By Sara J

You may decide to for go tradition and have a themed first birthday party. You can have decorations, cake, games and invitations that all coordinate with the theme of the party. You might want to keep in mind, babys love bright colors. Balloons are fine as long as they do not pop during the first birthday party. This could cause the little ones to become scared. Crying babies at a party are difficult to calm down with so many people around.

Plan the first birthday party for a time when the baby has had a nap. Even though birthdays are exciting and fun, little ones do get cranky if they are tired, no matter how much fun they are having. Always remember to include parents of little children no matter what the age is, you need to control all the little ones and be the party host. Plan what you will do as far as food and drinks. Usually the babys first birthday is adults and some cousins, you can have finger foods and soft drinks.

Because the babys first birthday is more for the adults, you can have games if you want too. If the weather is nice, you might want to have a scavenger hunt, play horseshoes or some other outdoor games. This is more for the adults, you will know your guest better and be able to plan accordingly. If the party is a success, you will have very few dishes to clean and hardly any mess.

The hardest part is planning a theme, you might want a baby block theme, number theme or the alphabet theme. Everything you need can be bought from the party store or online. You can even make your own invitations.

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By Melissa Fishman

First choose the date, time and show. Determine about how many serveral people (adults versus kids) will be here and an appropriate venue for the party. One place you can have it is at home, outside is great. Larger venues work for lots of guests. Dont pick nap time or before as your baby probably will be very tired to enjoy his/her birthday party.

Choose invitations. Elect a theme that you can have fun with. Yet again, its more about what you like here.

Mail invitations out and give at least three weeks in advance, if you can try to four weeks. Double-check to make a list the you can use to amount those people who have confirmed and call those people who have not contacted you.

Decorations! Now you can have fun and do alot with colors, themes and decorations. Balloons (Make sure no one chokes!) plastic forks and spoons, plates and banners will do just great.

Games. If parents bring additional children there, include quite a few fun games. If not, bear in mind a collage of pictures to amuse your visitors with.

Foods need to be easy to prepare, handle and eat. For just a few guests a full scale meal would be okay. Dont forget the cake.

Pictures. Many of the perfect things to do you think now is to take lots of pictures during your party. Plan to do this so that you enforce ample opportunity to share and for scrapbooking.

To make your childs first birthday esteemed, bear in mind hiring a professional planner to do you think the work for you!

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