How to decorate a room for a 1 year old child's birthday

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Is your child turning 1 year old and you want to make this day unforgettable? Read the article and you will learn how to beautifully decorate a room or house for the first birthday of a 1 year old girl and boy.

First, let's look at the basic rules that you need to remember when decorating a room for a 1-year-old child:

1. All decorative elements must be safe for children, without chips or sharp corners. Decorations cannot harm either the birthday boy or the guests. 2. The size of the jewelry should be large, without small parts. This will reduce the risk that the birthday boy and his little guests will swallow something, because at this age kids explore the world around them, tasting everything they can get their hands on. 3. If you buy balls, then buy high-quality ones from a trusted manufacturer. A suddenly bursting balloon can frighten children. 4. Do not inflate the balloons to the maximum, leave them slightly deflated, in this case the likelihood that it will burst decreases. 5. Use non-toxic materials to decorate the room for your child’s first birthday, so as not to cause allergies and poisoning. They shouldn't have a strong smell. 6. If you want to decorate the wall with an electric garland, hang it as high as possible so that neither children nor pets can reach it. 7. The same applies to large, not very light-weight decorative elements. For example, voluminous pompoms, large paper flowers. They need to be mounted higher and more securely so that they do not fall on anyone’s head. 8. Don't clutter the room - it distracts attention. Everything should be in moderation. 9. Don't overdo it with bright colors. They may be irritating to children. Focus on soft, pastel colors.

What you need for homemade jewelry

If you decide to do it yourself when it comes to how to decorate a room for a 1-year-old child, then you need to collect the following list of necessary things:

• paints;
• glue;
• colored paper;
• stickers;
• sheets of paper;
• whatman;
• artificial or homemade flowers;
• good quality inflatable balloons;
• homemade or purchased garland;
• scissors;
• decorative items for the holiday;
• toys for decoration.

Decorating a children's holiday table

Let's look at a few decoration ideas that will help delight not only the child and his guests, but also adults.

Decoration of festive dishes

For a children's party, mother should show all her imagination. For example, ordinary vegetable, meat or cheese slices can be laid out in a herringbone pattern, sandwiches can be decorated in the form of ladybugs or animal faces. We offer several table decoration ideas.

To decorate your holiday table, you need to choose a specific theme or style, for example, your favorite fairy tale or cartoon.

Sweets on skewers

To decorate a children's table in an original and quick way, you will need:

Prepare wooden skewers, sweets and rubber gloves

Important! Use small and medium sweets - too large and heavy ones may not fit on the skewers.

Place the sweets on sticks; for large marshmallows, you can take two skewers

Collect a bouquet of different sweets and place it in a vase

Once you have everything ready, place the treats on skewers and place them randomly in the vase. If the dishes are transparent, first put sisal or organza in it that matches the color scheme of the rest of the decor. This way beautiful and delicious “fireworks” of your favorite sweets will appear on the table.

Bouquet of fruits and berries

To make the decorations on your table not only tasty, but also healthy, make a bouquet of your favorite fruits and berries.

For this you will need:

Cut the prepared fruits (washed and dried) into slices or make shaped decorations using special molds.

A fruit bouquet will decorate the table and fill the room with a fresh aroma

Place the orange (grapefruit) in a basket, securing it with toothpicks on several sides, cover it with lettuce leaves, thus covering the base. Then place the prepared fruits and berries on toothpicks one by one, and attach them to the base in a circle, starting from the bottom row. The resulting composition can be supplemented with sprigs of rosemary, tarragon, mint or lemon balm.

Important. This decoration is not recommended to be done earlier than 2-3 hours before the start of the holiday.

Multi-colored glasses

When there is little time left for design, you can use a quick but very effective method. In martini or cognac glasses, pour colorful dragees (for example, sea stones, skittles, M&M's) or small gummies in the shape of animals and berries.

