Ideas to celebrate the first year of your baby

Time passes very fast. Perhaps because it is approaching the first birthday of your baby. How to celebrate? We have some ideas that can help.

Many parents decide to make a small celebration only for the immediate family; others prefer a big party. There are no written rules, so do not feel pressured to make a huge celebration if you and your partner just want the first birthday is a nice family time and not all of an event.

The decor may be very simple. One must be careful, however, if you decide to use balloons, as many experts say they are not suitable for very young children because of the risk of bursting and can suffocate babies. By their natural curiosity, if the balloon bursts, babies could grab a piece and put in their mouths. Mylar balloons are more resilient and secure. Not so the latex.

Tips for great celebration

It is always important to evaluate what the main age of the guests, since according to it will be easier to plan everything, from food to fun. If you go to a party, is the size it is, there are some practical recommendations that might help you:

Plan ahead your baby's birthday. This will facilitate the conduct of the party, so you're not stressed out at the last minute. If you go to order a birthday cake, do it at least a week before.
Find ways to know how many people will attend. If you send invitations by mail, ask the guest to confirm their attendance. If you're doing a more informal meeting, no invitations, call two days before the party to confirm that your guests will attend.
Wait for the unexpected. It may be that your baby sick at the last minute or you've planned a party outside and rain on the day of the celebration. It is best to have a plan "b", ie an alternative.
Try to enjoy the moment. The hosts are who often pass it worse when a party, but this is not any celebration: the first birthday of your child. Do not lose sight of the true sense of the meeting that you organized.
Sets a time limit for the party. If you're inviting children who have about a year old, remember that tire quickly, so do not expect the celebration lasts more than a couple of hours. What's more, experts recommend planning parties for that age party last between 1 hour and 1 hour and a half. It included in the invitation the timetable of the party, both beginning and term.
It includes a variety of activities to amuse children. It has become fashionable to choose a theme for the first baby shower, thanks largely to market are all kinds of accessories with characters or cartoons like children. There may be an adult child disguised as a character like Barney, Blue's Clues or the Teletubbies. You can also place different toys available to children to entertain. Clowns are sometimes not highly recommended, as babies may be frightened by them. A puppet show can be fun, as long as the theme of the play is appropriate for the age of the children.
Music happy hearts. Get CDs or playlists with children's music and play it at a moderate level to help create an atmosphere of children's party.
If you're going to have a piñata, is that it is filled with objects that do not choke young children. The golden rule is that any small object is potentially very dangerous because you can get stuck in the mouth or throat baby.
Do not forget parents. Adults have other needs, so plan to have enough chairs for them, drinks and something to eat.
Have ready a medicine cabinet. Children fall and suffer accidents all the time. It is best to be prepared with a first aid kit containing disinfectant ointment or lotion, adhesive patches, gauze and forceps.
Do not forget the camera and / or video. It is so obvious that parents sometimes forget to have them hand a tool that allows them to keep forever the memory of your baby's first birthday.

Ideas for parties with more adults than children

If the party attended by more adults than children, we present the following ideas to amuse the elderly:

Make your baby is a celebrity. If you have access to a computer, write a newsletter that simulates a journal. If that's too complicated, he writes sentences in large letters as headlines in your word processor (such as Microsoft Word). Print them, cut them out and glue on top of holders of the front page of a local newspaper. For example: Andrew celebrates its first year. Place a baby photo which has been the original photograph of the newspaper. You can decorate the party venue with funny pictures of your baby and give the adult guests disposable cameras to play to be "Paparazzi".
All were babies. This idea is great to amuse adults, since you ask each guest to bring a picture of him when he was a baby. Just come to the party, you're sticking with adhesive tape photos on cardboard or lined cardboard. In the middle of the party, you can play guess who each photo.
Heritage for the future. It is again a good idea to parties where there are many adults. It asks each guest to write something feted, how will believe what profession when I grow up, an anecdote that happened in this first year or advice for life. You can read in a loud voice every paper or simply save it in a box so that the child can see this gift when you can understand what it means. The decor of the room may consist of newspaper articles or magazines published the year the baby was born, along with album covers that were fashionable or photos of the highest grossing films of the year.

We hope that your birthday child to be wonderful. Here are ideas to celebrate the second anniversary of the birth of your most precious treasure.