“Year-mania” only happens once, or How to celebrate a child’s one-year anniversary

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A funny telegram with missing adjectives has long been a classic, simple entertainment for the first birthday. Usually all guests participate quite actively.

Quiz "Chamomile"

A quiz with tear-off petal leaves with questions about the yearling is also one of the most favorite table games that is a success. The proposed printable layout contains 12 questions. But the number of petals in a chamomile can be increased if desired and another row can be glued in.

Game “Baby’s Thoughts or What is the Baby Thinking About”

Kids are amazing creatures, what they think about for certain is unknown to us adults. A great way to have fun is to “read” the thoughts of your baby or toddler. To do this, you need to take out cards and read them out loud until they run out.

Fairy tales-reversals Fairy tales - they are familiar to each of us, most of them come from distant childhood. For fun, ask them to guess the names of fairy tales. All words in the names of fairy tales are replaced with opposite meanings and compiled into an inverted phrase.

Lotto “What do you know about the birthday boy”

Lotto about the birthday boy, or rather the important numbers in his first year of life: date of birth, weight, height, etc. The correct answers must be laid out on cards with numbers. When the time is up, announce the correct answers.

Crossword puzzle for the first birthday “Word Search” In a short description of the first year of a child’s life there are words that need to be found in the crossword puzzle “Word Search”. A great option if guests are staying late.

Active games and entertainment.

It is better to play active games after the first feast; they should be alternated with calmer board games.

Photoshoot

A home photo shoot with the preparation of a photo zone {or without it} has already become a good tradition for a birthday, if only the photographs remain as a keepsake. Using a backdrop (background) is desirable, but not required. The following sets are popular for one-year-olds: mustaches and lips (classic), speech bubbles, my relatives signs and holiday-themed photo prop sets.

Competition “Taster” (Gourmet)

One of the popular competitions for children's birthdays. Participants need to try baby food and guess the taste. As a rule, they offer baby puree in jars without the original label and card, in which you need to answer or mark the name of the puree.

Competition “Sucker”

Another one of my favorite contests for children's birthdays. Participants need to drink from a baby bottle (water, juice, drink) at speed. You can buy the most inexpensive pacifiers for the competition.

Competition “Soskoplyuy”

Children often spit out pacifiers. Participants in this competition need to spit out a baby's pacifier as far as possible. You can buy the most inexpensive pacifiers for the competition.

Incentives and rewards for guests (souvenirs)

To remember the holiday, you can prepare various comic awards and prizes. Most often, at the first birthday, relatives and close people are visiting, so you want to leave them a piece of the holiday as a souvenir.

Comic gift certificates

It has been fashionable to give certificates in the last few years, and this is a reason to approach rewards for participation in competitions or for participating in a child’s life with humor, especially since the rewards are so valuable: a photo session with the birthday boy, learning to read. This will be both a pleasant surprise and a highlight of the holiday and will discipline you in some way.

Diplomas for a year

The closest people are often given diplomas (certificates, gratitude). The most common size of a printed diploma is A4; it is convenient to put it in a frame or give it as a gift. True, the A5 format is also very convenient and much more economical, which is especially important when there are a lot of guests. Often done in a holiday style, although this is not necessary.

Calendars

One of the universal souvenirs as a reward for participating in competitions or simply as a keepsake were and are calendars. Most often these are pocket calendars in a themed design (with a photo of the birthday person), but larger calendars are also popular.

Edible gifts

Perhaps the most popular gifts are edible ones. Often, various sweets in a themed wrapper (personalized) are given as gifts: chocolate

, most often this is “Alenka” 20 g or standard 100 g chocolate, “Barney” and others. Also very popular are curly gingerbreads made within the theme, cookies and sweets on sticks.

HOLIDAY DESIGN for a 1 year old child

We suggest you decorate your child’s very first holiday, so touching and unique for you, with a number decor - this will emphasize the importance of the date. Whatever option you choose, the one will be an excellent prop for photographs!

Wall newspapers and collages

Several wall newspapers with wishes and congratulations in honor of the birthday boy, with interesting facts from his life and photographs will be a wonderful decoration and will be able to occupy the guests waiting for the start of the holiday.

We make decorations ourselves

The table contains several options for DIY decorations for a one-year-old child:

Fairytale tree made of large branches painted with black paint

You can make the listed room decorations yourself using what every housewife always has on hand (scissors, paper, glue, thread). In this case, the options proposed in the table can be combined. For example, draw a congratulatory poster and stick photos and decorative elements (pompoms or flowers) on it, place family photos on the garland flags, etc.

However, you should start making such elements several weeks in advance (balloon compositions and garlands do not count). As you can see from the table, each decoration made by hand does not take much time, but if you calculate how much is needed to decorate an entire room, you get impressive numbers.

To decorate your baby's room, you don't have to come up with overly complicated decor.

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REAL Birthday EXPERIENCE 1 year

Educational toys

What to give a 1 year old boy for his mental development? It seems that he is still so small that he can only play with rattles! But no, he is already interested in the environment. We have selected the top ten ideas on this topic - what to choose as a gift for a little boy so that he can develop while playing.

Interactive Game Bar

There are no technical difficulties - everything is very simple. The boy only needs to press buttons, turn knobs and sliders, and the panel will display all the imagination of the “young technician” - sound effects and glowing light bulbs. Over time, he will begin to understand the whole pattern of his manipulations.

