My son absolutely loves the movie CARS, so it was an easy choice for his second birthday.   INVITATIONS: We sent out the CARS invitations from Wal-mart, but on the inside we also asked the guests to call the body shop (us) with the color and number for their car. Since most were hand-delivered, we put CARS stickers on the envelopes.   DECORATIONS: We put two finish line flags on the mailbox in a X."  We mainly used CARS decorations from Party City- tablclothes plates napkins and cups (for the little ones).  We also had red regular-sized cups for the adults and red and black flatware and black and white streamers.  We had music playing the whole time- CARS soundtrack and related music- On the Road Again Born to Wild (It starts with get your motor running) Litle GTO etc.    ACTIVITIES: When the guests arrived we had a table set up for the guests to make license plates (foam sheet cut in half).  We had markers for the letters and numbers (most kids just wrote their name). We also had stickers (CARS movie stickers and regular car themed stickers for the boys flowers and stars for the girls although some also used the flags from the car themed stickers). We also started pulling them over to get their face painted.  We theme-related options on a sheet- flag basic car or truck 95 for Lightning's number but if they wanted something different we did that. When they finishedthe plates they took these to the body shop (our garage) to be hot glued on their cars (small boxes from a local fast food with the tops and bottoms cut out that my husband spraypainted as directed in the invitations and attached rope to keep them up over the shoulders). We also invited the guests to take their cars for a practice run while they waited on everyone to finish their license plates.  Once everyone had a chance to do their license plates we had two races- one for the younger kids and one for the older kids.  We marked out a path with more of the checkered finish line flags.  Winners got to pick from a red basket of prizes- little CARS metal lunchboxes or CARS markers (Target) for the boys or Polly Pocket cars for the girls. Then we played Red Light Green Light with the cars still on. Winners got to pick from the basket and be the next person to yell out Red Light or Green Light. Next we had some inflatable tires from my dad's "Over the Hill" party a few years back.  The kids formed two teams and did a relay rolling them back and forth. Again winners picked from the basket.  Next was Pin the Wheel on Lightning.  My husband drew Lightning on a poster and I cut out circles from black construction paper. Then we had a pit stop (food).   FOOD: At this time we gave the kids their CARS hats and blow-outs. We had our favorite tailgating foods- hamburgers hot dogs chips potato salad and baked beans.  We had sodas and Kool-aid coolers on ice in my son's plastic CARS storage tote.  My mom's friend made a Lightning McQueen cake and we also had red and black cupcakes with plastic checkered flags in them. We served Rocky Road ice cream to go with the theme.    FAVORS: Then we had a Lightning McQueen pull-string pinata.  When the candy came out we gave the kids their favor bags (again CARS) to put the candy in.  The bags also had Hot Wheels and CARS tatoos for the boys and lip gloss and nail polish for the girls(we told them that is was touch-up paint).  We also had CARS fruit snacks in them and CARS crayons that I found at Target for $1 a pack. Then the kids were free to play on the swing set while we started cleaning up but most of them put their cars back on and raced around the yard. "