This little man is Josiah’s partner in crime and we love him to death. We found Josiah’s personalized trash truck t-shirt on Etsy and it’s SO cute! He’s already worn it more than once or twice or thrice. We definitely tipped the guy because he was so kind and so willing to entertain our kiddos. Josiah and his buddies got to go up in the truck, ask alllllll the questions and even got to pull the string for the horn. When Josiah saw this thing coming, he was BESIDE HIMSELF.įor some reason, when I said “give me a trash smile”, this is what I got. Through a contact of Jordan and his dad’s (who know just about everybody in this town somehow), we were able to get a trash truck to come for FREE for about 30 minutes and let the kids play around. There was a big reason why we didn’t have a lot of decor. We just baked an 8×10 vanilla sheet cake and then covered it in white icing, but you could easily do brown to make it look like dirt and nix the graham cracker crumbs if you wanted! The Pièce de Résistance My second shooter was determined to get her shot of the cake as well. Raisins (although you may get riots when children find out).The trash truck is (*gasps*) one that we already had and then he used graham cracker crumbs for the dirt, and piped icing so that he could stick candy to the top to make it look like trash.Īlso a HUGE hit with 4-5 year olds. Jordan’s dad made the cake this year and it was so cute! She LOVES it! It takes surprisingly way better photos than I would have expected) The Garbage Truck Cake (Just a non-sponsored second to talk about this camera – I put off buying it for SO LONG, but this thing is really really great. Donezo.Ĭharlotte was SO excited about getting to finally use her little pink camera that I got her right after Amazon Prime Day this year and have the title of my second shooter. FoodĪside from chips, we had pizza from Little Caesars, or as Kevin from The Office referred to a certain brand of pizza, “Hot circles of garbage.” When you have a kid obsessed with trash trucks, you’re liable to have some laying around and that we did. He already had the Matchbox trash truck that he got for Christmas a year ago and we just stuck that on a table for decoration. We had some colorful construction vests for the kiddos to wear and little yellow hats, but those hats were hard to stay on because it was super windy and they were very lightweight. They weren’t going to be super interested in the decor anyway. We were at a park with 4-5 year old kids. We added zip ties to the grommets and attached it to the table at the park. I happened to come across this really cute trash bash banner and bought the digital version and had it printed at my local Office Depot. I can’t believe I didn’t get a picture, but the other 2 we had set up for kids to throw bean bags in to like a mini cornhole type game. This party was at a park instead of our house and so we wanted to make things easy for kids to grab and eat. We bought 3 of these galvanized trash cans from Lowes and used this one for our chips. They cost nothing for you, but help me continue to provide free content to you fine, beautiful people! This post may contain affiliate links which help me pay for things like web hosting, site security, email services and bottles of wine from Aldi when the aforementioned things aren’t working.
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