Celebrating Birthdays during Christmas

For those people whose birthdays fall on or near the Christmas season, having a separate birthday party to celebrate it may not happen and they feel cheated out of having their own “special day” when it gets drowned out in the general festivities!

For all those Christmas birthdays and near-Christmas ones, try to plan a birthday party that incorporates the message and mood of the season but focusing on and celebrating the birthday alone. One shouldn’t have to forgo celebrating just because one’s birthday happens to fall during the Christmas season.

With a little bit of creativity and innovation, a Christmas birthday party can be turned into one that is memorable and joyous.

If you are planning a Christmas birthday party for a child, then it is much easier to be creative when it comes to celebrating the day. The festival of Christmas has so many facets and so many wonderful messages to be imbibed that it’s easy to incorporate them into your child’s birthday party.

Decorations play a major role in setting the mood for the party. Depending on the specific theme chosen for the party, you can convert your home atmosphere to celebrate both Christmas and the birthday. Choose any one of the Christmas symbols that kids can identify with, as the party theme. You can choose the gingerbread man or candy canes or stars as the predominant theme and decorate the entire party area accordingly.

Do not forget to add a banner saying “Happy Birthday” in these decorations so that the general Christmas feel do not overwhelm the birthday celebration. All the general Christmas decorations like the fairy lights, the sparkling Christmas tree decorations, the bright lights, the red and green color theme that one associate with Christmas can lend a great party feel to the birthday celebration too. When you add things such as party hats, colorful balloons, etc to the above the Christmas birthday party is underway!

Invitations for the Christmas birthday party can be chosen according to your preference. If you want to go for a formal feel to the invitation, you can choose printed party invitations and use an invitation that will match the general theme of the birthday party. You can choose to include Christmas themes and even give the invitations a personal touch by using a Christmas sticker to seal the envelope.

If the birthday party is going to be an intimate affair, you can even go for homemade invitations to lend a personal touch to it. Creating your own party invitations can be fun and also cost effective. You will need decorations like glitter and colorful ribbons, glitter pen to write the invitation as well as buy card stock and have a printer too, to create your own homemade party invitations.

Gifts are the most important aspect of both the Christmas season and the birthday party. You can combine the “gifts under the Christmas tree” tradition to present gifts on the birthday. Gift wrap the presents with a birthday-theme paper and place them under the Christmas tree. You can also enlist any of your friends to don the Santa Claus suit while giving the birthday gift to your child (or even the adult) whose birthday you are celebrating.

As for the games and fun activities to have during the birthday party, you can choose to build a snowman in case you are living in a cold climate. You can enlist carolers to sing Christmas carols as well as birthday songs. Bake Christmas cookies and decorate them with icing.

The main thing to remember during a Christmas birthday party is to make sure that the birthday celebrations take precedence over the Christmas festivities.