My son turned one year old this week!  What better way to celebrate than with a Baby Shark first birthday party!

I can’t believe how fast this year has flown by.  It seems like just yesterday that we were bringing our baby home from the hospital!  We decided to throw our son a Baby Shark first birthday party to celebrate!

BABY SHARK FIRST BIRTHDAY PARTY

My favorite decorations from the party were by far the Baby Shark cupcake toppers!  I will describe the steps I followed to make them in case you want to make something similar.  I will also share pictures of some of the other decorations we used at the party.

BABY SHARK CUPCAKE TOPPERS

I made Baby Shark cupcake toppers for the cupcakes we had at the birthday party.  And they were very easy to make!

I began by searching for free images of the Shark family online.  That actually ended up being a little harder than I thought it would be!  Therefore, I decided to buy some Baby Shark family images from an Etsy shop.

After I received the images, I opened a picture of each member of the Shark family in Microsoft Word.  Then I changed the size of each image to 2 inches high by 2 inches wide.

When I had 2 inch by 2 inch images of Baby Shark, Mommy Shark, Daddy Shark, Grandma Shark, and Grandpa Shark, I made copies of the images.  I decided to go with 6 of each shark for a total of 30 images.

Then I printed out all of the sharks and cut them out in circle shapes.  Then, to make them more durable, I taped each of them to a cardstock circle.  This also made them look prettier.

The last steps were to tape them to toothpicks and put them on the cupcakes!

I am very happy with the way the cupcake toppers turned out!

Here is the whole Shark family…

And a picture of Baby, Mommy, and Daddy Shark…

And the whole Shark family again…

 

OTHER BABY SHARK BIRTHDAY PARTY DECOR

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BANNER

Since I recently got a Cricut machine, a HAPPY BIRTHDAY banner seemed like the perfect first project to try!  I used the Cricut to cut HAPPY BIRTHDAY letters out of cardstock.

I also printed out two Baby Shark pictures to add to the banner.  Then I just glued the letters and sharks to some cardstock, punched some holes, and hung it on the fireplace.

 

ONE BANNER

Since the birthday party was for a one-year-old, I made a ONE banner to match the HAPPY BIRTHDAY banner.

We hung this behind my son’s highchair.  It made a nice backdrop for pictures for when he ate his birthday cupcake!

 

Here is a nice Baby Shark cupcake image you can pin for reference later!  Just click on the “P” symbol in the upper left hand corner and select a Pinterest board to pin to.

 

*You can click here to see how we celebrated my daughter’s first birthday!

 

What did you do for your child’s first birthday party?  Any other Baby Shark birthday parties?  Let me know in the comments!

Have a great day!

♥Jena♥