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Your child’s heart will race with excitement when he or she celebrates a Hot Wheels birthday! With this party planning guide, your child’s Hot Wheels birthday party will come in first place!

Hot Wheels Birthday Party Supplies

Birthday Direct has lots of great Hot Wheels birthday party supplies to make your child’s Hot Wheels birthday the best on the block, including decorations, favors, plates, cups, and invitations. Find all of these great Hot Wheels Birthday Party Supplies and more at Birthday Direct.

What Are Hot Wheels?
Hot Wheels are die cast toy cars produced by Mattel since 1968. The Hot Wheels brand often produces classic hot rods and muscle cars, but also offers replicas of NASCAR and Formula One racers as well. Hot Wheels excite youngsters with the thrill of racing and precision machinery, making Hot Wheels a great theme to choose for your child’s birthday celebration.

Hot Wheels Birthday Party Decorations

• Your child and his or her guests will want to be race-car drivers and pit crew members, so decorate with a race track theme in mind. Try hanging up a Checkered Party Backdrop and decorating it with cutouts of red, yellow and green lights that you can easily make with poster board and construction paper.

• You’ll want to add special Hot Wheels decorations to your general racing theme, which you can do easily with Hot Wheels Dangling Cutouts and Jointed Banners. Place a Hot Wheels Honeycomb Centerpiece in the middle of your food table to make Hot Wheels the focus of your guests’ attention.

• Complete your decorations with matching Hot Wheels Solid Color Latex Balloons, Paper Crepe Streamers, and Curling Ribbons. Add a couple of Race Car Birthday Super Shape Foil Balloons for extra racing fun!

Hot Wheels Birthday Party Games and Activities

Design/Build Your Own Race Track

1. Give each guest a poster board and markers, then ask each of them to design a racetrack. Ask them to think about what sorts of race tracks would be the most exciting upon which to race: Would they have sharp turns? Loop-de-loops? Where would these tracks be located? On a mountain? In the desert? Kids will have lots of fun using their imaginations to create a crazy, cool raceway. Award a small prize to each child for designing a track, such as a Hot Wheels Value Sticker or Hot Wheels Temporary Tattoo.
2. Your child may be a big Hot Wheels fan, and if he or she is, then you may have access to lots of Hot Wheels race track pieces. If you do, put them all out for the kids at the party to try their hands at building the tracks they designed.

Hot Wheels Racing

• Take one or more of the tracks built by kids in the Build Your Own Race Track activity and give your kids Hot Wheels cars to race against each other on the tracks. Hot Wheels are inexpensive and make great party favors, and you can hand out other small favors (like stickers or tattoos) for winning a race.

Red Light/Green Light

• In this classic party game that fits perfectly with a Hot Wheels racing theme, children have to make it to the finish line across a room while you say, “green light,” to make the kids go or, “red light,” to make them stop. Give a warning to kids that keep moving after you say, “red light,” and disqualify them from the race the second time you catch them.

Design Your Own Race Car

• Similar to Design Your Own Race Track, give each child a poster board and markers and let each one design a cool racing car. Ask them to think about what makes a race car fast and cool: Should it be big or little? Smooth and streamlined or hard and angular? What color should it be, or what designs should be on it? Kids love using their imagination, and they will probably have just as much fun talking with each other about what their cars would be like as they will drawing and coloring their cars.

 

Hot Wheels Birthday Party Food

Checkered Flag Cupcakes

• Decorate chocolate and vanilla cupcakes with white and black icing (just add black food coloring to plain vanilla icing) and then arrange them in a rectangular pattern to make a tasty checkered flag.

Race Car Snacks

• It’s easy to make all sorts of treats that look like racing cars. Try using a nougat-filled candy bar (such as a Milky Way) for the car’s body, M &M’s for the tires (which you can stick on using melted chocolate as “glue”) and gently insert tiny Teddy Graham drivers into the top of the candy bar. Or, you could try celery sticks with banana slices stuck on as tires with a toothpick. Many other possibilities exist; imagine and experiment until you find a design that matches your aesthetic and gustatory taste!

Hot Wheels Cake

• Your child’s birthday cake can double as a great Hot Wheels decoration when you use this Hot Wheels Cake Kit with Edible Background from Birthday Direct! For extra decorative flair, top with Hot Wheels Cake Candles.

Hot Wheels Birthday Party Tips

• You can have a lot of fun preparing to throw your child a great birthday party, but don’t wear yourself out trying to make everything “perfect.” Accidents happen, drinks get spilled, etc. When they do, handle the situation calmly and gently so that everyone, including you, will keep having a great time.
• Take lots of pictures, but don’t forget to include yourself in the fun. Try playing the games and doing the activities you worked so hard to plan alongside with the kids. When it is time for your child to blow out the candles, get a relative to snap the picture while you get in the shot beside your child.
• Make sure you have everything you need before the party begins. Once the party starts, you probably will not be able to drive to the store to get anything you may have forgotten. To help avoid this problem, make a party checklist the night before and ensure everything you need is on it.