Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Instructions
Things You'll Need:
- Confettis
- Streamers
- Party Hats
- Pillows
- Cake Mix
- Spaghetti Noodles
- Spaghetti Sauces
- Cake Pans
- Noisemakers
- Sleeping Bags
- Streamers
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Step 1
Help your kids decorate a room in your house. Hang streamers, scatter confetti and set out party hats and noisemakers.
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Step 2
Bake a cake.
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Step 3
Dress up in party clothes.
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Step 4
Prepare the kids' favorite dinner and eat the cake for desert. Put candles on the cake and blow them out in recognition of the birthday of a new year.
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Step 5
Teach the kids the words to "Auld Lang Syne," and sing other songs with them as well.
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Step 6
Explain the concept of New Year's resolutions to your children. Ask them if there is anything they would like to accomplish in the next year.
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Step 7
Lay out sleeping bags in the living room. Read stories out loud and play board games late into the evening.
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Step 8
Toast the New Year at midnight (if your kids are still awake) with sparkling fruit cider.
Comments
jbiphillips said
on 12/22/2008 START READING 2 POSTS DOWN for jibphillips posting and really successful New Year's Eve idea.
jbiphillips said
on 12/22/2008 jbiphillips - continued: We have indoor coloring and lite crafts for those that can't handle the cold weather (it is in Richmond, VA but can still be brisk at that time of year). We have make your own noise maker decorating inside as well. We do 3 Pinatta's to make sure all the age groups get to participate. We have loads of glow sticks and everyone has funny hats (as they all have their coats on). Then at 9:00 we do a balloon drop. Sing Auld Lang Syne and a toast. The kids go crazy and everyone is ready to go by 10:30 pm. A little clean-up and ready to plop in front of the TV for the balloon drop. Next morning we awake refreshed and everyone has had a great time. We are up to 34 families this year.
jbiphillips said
on 12/22/2008 WE are now on our 4th year of New Years at Nine Celebration. This is an outdoor party and everyone contirbures a bit here and there. The invite starts out like this: "When the New Year approaches, the little one usually sleep through the occasion. Which is why we are having an New Year's at Nine Celebration." It all started when I hated the fact that my then 5 year old didn't understand the concept of New Years (because he couldn't stay up past 7:00 pm)and we were not the 'going out' type. Not to mention fighting over who is going to get the only available babysitter and then spending all that money. We start at 5 and everyone brings an hors or dessert, we provide adult and kids drinks. The kids play in the back yard on the play set and trampoline and there is always a touch football game for the boys. We have an outdoor fire and roast marshmellows and hot dogs on a stick. We
Quickstar said
on 11/28/2008 Wow all these ideas are gettin' me excited, I love ehow! I am so glad I joined this community:)
Anonymous said
on 8/8/2006 We always invite plenty of other families with kids over for nibbles and drinks. For the kids there is music playing outside with their own dance floor and we set up a cocktail bar serving slime punch! There are lots of outside toys, like pop-up tents, then we round off the evening with a treasure hunt with the pi├▒ata being the treasure.