Multi-colored dragees in a glass

Distribute the glasses evenly on the table. All children will definitely like this decoration, and it won’t take you even 10 minutes.

Toppers

A great way to add variety to the children's table. You can use ready-made ones or make your own from paper. Find bright, colorful pictures of cartoon characters, cars, booties, soccer balls, etc. on the Internet. Toppers in the shape of the number 1 are perfect for a child’s first birthday. Using any graphic editor, “cut out” images in the shape of a circle, oval, square or rectangle and print them on a color printer (choose thick paper). Glue the finished templates together in pairs by inserting a toothpick or a small skewer between the two images (depending on the desired height of the decor).

Paper toppers are suitable for decorating cake or pastries

Toppers can be used to decorate cakes, cupcakes, or combine them with other decorations, for example, insert them into a fruit bouquet or a vase of sweets.

Table setting

Please pay attention to the following nuances:

It’s more convenient and safer to set the table with plastic and paper dishes, because they won’t break or hurt anyone

Decorating the space next to and above the table

To complete the design of the dining area, take note:

Ribbons tied in a bow - a simple and effective decor for the backs of chairs

An idea for decorating the wall above the table is a photo collage made of wooden frames, inside of which pictures of the most interesting moments of your baby’s life are hung on a fishing line.

Important! All decorative elements in the festive table area should be located so as not to interfere with guests.

So, to decorate a room for a 1-year-old child, you may need: garlands, balloons, three-dimensional numbers, flowers, improvised cardboard structures and limitless imagination.

There is no need to overload the children's room; it is better to decorate the living room or dining room if there are guests

Having decorated the room and set the festive table, do not forget about the musical arrangement. Children's songs will be a great addition to your baby's first birthday party!

Holiday atmosphere

The festive atmosphere can be maintained in one color scheme

1. In order to make your event more memorable and the kids feel comfortable, you can make sure that all the decorations in this room are made in the same color. Give preference to soft pastel colors. Shades of pink are suitable for girls, and blue for boys. White would also be appropriate.
2. If your child’s peers are invited to the name day, then it would be nice to arrange a special corner for toddlers in the room. Lay out the rug and arrange the toys.
3. Take care of a festive outfit for your child. So you can dress up a baby in a beautiful dress, and a boy in a suit. But you need to understand that if the little one resists and doesn’t want to dress up, you don’t need to force him. It's better to let him be comfortable.
4. Remember also that on the first birthday it is important to take the print of the little one’s palm and foot and cut off the first curl. For this purpose, you can use special casts, or you can simply trace a leg, a palm on a piece of paper, or put a lock of hair in an envelope.

Wishes and gifts for the butterfly birthday girl

At the same time, guests can look at personal and family photos of the baby, which have found a place on a separate table. Here you can put a book of wishes where relatives will leave their messages.

For wishes, you can use an interesting idea. Let it be a time capsule in which loved ones will place letters with kind words.

Imagine how interesting it will be to print such a capsule for your daughter’s 18th birthday.

Sample wishes for a baby.

Such wishes can not be immediately sent in an envelope, but hung on a rope using clothespins for the duration of the holiday.

Guests can also decorate their gifts with cool butterflies.

So their gifts will become a wonderful addition to the interior.

Balloons

Inflatable balloons are an important holiday attribute

What's a holiday without balloons? Colorful products by definition create an atmosphere of fun. The main thing here is not to overdo it, everything should be in moderation.

Let's look at exactly how you can decorate a room with balloons.

1. Point the balloons at the sky. It will be interesting for children to come up and pull them by the thread.
2. You can order one balloon in the shape of a number indicating the child's age. In addition, you can use several balls to create the number one yourself.
3. Alternatively, scatter colorful balls all over the floor. If a large number of guests are expected to be in this room, then it is better to select a corner for inflatable balls or place them under the wall. This will not prevent the child from having fun and at the same time the balls will not be under the feet of the guests.
4. Another great option is to create a special garland of colorful balloons. It is advisable to use no more than three colors to create it. It will be better if it is not too colorful.

