First Birthday Ideas!

artlea2013 · March 2017

Let's talk birthday! June is approaching quickly. Share your party themes, decorations, food, and photo ideas.

artlea2013 · March 2017

I think I've decided on a baseball theme for the party. The goal would be to have a party focused in our backyard around the grill for ballpark foods. My sister does graphic design at a local trophy/tshirt shop and loves making special designs for the family, so I requested baseball tees for DH, Miles, and myself with our ages and names on the back (Mom, Dad, Miles). Not sure what exactly to put on the front yet

laurendiaz02 · March 2017

We're doing Mickey Mouse! I've been doing lots of crafting projects inspired by Etsy since the beginning of the year. Figured if I start early I can accomplish it all and budget myself. We will be ordering pizza to keep it simple for food. We are definitely going overboard on his party-- we rented an awesome bounce house, a margarita machine for the adults, a caricature artist so our guests have a cool souvenir, an ice cream truck will be stopping by for an hour so our guests can have a treat and I ordered cute Mickey Mouse cake pops.

vintagevix2016 · March 2017

We'll probably do a Star Wars party or maybe a generic "space" theme.

StayingFocused · March 2017

I'm debating between Mickey or John Deere or fishing theme

meggyme · March 2017

One of my friends just had a really adorable "Uno" themed party. Black and primary colors and lots of uno cards. Thought I'd share in case anyone wanted to steal the idea.

arteduc8 · March 2017

I found inspiration from a dress I found for Audri at Target. Dr Suess' Oh the Places You'll Go will be the theme. Lots of good ideas on Pinterest.

vintagevix2016 · March 2017

arteduc8 said:

I found inspiration from a dress I found for Audri at Target. Dr Suess' Oh the Places You'll Go will be the theme. Lots of good ideas on Pinterest.

I LOVE this!

rlbrooks84 · March 2017

Since my family flys out from Cali and Texas we're doing 2 parties on the same day. My oldest turns 7 on June 6 and Charlotte's birthday is June 3 a Saturday this year. So my oldest will have his party and after all his friends leave we'll do a little party for Charlotte. I never did themes for the kids till they were old enough to tell me what they wanted. It's also a family tradition to do angel food cake for the first birthday. I am going to try and make this snake cake for my son's birthday.

meggyme · March 2017

rlbrooks84 said:

Since my family flys out from Cali and Texas we're doing 2 parties on the same day. My oldest turns 7 on June 6 and Charlotte's birthday is June 3 a Saturday this year. So my oldest will have his party and after all his friends leave we'll do a little party for Charlotte. I never did themes for the kids till they were old enough to tell me what they wanted. It's also a family tradition to do angel food cake for the first birthday. I am going to try and make this snake cake for my son's birthday.

That's a loooooot of frosting...

rlbrooks84 · March 2017

I'm not going to make my snake as big if I do it, I haven't shown my son the picture of the cake because I don't want him to get excited and then it doesn't happen. But yes a lot of frosting, I'm going to go buy a little star tip and practice to see if I can do it.

meggyme · March 2017

rlbrooks84 said:

I'm not going to make my snake as big if I do it, I haven't shown my son the picture of the cake because I don't want him to get excited and then it doesn't happen. But yes a lot of frosting, I'm going to go buy a little star tip and practice to see if I can do it.

You could also probably frost it with a knife/spatula and just do the details with the star tip. That might make it a little less labor intensive.

arteduc8 · March 2017

vintagevix2016 said:

arteduc8 said:

I found inspiration from a dress I found for Audri at Target. Dr Suess' Oh the Places You'll Go will be the theme. Lots of good ideas on Pinterest.

I LOVE this!

Isn't it fun? I love the colors and playfulness of the decorations. And I can go as crazy or simple as I want. There are sure great tuffalo tree ideas online, too! And I might hit up Easter candy on clearance. The colors are spot on for it!

AmberLiz99 · March 2017

We won't have a big party, but the kids love to celebrate so I'll get them to help me come up with a theme. It's on the first day of summer, so maybe watermelons or beach, or something like that

violetmarie61516 · March 2017

I LOVE the Mickey party above. I totally want to come to that lol. I feel like we are lame now. We are doing a Pooh theme party at my sister's clubhouse. We want to go all out but we also have a pretty small budget.

vintagevix2016 · March 2017

Love4Labs326 said:

I LOVE the Mickey party above. I totally want to come to that lol. I feel like we are lame now. We are doing a Pooh theme party at my sister's clubhouse. We want to go all out but we also have a pretty small budget.

