Birthdays come once a year but they are events that call for special celebrations. Especially, when it is your friend’s birthday, it becomes your obligation to make sure that their birthday is the most awesome day of their year. Here are a few suggestions/ideas to make your friend’s birthday special.
1. Make their birthday a day full of awesomeness
Think of all the things your friend loves, like his/her favorite places to eat, things he/she likes to do or the places he/she loves to shop at. Fill their day with all their favorite things and surprise them with these at different stops all through the day. This can last for a day, a weekend or a week.
2. Gifts, gifts and gifts!
Who doesn’t love getting gifts? Everyone does! You can keep the special feeling of getting gifts going all throughout the day for your friend by gifting a birthday present every hour or every few hours, keeping the biggest gift for the end of the day.
3. A Deluge of Balloons
What’s birthday without balloons? But the idea here is to surprise your friend with an avalanche of balloons as soon as they open a door. You can also fill their closet with balloons, so when they open their closet, a deluge of balloons falls out on them. Another cool idea is to fill their bedroom with balloons when they are sleeping, so that when they open their eyes, the first thing they see is- Ta da! Surprise, surprise!
4. Cards, cards and more cards
The cutest way to convey your birthday wishes to your friend is through a birthday card. This may sound like too mainstream, but the idea here is not give your buddy a birthday card, but many birthday cards. How about a whole week of birthday cards with one card each day leading up to their birthday? You can also pen down all your special messages and confessions on these birthday cards.
5. Flowers!
What can be a better way to make your friend feel special and delighted than giving them flowers? Decorate their bedroom, their house or their car with beautiful flowers that are sheer delight to the eyes.
6. Dedicate a song
If your friend is a die hard fan of some radio show or station, and you know they’ll be listening, then you have just the perfect kind of surprise for them. Dedicate them their favorite song or a birthday song on the radio station and your phone will be ringing with them on other side in no time.
7. Letters from their loved ones
One way to surprise your friend is to collect letters and notes from their loved ones and friends. These notes can be general well-wishes, memories, song lyrics, whatever the person wants to share with the birthday guy/gal. You can put these notes in envelopes or place them in a scrapbook or stick them on a wall of their bedroom or their car.
8. Plan a Fake Party
If you think your friend is good at sniffing a surprise party being planned, this is what you can do. Plan a fake party! Schedule a small, fake party a day or days ahead of the event. This way, you friend will think that his or her birthday has already been celebrated. Little does your friend know that a big surprise is still waiting for him or her at home on the day of the actual birthday.
9. Plan a Surprise Picnic
Convince your friend to go out with you for a walk or for a errand. Gather their other friends and family members on a specific spot that you choose as your picnic spot. Decorations can be done at the minimum since nature always does it’s bit of contribution. Take your friend to the spot and they are sure to be taken aback by your lovely surprise.