Celebrating baby’s first birthday is an important and very fun milestone. To make the occasion special for your little one, consider some of these special traditions:
• Make a smash cake or cupcake for the birthday child, that he or she can make as much of a mess with as they want.
• Take a family photo on the child’s birthday.
• Make him or her the guest of honor in a special chair decorated with balloons, streamers, and other party decorations.
• Get a special plate that each family member could use on their birthday.
• Each birthday, read a special book, such as On the Night You Were Born.
• Start a notebook for birthday guests to sign each year.
• Bring the birthday boy or girl breakfast in bed.
• Each year mark your child’s new height on a height chart or special spot on the wall. You could also add a photo by each year’s mark.
• Create a bottle of wishes - ask guests to write a wish down for the birthday child. You could also add to it each year.
• Make a birthday scrapbook with snapshots from the party, guests, invite, cards, and list of gifts.
• Take a birthday photo with a print or cutout of the age they are turning.
• Plant a tree and take a picture of it every year.
• Make hand and foot prints.
• Make a time capsule and add things every year, to be opened on your child’s 18th birthday.
• Write a letter to the birthday child containing information and stories from the previous year. Do one for every year and give to your child when they are older.
• Buy a special birthday hat and take a picture every year with the hat on.
• Ask each party guest to write down one thing they love about the birthday child and make a booklet of them.
• Creatively display photos from your child’s first year.
• Put together a DVD slideshow containing photos and videos from the first year.
• Make a special birthday tablecloth by stamping handprints and footprints along with the date. Add to it each year.
• Decorate the house while your child is sleeping so they will wake up surprised and excited.
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