Busyboard

And in this game there is nothing technical - pure mechanics, and all the devices are collected in one place - on the stand: springs, lacing, taps, locks, strings, chains, latches. Everything seems logical, but the baby still needs to get to the bottom of it in order to figure it all out. The busy board will distract the child from breakdowns of locks and taps throughout the apartment.

Sorter

A plastic container in the shape of a house, ball or cube with holes for figures. Some sorters have doors with keys - you also need to figure out which door this key fits and how they should open that door. In general, it’s quite a difficult puzzle for a one-year-old boy.

Crumb cubes

Despite the fact that they are soft to the touch, you can easily build a high tower or house from these cubes. Well, in general, such cubes are ideal for developing fine motor skills of children's hands. You can also throw such cubes (which small children love to do), and such a “prank” will be absolutely harmless.

Wooden cubes with drawings

They are needed for the development of logic. You can put together a simple puzzle from wooden cubes (together with mom or dad, of course) - the correct drawing of a certain animal. Or build a wall and immediately destroy it (that would be fun). Well, if there are letters on the cubes, then they will be useful in the future.

Book-toy

A very informative book and not just for reading. Each page can be touched - there are fluffy animals and toys in special pockets. Mom or dad will definitely tell you how each animal speaks correctly. And there are also very colorful pictures.

Rug puzzle

A soft and warm floor thanks to such a rug is its main advantage. Well, an additional quality is playing with a child to develop his mental abilities. He will try to assemble the puzzle himself to get a perfectly rectangular or square shape.

Toy phone

There is nothing wrong if a child spends hours “chatting” on his toy phone, imitating mom or dad. Let him develop his speech in this way. His “tariff” is zero, you just need to change the batteries occasionally, thanks to which the phone rings and lights up.

Lacing game

This game is suitable for calm, phlegmatic boys with an assiduous character. They say about such people: “Give them a string, they will untangle it all day.” This game is somewhat close to this expression - a string and toys with holes to string them onto “beads”, or a wooden tablet onto which you can “hook” suitable figures with a string.

Developmental mat with arcs

Not a rug, but a real riddle with secrets - some pockets, fasteners, buttons. Well, if you’re tired of figuring this out, you can just sit on a soft rug and see what kind of toys your parents hung on the arches and how you can remove them little by little.

Festive table for anniversary

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Gifts for creativity

Another dozen ideas for child development, but this time for creativity. The baby is still taking his first “steps” in creativity - absurd and funny, but the gifts we offer will only help him.

Finger paint

Many parents are afraid of such paints - after all, everything around will be stained with the multi-colored “paws” of their tiny child. But in vain, this is a very good gift for a child just for 1 year! The paints can be easily washed off from clothes and any surface. They are absolutely safe if a child tastes them. And most importantly, they are so fun to draw with!

Colour pencils

It is advisable to buy them with a soft lead and not sharpen them sharply. It is clear that all children love to paint wallpaper with them, but this is a problem for all generations. But if you put a large piece of paper in front of the child and give free rein to his imagination, then let him paint his “scribbles” there. Perhaps he is a future abstract artist.

Musical instrument toy

Boys love loud sounds - they need drums, pipes, tambourines. You can give them as a gift if it doesn’t annoy the baby’s parents. But there are also instruments that are more gentle in their sound, such as strings or keyboards. Let your child develop his ear for music.

Set of sandbox molds

A set for future sculptors and architects. But the gift set should contain not only molds, but also a bucket with a shovel in order to accustom the little one to physical labor - he collected the sand with a shovel, poured it into the bucket, took it to the construction site of the future sand fortress, and erected it himself.

Drawing board with chalk and marker

Here's an alternative to children's wallpaper art. There is a board - you can “scrawl” something on it with crayons or a marker and everything can be easily erased without a trace. And if the board is magnetic, then it comes with letters, numbers, and all sorts of pictures. Well, even if the child does not yet understand their purpose, it is so fun to magnetize them to the board and tear them back!

Coloring books

It would seem that such a book is too early for a boy, he still doesn’t know how to draw along a contour! And it’s not too early - he sees these contours perfectly and will perfectly understand what’s what if adults help him draw. They will simply take his hand with a pencil in their hands and show him how to do it. At first it may be clumsy, but in the future he will cope on his own!

Colored markers

This is what will help a one-year-old child paint bright wallpaper! Well, to be honest, they are really brighter than colored pencils, and the outlines of his abstract masterpieces will be more clearly visible to the baby. The main thing is to buy safe markers or felt-tip pens - these are on sale, especially for kids.

Colored crayons

With them you can definitely give full rein to your imagination! After all, you can paint not only the board at home, but also the asphalt on the street. In the summer there are a lot of children on the playground, most of them have crayons, and the little one will also want to draw something like that on the asphalt on his knees!

Water painting mat

Absolutely safe drawing, and the wallpaper will definitely not be damaged if only slightly splashed with water! The frame itself is very bright, colorful, and in the middle there is a translucent screen on which pictures are drawn with a felt-tip pen filled with water. They turn out to be colorful, but quickly disappear, leaving room for new masterpieces.

Colored cardboard

You may be thinking: “What kind of gift is colored cardboard? A sketchbook is another matter.” But the album is all white sheets, and very thin ones at that. But it’s much more convenient to draw on thick cardboard, and the color contrast is unusual. Maybe then there will be no problems with the wallpaper?