My three year old wanted a garbage man birthday party. He loves the garbage man. I made my own invitations with a cute picture of him holding his hands out like he was asking What?" I put the headline over his picture "Mommy and Daddy keep telling me that I can be anything I want to be" and under the picture I wrote "so this year I want to be . . ." when you open the card I wrote really big "The Garbage Man!" I also put a picture of a garbage truck inside with a little picture of my birthday boy's head in the drivers seat to make it look like he was driving. It was a big hit!   We had to think of party gifts for our guests so I used the computer to put the same picture of the garbage truck on a Word document 4 per page to save me on printing and I inserted pictures of our friends as the drivers. I had pictures of them from my digital camera so I just cropped out their little heads and pasted them into the seat of the garbage truck like they were looking out the window. Above their little picture I put the words "Garbage truck drivers are cool!"  Then I printed them 3x5 on photo paper so that they would fit in frames.  I found frames at the Dollar store and I printed these and put them inside. I also got plastic toy grabbers the kind the children pull and the teeth come together to pick things up.  Those were the party favors. I wrapped them in old newspaper and then put them in small kitchen garbage bags and stuffed with extra newspaper to make the gifts more fun and more "garbage man-like."  These gifts were a huge hit also because the kids had to go through the "garbage" to find their gifts and then we had a huge recycle trash can where they could throw their newspaper trash. 3 year olds love that stuff! For the cake I made tons of cupcakes then put them in a huge tin foil turkey pan (the cheap ones you buy at the grocery store) so that there was a flat layer over the whole pan.  I then used 3 colors of frosting: green(vanilla with green food coloring) white and black(chocolate). I made the bottom row black like it was the street and then the tires were black (so there were a lot of chocolate) then I colored enough cupcakes green to looks like a simple truck in the middle and I frosted the outside cupcakes white to show the picture contrast. I also got a tube of green frosting gel and outlined the truck so that you could tell what it was. I also wrote with the gel Garbage Men are cool! on the cake. When it came time to serve the children I didn't need knives or plates we just passed out the cupcakes on napkins - easy and fun!  My little boy was afraid of pinatas so we did an easter egg hunt type search instead. We lined the kids up.  I gave each child a small garbage man and my husband scattered candy and little prizes in a small patch of grass at the park. Then we said "Ready set GO!" and they all went to pick up the "trash" and stuff it in their bags.  We ate pizza and juice and of course everyone had to make sure to throw their trash away themselves since we were garbage men!"