Advanced Decorating:
For those of you who "go all out" for your birthday parties...
Use large appliance boxes, paint and poster board to fashion
Radiator Springs in your own backyard. The Cozy Cone Motel,
Sarge's Surplus and Flo's V-8 Cafe will also provide a fun party
activity for little ones, if you cut windows and doors.

Candy Race Cars
These edible cars make a super place setting and double
as a fun party favor!

You'll Need:
large packs of gum 3"x1" -- car body
snack size candy bars --spoiler and headlights
round hard candy or peanut butter cups -- tires
low temperature glue gun and glue sticks

Use the glue gun to attach the tires onto the sides,
spoilers off the back and and headlights on the front.
to the pack of gum. Positioned the back tire candies lower on the
pack of gum, to simulate a "dragster".
Tips: the new mini candy bars no longer have silver wrappers. So we covered ours with aluminum foil to make headlights. If you don't have
a low-temperature glue gun, a standard glue gun can be used, but it
will melt the chocolate so be cautious.

CARS BIRTHDAY PARTY GAMES AND ACTIVITIES
When it comes time to plan your party activities, you'll want to
keep your space, age of the children and amount of guests in mind.
Select of few of the birthday activities listed below that will best
suit your needs. Try to schedule extra help by asking friends, or
responsible teens to assist you with decorating, coordinating and
especially during your party.

Entrance Activities:
It's always a good idea to provide a simple activity at the beginning of
your party. This helps to break the ice and entertains the children while they wait for all of the guests to arrive.
Color-a-Card
Before the party, cut a race car shape from a large piece of poster board. Provide  glue, scissors, magazines car pictures, crayons or markers on the floor or table. When children arrive direct them to help make the birthday child a card. Your child can save it for a poster and you can save 
it for a memory.

Face Painting
Detail your party guests with face painted flames, cars, racing
stripes or numbers.

CARS Piñata Activity

This CARS pull string piñata is perfect for younger players!
Buy two - one to play and one to use as a centerpiece. 
Be sure to fill and hang your piñata before the party.

Piston Cup Championship
Have your own Piston Cup Championship with wind-up cars.
Before the party, mark a start and finish line with tape.
Use a permanent marker to write each child's name on a wind-up car.
Use a flag or cloth to start your race...
Winners get a piece of candy, blue ribbons or a plastic trophy.

Guido's Pit Row Race
Can you change a tire as fast as Guido?
To play this game divide the children into two or three teams.
Give each team a car tire. Mark Start and Finish lines for each team
and place a few cones in each teams path. The children will need to
roll the tire from start to finish around the cones, back to their team
and pass the tire to the next player. The next player takes his/her turn
and so on until all players have had a turn. Fastest team wins!

Red Light Green Light
This traditional playground game is a simple yet perfect addition to
your Cars party theme.

Pit Stop Obstacle Course - If you have the space...
Use old tires, cones, chairs and boxes.
Prepare the obstacle course buy creating challenges.
The children are cars. They must get through the challenge course.
Around Tires, under tunnels (cut boxes), through cones...
They  run the course as many times as they want,
receiving a candy or small treat every time.
Variation: Before the party fashion some cars, using cardboard
boxes, poster board and paint. Cut the tops and bottoms from
the boxes, so the children can step inside and hold the sides of
the car while they run the course. Adding handles with pieces of clothesline, will make it easier for the players to hold their cars.

Mater Tow Relay Race
Not recommended for younger players.
Place cones marking a start and finish line; not too far apart.
If you have several children divide them into relay teams.
Provide cones for each team. The first two players from each team
will take the first turn. One is Mater the tow truck and the other is the car.
The tow truck walks on his hands while the other player holds his feet.
They go as quickly as they can to the cone and back to their teams.
The next pair takes a turn. This is a simple wheel barrow race.

Who Am I?
You'll Need:
Before the party, prepare one 3x5 card for each child using
pictures of the CARS characters, or simply write the names.
Attach one picture to each card. Have the children form a circle.
Tape a card to each of their backs. When you say go…players look
at each others cards and give clues until every player has guessed
who's on their card. Example:
You are a Classy - Chassis (Sally)
You like to tow-hook fish (Mater)
You can only say "Pit Stop" -- (Luigi)

Luigi's Tire Bean Bag Toss
Place an old tire laying flat on the ground.
Mark and "X" a reasonable distance from the tire.
Provide a few bean bags for the children to take turns
tossing the bean bags into the center of the tire.

Ramone's House of Body Art
Make your own car to take home!
Purchase wooden cars, kid-safe paint and paint brushes,
or use with spray painted shoeboxes. Be sure to provide large shirt smocks and a protected space for painting. A large tarp on the ground
will do just fine. Also provide wet-wipes for messy hands. Encourage
the children to decorate their cars with racing stripes, numbers etc.

Va-Va-Vroom Art
You'll need old matchbox cars
Black paper
White and yellow paint (or any light color)

Pour paint in meat trays, or cookie sheets. Place a few cars in each paint tray. Children "drive" the cars through the paint and then drive them onto the paper. Use a white crayon to label each picture with the artist's name. Very little paint is actually used, so that these dry quickly.

Flo's V-8 Cafe
Tire Treat Cupcakes
Place a round candy, Life Savers work best, in the center of a chocolate sandwich cookie using frosting to secure the candy. Place the cookie tires on top of a frosted cupcake.

Re-fuel hungry party goers with car sandwiches. Use a car cookie cutter,
to cut simple sandwiches like P,B&J or ham and cheese. You may also choose to simply cut slices of lunch meat and cheese and served w/ crackers. Add carrot sticks, orange wedges and grapes.

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