A Pooh theme would be adorable! Our budget is really small too. We'll do some purchased key pieces, I'll probably bake the cake myself, and decorations will me light and likely homemade. That said, I think my Mom wants to help out so it may turn out different.

laurendiaz02 · March 2017

Love4Labs326 said:

I LOVE the Mickey party above. I totally want to come to that lol. I feel like we are lame now. We are doing a Pooh theme party at my sister's clubhouse. We want to go all out but we also have a pretty small budget.

if you're near San Diego stop by! Lol. A nice cold margarita will be waiting

26pointrunningfor2 · March 2017

We live in AZ and I'm obsessed with tacos, so we are doing a Taco Smash/Fiesta theme! I saw another baby who had a taco smash, and we loved it so much we decided to copy it

splsmama2016 · March 2017

The snake cake actually won't be that hard. Apply a crumb coat first. I can't remember what the tip looks like, but there's one that looks like a star tip and does essentially the same thing but has a pin in the center of it.

DD's party is Memorial Day weekend, since her birthday actually falls on Memorial Day. Trying to decide between a mermaid theme, a traditional balloons/cake birthday (aka no theme), or a farmers market theme. I've also considered a beach theme because San Diego haha. Why is this stuff so overwhelming?!?

Linsbins · March 2017

We are doing a mermaid theme! We already did pink and gold for her baptism. Target has a bunch of mermaid themed stuff and swimsuits which will be cute for her and her baby friends.

(I haven't participated here in a long time but it would be nice to come back...hi all!)

khenry12 · March 2017

I think we are going with an Elephant Gerald and Piggie party. It'll be easy to theme the colors to grey and pink. Making our own cake, invites, and favors. It will be mostly adults there anyway, but I love the books so much!

Tawny87 · March 2017

I may be super lame but I think we will just do cupcakes at the park. That's what we did with the girls no fuss no muss and definitely no deep cleaning my house for guests involved lol.

bankssl1 · March 2017

We are going to do a Paw Patrol birthday party! We are keeping it to just family and close friends but that will probably be about 35ish people! I am going to change it up a little bit for his first bday pictures though and do a Star Wars theme. I'm so excited for his party but am SO sad he's about to be one

Delitachan · March 2017

laurendiaz02 said:

Love4Labs326 said:

I LOVE the Mickey party above. I totally want to come to that lol. I feel like we are lame now. We are doing a Pooh theme party at my sister's clubhouse. We want to go all out but we also have a pretty small budget.

if you're near San Diego stop by! Lol. A nice cold margarita will be waiting

We will invite ourselves

j/k. We live in Texas, but go to California twice a year. We're due there in July for about a month. My brother and his family live an hour from San Diego in a town called Meniffee. Near Temecula.

meggyme · March 2017

So I hadn't really started looking at 1st bday ideas since I don't know where we'll be for it, CA or VA. But where ever we are it will probably be a pretty low key BBQ. So i found the really cute idea of having a farm stand/watermelon themed party, complete with watermelon smash photo op.

laurendiaz02 · March 2017

Delitachan said:

laurendiaz02 said:

Love4Labs326 said:

I LOVE the Mickey party above. I totally want to come to that lol. I feel like we are lame now. We are doing a Pooh theme party at my sister's clubhouse. We want to go all out but we also have a pretty small budget.

if you're near San Diego stop by! Lol. A nice cold margarita will be waiting

laurendiaz02 said:

Love4Labs326 said:

I LOVE the Mickey party above. I totally want to come to that lol. I feel like we are lame now. We are doing a Pooh theme party at my sister's clubhouse. We want to go all out but we also have a pretty small budget.

if you're near San Diego stop by! Lol. A nice cold margarita will be waiting

We will invite ourselves j/k. We live in Texas, but go to California twice a year. We're due there in July for about a month. My brother and his family live an hour from San Diego in a town called Meniffee. Near Temecula.

Lol. I live close to Temecula so you won't be far!

StayingFocused · April 2017

Whose invited to the parties? I'm planning on doing a small, immediate family/close friend type deal with a few decorations. I don't see much point in inviting kids mostly bc we only k ow one or two his age, and bc, they aren't old enough to even really understand. Am I just a party hating scrooge? I only had maybe two or three bday parties my whole life. To me they are just another day.

meggyme · April 2017

We'll probably have two small parties, one with family (we'll be in CA visiting around that time anyway) and one back home with friends. Most of our friends have kids so they'd be invited, but mostly it's just be a small backyard BBQ.

vintagevix2016 · April 2017

StayingFocused said:

Whose invited to the parties? I'm planning on doing a small, immediate family/close friend type deal with a few decorations. I don't see much point in inviting kids mostly bc we only k ow one or two his age, and bc, they aren't old enough to even really understand. Am I just a party hating scrooge? I only had maybe two or three bday parties my whole life. To me they are just another day.

