I thought you weren't allowed to bring homemade baked goods to school for parties anymore? Regardless, maybe you could just do goodie bags, they have them with the CAR theme if that's what your son wants. Maybe put a granola bar, small box of rasins, little trinkets? I don't know, it would be different and not the same old cupcakes, although I don't know about anyone else, but I remember as a kid you could never have enough cake, cupcakes, or cookies. :) Shoot forget the cake, just give them a cup full of icing ...just kidding!! If you want to do the cupcakes with the CAR picks, then do that. It's your son's birthday, not thiers! Do they sell CAR cookies at your local bakery? That could be another possibility. If you have a CD burner on your computer, you could burn your son's favorite music on to a CD and put a cool label on them. Give one to each kid. I did that once and it was a great hit. I am sure there are lots of options out there. Hunt around on the internet a little if you don't want to go with the cupcakes. GOOD LUCK!! It's so hard to be a mom sometimes, always trying to do the righ thing.