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any idea for an october birthday party?
any idea for an october birthday party?
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posted 7:42pm, Jul 22, 2007
My son will be 1 in october, I wasn't planning to do any big party bash for him in the beginning. All of our family lives overseas, suddenly the granparents are planning to come this october, so I'm still debating now between should I do a big birthday bash or just the small one. We never have the grandparents in any of the kids birthday, so it'll be a big thing to have the grandparents here. Now my question is anybody has an idea for an october birthday party? The decoration and party favors and any idea for the cakes too?
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posted 9:44am, Jul 23, 2007
If you were going to have some other kids there, you could always buy those mini pumpkins and have kids put stickers on them or paint them with washable paint for a party favor.
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posted 10:35am, Jul 23, 2007
My son has a Late September b-day and last year we had a SuperHero party. All the kids came dressed up in there costumes for Halloween. There were Batman, Wolverine, lots of Princesses, Spiderman and lots more. My hubby dressed up has Clarke Gable and I was Cat woman. We always do pin the tail on the Donkey. I get alot of my ideas online, I have also done a Barnyard party with lots of hay and gave away mini pumpkins for favors. we had a hayride (attached a wagon to our riding lawnmower). The kids loved it. Good luck and have fun!!
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posted 10:58am, Sep 26, 2007
My son's BD is Oct. 27 so he has always been faced with a Halloween theme around him.
I think that it's important to remember that at age 1, he is not going to care about any type of theme so you can pretty much do whatever you want. I wouldn't go overboard with a big party, either. For my son's first BD, we had a Sesame Street cake because that is what he loved to watch, a BD banner and a couple of colorful balloons hanging from the ceiling.
You could create a really cute fall/pumpkin theme. A cute idea for deserts or center pieces is to take an Orange, slice off the top like a pumpkin, dig out the insides with a spoon (save for fruit salad), then carefully carve out faces. Make a fruit salad to put inside each "pumpkin" or you can fill with flowers or leaves for centerpieces.
Edible play dough is a fun activity for this age.
My son has an October birthday and we've always done the autumn/Halloween theme. Do you live where there is a pumpkin patch or corn maze? The little pumpkin farms will usually have areas where you can do birthday parties and some of them do hayrides & let each child take a pumpkin home. Last year we had a cake done up at Costco with these great frosting spiders on it (they were very cute, not scary! And I know that Costco is just about worldwide now!). The pumpkin farm is always a great photo-op locale too - pictures of the kids on the wagons and in the squash fields are always wonderful!
If you want to do your own cake, there are molds that come out round, just like a pumpkin - Williams Sonoma has one, or you can take two bundt cake molds and stack them bottom-to-bottom for a great, round squash effect...
Party favors for a toddler are a tough one - balloons aren't so safe and he may still be in the play-doh eating phase (?). The party hats always look adorable in birthday pics & those little party store hand clappers are a hit with the little set! Fat sidewalk chalk is fun too!
Do you have a theme in mind at all?