New Years Eve Party! with kids

Posted by Holly Nelson on Tuesday, December 29, 2009 Under: Tip of the Week

New Years Eve Party:

When the kids were young we still wanted to stay home and have a news years party with them. Being young and they couldn't stay up til midnight, so this party started at 6:00. As they have gotten older I have waited til later to start.
After we eat pizza and hot wings here is what I do:
New Years Party: Each hour open a bag and do the activity inside, then it's outside for fireworks. We have 4 bags to open.

~1st hour/1st bag: Watch and glowsticks(lots). Put on our watches for the countdown. Make the glowsticks into a limbo bar. and play in the dark.(then go outside for a few fireworks til next hour)

(In this picture we used construction paper because I forgot pipe cleaner. I like pipe cleaners the best, but I couldn't pull the picture up to post it.)

~2nd hour/2nd bag: Pipe cleaners (or construction paper)- make the new years # glasses. ex: 2009 shape out of pipe cleaners. New years game* (then go outdside for fireworks til next hour)

Do you think Luke looks happy?

~3rd hour/3rd bag: Napkin and spoon- Make confetti hats out of sugar ice cream cones, icing, and sprinkles, m&ms,etc. (then go outside for fireworks til next hour)

~4th hour/4th bag: Balloons and noisemakers. Play balloon volleyball and other balloon games like keeping it up with your nose,etc. Then let them pop the balloon and read the Blessing.(already written on piece of paper my 2 prayers for them for the next year).(Then go outside for fireworks and the big bang at "midnight")

I had every white lunch sack pre-made, marked with kids names, and filled before the party. When prepared then it only takes about 15-30 minutes. I don't let the kids help b/c I want them to be surprised.
I keep all the new years activities in a plastic shoe box in the attic until the next year.

**New Year Game: 1st one: Write down a year on an index card. On the back write what happened in your family on that year. Shuffle and put cards year side up. Take turns drawing a card from the pile and the family has to remember or guess what happened on the year they picked. Great for building memories.
2nd one: Same game but with history facts. Great for the older ones.

I love parties And I love my kids . So I made this party. And we have so much fun and they are worn out by the end of the night!
I hope you use this and have fun next year....or the end of this year!

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