Child's first birthday: design and decor ideas

Decorating a room on your first birthday: important points

For every parent, a child's birthday is a special event. The festive mood begins with what we see around us. That's why we pay a lot of attention to interior design.

Before we begin considering specific decor ideas for a child’s birthday, let’s pay attention to the following points:

If there are children among the guests, it is better to divide the space into several zones: a playroom (children’s room), where you can hold competitions, organize active games and a festive table area.
When decorating several separate rooms, you should maintain a single concept, otherwise the apartment will look pretentious and tasteless. Also, do not overdo it with the amount of decorations.
Decorative elements should not be too bright, as they can lead to overstimulation of the baby’s nervous system. It is better to give preference to calm, pastel colors.
All decorations should be placed at such a height that the baby cannot reach them.

Color scheme for baby's first birthday

You can create an atmosphere of celebration in the house if a boy turns 1 year old using a certain color scheme (white, blue, light blue and green tones) and attributes characteristic of the life of young hooligans (cars, balls, robots, etc.)

Happy birthday cards

There is a glorious holiday in your home - the baby’s first year. Happiness, joy, smiles and success to the big guy. Let the baby cry less and grow healthy, surprise mom and dad Day after day, from year to year!

A year to your child, Let him laugh loudly, Let his mother and father be happy, Let him be the smartest, Let him be healthy, Let him not wake you up early! And to parents - patience, strength, health, inspiration!

Our sun, shine, Be healthy and grow up Kind, smart and happy, Generous, affectionate, beautiful, Nice, joyful and sweet And always loved by people

Very attractive Our boy is wonderful! We love you with all our hearts, Grow up like your big daddy, Be better and smarter than everyone else, Kinder and more fun than everyone else!

What is best to use for a 1 year old child’s birthday party?

Decorating the nursery of a baby celebrating his first birthday is a responsible and exciting mission. It’s better to prepare everything in advance, so that when the birthday boy wakes up, he sees the updated environment: what decorations his parents made for him with their own hands for his one-year anniversary! Despite his tender age, the baby will understand that today is a special day.

When decorating a room for a child’s first birthday for a girl and a boy (1 year old), you can use the following materials:

corrugated paper
double-sided colored paper
colored cardboard
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gouache or acrylic paints
baby photos
foil
bright stickers
scissors
glue
Garlands
Balloons

Decorating a 1st birthday with your own hands is impossible without balloons - a classic accompaniment to a children's party.

Use colored tulle stretched across the room's ceiling, paper pom-poms, or a spectacular rainbow on the wall made from crepe paper. All decorations should be large and safe for the birthday boy - he will probably want to touch them.

Don’t forget to “mark” everything around with ones: balloons, birthday cake, invitations, treats, costume of the hero of the occasion. And disposable tableware, napkins and a tablecloth with appropriate “children’s” paraphernalia will add a special charm to the holiday.

A 1st birthday party decoration would not be complete without these cute details:

Books of wishes so that each invitee leaves a personal congratulation for the baby
Hanging photographs with memorable events of the first year of life, icons marking the height and weight of the child at birth
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Invitations with photos of the little birthday boy

All photos in one collage

A popular format for keeping a children's album is a collage of several photos taken at different times. So, in one picture you can fit six months or a year of a child’s life. It is important to take shots systematically, choosing the same location and theme. You can use a toy to compare your baby's height.

The best angle is from above. This way you can even remove a one-month-old baby in a lying position. Later, the baby can sit, looking into the lens.

How to decorate a room for a child's first birthday?

Number "1"

A large, bright decorative number is a traditional decoration for a children's party.

You can buy it in a store, or you can make it yourself using corrugated paper, multi-colored ribbons, paper and fabric flowers, pompoms, and balloons. The volumetric figure will not only act as a symbol of the holiday, but will also decorate the photo zone.

Balloons

Kids just love balls. Therefore, there should be as many of them as possible on your birthday. Balloons can be filled with helium and hung across the entire ceiling. Children will have fun pulling the string. From them you can make a three-dimensional figure, an arch. They can also be scattered chaotically on the floor. The kid and his friends will play football, toss and catch them. You can make a garland from multi-colored balls.

And you can beautifully decorate a photo zone with them. Various figures made from balls and balls in the form of fairy-tale characters, little animals, and animals look interesting.

You can put notes with wishes in the balloons and use them in games and competitions if you have older children as guests.

By tying balloons to the backs of chairs, you can transform your eating area.

Balloon figures

Balloon figures always make for interesting decor. To decorate a holiday, you can use the following three-dimensional figures: letters, numbers, dolls, animals, trees, flowers, bouquets of flowers, wall and ceiling compositions made of balloons, garlands, arches, fountains.

