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A Dump Truck Birthday Cake made from…

  • 1 and 1/4 Sara Lee Pound Cakes (use the rest for cake pops?)
  • Graham crackers – stacked 4-graham-crackers-high underneath the cake (with icing between each layer) to lift the dump truck off the “ground,”  two side by side for the bottom of the truck bed, layer of icing, two more perpendicular to the first two, layer of icing, and (I think) two more in the same direction as the bottom layer. One strip across the front top of the bed.
  • Chocolate-covered donuts – tires
  • Oreos – two side by side holding up the truck bed and covered with icing; a bunch processed into dirt in our food processor.  (The first time we’ve ever used our food processor since our wedding day… my husband now tells everyone we process our own food.)
  • Dots – lights on top of truck.
  • 2 16-oz cans icing – lots and lots and lots of icing to keep it from falling apart.
  • Two brown Reese’s Pieces or M&Ms for the headlights.
  • Black tube icing for the grill.
  • Yellow food coloring (Ice the windshield before adding yellow food coloring.)
  • Construction Cone Candles
I apologize for not including step-by-step photos.  I just couldn’t make the cake AND take pictures along the way.  It was too much for my little ole brain to handle!  I will say that it was really pretty easy to do (has to be if I’m doing it!), and I didn’t even stress out!  Now that’s saying a lot!


BUT for those who need some extra photos… I grabbed the original idea for this cake at The Recipe Room.

The rest of the spread

How to make Sugar-Laden Sledgehammers

Buckets were from Tractor Supply, where we get all our best fine china.

The fun & games... set up with toys we already had on hand.

Mr. Fix-it = Take-Apart toys and bolts & screws set:

Whiffle ball on a string + cardboard boxes = hours of fun:

Construction Zone – Large Truck Toys + Mega Bloks:

Construction Site = Remote Control Truck & Quarry Toy:

Construction Site = Tonka Rug with Trucks & Cars:


We also played Pin-the-Nail-on-the-Hammer, but I didn’t get a picture of it!  (The download, however, is provided at the bottom of this post!) We were planning to play a few construction party games (click here for the great ideas), but everyone enjoyed playing with the toys in the family room and then going outside to knock down a pinata…

Construction Truck Pinata:

Party Favors = Cat Mini-Trucks + Reese’s Pieces (as if they hadn’t already had enough sugar!):


We made party invitations out of this free template copied into PowerPoint and edited using text boxes.

And now for the free downloads…

Pin the Nail on the Hammer:
Hammer (Printed poster-sized at 220% – across 6 pages)
Nails (Print on mailing labels; designed using Avery template 5160)

Food-in-a-bucket Construction Party Labels (All color)
Food-in-a-bucket Construction Party labels (Print on yellow or orange cardstock)

Construction Party Zone Signs

That was Levi’s Construction Party – Let us know if you “dig it!” 😉


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