Aeroplane Party for my baby boy's first birthday.

Had my baby boy's first birthday party this weekend. Was hard work and a lot of planning but SO worth it! Will share some of the day's details, and some recipe's too.

Detail of the 'airport'

Entrance to the house - decorated with New Zealand flag bunting, and the 'airline' name

I went with an aeroplane theme, but took it a bit further to include the whole experience of flying and travel.

Setting the scene with a toy aeroplane. Note all the cool drinks and spoon holder covered with old maps.

I made a very big aeroplane cake all by myself, and decorated it with a yummy butter icing. The cake recipe is one I've found online. A nice, basic and easy recipe you can find here: http://www.stayathomemum.net.au/recipes/baking/sand-cake/
 

The massive aeroplane cake - and I made it myself from scratch! Hard work!

I also had some GORGEOUS rainbow cupcakes made by the talented Corli at Le Petit Four. Not only were they SUPER cute on the outside. Inside they were an amazing rainbow in colour.

rainbow cupcakes

The 'baggage claim' area

For the party favours my mum and I made A4 size drawstring bags, and decorated them with the Royal New Zealand Airforce Logo. I thought they looked really neat.
I also attached personalized 'pilot licenses' for each child. Inside the bags were an inflatable beach ball globe, an aeroplane spoon, a hand decorated party blower and an aeroplane sweet.

Close up of the 'pilot licenses' This one is for my 2 year old :-)

Content of the favour bag: an inflatable globe, an aeroplane spoon, an aeroplane sweet and a party blower that I redecorated.

For the birthday boy I made a pilot uniform bib to wear at the party, and also had a pilot hat knitted by the talented Sonia from Creative Aertz. He looked gorgeous, if I have to say so myself! :-)

The bib I made for the birthday boy.

Birthday boy Chris modelling his cute pilot hat and bib.

Planning an aeroplane party...

I have not posted for a while. (sorry!)
Had a lot going on, like moving house, but I'm planning with catch up with my blogging - promise!

Well, my baby boy is turning one this month. Can't believe how fast time goes. So sad...
I am planning an aeroplane party for him, and have been VERY inspired. SO many great ideas out there! If you've not discovered the wonderful word of Pinterest yet, you MUST have a look. For me its like candy land must be for kids.
My only problem now is that I have too many ideas and inspirations, and not enough time to do them all.

Anyway (getting of topic)I made some cute Aeroplane ticket invites, and send them in some of those old fashioned Air Mail envelopes. (LOVE them)

 

Now the invites are done and dusted, and in about 2 weeks it's party time.

I have SO much to do. 

Almost everything with the party is handmade by me and my mum, so it really is a labour of love. Will share photos of the party when I can. :-)