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Let your kids ring in the New Year with these fun and simple New Year's party ideas. Call your child's favorite friends. Add the usual accoutrements or make your own: party hats, noise makers, party horns, streamers and confetti. These activities work well any time of day and your child can "play" Happy New Year all week long!
Party food and drinks:
- Serve food with edible "confetti" and let the children sprinkle "happy new year" over the sweets - cupcakes, cookies with frosting or ice cream sundaes.
- Serve something bubbly - sparkling cider, ginger ale or club soda with colorful fruit added.
- Let the children eat "the nines" for 2009 - add "9" toppings (pepperoni, black olives, cubes of cheese) to pizza or kebabs with "9" pieces.
Capture "time" in a favorite things book: Freeze time by giving children disposable cameras to take pictures of all their favorite things at this moment in time. Be sure to include a self portrait and be sure to compare pictures from last year and next year.
Resolutions for kids:
- Have kids write New Year's resolutions on card stock. Paint with watercolors and add magnet strips to the back or frame with popsicle sticks.
- Vote on these kid resolutions from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
- Make "promise" bracelets by writing each child's resolution on paper bracelets. Hole punch edges and tie with replaceable yarn or ribbon for future wear.
Clock Games:
- Make individual clocks on round pieces of posterboard with movable hands. Hole punch at the top and hang from curling ribbon. Each child can "count down" the minutes to midnight.
- Play Father-Time dress up by giving children large pieces (1 to 2 yards) of fabric (felt or something luxurious from the remnant bin). Add some long beards or draw "beards" with face paint. A few magic wands or long twigs with imagination complete the look.
- Sing "Tick Tock" with each child pretending to be a grandfather clock: kids stand with arms in clock position rocking back and forth. Tick Tock, Tick Tock. I'm a New Year's grandfather clock. Tick Tock Tick Tock. Now I'm striking 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock...12 o'clock. Then, kids "jump" or "ding" for each hour.
Make some noise!
- Have a New Year's Noisy Parade banging and marching with metal spoons and pie tins. (I especially like this activity outside after dark.)
- Crack the bubble wrap (big bubbles recommended) - tape to the table and give the kids mallets, give each child a square and twist it, or tape to a non-carpeted floor and jump away.
- Pass out empty toilet paper or paper towel tubes. Give prizes for the loudest noise, the silliest noise, the grossest noise, etc.
Balloon Party (supervision required for younger children):
- Blow up a two to three balloons per child and let kids "pop" the balloons into the air on a parachute or a large bedsheet.
- Play balloon volleyball
- Play balloon tee-ball. Buy a small helium tank from your local party store. Inflate balloons and tie down to a small toy (or other suitable weight). Set balloon height at three feet or at batting height for party guests. Make "rackets" from paper plates and paint sticks from your local paint store.
Happy New Year: Whether you do it once a night or set up a "hooray" station, kids loving throwing confetti and other things while shouting "happy new year"!
- Styrofoam popcorn
- Take the lid off an air popcorn popper (test ahead of time - some poppers are duds)
- Or, my favorite...hang rolls of toilet paper from the ceiling (I use a shower curtain rod to hang from ceiling frames) or use tension curtain rods in multiple doorways. Let children pull it, run with it, and throw it in the air! (note: toilet paper "fuzz" will be in the air and on black clothes).
Happy New Year Friends! May your 2009 be filled with playfulness, child-like exuberance, and lots of love.
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