Hey everyone!
I'm planning a first birthday for my second son in a couple weeks. He loves patty-cake and I thought I would do that for the theme since it's his favorite thing. However, the only thing I've thought of so far is to put a "V" on the cake like in the rhyme (for Vincent). It's a small family party. Guest list is 9 guests plus the four of us. The kids there will be 1, 2, 3, 8 and 11. Rest are adults. Here's what I need help with.
Time of day? It's going to be Saturday the 20th and my dad can only come if it's in the evening. So, if it's in the evening, I'll need to serve dinner as well as cake. What should dinner be?
Since many of the kids are small, should I do a game/craft, or should I just skip it? If I should, what could it be?
Party favors? Necessary? What would be some good ideas?
Thanks!
Update: The party was a success - see last post for what we decided to go with. Thanks for your feedback!
Re: Theme: Patty-Cake. Ideas?
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Baker's hats and little baker aprons would be cute, especially if there was a cupcake decorating activity.
I don't think favors are necessary, but if you were going to do them, you could use brown paper bags and stamp/print "FLOUR" or "SUGAR" or other baker's terms on them. In that vein, you could decorate with little plastic rolling pins, cupcake liners, flour sacks, sugar canisters, etc.
For dinner, I like the other ideas of chicken "patties" if you want to do a theme dinner. Otherwise, go for "tapas" - style. Small, heavy appetizers in a buffet so you don't have to do a formal dinner. You could also go the "pie" route with a chicken pot pie or spaghetti pie....
For dinner, I went with Pizza. Simple, easy and "baked", so it worked. On the pepperoni one I had them arrange the pepperoni in a "V" shape.
My husband baked a chocolate triple-layer cake with buttercream frosting. We piped a "V" on it, too.
I made paper chef hats for all the kids (and my husband) and for the favor I made aprons. I let the kids wear the hats and aprons while they piped icing onto sugar cookies that I had pre-baked.
We also had balloons, presents, soda, all the usual things. It went over really well and I think everyone had a lot of fun. I would recommend it if anyone's looking for a first birthday "theme".