Make this super special! Countdown, blow noisemakers, throw streamers, cheer…we even had a balloon drop, with a sheet rigged up high, loaded with balloons. Decorate pizza, or make some other interactive dinner. Make ribbon dancers with dowels and streamers, then have a dance party. Make memory jars to fill up throughout the year, or read through last year’s memory jar. Fill out a reminder paper for the year (“I am _ years old…my favorite song is _, etc.) Bubble Wrap Hopscotch (get holiday bubble wrap from post-Christmas sales for super cheap, tape to the floor, and hop away!) That way, everything was prepped the night before. I put the balloons up on the wall in a clock(ish), shape and we got them down each hour. We had a balloon for each kid to pop each hour, then the oldest read the slip of paper. Just make sure you can enjoy it!įor each hour that you want to have an activity, blow up a balloon and slide a note in with the activity for that time slot. If you are by yourself, you might want to do the activities every other hour, or a few times throughout the day, etc. You want to have fun – and depending on the amount of kids you have counting down, it can take the full hour to get the activity ready, do it, put it away, then get ready for the next. With our countdown at 6 PM, we went back several hours to begin the activities mid-morning. Countdown Celebration supplies! (fun cups, something yummy to drink and toast, party hats, etc.) Materials for 6-10 activities, depending on the length you want for your day I mostly just wanted your timezone for the day….Thanks for letting me borrow it!) Of course, I took lots of pics to share with everyone so that you could take bits and pieces to make your own kid-friendly New Year’s Eve celebration. Google mostly told me traditions involved going to pubs, so uh, we mostly just picked fun random things to do. Luckily for us, a European midnight is right around our 6 PM, so we set our clocks forward and went right on with the day! (Disclaimer: I don’t go all out with themes, so if you are from across the pond, don’t expect much familiarity throughout the countdown. I don’t even…ugh.Īnyway, instead of getting them up early, counting down until noon, and then being done with the festivities for the day, we decided to keep them busy all day long and strategically plan the big New Year’s Eve countdown for a time suspiciously close to their bedtime. Did I mention they were all under age 6? We wanted to do something fun for the holiday, but there is not enough holiday guilting in the world that would get me to keep them up til midnight. ![]() ![]() Last year, we had my three plus my cousin’s kid all together for New Year’s Eve.
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