What was your child's 1st birthday theme?

[lillygator]

thanks for the link - I love that site and have gotten lots of great starts from there!

I think we are going to do a red/pink/white valentine type theme.....

 

[jennifer293]

DD#1 was rocking horses, and DD#2 was strawberry shortcake.

DD#1 will have her b-day at WDW this year so we are not having a party per say, but I guess it is as close to a theme as you can get huh? (sure costs enough)

DD#2 not sure on a theme but I know I am making a huge caterpillar cake for her. So I guess maybe some coordinating colors for plates, streamers and such.

 

[sjams]

DD 1st's was Bunnies
DS 1st's was cars, trucks, trains

the following years were Clifford, Dog x2, Winnie the Pooh, Bowling, Pottery, Gardening, Strawberry shortcake,Minnie Mouse,

Around here it is a big thing to go somewhere and pay someone else to set and clean up. Actually it seems to be cheaper in the long run since I usually make some sort of spread for all the parents that come and socialize...fun for all!!!

Have fun...

 

[lillygator]

I know what you mean, for DD #1 - 3rd birthday we had her party at 1900 Park Fare and spent less than we did on her first two birthday parties and didn't have to clean up!

I would love to do it for Haley's first birthday but I am not so sure all the family would hike over to Orlando. I even thought abotu booking a 3 day DCL trip - they have Fl rates for her birthday weekend!

 

[d r e s s u p *]

I have no children, but for me it was classic Winnie the Pooh

 

[ThreeMusketeers]

DD's First bday..was Disney Princess (we bought a cute little princess dress for her to wear that day, a little crown and a wand..it was so cute! )
Her Second was Finding Nemo
Third was My Little Pony
And her forth is going to be Tinkerbell

 

[ThreeMusketeers]

Older DS - we had the Sesame Street First Birthday theme

Younger DS - the Dumbo "It's fun being 1" theme

I just wanted to say..How darn cute it is when kids where those Santa Mickey hats...Grandma bought one for dd while we were at Magic Kingdom a few weeks ago, and we had to peel it off her each night at bedtime!

 

[DisneyDotty]

DD--Lion King (this was almost 11 years ago)
DS--Pooh--complete with pin the tale on Eeyore, fishing with Tigger, and scavenger hunt with Roo. (about 7 years ago)
This thread brings back memories!

 

[KTSMOM]

My DD's first b'day theme was Mickey Mouse. I made a cake and used a Mickey topper (wouldn't recommend this due to taste) and bought invitations and plates/napkins with Mickey on it but that was as far as I went.

 

[ErinInCT]

My 1st dd was a luau since we had recently moved from HI & it was in June so we had good weather. In HI keiki's 1st birthday is a very big deal - people make more of it then weddings I swear!! Back in the olden days not a lot of babies made it to one yr old due to illnesses so they really celebrate when babies (keiki) turns 1!! I used HI postcards for the invites which I partially wrote in Hawaiian (with the English translation for the mostly Pennsylvanian guests!!!). The cake said Happy Birthday in Hawaiian.
I had leis for the guests, Hawaiian music, blow up palm trees (we got individual pics of all the families by the palm trees which is so fun to look at - especially since everyone wore Hawaiian clothes - dd1 & myself both wore muumuus!!). I had some crafts set up for the older kids, they decorated plastic visors (I wrote their Hawaiian name on the visor in permanent pen) with foam fish and they made froot loop leis (string froot loops on dental floss to make a necklace. We had a few games, a dolphin ring toss & fish "dart" game. Most of the stuff was from orientaltrading.com. It was really fun.
My 2nd dd had her b-day about a week after we got back from WDW so of course she had a Mickey Mouse theme. I went to Home Depot & took a bunch of those Mickey head paint swatches & pulled off the Mickey heads & glued a couple on a half page of card stock with a little poem (It’s time for a party, Kate is turning one. Please say you’ll join us to celebrate the fun!) for the invite. I used more Mickey heads to tape on streamers & wrote the letters HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY on the heads (one letter per head so it stretched pretty far & was colorful). I used Mickey colors for streamers & made a Mickey head cake similar to the one on the 1st page! SUPER EASY! It was ALL adults at that party (except for big sis) so that was about all we did!!

 

[cheerbop]

We had mostly adults at our party also...
ended up with a kin of baby farm animal theme..it had a gingham background.
It was so cute and fun...everyone loved it!
I had :
Sticks and Straw (pretles sticks and those potato sticks)
Pigs in a blanket (little sausages wrapped in small crescent rollls)
animal cookies/crackers
Fresh veggie "garden"
Fresh fruit "garden"

I had more but can't remember them all....

If I knew how to post pictures I would show you an invite..He had a Sweater outfit by Hartstrings on that had a cow on it and had the most adorable cow hat with ears...I used a picture of him in that with an animal border...

It was a huge hit! Have fun planning!

 

[o2bacelt]

We did a pink theme, the party goods were called Hugs and Stitches, really cutsie patchwork stuff. We had a teletubbies cake though as my DD was a nut for them and I couldn't find anything with the Teletubbies on it. I just got a catalog in the mail this week and sure enough, Teletubbies... Figures.

 

[paigevz]

my DD 1.5 loves Dora so that was her theme. I wanted a DISNEY theme but the princess themes are way to old for a first birthday. I wish they offered a more infant friendly line of party supplies. First birthday is very limited IMO. As for our DS 7 weeks I have already started thinking of his birthday, I am not sure what to do. We plan on having a big party but it will be cold for his birthday so we are limited to where we can have it. But I think his theme will be something Disney. My other idea was for a indoor BBQ beach party. I just need a place to throw it.

You know, I saw a Dumbo 1st birthday theme at Party City.

 

[paigevz]

I have no daughters, but my first son had Sesame Street Trains (characters on a train 3D puzzle went on his cake) for his 1st bday, and 2nd son had ducks.

For 2nd bday, DS 1 had Pooh, and DS2 had frogs.

For 3rd bday, DS 1 had Candyland, and DS2 had Build A Bear/Firefighters (I bought firefighter outfits for the kids and the bears they made, it made a great group pic).

For each, I did their cakes myself, came up with games/crafts myself (but used Oriental Trading for materials), and they helped me do invitations. None were prepackaged, but I was able to find the second bday paper goods, and the ducks.........the others I used solid color paper goods. We always do a pinata that goes with the theme, for Candyland, my dh paper machied one of the characters (the gumdrop guy).

For DS2's 4th: We'll be doing Wild Animals........going to AK.

DS1 other birthdays:
Age 4: Letter N party (his name begins with N)
5: Giant party
6: Aliens
7: Golf (we did miniature)
8: Spiderman (at Universal)
9: Medieval
10: Yu-Gi-Oh
11: He wants medieval again.........I'm going to try to spin him towards maybe a chess-based (he loves the game and it can slant towards medieval battles), or Narnia

 

[DisnyMama]

My DS 1st B-Day back in May, 1992 was a Winnie-The-Pooh Cake with three small round cakes as baloons. It uses the Wilton Character Cake Pan that I borrowed from my mother-in-law. I will never forget how long it took me to decorate that cake because of all the different colors of icing I had to mix but it looked great and it was well worth it for my baby's 1st birthday.