How do you make your child feel special on their birthday?

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What little things do you do to make a young child feel special on their birthday?

Do you have any birthday traditions/ideas that don’t cost much but can make a child feel special?

Aside from the obvious birthday cake and candles you mean?

We always get a helium balloon to put by their chair at breakfast. I also like to play Happy Birthday by Stevie Wonder to them and dance around the kitchen.

Treasure hunt with their presents

Presents, a party, a cake, and singing happy birthday

Birthday cake for breakfast

We have a happy birthday garland that gets put up on the kitchen wall after dd has gone to bed.

Always get the huge number balloons for them and spend FOREVER blowing up balloons and sticking them on the hallway ceiling… I hate balloons too and worry about the choking hazard 😬🙄

My sons birthday is Boxing Day so I was doing this at 3am Boxing morning this year lol 😂

Balloons , banner ( reused year on year ) , card, cake with candles ( normally baked at home), sing happy birthday , open presents , cook a special meal ... chosen by birthday person. When they were little ... a birthday badge .

I do up a basket of their favourite sweets, presents and cake.

In my husband's culture the birthday person wears a flower crown!

If they were at school I'd wrap up a little present (like a toy car) and put it in their lunchbox

One of mine had a birthday the day before her party, so I took her out to lunch. She's an adult now, and still remembers it. It was one of those tacky chains where they gave her balloons and jellybeans after the meal.

I try and keep it relatively low key but still special. We do nice breakfast (eg pancakes or cocoa pops) and do 4 presents (want, need, wear, read) with matching paper and a few cool balloons. Then nice dinner with cake of whatever theme they want. And either a party or special outing.