Noah Hits the Big One!

Having a child's birthday around Christmas can pose an interesting challenge in the party department. Since it was Noah's first birthday, I felt I could get away with having a Christmas-themed birthday party to celebrate. I wanted to embrace the fact that Christmas decorations were everywhere and the holiday spirit was already in the air.

For all of the communication pieces, I tried to keep them simple and consistent with one another. I printed the front and back of this invite on my home printer. And I think the brown envelope adds a nice touch.

The food was easy as we just ordered pizza and had snack items available.

And who could forget the homemade cupcakes topped with icing and sprinkles?

I had printed some winter coloring pages from a free site I had found online to keep the kids busy. I'm a rookie at throwing children's parties but I'm no dummy when it comes to knowing they can get bored easily!

I also set out a little table for the kids to decorate gingerbread men and Christmas trees. Yum!

Santa was due to arrive at 1p.m. We had a good friend with a costume and he did such a great job. Some of the kids did great...


...others did not.

We ended the day with a party favor treat bag filled with chocolate-dipped pretzels for the families. I found these cute bags from the $1 bin at Target.

The thank you cards were also printed from my home computer. Inside each card is the child's photo with Santa to remember. I didn't want to write on the card that the family might keep so I printed off a little notecard from a 4x6 index card to use.