Everyone wants to feel special on their birthday. These 5 simple and meaningful birthday traditions are a simple yet perfect way to celebrate any birthday!
I love celebrating! I love birthdays! And of course I love my kids! So it's no surprise that I like to make my kids' birthdays a BIG DEAL!
So many people ask me why I go all out for my kids birthdays. There are several reasons, but the main ones are: I want my kids to know how special they are. There's 1 day a year that they (alone) are celebrated! Any excuse is a good reason to throw a party!!
5 Simple and Meaningful Birthday Traditions
We have 5 birthday traditions that we like to do in our family!
1. Balloons
The night before my kids birthdays, we blow up balloons and leave them all over the floor to decorate our living room. How fun is it to wake up and have balloons to walk through?
2. Birthday Banners
I always hang banners around the house too. They don't have to be anything too fancy. I tape up curly ribbon, or pre-made, store bought banners. Or I reuse fabric banners that I made years ago. This year I picked up these numbers from Target One Spot- perfect for our newly turned 10 year old!
3. Birthday Poster
A newer tradition in our family is to make these posters. We write down (the number of year they are turning) things we love about the birthday person.
This is all one of our favorite things! We usually include a lot of family inside jokes that are so funny! My kids keep these posters on the bulletin boards in their rooms to look at all year.
4. Gifts
We always have gifts waiting in the living room in the morning. So when our kids wake up, they walk through the balloons, see the poster and banners and get their gifts. It's a small little celebration with just our family before the start of their big day!
5. Birthday Meals
The birthday person gets to choose meals all day. We usually get take out for breakfast, then go out for another meal and the birthday person gets choose our family meal for the 3rd meal. It's another way for the birthday person to feel special!
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These are our Birthday Traditions. They are simple, but mean a lot to our family! Do you have birthday traditions?
