Trying to Plan Activities for My Son's 1St Birthday

Hi, for all 3 of my sons 1st birthdays it was mostly social, for one we had a magician, bubble machine... I always have food and fun favors! My youngest sone is turning two this saturday and we are having a blues clues party with a bbq and a candy bufet. I have gotten chinese take out boxes to have the guests fill their box with the candy from the buffet they like.. (these are the favors) I also have blow outs and party hats... We will have swimming and the kids usually have a blast playing with the toys in the playroom...

I find that home parties are best to have free play we will also have a small bounce house set up.

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We recently had our daughters 1yr party. WE were outside, so we a bouncy ball (the ones from the grocery store that are $1.50 ea) for each child and wrote their name on it. We also got a huge thing of sidewalk chalk and let them decorate our patio. They LOVED that. Just a couple of ideas. Hope it helps.

A bounce house is a GREAT solution! :o)

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Rent a bounce house and put it in the backyard. Have plenty of hot dogs, chips, and kool-aid. 1st birthdays are usually for the adults anyway, but that will keep the other kids occupied. They can jump for hours!

For my daughter's first birthday we had the same wide age groups. We had a bean bag toss and all the kids loved it, a little hard for the young ones to take turns but it was fun. We also had a coloring contest, each child colored (some with adult help) a picture of a teddy bear holding the #1 which I have kept and will give to my daughter one day. All kids love balloons, we bought the disposable tank, this was great for decoration and then everyone could take them home (helping with the clean up). For the party favors we had home made butterfly cookies, a small water gun which even some adults enjoyed getting in that fun. We also had stickers and bubbles which the younger kids just loved!

My sister in law did a circus theme for her son's first birthday and it was a really big hit also. She had cotten candy, bobbing for apples, a popcorm machine and a snow cone machine. The favors were little circus boxes with animal crackers, animal stickers and little plastic animals.

Hope this has helped & have a great time on the big day !

Just celebrated my daughter's first birthday and we too had only a few little one and more kids of mixed ages. I didn't want to have to manage a lot so that I could focus on my little one. This is what I set up outside in the shade.
-My daughter's excersaucer that we opened and put together in the snake position.
-small baby pool filled with balloons (the one year olds LOVED this).
-sand/water table and sand toys which I only filled with sand (this was my daughter's big gift from us).
-a bubble machine and individual bubble containers with wands.
-a small table covered with a disposable table cloth set up with a tray of soil, individual snack bags of zinnia seeds and small clay pots, a couple of water bottles for watering, and baby wipes (and a sharpie to label the pots). The 3 year olds on up had fun with this and the parents liked helping their kids with this. This was one party favor.
-a blanket on a concrete area set up with trays of foam animals and letters and foam visors. The kids and parents had fun with this also. This was my other favor.
Everything was bought at Wal-mart and only cost a few dollars per child. It was so easy and low maintenance and the parents loved playing and helping their kids.
Good luck.

Pick up a Dallas Child magazine. They always have great ideas, and the September issue is specifically all about birthday parties. They also have some good info and resources on their website.

You are really gearing it toward the 1 year olds since it is your son's birthday and not a 3-7 year, so you should not add stress by planning activities. Just let them play with some toys or whatever together, but don't plan anything. The older kids know it's a 1-year-old birthday, so they shouldn't expect to be catered to. I hope that's not harsh. . .you just have to start that now or you're going to have a lot to live up to as those kids get older. :o)

One game that we played at my son's first birthday was fun for all ages. I had ribbon (like balloon ribbon) cut much longer than the length of my son. I handed out one to each child and told them to guess how tall Max is and then went around and cut the ribbon at the length of their guess. We had a stick that had his actual length on it and they would come by with their ribbon, but it next to the stick and see how close they were. Closest one a prize!

The pinata was also fun for all ages. Just had to start with the smallest since the bigger ones always break it. Have fun!

How about balloon twisting/sculpturing. The best balloons are qualatex. They are more pricey but worth it. I got them from US Toys - near the cashiers. They don't even know they had them. I just did 2 patterns - sword and a poodle. If you are really interested. I can give you further instructions.

E.

Ouside water sprnkler games are fun- balloon toss- bounce house is great if its not too hot- water slide you can rent-
Also - let them decorate their own cupcakes for dessert-
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Party Favors are an easy one- Head to the dollar store and pop a few things in a bag with a few lollipops and viola!
You can even have them decorate their own T-shirts with shaped sponges and that can be their favor. Thats a great age to just pop out the arts and crafts and let them go for it. My kids are 17 and 13 and I so miss those times!
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My son just celebrated his first birthday last week and I wanted to be sure that I did not miss anything. I found that I did not have a lot of time to talk to everyone and it went by sooooo fast! We also had a few older kids but they entertained themselves with his toys. We opened gifts right after everyone got there and then did the cake. I was afraid if we did cake first then my baby would be all messy from the cake and i would have to wash him before the gifts were opened. Just something to think about. Birthdays are fun in general so don't feel that you have to find entertainment for everyone they are there to see the Birthday Boy!

If the party is going to be outside try bubbles. The bigger kids love blowing them the little ones chase after them. It's cheap and you can find (or make) all kinds of wands for different size bubbles.

Have you thought about chuck e Cheese? We always go there!

A bounce house always goes over well. The only thing is you would have to keep the bigger kids out while the little ones jump. My little sister had one last year for her 2 year old. My one year old LOVED it. He thought it was more fun to fall then to jump. Also for goodie bags bubbles, big bouncy balls that the little ones can't get into their mouth, noise makers, stickers and of course lolli pops all go over well for all of the kids that age. They have ton's of stuff for goodie bag at Party City. Good Luck and have fun.

I hired a Balloon Guy to come to my child's birthday party. Like yours, there was a variety of ages. I'm telling you that ALL EYES were glued on this man for one solid hour. Afterwards they ran around and played with their shaped balloons. Boys got sword shaped balloons, pirate shaped hats. Girls got flower hats and dog shaped balloons. A balloon guy makes any shape you want basically. It cost me $75 and was WELL worth it. I spend way more than that taking them all to Chuck E. Cheese or some place similar. I would make sure that all of the balloons got thrown away after party is over to avoid your baby putting one in his mouth. Good luck!