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Creating a Fun New Year's Eve Party for Kids!

The kids want in on the fun this New Year's Eve and there's no need to go out, you can create a fabulous kid-friendly party in your own house!


Since momstown is the "go-to" place for all the ways to have fun with your family, we wanted to bring you all of our favourite ideas to create an early countdown party for your kids, this New Year's Eve!


kid-friendly new year's eve ideas


1. Figure out a great time for kids to do a countdown.  Overtired kids do NOT make for a fabulous way to celebrate, so set a time that works for all the kids-  8pm works just as well to ring in a new year together!  You can even pick a time zone across the world to watch their own fireworks and countdown on THEIR time!

 

2.  Instead of messy confetti, how about making your own bubbles or giving each child a small bottle of bubbles (you can use dollar store wedding bubbles and put them on a chain to wear around their necks!).

 

3.  Make a New Year's activity book for each child, including a word search, bingo and printable colouring pages.  What a great way to remember a special night!

 

4.  Who needs champagne (okay, maybe the parents do) when you can have "fancy" glasses with milk and cookies!

 

5.  Set up a balloon drop using drawstring trash bags.  Fill them with balloons and hang it upside down.  Countdown at anytime and let the drawstrings open for tons of balloon fun with kids!

 

6.  Kids love to have a dance party!  Get your video cameras ready when you make these homemade microphones to host a pretend Karaoke night!

 

7.  You don't need the real thing to create excitement, let kids decorate the room with this Fireworks Art.

 

8.  You MUST have noisemakers and shakers for New Year's Eve- let the kids make them when they arrive by using paper plates, recycled water bottles or baby food jars, to ring in the new year.

 

9.  Take some time to reflect on the year and create a 'year in review' pages with your child. 

 

Happy New Year from our momstown family to yours!


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Water bottle shaker

water bottle shaker

This budding musician had tons of fun with his homemade tamborine and water bottle shaker! momstown loves recycling everyday items into crafts.

 

water bottle shaker

What you need:

  • Empty water bottle
  • Pony beads (or rice, or dried beans)
  • Pompoms (to make it look fancy!)

 

water bottle shaker

Add the beads and pom poms to the water bottle, put the lid back on, decorate if you like (we added a few stickers), and shake away!

 

Wondering what else to do with empty water bottles?

Make a water bottle pig, an ocean in a bottle, or a water bottle bunny!

 

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New Year's Eve Glitter Fireworks

 

Why not pretend New Year’s really happens at noon and get your kids involved during the day? Some of our momstown chapters will be holding Happy Noon Year Parties next week with grape juice and noise blowers to bang in the new year!


A fun craft idea is a Glitter Fireworks!

 

Materials:

Dark piece of construction paper

Glue

Glitter

 

Spread the glue on the construction paper in a fun exploding star pattern.

Sprinkle different colours of glitter to create the sparkling firecracker then do over & over to create an exploding sky!

 
Thanks to momstown Guelph for this craft idea! For ideas on how to hold your own Happy Noon Year Party read about last year's 2010 party in momstown Burlington here.

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