A ROARRingly WILD 1st Birthday Party!

Recently our son had his first birthday.
We celebrated in a group of close friends and family. 
The theme was Jungle-'Let´s get wild for Leo´s 1st Birthday!'. 
I did all the decorations myself- mainly using crepe paper (for streamers and to make palm trees) , cardboard (to make the jungle animals), and cheap fabric (for the back grounds and table and lamp coverings etc) - as well as accessories such as cute animal nose printed cups and animal print plates from originales.com.br. 

Some of the dishes served like 'parrot drumsticks' and 'Jungle sushi' (top &bottom left)

Our lovely friend and chef extraordinaire,   Amy Carson, from Sweet Beet Nutrition,  very kindly offered her services for the catering and I (apart from watching in awe   ) assisted her in the making of labels and accessorising of dishes. What was the most exciting for me was that all the food was organic and gluten, dairy and sugar FREE! It was not the typical 'Brazilian kid´s party' food, and some people were a bit taken aback not to find their deep fried goodies on the table, BUT we didnt want to serve food that we wouldn´t eat ourselves and wanted to have healthy options that small kids could eat but also not compromise on taste for the adults.

The dishes were super colourful and even had cute 'jungle themed' names - chicken drumsticks (with a coriander marinade that gave them a green tinge) were called 'Parrot drumsticks', chicken skewers:'amazonian arrows', quails eggs dyed yellow with turmeric were 'lizard eggs' and there was 'jungle sushi' made from hollowed out cucumbers with various fillings just to name a few. In the sweets corner we had banana and coconut ice cream called 'cheetah paws', raw chocolate truffles called 'monkey poo' and bananas dipped in chocolate named 'panther tails'. The only thing that non organic and gluten full was the cake, which was ordered and to be honest didnt even have to be edible as it was just a pretty centre piece in itself!

If you want to have an original and fun party for your kids but don´t know where to start-  you can contact us at contato@originales.com.br  and we can help you put a fabulous party together!