Have a fun filled first birthday bear themed party with all your little guests and their favorite furry friends!
Everyone loves their teddies and this is such a cut theme for a 1st birthday party.
Start by designing a teddy bear's picnic invitation. You can keep it simple with a photograph of your little one and their favorite teddy, or use a teddy bear stamp or clipart. Ask everyone to bring their teddy.
Decorate your party room with teddy bear pictures and birthday banners.
If you have older children attending the party you could have pin the bow tie on the teddy (instead of the tail on the donkey), you could have hide the teddy and then give directions with hotter, colder instructions. Teddy bear hoopla where you have the teddies lined up and you need to throw a hoop over a teddy.
For the younger children you could have teddy bear face painting, coloring a teddy bear, or hide a teddy bear in a big bucket of rice krispies and then they have to find them.
When it comes to the picnic time have everyone on the picnic blanket and serve teddy bear shaped sandwiches - you can buy teddy bear cookie cutters to shape them. Have the usual finger food and drinks as well.
For your first birthday bear cake use one of our delicious and healthy
cake recipes.
Make two round cakes, one for head and the other for the body and then ice them to look like a teddy. You could use cupcakes for the ears and paws. You could also make a cupcake cake, this is where you mke lots of cupcakes and put them all together to form one big cake. You decorate them as one big cake.
Another way is to decorate a cake with a little teddy bear, you can buy some great teddies that would be perfect or if you are feeling creative take a look at the video below to make your own! You could use these little teddies for a cake topper on a big cake or have lots of cupcakes - one for each of your guests. And when you are one sharing is a bit tricky!
For party favors little bags filled with teddy cookies would be fun and an extra use for your new cookie cutter!