We held a train party for our 2 year old (plus older siblings of friends). I made 12 different Thomas and Friends costumes out of craft store foam (face on one side, number and stripes on back, held together by webbing straps and slipped over head to wear). Each child was instructed to bring a favorite stuffed animal to ride in the matching box car (shoe box in same color as costume, with pull cord, same engine number and stripes). Kids played trains and raced with their passengers! Other games: spilled cargo on tracks (2 dozen balloons dumped on floor, kids tried to keep balloons off tracks by hitting them in air or taking them away in their box cars), ice on tracks (large rolls of bubble packing paper for kids to stomp and pop), snowy avalanche (while they were eating, tracks covered in tissues, kids came in and cleared tracks by picking up tissue into box cars while having many “snowball” fights in process). Putuyamo zydeco train music kept everyone dancin’ and moving for the games. Cake table was covered in white paper. Painted track around edge (sponged ties so equal size), made snack cars out of cardboard with plastic tube axels and button wheels (hot glued), put snacks (dried apples, cheetos, pretzels) in cars and kids could pass snacks to one another by “driving” cars along tracks. Made cut outs of train signs and glued to juice boxes for each place setting. Each setting also had a paper engine with guest's photo in engineer seat. Train engine cake in center. Our friends still play trains with their costumes and talk of the party!