My son turned one over the weekend and his party had a lot of color, circles, and balloons! We had wonderful summer weather to have his celebration outside in our backyard.
The Happy Birthday sign is made out of felt and purchased from Target. It was so cheap, I couldn't have made it cheaper!
Puff balls from craft store hot glued to a Styrofoam ring, hung on the front door.
Our pergola held puff balls and streamers, with a circle garland in the background.
Puff balls were a combination of homemade and store bought ones.
The circle garland was made using precut circles from Michael's. A hole was punched on either end and brown ribbon tied each circle together. The garland now hangs in my son's room.
The balloon and circle themed was carried into table runners made out of butcher paper cut into balloon shapes. Extra balloon cut-outs were taped to our fence.
I found reusable ice cubes in balls on Amazon. Thought the small detail would be fun and I can reuse these and Conrad might even have fun with them with various activities in the future.
One treat that I thought would look like balloons was donut holes attached to skewers with ribbon around them. They were simple and easy and most of the adults gobbled them up!
Our homemade (healthy, but sweet cake) on top of our You Are Special Today plate. Water balloons were blown up and attached to chopsticks/skewers.
Here is the recipe we did for his cake (it is actually a cookie recipe we morphed into a cake):
3 mashed bananas (ripe)
1 cup shredded carrots
1/3 C applesauce
2 C oats
1/2 C raisins (we didn't put these in)
1/4 C almond milk (we used regular milk)
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp cinnamon
nuts (omitted the nuts too)Most everything we used was organic and the goal was to use homemade whipping cream or a carrot glaze for the top, but neither set, so store bought canned whip cream it was!
