Hey associates, Courtney right here!
I can hardly consider it, however my son Forrest is formally one 12 months outdated! Time actually does fly—it appears like simply yesterday we have been introducing him right here on the weblog. We celebrated with a candy little party at our home, surrounded by a few of his favourite individuals. It was the proper technique to mark his first 12 months, and I wished to share a number of photographs and concepts from the celebration with you right now!
We stored the celebration easy and laid-back (I’ve seen fairly the frilly first birthday events on-line recently!), however I nonetheless had a lot enjoyable including particular touches. A Easy Gathering…if you’ll. 😉 The celebration was heat, cozy and homey. It felt to me like candy, healthful childhood magic and can be an exquisite reminiscence to look again on.
I additionally obtained impressed to make a number of easy crafts and produce a few of my Pinterest pins to life, so I’ll be sharing these, together with the recipes I used for his smash cake and a scrumptious sugar cookie recipe, on this submit!
I didn’t have a particular “theme” for the celebration; as a substitute, I centered on including little particulars that may make Forrest smile when he noticed them. He’s at all times been one to note the tiniest particulars, is delighted by animals, and has a foolish humorousness. So I integrated whimsical touches all through, preserving his favourite issues in thoughts!
Listed here are twelve 1st party concepts and particulars from our celebration:
1. A Particular Occasion Hat
I had a sense he wouldn’t be a fan of truly carrying this lovely birthday hat, but it surely was too cute to withstand shopping for. Seems he certainly completely hated it the second I put it on him, haha! But it surely was very cute nonetheless and can be a particular memento.
2. Stuffed Animals in Occasion Hats
I had noticed this concept Pinterest and knew it was an absolute MUST for the celebration! I knew Forrest would assume it was so foolish to see his favourite animal associates in attendance at his celebration carrying their celebration hats. I made the hats myself with craft paper I had available.
There are many tutorials on-line, however I simply reduce the paper right into a semi-circle with just a little notch on the high, then fashioned it right into a cone and taped it collectively. I added huge pom-poms on high with sizzling glue and tied on some baker’s twine to safe them. I additionally puff-painted little white dots onto the stable paper hats only for enjoyable!
After all his little wooden animals wanted pom-pom celebration hats too! These mini hats introduced me quite a lot of pleasure.
3. DIY Occasion Picks + Cupcake Elaborations:
To personalize the store-bought cupcakes and add some enjoyable to the snack desk, I created my very own celebration picks utilizing Canva! I designed a number of sheets of watercolor animals with celebration hats, together with a sheet of his photographs, additionally sporting celebration hats. After printing and reducing all the pieces out, I hot-glued them to toothpicks for the cupcakes and celebration meals, and to longer skewers for his smash cake.
For an additional contact of animal enjoyable, I tucked a Dealer Joe’s animal cracker into every cupcake.
This cupcake package with animal celebration picks is lovely if you wish to purchase some pre made!
4. Month Milestone Banners
I printed out all of Forrest’s month-to-month photographs (plus a number of periodic ones I took of him in the identical chair) to create a celebration banner. We punched small holes within the photographs with a mini gap punch and strung them alongside baker’s twine. Seeing the development all laid out like this was so candy!
In the event you do that, I’d advocate printing on cardstock or having actual photographs printed (we simply did common printer paper for ease which wasn’t as hardy, but it surely did the trick!).
5. Picture + Video Slideshow on the TV
I knew I wished to print some footage of Forrest to show across the celebration, however with the 1000’s of photographs I’ve taken over the previous 12 months, narrowing them down felt unimaginable! I printed a few of my absolute favorites, however my husband had the nice thought to create a slideshow with much more photographs. Canva got here to the rescue once more—it has so many templates the place you’ll be able to simply add photographs and movies. We streamed it to the TV by my laptop, and it performed on a loop all through the celebration. It was such a enjoyable contact for visitors to take pleasure in and see candy moments from Forrest’s first 12 months.
6. A Festive Smash Cake
I made this wholesome smash cake recipe and used greek yogurt because the “Frosting”. I completed it off with this gold “one” candle, a number of of my printouts on skewers, and a pom-pom on a skewer as a result of it simply felt enjoyable. 🙂
Do you assume he favored the cake? Ha! He completely loved it. I attempted it too, it was fairly yummy particularly for being so wholesome! It stored properly as leftovers over the following day or so, too.
7. Who Is aware of the One 12 months Outdated Greatest
I made this sheet (as soon as once more, with Canva) with some trivia questions on Forrest. We didn’t make it an official sport, extra only a enjoyable dialog starter, however you possibly can completely make it a celebration sport with prizes when you wished to!
8. Sugar Cookie Occasion Favors
I stumbled upon this lovely bunny formed cookie stamper and that was all it took to persuade me I needed to make bunny cookies for this celebration. We had some clear deal with luggage and ‘from Forrest’ stickers left over from once we hosted a child bathe for Forrest final 12 months (I made bear formed royal iced cookies as celebration favors!), so it was a very good alternative to make use of them and ship visitors residence with a deal with!
I used this sugar cookie recipe, and this royal icing recipe.
I’ll say–I did begin to query my resolution to make these cookies as I used to be icing them late into the evening the night earlier than his celebration…perhaps obtained a bit carried away there hahaha but it surely was nonetheless enjoyable. 🙂
9. Whimsical Bunting
I introduced this cute material bunting down from his room for a festive element to hold behind his excessive chair. I additionally put up just a little Forrest pennant a really candy Instagram follower despatched us earlier than he was born!
I’ve shared a tour of Forrest’s room on the weblog right here.
10. A Scrumptious Unfold of Snacks & Treats
Is any celebration full and not using a desk stuffed with snacks? Shout out to Dealer Joe’s for offering a lot of the deliciousness across the desk. The Peanut Butter Caramel Coated Popcorn was a really yummy new-to-me discovery…would advocate!
11. Easy Bouquets
I picked up this easy bouquet from Dealer Joe’s for our kitchen—I at all times take pleasure in their flowers. Additional festive with that cute birthday boy peeking out of it!
12. Prompt Digital camera
I had our immediate digicam out on the celebration to take photographs. Whereas I really like the comfort and high quality of telephone photographs, there’s one thing actually particular concerning the photographs we seize with this digicam. We used it for our marriage ceremony Polaroid visitor e book, our child bathe, and for particular reminiscences all through Forrest’s first 12 months. I’ll cherish these photographs endlessly!
My grandma obtained us this treasured child reminiscence e book (above) that I’ve been loving filling out every month. These self-adhesive kraft paper picture corners have made it really easy to stay my Polaroids in.
My sister Kylee and her daughter Lila took the prepare up from Portland to be on the celebration, which was so particular! They even wore matching striped fits (the cutest!!!). Forrest and Lila are solely 5 months aside so will probably be very candy to rejoice their birthdays collectively annually.
Lila helped Forrest open a number of of his favourite items together with this lovely bike and this play tunnel.
It was an exquisite time celebrating our boy!
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Under are a number of of the sources from the celebration or related objects when you’re internet hosting a celebration too:
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