What to do if there is no time?

When there is a one-year-old baby in the house, it is unlikely that parents have a lot of free time to create decor with their own hands. In this case, you can turn to the following options:

Simple balloon shapes

Foil balloons are more durable, hold their shape well and are not afraid of children's hands

Paper balls can be mounted on the wall or simply scattered on the floor

Important! When decorating the interior with balloons, use 2-3 colors. A monochromatic design looks boring, but if you use 4 or more color schemes, it will turn out too bright.

The holiday will become even more interesting if guests also receive small gifts. You can put sweets, cakes or small toys in surprise boxes

Fairy lights

1. Particularly popular is the banner of the letters that make up the inscription “happy birthday.” You can purchase a similar garland in a store or create it yourself. If you decide to take up handicrafts:

• you can cut out pre-drawn letters and attach them to a thread, paint each letter beautifully;
• or print ready-made templates from the Internet and cut them out.

1. In addition to the actual letters, you can insert some decorative elements into this garland. In a very simple version, these can be triangles or hearts. But you can also use something more original, for example, bottles, balls, animal faces.
2. In addition to the inscription with congratulations, you can take a garland with the text “1 year”.
3. You can make a garland of balloons, colored paper, or foil.
4. These can be multi-colored shapes, for example, stars or flowers, hearts.
5. Don’t also forget about the garland, which is represented by multi-colored ones.

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.

Main digit

It has long become a habit, at birthday parties for the little ones, to decorate the room using a large number indicating the age of the birthday person. How it will look depends on your imagination. There are such options that are most in demand among modern parents:

• from inflatable balloons;
• cardboard unit decorated with multi-colored flowers;
• cardboard product wrapped in foil;
• a large figure made of thick material, beautifully painted with gouache;
• a unit made of foam plastic or cardboard, decorated with corrugated paper;
• a figure created from photographs of the birthday person;
• A number that can float in the air will be amazing - for this purpose you will need to purchase a foil ball in the shape of this number;
• a volumetric unit can be obtained from correctly folded cardboard or by ordering from foam plastic at a special institution. It is usually decorated with paper flowers or covered with corrugated paper and fringe.

Script ideas

Guess the answer

The holiday scenario should, of course, be focused on parents and guests. The birthday girl can formally participate in the event, however, as such, games at this age are unlikely to happen with the baby.

You can also start an information competition, when guests pull pieces of paper with questions from a pre-prepared box. The task of the participants, as well as mom and dad, is to try to guess the correct answer or confidently answer the question.

Question templates can be as follows:

• How tall was the birthday girl born?
• How much did the child weigh?

• How tall is the baby now?

• At what time exactly was the hero of the occasion born?

• What did you want to name the child?

Joint photo shoot

Next, you can organize a joint photo shoot for the guests and the baby. The frames will be needed to make a photo album afterwards.

I will…

After this, you can organize an interesting game in which the baby will have to choose a field of activity. To do this, props that are associated with a particular area of ​​work are laid out on a tray: a bandage, a machine, a calculator, a compass, etc. Whatever subject the baby chooses, that area attracts her.

Holiday letters

1. You can not only decorate the room with a number indicating the age of the birthday person, you can also use unusual letters from which the name of your little one will be composed.
2. These can be wooden letters or soft letters.
3. For the latter, felt or other dense material is used. Such letters can be decorated with all kinds of bows and beads.
4. When it comes to wooden type, small-sized products that can be placed either on a wall or on a table are preferable.
5. As for soft letters, it is recommended to use large-sized products; in fact, they are pads from which the baby’s name will be composed.

Birthday poster

What would a birthday be without such decorations? Now, choose the option that suits you best.

