I seriously cannot believe that it’s been a whole year since my daughter came into this world! People always said it goes by so fast and they weren’t kidding. It literally feels like I just brought her home from the hospital and here we are celebrating her first birthday! I know that 1 year olds have no idea what a birthday party is and will never remember it but I like to look at it as more of a celebration for my husband and me for surviving a year with a baby haha! We rocked it!
I decided to go with a unicorn theme party because, I mean how magical are unicorns?? It was so much fun putting everything together and seeing my vision come to life. Below you’ll find photos of the party and then I listed either where I purchased something or how I DIY’d it! Hope you love it!
UNICORN LANTERNS
These unicorn lanterns are 14″ in diameter and found HERE.
For the horns I used Metallic Gold Tissue Paper found HERE and used THIS image to help trace and cut the shape out.
For the lashes I simply googled an image of unicorn lashes, printed them and cut them out.
The flowers are tissue paper flowers. You can use THIS tutorial and I use THIS tissue paper.
Everything was then just hot glued on and then I used string to hang them!
UNICORN CENTERPIECE
Using gold glittered card stock I traced a horn template and then cut it out.
For the flowers I cut squares of felt and made the flowers by cutting a spiral and hot gluing it together.
I hot glued everything to a mason jar and then used a sharpie to make the lashes.
ONE LETTERS & FAVOR BAG
I purchased the letters at TARGET
I painted the O white and added some flowers I found at Michaels. For the N, I used rose gold cardstock found HERE and then painted the rest of the letter pink. I wrapped the E in a turquoise streamer and added more of the flowers.
For the favor bags I used THESE and then I cut the horn and flowers out from THIS blog post minus the lashes which I drew on myself with a sharpie.
PIN THE HORN ON THE UNICORN
I projected the image and then using watercolor I painted it. The horns were the same that I used for the centerpieces.
HIGHCHAIR BANNERThe hanging streamers are actually plastic tablecloths that I cut into strips. The ONE banner is all hand cut from images I traced onto cardstock.
DESSERT TABLE
As a backdrop I used a white curtain in the center and for the sides I cut strips of pink, lavender, and robin’s egg blue tablecloths bought HERE.
The Eliza Is One banner I made by using card stock in similar colors and cut out the triangular shape and added the letters.
The unicorn silhouette was done by projecting the image on a large white poster board and then using glue and glitter, I covered it and hung it using fishing wire.
My absolute favorite craft was her monthly photo banner. I created an image of numbers with flowers and a horn attached and mounted it onto glittered cardstock cut into circles and then printed her photos and attached them.
BALLOON UNICORN
I mean how freaking cool is this! The balloon arch was so easy to do I can pretty much promise you I will find any excuse to throw a party just so I can make one! For the top I projected the images on poster board and then added glitter to the horn and watercolored the ears. For the lashes I just cut out the shape. They are a little hard to see in the photos but they were glorious! For the balloons I used THESE balloons and THIS balloon strip to create the cascading balloons. I also used THIS machine to blow all the balloons up because no one has the breath for this!
Happy First Birthday to our little girl!!
If you like what you see don’t forget to pin it and subscribe (on the sidebar) to get emails for future posts!