All Aboard a Red and Blue Fantastic Train Birthday Party

Little Aidan has been going through a mix of phases from dinosaurs to Toy Story and Transformers. But he’s always had a very special love for Thomas the Tank Engine. This meant that Belinda from Styled by Belle was going to throw him a red and  blue vintage train party, held at Aidansville station as he rode the Aiden Express. “I spent many late nights painting and building props including – a custom train station backdrop that I drew and hand painted myself. The station was of course called “Aidansville”, the clock was pointing to “3 o’clock” (being Aidan’s age) and I had 2 windows representing “Tickets” and “Luggage”. I got my little man dressed up as a train driver and took photos of him before the party to stick in the windows.”

Talk about a railroad dessert display! Belinda drew and painted on canvas to create her train station backdrop. She created a super long dessert table and covered it with hessian to give it a rustic feel. “I built and painted a wooden train track to line the front of the table and bought plastic tubs that I painted red and blue and put wheels on to create “train carriages” to hold the food platters.” Aidan already had a cute vintage red ride-on wooden train that headed the table and “pulled” the carriages along the tracks!

The menu consisted of: caramel popcorn in Mon Tresor boxes, chocolate bars in custom wrappers, train sugar cookies, red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, blue and red jelly jars, oreo cookie pops, wild berry yogurt push pops, chocolate ripple cake and fruit skewers (of which she used a train shape cookie cutter to cut the watermelon pieces). There were also lolly jars filled with red & blue candy: jaffas, bon bons, jelly beans, raspberries, sour straps and clouds.

“The birthday cake was beyond amazing! My wonderful friend, Kylie Bourban, created a fabulous train and carriages cake to match my theme perfectly! The train and carriages were each a different flavor: chocolate mud, white chocolate mud, jaffa mud & banana mud. Yum! Yum!”

For entertainment, she hired a Thomas jumping castle and a motorized ride-on train (which she called “The Aidan Express”) to give the children train rides throughout the afternoon, which was a huge hit!

The children received lots of little train paraphernalia to take home – train shaped crayons, train whistles, train driver hats and train drink bottles. I also had wooden train toys that the children were able to paint themselves and take home. Overall the party was “choo-choo” fun and this train enthusiast had an absolute blast with his little friends.

Thanks for letting us ride the Aiden Express Belinda!

Party Conductors:
Photography - Lee Bird Photography
Printable Stationary – Parties By Hardie
Birthday Cake – Kylie Bourban
Train Crayons – Ivy Lane Designs
Jumping Castle – Speciality Castles
Trackless Train Ride – A&A Jumping Castles