How to Celebrate the New Year With Kids

New Year's Eve is celebrated around the globe--and should be a happy and joyous occasion surrounded by people we love. Too often, adults make plans to celebrate the incoming new year without children around, so the kids have to miss out on the festivities and excitement of the occasion when their parents and other adults gather around to share happiness, hope and joy for the coming year.


This article will give some tips on how to include the kids when planning a New Year's party.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. New Year's celebrations usually take place when kids are on vacation from school. Allowing them to spend one late night on New Year's Eve to celebrate the incoming year should be allowed. It is a time for fresh starts and new beginnings for everyone--as well as a fun party for the kids to participate in. Have very young children take a nap in the early evening, so they are not too tired or cranky when the party starts.

2. 
   Create New Year's Gifts

   Let the kids make special New Year's party hats and decorations. Take them to the local crafts store and spend the afternoon creating the party gifts. Help them to decorate the house in preparation for the party.

3. 
   Toasting the New Year

   Buy soft drinks or apple juice for the kids to join in with the toasting and cheering when the clock strikes midnight.

4. 
   New Year's Resolutions

   Let the children make New Year's resolutions and write them on separate pieces of paper and collect them in a bucket. When the clock strikes midnight, pass the basket around for each person in the room to pick their resolution for the year from the bucket. Make separate resolution buckets, one for the adults and one for the kids.

5. 
   New Year Celebration Cake

   Bake a New Year's celebration cake with the kids and allow them to use their imagination when adding the decorations.

Tips & Warnings

• Do not allow children to drink alcohol or be left home alone without a babysitter or an adult present.

Resources

• JewellTV
• JewellProductions.TV

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on 1/9/2009 My heart was warmed by the article and made me want to celebrate it with kids. I'm glad Dr. Jewell has remembered the children for New Year Eve celebrations.