Animal Themed First Birthday Party

written by Amila Gamage Wickramarachchi January 13, 2015

I know I am late to post this. My son turned into one. He celebrated his first Birthday on October ,2014.It is so fast and still I can’t believe that he is one year old. We organized a simple Birthday party to celebrate the big day. We are really happy that we both could organize the party and celebrate the time with few close friends.

I thought it is nice to share some details of this first Birthday Party with you all. If you are planning a Birthday party, there may be some ideas to pick. Specially , it is interesting and exciting to organize a first birthday party as first time parents.

We started planning the party about 3 weeks before the Birthday. It was super easy to decide the theme. From the beginning, I allowed my son to watch nursery rhymes and he really likes to listen and watch songs. His favourite songs are Old MacDonald had a farm and BINGO. Other than these 2 songs, he also likes songs like ‘Lets walk into the jungle’ ,Animal songs’ etc. Now theme is clear. First we thought of ‘Farm Animals’. But later we changed to the theme to ‘Jungle Animals’ because we could easily found decorations related to jungle animals.

Here are few moments from our Animal Themed First Birthday Party.

Before everything, here is our Birthday boy.

My family members said that he looks older in these photos. I had to repeat several times, ‘no he is still one year old’ for some of my cousins. I guess it is due to his outfit with collars. Any comments?

Do you think I am pretty good at these craft work? Ah, I just made this door banner and hanged at the front gate.

Luckily we could buy some Birthday party hats with animal theme. We used those to some decorations too.Also I used letter stickers,so it was easier to create this door banner.

We had some animal finger Muppet bought from IKEA and those animals also were invited to the party.

Here are some cake toppers I created using Animal stickers. For most of decorations, I involved my son too. He helped me by dragging the papers, throwing the supplies etc. 🙂

Anyway, we didn’t have time to decorate cupcakes. Instead these animal cake toppers were good with snacks.

What do you think of his Birthday Banner? It is my own creation 🙂 🙂

We used colour papers to cut square and circle shapes.Then we glued printed letters to say ‘Happy Birthday’.After that I punched those cards and connected with a ribbon.I used few animal photos to make it match with the party theme.

We sticked some green crape papers on the wall and that acted as a photo background.I guess it is nicer than empty white wall.

All his animal toys were invited for the party.:) It was an easy way to convert our home for an animal themed party.

Here is our Birthday Cake. It was a black forest cake and decorated with an animal train.

We ordered food from a catering service for the lunch. I also cooked some food.

Below is my last minute table arrangement for the party.

Finally, here are some captures from the buffet. We ordered some seafood.

I also cooked vegetarian fried rice, vegetable fried vermicelli and vegetable chop suey for our vegetarian friends.

We also arranged a salad bar to those who love raw food and salads. But, instead of preparing a salad dressing, we used some store bought salad dressings.It was the easy idea considering the free time we have with one year old baby.

Other than the cake, we served some fresh fruits with a yogurt dressing as the dessert. Then some green tea after eating everything to burn the extra calories.

Here are some moments from the party.

Here is our photo display of his 12 months photos. I pasted photos on rectangle shaped colour papers. Then I used circles with numbers glued to name each month. Finally combined all with a ribbon .It was a nice decoration and good to wake our memories.

The animal party hats were arranged in a way as a decoration on the snack table.

We made Party favour bags simple by using paper bags and tying them with a ribbon. I used a simple paper tag and pasted it on the bag. Inside the bag we included few items matching with animals theme.

If you plan a first Birthday party,here is a tip.Remember to take photos of the birthday baby before guests arrive.One of my good friends gave me this tip and she saved me.Because,once the guests arrived,you don’t have much time to pay on photographs unless you assign someone for that task. For his next birthday, I’m planning on a Pokemon-themed party. I am going to put dibs on the Bulbasaur onesie so no one else would come to the party as his favorite Pokemon.

Notes:

Here are some useful tips for planning of a Birthday party.

Here are some services and merchants we used for the supplies.These may be helpful if you are looking for a themed party.

Party favours- From Mustafa Singapore and NTUC @ Ang Mo Kio hub

Customized Birthday card, Invitation and thank you card are ordered from cardstore.com.

First year photo album is from Montage (we are still working on that)

Birthday cake –A shop near NTUC, Ang Mo Kio.

Some stationary and supplies- Popular book shop,Singapore.

Idea for decorating the smash cake is from a free cake decorating course

Some tips for portrait photography-I followed a free photography course.

