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First Birthday Party Themes

A Seasonal Guide for That Important Milestone

By Shannon McKelden

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  • Decorate with red, white and blue streamers, balloons and accessories.
  • For the cake, create a baseball field out of a chocolate iced cake with green sprinkles for the field, crushed vanilla wafers for the dirt and white fondant shaped into bases. Purchase small plastic baseball players from a party store or mold them out of fondant.

    • How about a Farmer in the Dell party theme?

    • Decorate with a bale of straw and some straw sprinkled on a red-and-white checked tablecloth, farm animal stickers on plastic cups, plastic farm animals on the table and tie horseshoes made from cardboard from hanging balloons.
    • For an activity, kids can color various farm-themed pictures copied from a coloring book or found on the Internet and printed out. (Small boxes of crayons could be part of the party favors.)
    • Party favors could be given in small cowboy/cowgirl hats. Include a bandana in each and have all the kids wear the hats and bandanas for a fun party picture gathered 'round the hay bale.
    • Pick theme music such as "Farmer in the Dell," "Baa Baa Black Sheep," "Mary Had a Little Lamb," etc.

    "Don't forget to ask someone to help you capture the event in photographs and or video," Ferrales says. "This will probably be the only way your 1-year-old will remember his or her birthday party."

    "Don't forget the party you're so carefully planning is for the kids," Lo says. "They will be happy with just having their friends over and a birthday cake with their favorite super hero. You don't have to spend a fortune to have a good time!"

    4 Birthday Planning Tips

    Here are some general birthday tips and hints from Cindy Lo of Red Velvet Events, Inc.:

    1. How early to send invites? Definitely no later than three to four weeks from the event date, and if people don't RSVP, plan on following up with them about a week out.

    2. How many kids to invite? The younger the kids, the fewer should be invited, as it'll be much harder for the hostess to manage the party and make sure the kids don't get into trouble. Definitely no more than 25 kids unless you plan on having enough adult supervision.

    3. How long should the party be? Definitely no more than two hours, but one and a half is actually plenty for a first year birthday party.

    4. What time of day? The early afternoon is best so that it avoids naptimes and doesn't interfere with major meals.


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