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I can hardly consider it, however my son Forrest is formally one 12 months outdated!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 strategy to mark his first 12 months, and I needed to share a couple of images and concepts from the celebration with you as we speak!
We stored the occasion easy and laid-back (I’ve seen fairly the flowery first birthday events on-line currently!), however I nonetheless had a lot enjoyable including particular touches. A Easy Gathering…if you’ll. 😉 The occasion was heat, cozy and homey. It felt to me like candy, healthful childhood magic and shall be an exquisite reminiscence to look again on.
I additionally obtained impressed to make a couple of easy crafts and convey 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 put up!
I didn’t have a selected “theme” for the occasion; as an alternative, I targeted 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 included whimsical touches all through, conserving his favourite issues in thoughts!
Listed here are twelve 1st party concepts and particulars from our celebration:
1. A Particular Get together Hat
I had a sense he wouldn’t be a fan of truly sporting this cute 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! Nevertheless it was very cute nonetheless and shall be a particular memento.
2. Stuffed Animals in Get together Hats
I had noticed this concept Pinterest and knew it was an absolute MUST for the occasion! I knew Forrest would assume it was so foolish to see his favourite animal associates in attendance at his occasion sporting their occasion hats. I made the hats myself with craft paper I had readily available.
There are many tutorials on-line, however I simply minimize the paper right into a semi-circle with just a little notch on the prime, then fashioned it right into a cone and taped it collectively. I added large pom-poms on prime 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!
In fact his little wooden animals wanted pom-pom occasion hats too! These mini hats introduced me a variety of pleasure.
3. DIY Get together Picks + Cupcake Gildings:
To personalize the store-bought cupcakes and add some enjoyable to the snack desk, I created my very own occasion picks utilizing Canva! I designed a couple of sheets of watercolor animals with occasion hats, together with a sheet of his images, additionally sporting occasion hats. After printing and reducing all the pieces out, I hot-glued them to toothpicks for the cupcakes and occasion 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 occasion picks is cute if you wish to purchase some pre made!
4. Month Milestone Banners
I printed out all of Forrest’s month-to-month images (plus a couple of periodic ones I took of him in the identical chair) to create a celebration banner. We punched small holes within the images with a mini gap punch and strung them alongside baker’s twine. Seeing the development all laid out like this was so candy!
Should you do that, I’d suggest printing on cardstock or having actual images printed (we simply did common printer paper for ease which wasn’t as hardy, but it surely did the trick!).
5. Photograph + Video Slideshow on the TV
I knew I needed to print some photos of Forrest to show across the occasion, however with the 1000’s of images I’ve taken over the previous 12 months, narrowing them down felt not possible! I printed a few of my absolute favorites, however my husband had the nice thought to create a slideshow with much more images. Canva got here to the rescue once more—it has so many templates the place you possibly can simply add images and movies. We streamed it to the TV by way of my laptop, and it performed on a loop all through the occasion. It was such a enjoyable contact for friends 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 couple 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 appreciated 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 Previous Finest
I made this sheet (as soon as once more, with Canva) with some trivia questions on Forrest. We didn’t make it an official recreation, extra only a enjoyable dialog starter, however you would completely make it a celebration recreation with prizes in the event you needed to!
8. Sugar Cookie Get together Favors
I stumbled upon this cute bunny formed cookie stamper and that was all it took to persuade me I needed to make bunny cookies for this occasion. We had some clear deal with baggage and ‘from Forrest’ stickers left over from after we hosted a child bathe for Forrest final 12 months (I made bear formed royal iced cookies as occasion favors!), so it was alternative to make use of them and ship friends dwelling with a deal with!
I used this sugar cookie recipe, and this royal icing recipe.
I’ll say–I did begin to query my choice to make these cookies as I used to be icing them late into the evening the night earlier than his occasion…perhaps obtained a bit carried away there hahaha but it surely was nonetheless enjoyable. 🙂
9. Whimsical Bunting
I introduced this cute cloth 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 occasion full with no desk stuffed with snacks? Shout out to Dealer Joe’s for offering many of the deliciousness across the desk. The Peanut Butter Caramel Coated Popcorn was a really yummy new-to-me discovery…would suggest!
11. Easy Bouquets
I picked up this straightforward bouquet from Dealer Joe’s for our kitchen—I at all times take pleasure in their flowers. Further festive with that cute birthday boy peeking out of it!
12. Immediate Digicam
I had our instantaneous digicam out on the occasion to take images. Whereas I like the comfort and high quality of cellphone images, there’s one thing actually particular concerning the images we seize with this digicam. We used it for our wedding ceremony Polaroid visitor ebook, our child bathe, and for particular recollections all through Forrest’s first 12 months. I’ll cherish these images ceaselessly!
My grandma obtained us this treasured child reminiscence ebook (above) that I’ve been loving filling out every month. These self-adhesive kraft paper photograph 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 occasion, which was so particular! They even wore matching striped fits (the cutest!!!). Forrest and Lila are solely 5 months aside so it will likely be very candy to rejoice their birthdays collectively every year.
Lila helped Forrest open a couple of of his favourite items together with this cute bike and this play tunnel.
It was an exquisite time celebrating our boy!
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Beneath are a couple of of the sources from the occasion or related objects in the event you’re internet hosting a celebration too:
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