Construction party

SETTING THE SCENE

Ready to decorate?

A truly unique birthday experience starts with the decorations. Some effort here will help  bring your guests into the world that you are creating. We generally prefer not to spend a lot of money on elaborate decorations, rather our focus is on projects we can do ourselves and inexpensive store bought items that have a big bang for the buck. 

What will you need

Consider the items below as our wish list of decorations. Pick and choose what works best for your space and budget. The placement of each item will be described in more detail in the sections that follow.

To make:

- Construction signs

- Game signs

To buy:

- Balloons (orange and black or yellow and black)

- Construction zone tape

- Streamers (orange and black or yellow and black)

- That's it! The beauty of this party is that much of what you need you already have

Room-by-room guide

Outside: You can have some real fun decorating for a construction party, and the scene can begin outside. Turn the approach to your front door into a construction site, placing common yard tools such as shovels, rakes and wheel barrels around. Cordon them off with construction zone warning tape. Make a big orange construction sign saying, “Warning Construction Party Ahead”. If you do not have a usable outside area, then consider moving the same scene into the entryway.

The meet and greet room: Guide your guests from the entry to the meet and greet room with more construction signs and construction tape as well as some cones if you have them (these do not need to be full size construction cones – the little ones your kids use to mark off their soccer field will do). Continue this theme into the meet and greet room, and top it off with yellow and black or orange and black streamers.

Project - construction signs: For our construction signs, we used orange poster board with a very large black permanent marker (we used a Sanford Magnum 44). Cut the poster board into a square, round the corners and draw on your favorite sayings. Below are some of our favorites:

- Blasting Zone Ahead (with the word ‘Music’ hand written above blasting)

- High Wind Zone (with a picture of a cake and candle)

- Fun Zone Next 50 ft

- Some typical construction symbols (arrows, workman with flag, etc.)

The construction zone: The games themselves will provide much of the decoration and atmosphere in this room, so there is no need to go overboard. At each game area we recommend making a mini orange construction sign with the name of the game on it. Additional construction signs can be added on blank wall space. Yellow and black or orange and black streamers can be used on the ceiling, or to create a ‘wall’ between games.

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