1st Birthday..

Im wanting some idea's please

It's DS first birthday in April, ages away i know, but im wanting some idea's on what to do, like the cake and things.

I know DS will be far too young to remember it, but it's still his first birthday and i want to celebrate it well Does anyone have any idea's on what type of cake i could do ? Im wanting to get some practice in making it so i can see if itl work or not, but i cant seem to find any good cake sites that give me idea's about a childs first birthday, also what did you get your DS on his first birthday ?

Since Christmas he seems to be loaded with toys lol, so im not really too sure on what to get him other then clothes, im wanting to also get him something special from me and DP..any thoughts or suggestions ?

TIA

No real suggestions on the BDay food as I'm having the same issue.
But as for the present I'm getting my DS a greenstone carving as his 'special' thing. I'm also going to plant his placenta but not sure he'll care about that

At his party I'm going to have all the kids do a painted handprint on a large roll of paper then get the mums/dads to write a message and keep it safely away for his 21st.

Great ideas girls, i've just been thinking flat out about all this stuff this morning. For the prez we'll be getting these table and chairs and thinking of doing a late avo picnic dinner on our front lawn, but with yummy cooked foods for the adults, and some healthy easy stuff for the kids, just the cake as the real sugary treat hehe

Am going to hand make the invites, so it's worth keeping to put away for him later, get some helium blue and white baloons to tie in the trees surrounding the front lawn.

Do you have a cake shop in your area that hires tins? We've one in Lower Hutt that is great!

We just had DS's first birthday on Saturday

I made a '1' cake, I rented the tin from a cake shop and it cost $14 for a weeks hire. I used the 'Birthday Cake' thread here in the recipes section for the cake recipe which was AWESOME and made & dyed marshmallow fondant myself which is super easy. Take a look in the thread and you might get some good ideas, there are some super cake makers here!

Seeing as DS's birthday was so close to Christmas (20th Jan) he had just gotten so many gifts already but we got him some more toys, he got loads of clothes and his first ride on trike (the no pedals type) We also got him a pewter race car with engraving on it to say 'Happy 1st Birthday Liam, Love Mum & Dad' type thing that he will always have. You could also get a money box and engrave on it, there are some very cool ones out there that we looked at. He also got loads of books

Happy planning!

Edited by MrsEmma

nzlisajo there's a really cool website I found with loads of baking bits and pieces at really good prices, they have zoo animal moulds Zoo Animal Moulds You can also use them for gum paste but you can buy packs of chocolate for moulds at Spotlight to make it simple

I trawled websites for ideas and items I needed for months, I wish I could do it all over again

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Im busy organising my wee girls 1st birthday too:), ive got minnie mouse idea going so we will see lol, ive just brought her a pumpkin patch teddy with clothes for her special pressie, not sure what else maybe tonka truck lol, think i might hire bouncey castle to keep other kids amused, are you in gore ? theres a couple of people in invers one got a website :) happy planning :)

We're doing an enchanted garden theme, fairies, butterflies, bugs etc and having a lunchtime BBQ with party food as well.

We're also dairy, grain and mostly sugar free so the main cake will be a pavlova with whipped coconut cream and blueberries with dark chocolate shaved on top and then I'm loading up a cupcake tower with cupcakes for everyone else. Think I'm just going to do pink icing with the little silver balls to decorate them and do silver wrappers too - simple but effective

When my boys turned 1, their main presents were a leap frog activity table (which has lasted brilliantly through all 3 kids) for DS1 and DS2 got a little people farm set which has also lasted well.

We are doing a pool party for Lily's Bday at the local pool with just family.

Theme is under the sea so our cake is shaped like a fish! (if you go to the food/recipes section and look in the cakes bit on page 12 I think it is, is our cake (green fish) that MIL is going to make but we're still experimenting with other cakes too) ours is a chocolate cake with butter icing. Figure one day of 'party food' isn't going to hurt!

We also had the antenatal group's 1st birthday party on Monday and the host did cupcakes for all the babies.

Food wise we're doing finger food - mini sausage rolls, cherios, fairy bread, filled rolls (but will have a selection of deli meats, salads, etc), umm I know I'm missing a whole lot of food but for the life of me - can not remember!

eta: link bday cakes - OB forums

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What great idea's thank u so much :) have wrote them down and are starting to put together somethings

For my dd (now 14) i did the duck cake out of the old womans weekly cake book. It was actually quite hard and was held together with so many toothpicks I had to make another cake to actually eat. We got her a really nice blanket box that she could store keepsakes in.

DS1 had a cattipilar cake and we had like a little critter theme....since he was such an outdoors boy.

DS2 just had his bday a couple of weeks ago and I make him a noah's ark cake...pretty much because that was what I wanted to make and I figured this would be the only year he was too young to ask for a specific cake. :-)

We had both the boys 'dedicated' on their first bday, but didn't buy them any thing special.

You could put together a time capsule for his birthday.

If you want any pictures of the cakes I did, pm me your email address and Ill be happy to send them through.