Birthdays cakes

Amila Gamage Wickramarachchi

Amila Gamage is the blogger behind Food Corner. She shares her cooking adventures in this blog. Apart from recipes, you will also find travel, health and kitchen inspirations in this blog. She started writing this blog in 2011 and still continuing.

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29 comments

Rafeeda AR January 13, 2015 - 8:12 am

Loved all the details… u surely are talented… 🙂

Amila Wickramarachchi January 13, 2015 - 8:25 am

thanks Rafeeda 🙂

Sona - quick picks/pick quicks January 13, 2015 - 10:40 am

what !!! last time think i knew of u were that u were expecting and now whoolaa !! he is 1 yr old. woooww…how time flies Such a beautifuuly planned treat. Great job !! loved the foto collagues and very colourful !!!

Clairejustine oxox January 13, 2015 - 12:12 pm

What a lovely day. So much yummy food here you did a great party 🙂

Navaneetham Krishnan January 13, 2015 - 1:39 pm

Such much of effort but all for the wonderful reason. You little one is so adorable and what can be better then shower him with lots of love, happiness and nice party with the kids.

Jay CraftySpices January 13, 2015 - 2:04 pm

Looks like it was a wonderful birthday party, very nice pictures.
Congratulations to the little one!

Dominique Goh January 13, 2015 - 9:13 am

Happy Belated birthday to your precious 🙂

Rhonda Albom January 13, 2015 - 9:58 am

Happy Birthday. Looks like fun and delicious 🙂 Really creative.

Diana M. January 13, 2015 - 10:48 am

That’s a really impressive looking first birthday party! You did a great job and love the banner. Happy belatedfirst birthday to your son!

pixiedusk January 13, 2015 - 12:10 pm

Wow this party is so awesome and colourful! And look at those food! Happy 1st birthday!

keiths ramblings January 13, 2015 - 12:55 pm

A serious feast! Looks like a great party.

Glenda Cates January 13, 2015 - 1:53 pm

Lovely party and even though my son is now 7 he would love this as he loves animals and the Circus and the Jungle. We always watch Jungle Book and read it,

stevebethere January 13, 2015 - 2:04 pm

Happy belated birthday to your son, love those cute photos 🙂

Tabitha Blue January 13, 2015 - 3:46 pm

Awww, happy birthday!!! What a cute party 😉

Patrick weseman January 13, 2015 - 3:49 pm

Very nice first birthday

Razina Javed January 14, 2015 - 5:14 am

omg, you have done it so beautifully dear, hats off to you!!!

Manjula Bharath January 14, 2015 - 6:01 am

Omg hats of for all the hard work and efforts you have taken to set a fabulous birthday party 🙂 Happy birthday to your lil one and applause for his mommy to make it happen 🙂

Ai Sakura January 13, 2015 - 10:20 pm

Such a wonderful party! Happy belated birthday to him!

Lysa Wilds January 14, 2015 - 9:39 am

WOW what a terrific party!

Evelyn January 14, 2015 - 2:43 am

Holy cow, what a party!! It looks like it was such a wonderful time, and that food – delicious! Happy birthday to your little man. 🙂

OrangeHeroMama January 14, 2015 - 5:27 pm

What a great party! and the food looks amazing! Happy Birthday Sanu!

Jaime Lue January 14, 2015 - 5:30 pm

What a handsome little man. 🙂 Happy Birthday!

The Quirky Homemaker January 14, 2015 - 2:55 pm

What a cute theme and the food looks amazing!

Jessica Fiorillo January 14, 2015 - 11:24 pm

A belated happy birthday to your son! Looks like such an awesome party – great job! 🙂
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Nicole January 14, 2015 - 10:44 pm

Happy birthday! It looks like it was an amazing party!

Swathi Iyer January 16, 2015 - 9:02 pm

Bleated birthday wishes to your son. He is cutie pie. You arranged an awesome party.

Lorelai @ Life With Lorelai January 20, 2015 - 12:41 am

Wow, that is quite a birthday feast! You did a great job with the party theme. Thanks for sharing at the #HomeMattersParty 🙂

~Lorelai
Life With Lorelai

Gloria January 23, 2015 - 11:31 am

He’s such a adorable kid.. God bless him..that’s such a wonderful cake.. So beautifully done..

Amila Wickramarachchi February 23, 2015 - 5:12 am

Thanks dear all for all these lovely comments.My son will appreciate these each & every comment when he grows up.

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