1. The wall newspaper can show your little one flying on an airplane or sailing on a ship.
2. Alternatively, your daughter can sit on an open flower, and your son crawls out of a cracked shell.
3. You can draw a palm tree on the poster, on which the child’s parameters at birth will be marked.
4. A steam locomotive with 12 carriages, which will correspond to each month of the baby’s life, is very popular. Each carriage will have a corresponding photograph.
5. The poster may look like a mechanical watch. Each number will correspond to a month of the child's life. This is indicated by the corresponding photographs.
6. Some parents manage to use not a simple Whatman paper for a poster, but an unusual surface, such as a mirror or window.

Wall newspaper of achievements and metrics

Such decor will be of particular importance.

The metric is an image of the baby's weight and height at birth and monthly indicators. This way, guests will be able to appreciate how the little one was able to grow and gain weight in 12 months.

The achievement poster represents the marks of the toddler's first successes. Here his first smile is noted, the time when the baby crawled for the first time, learned to hold his head, sit, the first tooth appeared, the first step was taken. Such a poster will be interesting not only for the visiting guests, but will also remain memorable for you for the rest of your life, because this is the most important event in the life of your baby.

Decorating the table

Particular attention should be paid to the candy bar.
To make the holiday a success, you need to use special holiday dishes, toppers, and stickers. Don't forget to worry about purchasing party hats. Recently, the candy bar has become increasingly popular. It may include cupcakes, boxes of sweets, toppers, and jars of juice. Don't forget to decorate this place with inflatable balloons and garlands. It is also very important to remember that sweets must be natural, without flavors or dyes. The easiest way is for you to prepare the treat yourself.

Making a photo album

A photo album is an important and memorable thing that will warm for many years with memories of a pleasant, happy, large-scale event when the child turned one. If you are hosting a themed party, try to make an album in the appropriate style. Use a variety of decorative elements and details to decorate your album. It is better to take heartfelt photographs with all the guests, parents, and close relatives in the album. Take a few photos with any toy, outfit, or other props.

Adviсe

I’m thinking about how to decorate a room for a 1 year old child, I need to remember to follow some rules and requirements for decorations.

1. I do decor, make sure there are no chips or sharp corners. Do not forget that the baby is now actively exploring the world around him, and your task will be to ensure that he is as safe as possible.
2. Choose only high-quality products for your holiday. They should not have strange odors, break or burst easily.
3. Avoid using fragrances and flowers with strong scents. It is possible that your baby will have allergies, and the same applies to invited children.
4. If you use inflatable balloons when decorating a room, do not inflate them to full capacity. Don't forget about the age of the children at your party. Remember that the balls tend to burst. And, if they are left slightly deflated, the risk of a loud bang, which can scare the little ones, will be reduced.
5. If you decide to decorate your baby's room with an electric garland, place it high enough so that children cannot get injured.
6. When decorating a room, give preference to large objects that immediately catch the eye of both children and adults.
7. There is no need to try to fill the entire space of the room as much as possible with all kinds of garlands, balls, and decorations. It is better that the room is elegant in moderation.
8. It is not necessary to decorate the room with purchased goods. You can do everything with your own hands. This will also save you money.

When my son turned one, we didn’t have a large inscription of congratulations or a huge size unit. Perhaps it had not yet become fashionable at that time. We decorated the room with balloons and hung garlands. There were no small children among the guests, so there was no need to create a children's corner. Despite this, the holiday was a success. The little son was very happy. Therefore, when thinking about the question of how to decorate a room, evaluate your capabilities, including financial ones, and also take into account what kind of guests will come to you.

I hope in this article you found the answer to the question of how to decorate your child’s room for the year. Remember, everything is in your hands. Follow your imagination, take into account the individual characteristics of your baby and his preferences. Don't forget that everything should be in moderation.

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

We use the 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.

Airy mood

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 to decorate a room 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.

Scenery in the form of a mysterious space

Using various figures of celestial bodies, you can create the illusion of a starry sky. Cut out stars, planets, and comets from foil and glue them onto cardboard. Hang them from the ceiling.