Let’s Build a Party! is cut from blue and yellow cardboard and stacked across the top, with caution tape in the corners, and below is a job site: a yellow excavator scooping gravel, a blue dump truck with its bed full of rocks, an orange cone and dirt piles, all on brown kraft paper.
Jack turns 4 in round golden letters is the line everyone reads first; Come join the birthday crew sits above it, the date and the Millers’ backyard below in plain dark brown. Drop your own foreman’s name in; “Hard hats provided” is the note parents add most.
Two to six, when every truck in the house has a name. A dirt-cake dessert with gummy worms, a sandbox dig for buried toys, a cardboard-box dump truck to decorate, cones to steer around and a toy hard hat for each guest. Two weeks is enough notice for a backyard; three if a bounce house is being rented.
