PARTY WITH YOUR PEEPS!
The Bingo and the Countdown list are available from HipHipHoorayBlog - cute!!
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| Printable New Years Eve Bingo |
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| List of Kid Friendly New Years Ideas - love them all! |
Party Activities: (from Kaboose.com)
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| Family Time Capsule - recycled cookie tin On New Year's Eve, invite your kids to write a letter to their future selves. They can list their favorite things (books, songs, ice-cream flavors, TV shows, foods, colors, animals, games) and make predictions (how tall will they be in a year?). Pack away the letters with the holiday decorations so that they'll be out of sight but easy to find next year. On December 31, 2010, have your kids open their letters and see how much their tastes have changed -- or haven't! |
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| Sorry for the small pic! "I Resolve" picture - laminate & post where you kids will see it each day |
Lights Out Limbo: (from FamilyFun.com)
In this lights-out version of a classic party game, the object is to avoid the beam of the flashlight.
- What You Need
- 2 flashlights
- Instructions
- Clear a floor space and turn off the lights.
- Two kids, each holding a flashlight, stand a few feet apart, turn on the flashlights, and point them at each other to create a level beam of light for the others to limbo under.
Family Memories Charades
Ring in the new year with this silly game in which players act out notable events of the past 12 months.
- What You Need
- Paper
- Pens or markers
- 2 baskets or hats
- Instructions
- To start, divide the players into 2 teams and send the teams into separate rooms. Each group should then write an agreed-upon number of events from the past year on slips of paper. (Try to list only events that most players will be likely to remember, such as a family trip, a favorite movie that debuted, or a significant local news event.)
- Fold the slips in half, then collect each team's slips in a separate basket or hat and have the teams return to the playing area.
- To play, determine a time limit for each performance, then have players take turns pulling slips from the other team's container and pantomiming the event mentioned, offering clues (such as the type of event, the number of words, and so on) as in regular charades, if you like. If any of the actor's teammates can correctly identify the incident before time runs out, that team earns 1 point. The team with the highest score after all the events have been acted out wins.
(why I love this...it is focused on the special memories you made as a family...the more you talk about them, the more they will live in your kid's hearts!)
Party Themes: (from FamilyFun.com)
DECORATION TIME
•Marlene, husband Chuck and kids Meghan, now eight, and Christopher, five, filled white balloons with black confetti (made from construction paper with a hole punch), blew up the balloons and drew a clock face on each with a black marker.•Black and white confetti and curling ribbon were scattered on the party table.
•Guests brought as many alarm clocks as they could round up. The clocks were all set to ring at midnight and placed around the table.
GAMES AND ACTIVITIES
•Partygoers had their faces painted white, with clock hands drawn on in black.•Guests played the mouse ran up the clock (based on red light, green light). One kid (grandfather clock) stands with his back to the players (mice) and calls out hours at random, and the mice race to take that number of steps before he turns around. Those who fail must return to start. First mouse to "run up the clock" wins.
•Partyers played hide the clock: Adults concealed a ticking clock somewhere in the room, then called in the kids to find it.
•At the stroke of midnight, with the alarms ringing, they popped the balloons and celebrated as the confetti flew out.
•Even the cleanup the next day was fun, Marlene says. "The children made collages with confetti."
Or, if you are having a party with a bunch of kids in attendance, try this great idea:
COUNTDOWN NUMBERS
Draw and color in the numbers 1 through 10 on poster boards--one number per board. At midnight, each child promenades down a flight of steps, number card held high, as the crowd yells out the number and cameras flash. "That was their moment," says Susan. As the last child hits the last step, the streamers were blowing and the shakers were shaking. "You would just not believe how cool that turned out."One of the biggest challenges of celebrating New Year's Eve with kids is that the pinnacle of the party is well past their bedtimes. The Kirkham family of Pocatello, Idaho, solved this problem by moving the festivities to an earlier time zone--without leaving their home. Over the years, the Kirkhams have toasted Midnight in Miami, New Year's in New York and Midnight in Maine--each of which falls at 10 P.M. Mountain Time.
The gatherings feature menus and decorations suited to the site. To create a Maine ambiance, the Kirkhams
Those on the East Coast could hop ahead two hours to Rio de Janeiro or celebrate at seven as Big Ben strikes midnight in London.
The gatherings feature menus and decorations suited to the site. To create a Maine ambiance, the Kirkhams
Those on the East Coast could hop ahead two hours to Rio de Janeiro or celebrate at seven as Big Ben strikes midnight in London.
(I love this, because we have to be up early on New Years day and being a homeschooling mom - I love hiding some education in this party!! Yea, geography!! Yes, I'm a nerd!)
- 2012 Family Memories Bucket List:And to end this fun list off...have your kids make your families "bucket" list for the upcoming year:Here is printable from FamilyFun.com just to get you rolling...I hope this list makes your party planning easier...Happy New Years!!Spend it with someone you love. ;)Kristen
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