Fairy-tale characters made from foil balloons

Figures made from foil balloons are filled with helium and secured with a small weight. These balloons will give your child and guests the opportunity to play and take pictures with Mickey Mouse, Batman, the Little Mermaid, Cinderella and other fairy tale characters.

Decorating the room for the first birthday with garlands

Garlands are the most affordable and simple material for decorating a room for a holiday. They can be made from paper, fabric, ribbons, or buy ready-made multi-colored, flashing electric garlands. Any will do: in the form of circles, flags, hearts, ribbons, flowers, fluffy pompoms, inscriptions. Just when making garlands, try to stick to the same style and color scheme.

Garlands made of paper and fabric ribbons decorating the ceiling and walls look beautiful. They transform the room by changing its color scheme.

We use inscriptions and the name of the hero of the occasion

From wooden, cardboard, paper plastic letters you can put the name of the birthday person, his date of birth, weight, height, and a congratulatory inscription. You can also use ready-made inscriptions made of plywood and other materials.

To decorate the room for the first birthday, you can use three-dimensional letters from different materials.

Chalk film or board for drawing with chalk or markers

On the film or board you can not only write the baby’s name, his date of birth, but also interesting information, the little one’s achievements: what he is interested in, what he knows how to do, what he likes.

Wall newspapers and collages for decorating a child’s room

Make one large or several wall newspapers with congratulations and wishes in honor of the birthday person, with interesting facts from his life, achievements and photographs. Such a wall newspaper or photo collage will not only decorate the wall, but will also be able to occupy and distract guests waiting for the start of the holiday.

Engine with photo

A train with photos of the baby will help you beautifully decorate the room for your 1st birthday. If you place photographs from birth to one year old, you will get a small photo story. It will show how the baby’s eye color changed, the number of hairs on the head increased, teeth appeared, etc.

Making such decor with your own hands is not difficult. You need to cut out a locomotive and its trailers from colored cardboard. Paste a photo of the birthday boy on the eve of the 1st anniversary holiday on the locomotive, and his photographs taken in each of the 12 months on the trailers.

Photos hung on a rope using clothespins as room decor for 1 year

This option can be made in the likeness of a train. Just instead of the locomotive and carriages, use photo frames (ordinary photographs) suspended on a rope with clothespins.

Small decor

Using colored napkins, leftover wrapping paper, corrugated paper, old newspaper sheets, you can make voluminous lanterns, pompom balls, small flowers, cut out butterflies, and hearts.

Flowers in room decoration for a birthday

Fresh flowers look very beautiful at any holiday, but at a children's party it is important that they do not have a strong smell. You can make entire compositions out of them.

If it is not possible to use fresh flowers to decorate the room, they can be made from corrugated or colored paper. You can write interesting wishes and funny inscriptions on the petals of such flowers.

From individual flowers you can put the child’s name, date of birth, and create various compositions.

Ribbons and bows to decorate a room for a child's first birthday

Tie ribbons into beautiful bows of different colors and sizes. Hang them above the festive table, on a chandelier, and place them on the walls. You can decorate the birthday boy’s chair with a beautiful bow.

Large pompoms to decorate the room for a 1 year old

Use ready-made store-bought pompoms, or make your own from corrugated paper, fresh flowers, balloons, fabric, and ribbons.

Fairy tale for a little princess, prince

Decorate the room in the style of the Middle Ages, using cardboard decorations depicting a palace, a castle, a carriage with horses, or a garden and park area. If you have time, desire and creativity, you can make them yourself.

Multi-colored flags

They can be cut out of anything: colored paper or cardboard, scraps of fabric, gift wrapping paper. Or you can buy ready-made ones with images of fairy-tale characters and animals.

If you stretch a tight thread on the walls, under the ceiling and hang flags in random order, you will get a multi-colored garland. In this case, the flags can be the same or of different shapes: square, triangular, curly.

Surprise Ball

The decoration of the room for a children's birthday can be supplemented with a surprise balloon. This is a large ball suspended from the ceiling, which contains confetti, sweets, streamers, small toys, rose petals, small balls, magical predictions and everything that your imagination suggests. You can make such a ball yourself, or you can purchase it from children’s party decoration specialists. At the end of the party, he bursts, and the prepared surprises are poured out on the guests.

Accordion balls

Accordion balls are large products made of ribbed paper. They easily unfold and turn into a ball with folds on the surface. Using several of these colored balloons, you will beautifully decorate the room for your child’s 1st birthday.

If you place an LED in such balls, it will softly illuminate them from the inside.

