Help me decide 1st birthday theme!

cherylk · November 2008

My son will be one soon and I can't decide on a theme. I'm looking at Winnie the Pooh-is that ok for boys? Teddy bear or Elmo? I'm having a hard time because I want to coordinate the cake with decorations and they mostly have winnie, sesame street etc....

What did you do or would you do???

Thanks!

Mysterious_wife · November 2008

I personally do not care for the cartoon character parties. You could do trains, ducks, boats, planes, cars, construction equipment, bears, dogs, or a many of other things.

Mysterious_wife · November 2008

If his birthday is close to Christmas you could tie the train theme in with Christmas decor. It would save you a little money.

JARbaby · November 2008

We went with Birthday party as a theme, call us crazy!

Colorful balloons, plates, cake etc...

cherylk · November 2008

So you think a plain teddy bear would be better than Winnie? What did you do for your cake?

Mysterious_wife · November 2008

Are you making the cake or having it made? If you order one the place you order from can make whatever you want most of the time.

JulieandBen · November 2008

I'm not a fan of characters so I did bright colors. It was really simple. The only theme we had was Jack in the box invitations and a Jack in the box cake. We had two hundred red, blue, green, and yellow balloons floating on the ceilings of our house, red, blue, green, and yellow plates, cups, flatware, and napkins.

We gave away full size bottles of Gazillion Bubbles with thank you tags as favors.

Temp159135562506975 · November 2008

I am not a fan of character parties at all... i'm sure i'll do them someday when DS is older and really wants one - but for 1 y/o it's all about what I wanted

we did a farm theme- which was SO much fun to do - there are a billion ideas out there (on the net) for fun theme related stuff.

i have a ton of photos of what we did if you do decide to do farm- page me and i'll post a link.

cherylk · November 2008

Here are my cakes to pick from

https://www.publix.com/food/catalog/Bakery/DecoratedCakes/Home.do

I don't want a sports theme and they have a lot of characters. Which do you like???

Mysterious_wife · November 2008

If you go into the store they will have more options. The decorators can get pretty creative.

shopgirl78 · November 2008

We did construction from birthday express. ?

https://www.celebrateexpress.com/celebration/pages/products/Product_BD.aspx?N=4294967134&TabID=4294967135&SKU=FWD945?

MelissaPete · November 2008

For ds we did a cupcake theme. It was awesome!!! I made cupcakes, we had a large cupcake shaped cake, I made cupcake shaped choco lollipops, He wore a little blue gingham shortall that had a cupcake on it and we got our decorations online at birthday express. It was SOOOOO CUTE! We did Elmo for his second B-Day.

kada626 · November 2008

we did a cupcake theme also for dd for her 1st birthday. It was just like this one but pink. We did cupcakes & cupcake shaped cookies. I got the cupcake banner and balloons. It was really cute. Plus you could get a shirt from ebay or somewhere that says my 1st birthday with a cupcake on it for your dc.

https://www.celebrateexpress.com/celebration/pages/products/Product_BD.aspx?N=4294967134&TabID=4294967135&SKU=E2286

i think this one is cute too...

https://www.celebrateexpress.com/celebration/pages/products/Product_BD.aspx?Ns=Name%7c0&N=4294967134&TabID=4294967135&search=&vw=asthumb&pageID=2&iRec=16&lpRec=14&SKU=FWD883

TheBrowns · November 2008

We did a carnival theme with hotdogs, chips and soft pretzels with nacho cheese. Our decor was primary colors and a lot of balloons. It was cute and fun and cheap.

angluvsammon · November 2008

I don't really like character parties either. Plus, for Ds's 1st b-day he would not have known the characters anyway! We did a monkey themed party. With yellow and brown for the colors. I made a cake shaped like a monkey head and monkey cupcakes. It turned out really cute. DS loves monkey's and we have called him our "monkey boy" since he was born. Good luck! Planning is so much fun!

Next year, we are going to do a farm theme.

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