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Birthday Celebrations during Lockdown

It has been a year since the first How have they been celebrating
lockdown of 2020 was announced their birthdays? I have seen a huge
and this means that, for all of trend online of parents going back
us we have had a lock down or to the good old days, of tea parties
socially distanced birthday and at home with just family, homemade
for some of us, unlucky ones, birthday cakes and improvised,
we may see another birthday in homemade decorations around the
lockdown. house. It has been lovely for children
We have all adapted during the last to appreciate that a birthday doesn’t
12 months from shopping online have to be big and grand, for it to be
to home schooling to worshipping special.
online, we’ve come a long way and Another trend I have seen growing
hopefully, the end is in sight. But steadily over the last few years
how have our birthday celebrations is Teepee Sleepover Parties for
adapted during these last 12 children, someone comes into
months? your home and sets up beds with
For my birthday recently, I had a a little tent over the top with fairy
few doorstep visits from friends and lights, bunting and decorations,
family, and takeaway for tea. For and the children have their friends
me, as an adult, it was lovely and over for an extra special sleepover.
quiet, and it made me appreciate It's a far cry from the days when I
the people who are still here to wish had sleepovers with my friends, in
me a Happy Birthday, especially my mum and dad’s lounge with a
as there have been so many lives sleeping bag and a wind up torch!
lost this year. But what about our The trend has even survived the
children? pandemic by offering DIY set up
during the strictest lockdowns to
The younger generation of people enable children to have sleepover
who have adapted to so much parties with their siblings, all set up
isolation from their friends and family, by mum and dad! It’s fantastic to see
and who have adapted to home that small business’ are adapting
schooling, seeing their Teachers and even thriving during these times.
through technology and not being
able to take part in the activities they
usually do outside of school.

18 | St John the Evangelist, Lund | April 2021