how to make a Thomas birthday cake .

Decorations - Make the front door a tunnel with some roll brown, black or gray paper. tape it up and cut out a tunnel.

Train Party Game Ideas

Idea 1 - Free play, bring out your trains (and maybe borrow a friends) for free play time

Idea 2 - Make a Train with boxes. Go to a local store and ask for some old boxes. Have the
kid's decorate them and make a train. Then have the kids take turns "riding" in the train

Idea 3 - Tickets! Hand out tickets when kids arrive. Make sure the tickets are numbered.
Throughout the party pull a number from a hat and award the winning ticket a prize. Make
sure all the numbers are called out by the end of the party.

Idea 4 - Have shoe boxes, buttons, construction paper, and paper towel rolls and make your own trains with these materials.

Idea 5 - Help the engines find their colors non-competitive game: Make a train track on the driveway with sidewalk chalk. Make construction paper tickets out of red, blue, green and black. Have the kids write their names on the tickets. Have different stops along the track with signs that say or picture James, Percy, Edward, Diesel (no colors if you use pictures). The first time around hand out a colored tickets (make sure they do not match. Ex. James station hands out black, Percy station hands out blue...). The second time around have them drop the color at the correct engine. James=red, Percy=green, Edward=blue, Diesel=black. Give out prizes at the end for good matching!

Idea 6 - Train Toot story.  Read a Thomas the Tank Engine story and have the kids blow their whistle each time they hear the word "Thomas".

Food Ideas
Train Shaped Jellow Jigglers, train shaped sugar cookies, train shaped rice crispies..
Boxed Lunch. (like you might get on a train... sandwich, juice box and snack)

Check out our great selection of Thomas the Tank Engine Toys and Trains .