New Year’s Eve with children
9 tips for an exciting turn of the year
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Celebrating New Year’s Eve with children – action is guaranteed! Here we have nine tips on how to make the New Year’s Eve party a hit for you and your kids.
This year the New Year’s Eve party with your children will be something very special! We’ll tell you this much: With a little preparation, the turn of the year will be a fun party that will not only be fun for your children, but also for you!
Celebrating New Year’s Eve with children: 9 tips
1. Prepare party decorations
Colorful garlands, table decorations and fun party hats create a festive mood. Feel free to start the day before. The kids can punch out confetti from colored paper with a hole punch, sew or glue a pennant chain from leftover fabric and cut out table decorations from silver paper. Of course, you can also have a motto for the New Year’s Eve party: Make crazy party hats, headbands or glasses.
2. Mixing cocktails with children
Cocktails are only for grown-ups? No way – mix delicious cocktails without alcohol! Colorful fruit and vegetable juices even make the drinks healthy, such as the beetroot colada or the raspberry sour. And at midnight the children can toast with a glass of children’s sparkling wine.
3. Conjure up a delicious buffet
Finger food and salads are best for New Year’s Eve – so you can feast on New Year’s Eve as you please. Pizza snails, mini burgers with yeast buns, baguettes with dips and pasta salad … the children’s mouths are watering. Involve the children in the preparations: kitchen action is the order of the day when cooking and baking together!
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4. Play games
In the stressful December there was no time left for an extensive game night? Then New Year’s Eve is the evening for it! Because it’s still a while until midnight and what could make the time go by faster than with fun board games! If you don’t have a suitable one ready, here are a few ideas that are always well received by children:
- Who am I?: Think of a character for your neighbor and write the name on a piece of paper. This is then fixed to the forehead with gentle adhesive tape. After the round, everyone can ask yes or no questions. With “No” it is the neighbor’s turn until everyone has guessed their pieces.
- Black Stories: Puzzle fun is guaranteed here! Guess together how a situation came about. You can make up the stories yourself. The players have to guess what happened by asking yes/no questions.
- City-Country-River: Who does not know it? To make it even more exciting for children, add a few more unusual categories: e.g. “comic characters”, “movies”, “heroes”, “sports” etc.
- stop dance: New Year’s Eve without dancing – unimaginable! Find your favorite music together and turn on the party light. The game master takes over the controls: As soon as the music stops, no one is allowed to move – everyone has to hold the pose, otherwise they are eliminated. It’s really fun when you’re a big group!
5. Think about wishes for the new year
Resolutions would be a bit high for the kids – but a list of wishes and ideas for trips for the New Year is fun and makes you dream! Think about what you want to do in the new year, either together or individually. The anticipation increases exponentially!
6. Wax casting
Pouring lead is now banned due to possible health risks – but we don’t let it take the fun out of it and simply switch to wax. Because even with liquid wax, which you melt on a spoon over a candle and pour into a bowl of cold water, crazy figures are created that definitely leave a lot of room for interpretation. Caution: Never leave children alone when pouring wax! Here you will find the instructions and tips for wax casting.
7. Open countdown bags
It can get pretty long until midnight! You shorten the waiting time with exciting countdown bags, which can be opened on the hour from 8 p.m. Filling ideas:
- A disposable camera that the kids can use to capture the evening
- Fortune cookies
- confetti and streamers
- Dress-up items such as big glasses, a stick-on beard, a party crown
- Party horn
8. A photo session
You will always remember this New Year’s Eve because there will be funny photo proofs! Plan a little photo session with fancy props and costumes!
9. Fireworks for children
Colorful and glittering – fireworks have an enormous attraction for children. Caution: Never leave children unsupervised with fireworks, bangers, table fireworks, etc. – there is an extreme risk of injury!
Also note:
- the products must have a BAM label (Federal Institute for Materials Testing).
- Light table fireworks away from flammable materials on a fireproof surface (watch out for sparks)
- There is also a risk of burns with sparklers! Caution, especially for small children: Sparklers must not get into their mouths!
- Provide stability for firecrackers, rockets & Co. (e.g. put the rocket vertically upwards in a bottle), only allow adults to light it and ensure that there is sufficient safety distance. Only use outside!
- Always read the instructions for use
- Firecrackers can be very loud: protect children’s hearing (and your own) with earplugs, for example
- Beware of duds! Don’t light it again! Instead, leave them there and after five minutes pour water over them.
- Have water in a bucket or alternatively a fire extinguisher ready
Now the preparations can run at full speed! We wish you and your children a happy new year and a nice New Year’s Eve party!
Looking for more tips on what to do with your kids? Here we have nice ideas for handicrafts with toddlers and painting with children. Here you can find out how to do your own face painting.