These 2nd Birthday Party Ideas for Boys Will Make Their Birthday Extra Special - Beautifully Busy Mom (2024)

• Turn green pool noodles into bamboo with a little bit of brown sharpie
• Make super quick and easy jungle vines with brown bulletin board paper and large leaves made from green construction paper
• Create jungle snakes with paper chains
• Hang green streamers from the ceiling with paper leaves attached to look like vines
• Grab these “welcome two the jungle” balloons off Etsyto make the perfect photo back drop
• Hanganimal maskson the back of each chair. They serve as decorations to start, the kids can wear them at the party, and they make great party favors too!

• Create a “sub snake” by cutting and displaying a large sub across the table. Attaching olives and a red pepper with tooth picks works great to make eyes and a tongue
• Create an adorable lion veggie tray like this one
• Put out “gator-ade” as one of the drinks at the “watering hole”
• Green grapes as “snake eggs”
• Banana pudding
• Decorate the outside of cutie oranges to create tiger cub cuties
• A bowl of gummy worms as a “snake pit”
• Cheese puffs as “tiger tails”
• Zebra cakes (I mean who doesn’t love these)
• Make these adorable monkey cupcakes with chocolate cupcakes & vanilla wafers
• Put out your toddlers favorite juice or drink and label it as “jungle juice”
• Create this awesome watermelon elephant to add something a little healthier to the table

• Create a DIY safari jeep photo booth from a cardboard box, paint, and markers
• Grab this safari bingo game and a few fun prizes for the winners
• Have a station where kids can color/decorate their own elephant (or other animal) mask
• Set out fun safari hats and/or binoculars and create a fun scavenger hunt that the kids can all go on together

• Have an adoption center for some safari jungle animals that the kids can choose from to take home. These plush party favor safari animals are super affordable and so cute!
• Put together little individual bags of animal crackers for each child for a super affordable and easy party favor
• Let each child choose an animal headband to wear at the party and take home (elephant, monkey, cheetah, tiger, etc.)
• Have safari hats and/or binoculars for each little explorer at the party

These super simple construction themed invitations are perfect for get togethers big and small!

• Use caution tape as bows on any presents that will be sitting out at the party and put it up in place of streamers too
• Tie balloons to orange traffic conesto keep them from floating away
• Grab a few road table runnersto easily decorate the tables
• Create your own “Caution 2 Year Old Ahead” sign with nothing but a yellow piece of poster board and a black sharpie
• Create a “Speed Limit 2” sign with white poster board and a sharpie
• Display some foods getting dumped out of a toy dump truck and into a bowl
• Display things like chips and pretzels in upside down toy construction hats

• Put out lemonade and ice tea and label as gas and diesel
• Graham crackers as “plywood”
• Wafer cookies as “2x4s”
• Veggie straws or licorice as “pipes”
• Chex mix or party mix as “nuts and bolts”
• Malt balls, donut holes, grapes, or melon balls as “wrecking balls”
• Dirt dessert cups
• Stop light fruit kabobs or stop light fruit bowls
• Have a build a burger station
• Stick a Rice Krispy Treat into a popsicle stick and put frosting on one end to create “wet paint brushes”

• Create a ring toss game with traffic cones
• Put out a toy construction hat that your toddler can keep afterwards and have everyone at the party sign it
• Put out a sand box (or just large clear storage bins filled with sand) and construction truck party favors. Let each kid choose one to take home with them after they are done playing.
• Put out fabric tool belts and markers to let kids design their own tool belts

• Grab cheap fabric tool belts at the store and pair each of them with a few markers to let kids design their own tool belt. This can be both a fun activity and a great party favor.
• A toy dump truck or excavator with Reeses’ pieces as gravel
• A Rice Krispy on a popsicle stick with frosting dripping on one end of the Rice Krispy to look like a wet paint brush (make sure the frosting drips dry before you package). If you click on the photo below it will take you to buy the exact “wet paint” labels on Etsy to make these party favors insanely easy to put together.
• Bag together a thing of Plato and a toy construction truck
• Give each kid a toy construction hat (you can add each child’s name before hand with a sharpie to make it extra special!)

• Grab some of this road tape (we love it!) and have roads all over the party that easily clean back up and don’t leave residue all over the house
• Create a “car wash” in any large doorway in your home with two different colored streamers and a car wash sign above the door
• Create a road caution sign that reads “Caution 2 year old ahead” from a yellow poster board and a black sharpie
• Use red, yellow, and green plates at the place setting
• Tie individual helium balloons to toy cars or traffic cones to weigh them down and add a little extra flare
• Add road table runners down the center of the tables to easily decorate your tables
• Put a “pit stop” sign on the bathroom door

• Hot dogs as “hot rods”
• Chocolate donuts as “spare tires” (Get small and large chocolate donuts for car and truck tires)
• Cut brownies into thin slices and put a red, yellow, and green M&M on top to create brownie stop lights
• Add red, yellow, and green M&Ms to chocolate dipped pretzel rods for chocolate pretzel stop lights
• Use three bowls lined up vertically to look like a stop light. Add a green fruit (green grapes or honeydew) to the bowl closest to you, a yellow fruit (pineapple is usually best) to the middle bowl, and a red fruit (watermelon, strawberries, or raspberries) to the last bowl.
• Display drinks as a “fueling station”

• Create a “paint shop” by putting out these wooden cars and markers/paints for kids to design their own cars
• Create a car wash outside with a water table or two, some bubbles, and some toy cars
• Set up a traffic cone ring toss
• Set up a DIY car race track by cutting pool noodles in half and sending match box cars down the divet in the middle
• Create a DIY car photo booth from a large cardboard box and some paint

• Decorate with these construction cone cups at each place setting and then let the kids take them home as their party favor!
• Of course a match box car or other car of some sort makes a great party favor
• Stop light brownies (see picture below)
• Give a little bag of four chocolate donuts that says “I’m Wheelie Glad You Came”
• Let each kid grab a donut on the way out so they have a “spare tire” for the road

• Trains (chugga chugga two two)
• Little Blue Truck
• Toy Story (two infinity & beyond)
• Baby Shark (two two two two two two)
• Dogs (two let the dogs out)
• Dinosaurs (two rex)
• Astronauts or Outer Space (two the moon)
• Ice Cream Party (two sweet)