How to congratulate a boy on his first birthday in an original way: choosing a theme

But if you want to congratulate your son on his first birthday in a non-standard way, choose a suitable theme.

After all, themed holidays always stand out for their creativity and originality.

We offer several themes that are ideal for organizing a boy's first birthday.

Mysterious space

Creating an atmosphere of mysterious space is not so difficult.

It’s enough to figure out how to convey the beauty of the starry sky. You can make celestial bodies in the form of stars, comets, and planets from ordinary cardboard. Give them shine by covering them with foil or decorating them with luminescent spray paint.

Such decorations with a neon effect will glow coolly in the dark. You can also simply sprinkle the finished figurines with broken Christmas tree decorations, crushed into crumbs.

The main color of the holiday will be blue, diluted with white and silver. To match, we make flags with images of stars or in the form of small space rockets. The same rockets and stars will decorate the treats.

And we dress up the baby as a little stargazer. We prepare caps with stars for guests.

Happy birthday to my 1 year old son, like a little prince

Create a real fairy tale kingdom for your little prince.

To make the setting reminiscent of ancient knightly times, make a real castle out of cardboard. It can be made voluminous or used as a background by placing it on a wall or curtains.

It is not necessary to make a whole fairy-tale town or huge buildings - a couple of towers will be enough.

Helium balloons look cool for the little prince’s birthday, on the ribbons of which you can glue fairy-tale figures. To congratulate the baby, we are preparing a colorful themed banner.

The main color schemes for such a holiday will include a combination of blue with silver and gold. It is in this color scheme with images of crowns, coats of arms, and medals that you can make invitations for guests and cool caps.

Be sure to make a colorful candy bar where you can display candies, cakes, drinks and cake as treats, decorating them with themed toppers.

How to congratulate your son, a little gentleman, on his first birthday

Another great idea for organizing a boy’s birthday is a gentleman’s style party.

The main accent in the decoration will be antennae and butterflies.

We dilute the main color with multi-colored stripes and polka dots, which will make the atmosphere more cheerful.

We choose a festive outfit for the baby with a vest and, of course, a bow tie.

We use the same elements, as well as images of glasses, hats, canes to decorate the room and for a photo shoot.

A great classic set for birthdays for big and little gentlemen!

Let your baby's first birthday be remembered for its originality and chic.

Happy birthday baby: 1 year old in nautical style

A children's birthday party in a nautical style is a great opportunity to create with your own hands a ship's surroundings or the atmosphere of a real underwater world.

For the boy's anniversary, we buy a real vest or dress up the little one as a captain. You can find many ideas for decorating a room, a photo zone, a playground, or a table.

We suggest focusing on the classic combination of white, blue and red stripes. And as cool attributes, use hand-made boats and boats, as well as anchors, steering wheels and lifebuoys. Hang sea garlands in your rooms. They are easy to make from paper or cardboard.

If desired, nautical flags can be made from felt or regular fabric.

An important attribute at such a holiday is dishes. The easiest way is to choose a disposable one.

This option makes further cleaning much easier and you can choose one with a themed print.

You can decorate dishes and sweets with sea toppers and peaks.

And wrap cups and bottles of juice with marine labels.

Place cupcakes in themed stands.

And we will pack the chocolate in sea wrappers.

Cards for the table will also come in handy.

We print out maritime invitations for guests.

And don’t forget about the funny caps that he makes for each guest.

Various boats look beautiful and stylish.

They can be used both as place cards and as dishes for various delicacies.

You can decorate the tablecloth with paper anchors and bows made from blue ribbons.

Umbrellas, sun loungers and a small pool are ideal for a play area.

More ideas and templates for a nautical birthday can be found in the material: “Party in a nautical style: decor ideas and DIY decoration”

1st birthday party ideas

It is simpler and easier to select decorations for the first birthday if the holiday has a theme or plot. Therefore, a certain image of the birthday boy and general details in the surroundings of the holiday will facilitate the task of decorating for a year with your own hands.

The most popular image for a girl is a princess or a fairy; you can choose a bee, Minnie Mouse, or ladybug outfit for your baby.

It is easy to imagine a boy in the role of a little gentleman, a sailor, a football player, a superhero or a cute little animal - a bear cub, a penguin, a bunny. This will be the starting point and will help you decide how to decorate the room for the year.

If the birthday girl is a princess, everything around should be fabulous, white and pink: delicate marshmallows on the table, a crown on the crumbs’ head, pictures of castles on the walls.

To celebrate the little gentleman's name day, decorate hats, cupcakes and balloons with stylized hats or mustaches - this is currently in trend.