Cheerios Birthday Party + Snack Mix with Cheerios

Do you guys have any idea how stressful it was to narrow down first birthday party ideas for sweet girl’s first birthday? After brainstorming 1st girl birthday party ideas, I realized the birthday girl loves Cheerios, and why shouldn’t the guest of honor have her favorite food on the menu at her first birthday party? Thus, the idea of a Cheerios birthday party was born, complete with snack mix with Cheerios and plenty of milk! Of course, you can also use these Cheerios birthday ideas for boys first birthday parties.

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Invitations for a Cheerios Birthday Party

I am trying to find a picture to share of our invitations. Basically, I set a naked baby in a HUGE bowl of Cheerios and snapped a picture. She was shoveling Cheerios into her mouth as fast as she could during the photo shoot. On the Walgreens website, I made the picture into birthday invitations. The picture is so cute!

Making Decorations for a Cheerios Birthday Party

A few days before the party, a sweet friend of mine helped me craft in the car as we rode together in a van for four hours to a teaching conference. We strung Cheerios, cut up Cheerios boxes, fringed crepe paper, and cut ribbons. It’s amazing how much crafting we managed to do on that car ride.

This same amiga came over the night before the party to help me hang decorations while the Hubby kept Scooter Britches busy. We set up much of the party decor out on the screened in back porch. It looked so cute out there. It was definitely the look I had in mind when I started planning a Cheerios birthday party.

We decorated with lots of red, yellow, and black balloons. (Yes, I know this is also a Mickey Mouse party color scheme. But it is perfect for a Cheerios party.) I don’t care who you are. And my friend and I made our own balloon garland back before the balloon garland kits were easily sold online at at stores.

And I also like to pop in a few larger 36 inch balloons just for fun. There isn’t much a polka dot balloon can’t fix.

Unfortunately, mother nature decided to amp up the “30% chance of rain” to 100% and crank out a mega storm on Saturday morning. Something crazy happened to one of the rain gutters that runs along the side of our porch. Rain gushed from the gutter straight into the porch! Water was standing on the porch floor, the area rug was soaked as well as many of the decorations. Ugghh!

Luckily, the rain cleared up by about noon, and we had two hours to scramble and redo everything by 2 p.m. This meant that I did not have time to fix up the “birthday girl” high chair as I had planned. Nor did the birthday hat get finished.

We added a few pops of decor inside the house, too.

First Birthday Outfit for a Girl

All in all, we had a wonderful day. We are so grateful for the wonderful friends and family in SB’s life. She is truly blessed, as are we. Of course, only I am enough to schedule her first birthday party and her baptism for the same weekend. But it made sense logistically given many of our family members and friends were driving in from two to four hours away.

SB is such a blessed baby to be so loved.

I just love the little “one” onesie she wore for her party. A local vendor monogrammed the onesie. A red-and-white tutu from Mudpie completed the look. She long ripped off her hair bow when I took this picture. These days, you can easily find first birthday outfits online in a wide variety of colors and themes. For this Cheerios birthday, I think this yellow tutu with coordinating onesie is super cute for a girl. But then there is also this adorable one-piece yellow romper.

For boys, you might like this little yellow diaper cover with suspenders and bow tie. But then this little yellow first birthday shirt says it all, too!

Making Cheerios Garlands – First Birthday Party Activity

Cheerios garlands for birds kept little hands busy during the party.

After the party, kids strung the garlands in the trees so birds could nibble the cheerios. All you need for this activity is a box of plain Cheerios and some jute or similar string.

Cheerios Play Books Favors

Food for a Cheerios Birthday Party – First Birthday Party Food Ideas

For the party, we served snack mix with Cheerios in cute little polka dot snack bags. Also, there were small cups of plain Cheerios along with glasses of milk. We also served chocolate and vanilla cupcakes with Cheerios for sprinkles. The food was simple but perfect for a group of toddlers!

Oh, the sweet little smash cake. The same local vendor who made the cupcakes also made the cake. Who would have guessed the fate of this beautiful little round of sugary goodness? It wound up on the floor – truly making comedy of the term “smash cake” – before Scooter Britches even got a bite thanks to a mama who clearly needs to learn to double check the high chair tray to ensure it is attached properly.

 

Cupcake to the rescue!

And there ya have it…all the details on our Cheerios birthday party plus our easy Cheerios snack mix! Feel free to check out some of our other birthday party ideas – like our Trolls birthday party, our 10 tips for a birthday party at the park, our Halloween birthday party, movie theater birthday party (with a Frozen theme), little monster birthday party, and our library bookworm party.