Kids Birthday Cake Ideas for Boys

If you're looking for birthday cake ideas for boys then you've come to the right place. There are so many cute ideas for little boy birthday cakes. The cakes you see here will be made from simple box cakes or cupcakes you can make inexpensively at home.

Kids of all ages love themed birthday parties and honestly, I think it makes planning the party easier when you have a set theme.

This hub will focus on various categories where I'll give you some ideas that hopefully will spark some creativity inside you. Some of them will include videos to show you how to do them.

Don't be afraid to try some wacky things. Young kids just want to have fun. As long as it's colorful and includes something sweet they're usually good to go.

Playing video games are a big part of most little boy's youth. There probably isn't a boy in the world who doesn't love Guitar Hero. I think this is one of my favorite cake designs. This cake would be appropriate for any age. Have fun decorating the guitar in flames, etc. Even girls would like this cake done in pinks and purples.

When choosing a video game think about their favorite video game and pick some scenes or characters from that game.

There are lots of military-related video games that will allow you to utilize a camo theme with greens and browns.

These are just a few of the hundreds of ideas for boys birthday cakes revolving around a transportation theme:

• Airplane and/or Helicopter-this could include military aircraft. You can find inexpensive balsam wood airplanes for party favors. You can also find trinkets that spiral up similar to a helicopter. What about the toy soldiers with the little plastic parachutes to toss in the air?
• Ship-Pirates of the Caribbean themes are a hot theme. You can find cute little eye patches and bandannas for party favors. For decorations you can find palm trees and treasure chests with gold coins.
• School Bus-You can easily convert the firetruck video below to a yellow school bus. This is perfect for the young boy that is excited about riding a school bus for the first time. Decorations can include crayons, pencils and apples for a school theme.
• Firetruck, Ambulance, Police-all these fall into the same category of sirens and lights. Little boys love noise. You can find little sheriffs badges and fireman badges for party favors.
• Race car-there are tons of race car accessories for all types of racing. Checkered flags make a great decorating item.
• Train-creating a train cake allows for lots of creativity. You can make a circus train that incorporate plastic elephants, tigers, and clowns. The party favors for this theme are almost endless. You can create the illusion of being inside a big top tent by running alternating red and white plastic tablecloths from a peak point in your ceiling. You can use popcorn, peanuts, cotton candy, candy apples for additional food at the party.

Kids have such an inquisitive mind and love animals of all kinds. These are a few of the cute animal ideas:

• Turtle-see the cute cupcake idea below for making a turtle. The design calls for 12 cupcakes. If you make two dozen cupcakes you can make two turtles. Have the fun will be deciding what colors to make them.
• Farm animals-some of the cutest farm animal cupcakes are show below. What a cute idea, to have pigs, sheep and chicks on cupcakes!
• Zoo or Jungle animals-the video below shows you how to make some really cute zebras, lions, monkeys and tigers. There are so many animal print party favors available. Notice the balloons and wrapping paper in the video.