1St Birthday Planning - What to Do??

HELLO MY NAME S..I HAVE 4 BOYS,PICK A THEME FOR THE PARTY AND GO TO BIRTHDAY EXPREES.COM.TELL ME HOW THE PARTY TURN OUT GOOD LUCK.HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Hello! first do u have a theme for the party??? You can go into this website called birthdaypartyideas.com. they can give you ideas for any theme at any age. It was a life saver for me. I hope it helps you. Also OrientalTrading.com

This isn't really a suggestion. More so a thought. My daughter is about to turn 4 months old and I often think of what to do for her "first birthday"!!! Don't know what I'll actually do then but I am feeling like just cutting a nicely decorated cake, putting a birthday hat on her and just signing the birthday song along with inviting about 6 kids her age over to enjoy the cake.

This is especially hard for me because in my culture the first birthday is a really big celebration. But the more I think of it the more I realize that my daughter will not remember it and wont think much of it. Of course pictures will be taken but the way I see it is I rather have a BBBIIIGGG party when she is 5 or 6 and SHE can really enjoy it.

Just something to ponder - but like I said, my first and only daughter is not even 4 months yet, may change my mind before then.

hi Y.,

My name is S.. My son is going to be 3 in February. For his first birthday, we rented a community center. My son is my only child so I had no idea how to entertain 17 kids ranging from under 1 - 10 years old. What I did was have an area with coloring pages that i printed off the internet and bought crayons to entertain them. A great website for party needs, crafts etc, is www.orientaltrading.com. You can buy in bulk at reasonable prices. my theme was baby sesame street , so baby elmo, baby big bird, etc. i also played children's music and had all the kids dance and play. we also had a pinata. I know I went all out for my son because it was his first birthday. he wont' remember it, but it was a huge milestone that i thought was very important to the entire family. we scaled down his 2nd birthday and probably not do much for his 3rd but will have another bash at 5 when he's old enough to remember. You may want to just have the party for 2-3 hours maximum. You wouldn't want a bunch of cranky one-year olds running around. I'd keep it at 2hrs. Make sure you have all the little snacks that one-year olds would like. Good luck!