We're just having family and a few decorations and cake. Very lowkey but should be fun. It will be his last day of swim lessons that day too so we'll have that to celebrate too. Yay! :-)

adiaz132003 · April 2017

I really wanted to do a low-key party. Something at like a church hall with little decor and simple food. Just so family can come earlier and have an excuse to see him. Most of my family only gets to see us once or twice a year. But it looks like we are skipping the party cause I am too stressed to plan it by myself and nobody wants to even give me input. In fact my parents think a party is stupid (probably cause they simply don't wanna see our family) and keep telling me to just save my energy for a real kids party a few years down the road.

kay12321 · April 2017

StayingFocused said:

Whose invited to the parties? I'm planning on doing a small, immediate family/close friend type deal with a few decorations. I don't see much point in inviting kids mostly bc we only k ow one or two his age, and bc, they aren't old enough to even really understand. Am I just a party hating scrooge? I only had maybe two or three bday parties my whole life. To me they are just another day.

We're doing the same - immediate family and three friends (of ours), just at the house. Maybe a bit of a buffet? Not really thought too much about it all tbh with you

tucrew · April 2017

I live in a dormitory with two other families. One of them has a child with the same birthday as Cora (except she is 2 years older). We will probably just have dinner and lawn games with the families, then when we visit my hsband's family in MI this summer, we always celebrate his sister's kids' bday at once, so we will add Cora to the mix. Maybe down the road we will do more, but most families at my boarding school leave for the summer, so most of her friends will be gone, and our families don't live close. That being said, we live on the ocean, so I'll use that as a theme forever.

laurendiaz02 · April 2017

At the moment, we have 55 people on the invite list (mostly family and a few friends). When you're Asian & Mexican there is no such thing as "small gathering". Lol. We shall see how many actually RSVP and are able to make it (most live 45minutes to an 1hr away). I plan to send out invites in the next 2 weeks. I asked people to RSVP by June 1st for his June 17th party.

alcermack · April 2017

We are going to do a book theme party and say gifts aren't necessary but if you must please just bring a book. All the food will be book themed too. Cloudy with a chance of meatballs and a crockpot of meatballs next to the book. I'm going to have thank you for coming bags that have a book mark and book worms (gummy worms) for guest to take home.

MistKeeper · May 2017

Teddy Bear Picnic with a little BBQ that's just immediate family.

rmmorris · May 2017

We're doing a bowling party in my hometown with my side of the family (probably like 25 people).

laurendiaz02 · May 2017

With about a month until his party I had to get back on track with making his decorations. Lol. Taking advantage of nap times today to get some stuff done. Here's the door sign I made (with the help of my neighbor's cricket machine) and the photo prop for the guests to take pictures with.

AmberLiz99 · May 2017

We will be visiting my parents the week between Nadia's 1st birthday and my son's 6th, so I have to come up with something simple that I can do for a combine party. Any great ideas? Ds will have a small party in the park the next week with friends, so he'll get his theme cake that time

violetmarie61516 · May 2017

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I finally got our invitation finished for Lillyana's birthday. I'm hoping to get them in the mail tonight! We have over 100 on our list but I know only about 1/2 will come. We are planning to do a buffet style meal (rigatoni, s&s meatballs, cheesy potatoes, carrots, salad and rolls). I'm hoping that I will be able to make decorations with my cricut rather than buy them. I found a few things on Amazon but they are really pricey.

@vintagevix2016 Thank you!!!!

meggyme · May 2017

Love4Labs326 said:

I finally got our invitation finished for Lillyana's birthday. I'm hoping to get them in the mail tonight! We have over 100 on our list but I know only about 1/2 will come. We are planning to do a buffet style meal (rigatoni, s&s meatballs, cheesy potatoes, carrots, salad and rolls). I'm hoping that I will be able to make decorations with my cricut rather than buy them. I found a few things on Amazon but they are really pricey.

Just for Internet safety, so might want to blur out your address and phone number before posting the picture. They turned out super cute though!

violetmarie61516 · May 2017

meggyme said:

Love4Labs326 said:

I finally got our invitation finished for Lillyana's birthday. I'm hoping to get them in the mail tonight! We have over 100 on our list but I know only about 1/2 will come. We are planning to do a buffet style meal (rigatoni, s&s meatballs, cheesy potatoes, carrots, salad and rolls). I'm hoping that I will be able to make decorations with my cricut rather than buy them. I found a few things on Amazon but they are really pricey.

Just for Internet safety, so might want to blur out your address and phone number before posting the picture. They turned out super cute though!

I realized that right after I posted it. I'm not sure how to blur it out now!

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