Hi everyone
As promised in my previous post, I decided to do a My Little Pony theme for my girl's one year party. We have booked the Condo's Multi Purpose Room.
I was contemplating doing a Descendants of the Sun (DOTs) following the Korean fever but decided to stick to a kids theme. Below are the items I've gotten:
1) Balloons
Happy Birthday
1 (75cm pink)
Rainbow
Double sided tape
2) My Little Pony Balloons
I filled the foil balloons with helium gas at SKP @$5.50/pc and I got the balloon weight @$0.50 each.
Other places where you can fill up helium gas are florist, party supplies store, Mini Toons. Spotlight has helium tank rental.
3) My Little Pony Cake Toppers
4) Birthday Cake from Bengawan Solo
Bengawan Solo just came up with My Little Pony character cake. Hence, I did not use the cake toppers which I bought. The cake is really moist and yummy.
5) Candy Table
Yan yan, fruit juice gummys, marshmallows, Gareth Caramel Popcorn
6) Goody bag
We decided that we do not want candies, chocolates, biscuits for our goody bags, it's every kid's delight and every parent's horror. Instead we wanted to give something useful. Hence, we have gotten mosquito patch and bubbles from party store.
I've gotten the goody bag pack from Daiso.
7) Caterer: Ronnie Kitchen
This is my first time using them and I chose based on many positive recommendations in foodline.sg. Their service was very good and they are very punctual. However, the quality of food can be improved eg some of the deep fried items should be kept in warmer.
8) Activities
We wanted to keep the kids occupied while the adults mingled and eat. Hence, we thought of setting up goal post for the boys, horse rides or colouring pages. However, we didn't provide in the essence of time.
Hope you find this post useful in planning for your kid's first birthday party.
Love,
Sherlyn
I've been researching for ideas for my girl's first birthday party. As much as we love her and would like to throw her a fun and memorable party, we are also very careful not to be too doting parents. We are unsure if we can raise/ maintain the bar as she grows older. She might expect a holiday, expensive presents when she's older and won't be able to treasure the value of money.
Here are some ideas I've shortlisted:
Venue
1) Condo Function Room
Usage of pool
2) Civil Service Club Bukit Batok Children Party Room
The children indoor playground is just next to the party room, can keep the kids entertained.
3) Hotels
Theme
I've attended a lot of children parties and some were very well planned. As an adult, I enjoy myself very much, I think the kids will love it more.
1) Animal/ Farm
2) Cartoon character
I am considering to do a movie screening using projector.
Food
1) Ronnie Kitchen
2) Neo Garden
3) Meihao
Cakes
1) Cake Avenue
2) Sweetest Moments
3) Pine Garden
4) Bengawan Solo. Didn't know Bengawan has character cakes and price is really reasonable. The cakes are good too.
5) Prima Deli
6) Swenson
7) Jelly cakes by Mr and Mrs James Chan. Hp 97887807/96350758. Healthy and cooling treats for the little ones.
Balloons and Deco
I'll be getting the balloon deco from Taobao, table cloths from Daiso.
Goody bags
Kids love goody bags. We have decided no unhealthy candies, biscuits and chocolates. Instead, we are considering stickers, Disney character plaster/ mosquito patch/ self inking stamps, bubbles, some DIY craft.
I'll share some of my purchases in my next post. Stay tuned.
Love,
Sherlyn
Hi everyone
Sorry for the lack of updates. My baby has just turned 10 months and I've been googling list of books for babies. Here are some recommended titles:
1) The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By Eric Carle
2) My Very First Mother Goose
By Iona Opie
3) Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown
4) Guess How Much I Love You
By Sam McBratney
5) Dear Zoo
By Rod Campbell
6) Good Night, Gorilla
By Peggy Rathmann
Youtube video:
7) Are You My Mother?
By P.D. Eastman
8) Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
By Bill Martin, Jr.
Youtube song
As usual, I've gotten some of the books at Taobao, please click on the links above. Hope you find this post useful.
p.s. please get board books for your younger ones. My girl has torn a few of the books. :(
Love,
Sherlyn
It seem that audio/ sound books is very limited in Singapore. I've searched a few bookstores but the selections are really limited.
I managed to order these 3 titles from Taobao, which I also saw at Babyland Fair selling about $25 after 15% discount:
1)ABC 欢唱绘本, RMB72.25
2) 儿歌欢唱绘本, RMB72.25
3)童谣欢唱绘本, RMB72.25
As Taobao now offers direct shipping, I googled online for reviews. I have always use 4PX, some folks at hardwarezone forum mentioned that the cheapest shipping is from 65Daigou. I googled and true enough, the shipping charges is so much cheaper. This time round, I paid $19.50 for shipping by sea for my taobao loots of about 6.5kg, estimated 8-14days as the audio books are classified custom sensitive and cannot be shipped by air.
Here's a table comparison:
|
First 1kg |
Subsequent 500g |
Total charges for
6.5kg |
| Taobao
direct |
RMB39
SGD$8.76 |
RMB11
SGD$2.47 |
$
35.93 |
| 4PX |
RMB43
SGD$9.66 |
RMB12
SGD$2.70 |
$
39.36 |
| 65Daigou |
SGD$3 |
SGD$1.50 |
$
19.50 |
using exchange rate of SGD$1 equiv to RMB4.55
Hope you find this post useful.
Love,
Sherlyn
p.s. I've ordered 2 more sound books from Taobao which I would highly recommend.
1)
圣诞儿歌谣音乐书
2)
ABC欢唱歌谣
