New Years Eve with children
9 tips for an exciting turn of the year
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Celebrate New Year's Eve with children – action is guaranteed! Here we have nine tips on how the New Year's Eve party will be a blast for you and your kids.
This year, the New Year's Eve party with your children will be very special! We already reveal so much: With a little preparation, the turn of the year will be a fun party that will not only be a lot of 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 funny party hats create a party atmosphere. Feel free to start the day before. The kids can punch confetti out of colored paper with a hole punch, sew or glue a pennant chain out of scraps of fabric and cut out table decorations out of silver paper. Of course, you can also put the New Year's Eve party together under a motto: Make your own crazy party hats, headbands or glasses.
2. Mix cocktails with children
Are cocktails only for the grown-ups? No way – mix yourselves 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 sparkling wine.
3. Conjure up a delicious buffet
Finger food and salads are best for New Year's Eve – so you can feast the whole New Year's Eve as you wish. Pizza rolls, mini burgers with yeast rolls, baguettes with dips and pasta salad … the children's mouths water. Involve the children in the preparations: Kitchen action is the name of the game when cooking and baking together!
Warm up – and you're done!
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4. Play games
In the stressful December there was no time for a long game evening? Then New Year's Eve is the evening for it! Because there is still a while until midnight and what could make the time go by faster than with fun board games! If you don't have the right one, here are a few ideas that children will always love:
- Who am I?: Think of a figure for your neighbor and write the name on a piece of paper. This is then fixed on the forehead with a soft adhesive tape. After the round, everyone can ask yes or no questions. If the answer is "No", it is the neighbor's turn until everyone has guessed their characters.
- Black Stories: Puzzle fun is guaranteed here! Guess together how a situation arose. You can make up the stories yourself. The other 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 is off, nobody is allowed to move – everyone has to hold the pose, otherwise they will be eliminated. It's really fun when you're in a big group!
5. Think about wishes for the new year
Resolutions would have been a bit high for the kids – but a list of wishes and excursion ideas for the new year is fun and makes you dream! Either together or individually, think about what you want to do in the new year. The anticipation increases exponentially!
6. Pour wax
Pouring lead is now prohibited due to possible health risks – but we don't let the fun of it take away and just switch to wax. Because even with liquid wax, which you melt on a spoon over a candle and dump into a bowl of cold water, crazy figures are created, which in any case leave a lot of room for interpretation. Caution: Never leave children alone when casting wax!
7. Open countdown bags
It can be a long time until midnight! You can shorten the waiting time with exciting countdown bags, which can be opened every full hour from 8 p.m. Ideas for filling:
- A disposable camera that the children can use to capture the evening
- Fortune cookies
- Confetti and streamers
- Things to dress up, such as large glasses, a beard to stick on, a party crown
- Party horn
8. A photo session
This New Year's Eve will be remembered forever because there will be funny photo evidence! Plan a little photo session with unusual props and disguises!
9. Fireworks for children
Colorful and glittering – fireworks are extremely attractive to children. Attention: In principle, 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 mark (Federal Institute for Materials Testing)
- Light table fireworks outside of flammable materials on a fireproof surface (watch out for sparks)
- There is also a risk of burns with sparklers! Attention especially with small children: Sparklers must not get into the mouth!
- Create stability for blasters, rockets & Co. (e.g. stick rocket vertically upwards in a bottle), only allow adults to light it and ensure that there is sufficient safety distance. Use outside only!
- Always read the instructions for use
- Firecrackers can be very loud: Protect the children's hearing (and your own too) e.g. with earplugs
- Beware of duds! Do not light again! Instead, leave it and pour water over it after five minutes.
- 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 party!
Looking for more tips on what to do with your kids? Here we have great ideas for tinkering with toddlers and painting with children. Here you can find out how you can do your own make-up for children.
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