What was your child's 1st birthday theme?

[disneymom225]

Mardi Gras! DD was born on Ash Wednesday (2004) so when her b-day rolled around we got out beads, masks, made jambayla (sp?), and let the adults have fun. I made cupcakes and decorated them w/ purple, gold, and green sugar. We really didn't have anything "1st Birthday" except for special order M&M's that were printed w/ "Zoe is 1" and "Zoe Rocks". Even the invites were from a party store and were Mardi Gras themed. We figured that she really won't remember the theme of her party and there were really only 4 or 5 other little kids there. Of course, I'd vote for WDW since that's what we are doing this year for her b-day. The party was too much of a family landmine so we are running away for the weekend! Good luck!

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

My DD was born on the A.A. Milne's birthday (author of Winnie the Pooh). So of course her first birthday was Pooh and friends!

 

[Laurajean1014]

Cowboys! It was great seeing my one year old in a vest, jeans, bandana and a straw hat! YeeHaw!

 

[DsnyGrl]

We did not want to do a character theme due to the fact that mostly adults would be in attendence. We did a "Lollipop" theme. THe invitations look like suckers and said "We've Licked The First Year" Come help **** Celebrate their first birthday and gave the date and time, etc. For party favors, we gave out those WhirliPop Suckers that we had put a sticker on that said, "Triple the Cake, Triplet the Fun, The **** Boys are turning One." It was cute. By the way, the babies are triplets. It was a cute party. I can e-mail you pics if you are interested. We painted flowere pots baby blue and painted white polka dots on them, in the pots, we put baloons and ivy and used them for centerpieces. It was a great party.

 

[katiesmom2]

Our son's 1st birthday was Dec. 20th. We celebrated early and did a Jungle Animal theme. I got a giant monkey stuffed animal from Walmart and used it as a table centerpiece. We had lots of jungle animal mylars and other colored balloons. I bought some animal footprints and put them up the walkway to our house with a sign "It's a junge in here". We found tons of animal stuff for the goodie bags at the dollar store and put them in white bags with black stripes (zebra). I ordered animal masks for the kids to wear. Our son wore a Winnie the Pooh safari outfit - looked so cute! The cake was Madagascar from our local grocery store. We received lots of compliments on our decorations.

Our daughter's first birthday party was 3 yrs ago. We did a Ladybug theme. She wore a ladybug costume, had a ladybug cake. I found lots of garden and bug decor for the house and some ladybug mylars. It wasn't quite as easy to find stuff for this party and we didn't have kids in attendance, so it was a little more of a "grown-up" party.

 

[mask_w03]

We are doing butterflies and flowers since her birthday is in the spring. her first B-day will be April 5th but celebrate on April 2nd and I'm looking for a cute dress with flowers and butterflies to go with her butterfly cake and decorations I found at party City. I'm also making little cookies in the shape of butterflies and flowers (tulips).

 

[mommy2twingles]

For my twin boys we had a Bear in the Big Blue House them. For my daughter it was Tinkerbell

 

[christinadei]

DS' 1st birthday theme was rubber ducky. I made the 3-d cake from birthdayexpress.com and got lots of favors/games from oriental trading.

 

[belle&beast]

My DD's theme was rubber ducks with primary colors and ducks floating in little ponds on the tables. It was summer, so that was easy to avoid a mess being outside.
My DS's theme was trucks and we sent invitations that said he "bulldozed through his first year. We also used yellow warning tape and red, yellow and black balloons.
Both kids loved those particular toys at the time, in fact my DD wouldn't leave the house without a duck.

 

[Stacerita]

The sweetpea had a puppy party for her first birthday. Mostly we used the 101 dalmations for the theme, but also brought in other puppy type things. Along with regular food, we served hot dogs too. There were kids and adults at the party. All the kids "goodie bag" were actually dog bowls that I got from the 99cent store. I also found 101 dalmation sovineer cups at the 99cent store as well. I made rice crispy treats in the shape of dog bones and instead of party hats, I made all the kids "puppy ears" to wear. Just used some elastic and fuzzy material I found at the fabric store. We had a great time.

 

[jonestavern]

we did a dog theme for DS. aw: aw: aw: aw:
mostly adults attending, everyone packed into our really tiny house (750 sq feet inc bathrm & bedrms!)
cutest thing: DS' cake was a shaggy dog shape complete with collar.
(I was a cake decorator)
gift bags for DNieces 9 & 7 & godchildren, 11 & 10: plush puppies, books about dogs, dog id tags (sent away from the back of Milk Bones boxes) with their names & nicknames, cookies in the shape of dog bones ug:
New plastic dog bowls(dollar store) set out with muchies & cookies

it wasn't as elaborate as some of the other parties here, but the large crowd packed like sardines into our tiny, undergoing re-hab, house seemed to have a good time

Jean

 

[lillygator]

such great ideas!!

Anyone else? I am still struggling with what to do!

 

[FionaLovesShrek]

DD9 spend her first 5 years in love with Barney.

 

[lclark0621]

DS's first birthday was Rolie Polie Olie. He LOVED that show.

Granted, the party was mostly adults. But it was still HIS birthday. So we did it for him.

It was a really cute theme.

 

[ntburns22]

We did Rolie Polie Oilie too! He just love it. All the bright colors and shapes.

 

[lillygator]

I am on the fence...

Valentine's/Hearts theme
Princess theme (as in bday princess, not "the girls")
Luau (but it is looking like our pool won't be done by then!)
Ladybug/fairy/garden sort of them


I just don't know!!

 

[ntburns22]

We have used the ladybug with the tiara sitting on the flower. I used it for after my Dd's recital because that was the only one the drugstore had. I loved it. That is my choice.

 

[tweedlewtwinsmama]

For my twin boys' 1st we did a firefighter theme (guess what their daddy does for a living)
2nd- Pooh and friends
3rd- Blue's clues
4th- The incredible hulk
5th- Twin1 spiderman, twin 2 James Bond ( I made all the decorations on my own)
6th- Twin 1 Star Wars, Twin 2 dogs
I love kid's birthday parties, they get so into it and have fun with everything.

 

[KerriMc]

For my oldest DD's 1st birthday (in 2002) we had the "My 1st Birthday Theme" stuff for girls. We just decorated with those things and lots of pink "stuff" ... balloons, flowers, etc. Birthday 2 was Barney, Birthday 3 was princess, Birthday 4 was a Red and Purple party.

For my youngest DD we did Minnie Mouse. It was cute, but not over done either. I figured it was more for my oldest than for the youngest. For her second birthday it was a Strawberry Shortcake party (a very simple one). This summer we'll have our first "real" little birthday party for a couple of nursery school friends.

Here is a good link with descriptions of what other people have done for parties. It has some really good ideas ... www.birthdaypartyideas.com . I used it for oldest dd's red and purple party last year. This year I am searching again ... this will be a princess party where the girls dress at princesses. She is sooooo excited!!!

Good luck ...

Kerri

 

[MN Dis Fans]

We had a 101 Dalmations/puppies theme for my DS. The movie must have come out on video at that time. There was a puppy cake in the Family Fun magazine for the party at home and I made choc chip cupcakes for the party at daycare.