Chuggington Party Ideas - Guest Blogger Lisa Kothari
Do your preschoolers love the show Chuggington? New in the United States, young children are quickly falling in love with these train engines called Chuggers. The show follows the adventures of three main characters: Wilson, Brewster, and Koko. Set in the modern world, the colors and animation graphics are truly stellar and pop off the screen. It’s set to become very popular and is a perfect train party theme that includes these lovable chugger characters.
For your Chuggington Party Invitation: Using bright square pieces of card stock, print off pictures from the Chuggington website, and glue to the front of the card. Inside or on the reverse side, write all of your party details.For your party decorations, be inspired by the bright and bold colors used in Chuggington: stoplight red, lime green, bright blue, and canary yellow as the perfect choices for your party colors. You can purchase balloons, streamers, and tableware in these bright, bold solid colors as the basis of your party decorations.
Create Chuggington Train Tracks leading to the front door of the party. At the front door create and hang a sign that says “Let’s Ride the Rails of this Party!”
Make sure to have the Chuggington theme song playing in the background as the kids arrive.
For your Chuggington Activities:
- Chuggington is about exploring, discovering, and teaching positive life lessons — such as listening closely to directions. Create party activities that allow your guests to explore and discover the Chuggington Party area.
- When the children arrive, ask them which Chugger they want to be, and face paint a little Chugger on their face.
- As the kids wait for everyone to arrive, provide them with craft materials and brown paper bags to create their own Chuggington paper bag puppet. The kids can take these home as a party favor.
- Give the kids a series of directions that they must listen carefully to and follow.
- Play Load a Chugger. Have train toys available for loading up of rocks, sticks, twigs, dirt, and any other “natural” items you have around your yard. If inside, have the kids load up small toys like marbles, jacks, small balls, etc. Create a relay race by dividing the kids into two teams and having them carry their loads back and forth from one end to the other. The first team to load/unload and finish the race wins. However, everyone can win if it’s just for fun.
- Play Brewster May I? like Mother May I?
- Play Chuggington Chairs like Musical Chairs. Make sure to use the show’s music during this game.
- Purchase a train cookie cutter and cut out sandwiches, gelatin, and brownie train shapes for the kids to enjoy together.
- Serve a Chuggington Fruit salad with grapes, kiwis, berries, apples and any other brightly colored fruits.
- Serve Chuggington Mocktails. Use a favorite flavor of Kool Aid or juice and place skewers of fruits inside each drink for additional edible decoration.
Send the party Chuggers home with their Chuggington puppets, boxes of crayons, and small train goodies, i.e. train chocolates, keychain, coloring pages, etc.
Have a Chugger Good Time! --Lisa Kothari
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