Part of the fun of having a construction theme party is that you get to build something. When planning activities for your construction theme party, consider whether you’ll be playing inside or outside. We’ve put together a few ideas for both situations!

Inside Activities

  • Construction Zone

Set up a craft table filled with cardboard, craft sticks, straws, buttons, paper clips, pipe stem cleaners, and any other building supply you can think of. Then let the kids build! You might make a few examples of things to make to set out on the table to help stir up their imagination!

  • Road Signs

Cut out large diamond shapes of orange and yellow. Let kids decorate their own road and construction signs with black markers. Signs that say things like: “Detour Ahead: Jimmy’s Room Closed For Construction” will be a fun party favor for kids to take home with them.

  • Legos and Blocks

Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best. Set out all your Legos, blocks and lincoln logs and let the kids build whatever they wish. This is particularly good for younger kids as they may not be ready for something more structured.

Outside Activities

  • Dirt Pile Race

Give each child a plastic shovel and two plastic buckets (color coordinating them will be easiest); one small one and one large one. Give the child the small bucket and the shovel. Set up the large buckets in a row. Create a large dirt pile as far away from the large buckets as you think the children can handle running. At “Go!” each child is to begin shoveling from the dirt pile into their small buckets. They then run to their corresponding large bucket and dump in the dirt. The object is for the kids to fill their large bucket with dirt from their small buckets. The child who fills up their big bucket first, wins!

  • Construction Zone Obstacle Course

This game will work best in a large outdoor space. Taylor it to the age group. You can set up saw horses, tires, rock piles, dirt piles, orange cones, in any fashion that makes it challenging for the runners to get through. The person who makes it through the fastest, wins!

  • Work Bench

You can tailor this to work best for your age group. You set up several “work benches” for kids to use tools and build things. For younger kids this could mean cutting out foam blocks and letting them build, wooden hammer toy benches, sand pits with trucks and sand toys or a water table. For older kids, with adult supervision, you could have scrap pieces of wood, hammers, and nails and let them practice driving nails in or nailing things together to create simple designs. They can experiment with sand paper, nuts and bolts, wrenches and pliers to learn more about how to use tools.

Happy building! Check out all our construction theme party ideas.