10 New Year’s Eve Ideas for kids!

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2. Bring in the new year with a toast!  You can make these Candy Cane shot glasses and fill them with this ‘Mock-tail’.  Or you can buy your own sparkling water (flavored or not).
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3. Yummy (festive) snacks.  Your kids are going to love these little fun party foods on New Year’s Eve.  Make them saltine toffee (it is so easy!)

4.-  Make a Resolution together! 
It is time to talk about changing our lives for the better.   Did you know that 1 out of every 3 Americans makes a resolutions?  Did you know that only 8% keep them?!  Wow!  Last year we made New Years Resolutions and tomorrow night we will make them again, for 2017.

5. Have a photo booth.  It can be really fun to have a photo booth!  We just did this at our son’s Christmas party and the kids loved it.  Have some fun photo booth props (just Google them), print them off & cut them out.  Attach them to a popsicle stick or straw.   (In our son’s class, we made a backdrop using a white sheet with a strand of Christmas lights hung up behind it.) 

6. Make a family time capsule. Just grab a mason jar or small container and begin to fill it.  Add a recent family picture, any movie ticket stubs, one special thing from each child (for our kids this would be a rock, a drawing or something similar), a current postage stamp, a current toy (maybe a happy meal toy), your business card and your husband’s business card, a hospital band, a mini-school picture and a few other things.  They keep it in the house so they can see it anytime!

7.  Have a dance party. Kids love singing and dancing!   Find some fun songs on YouTube and have a fun dance party!

8. Make a video.  Grab your phone or camera and ask your child a few things from this year, in an interview-like style:
A few ideas:  What is their favorite friend, toy, food, TV show or song.  Be sure that you let them pick out their favorite outfit to wear for the video, too!

8.  Have a ‘ball drop race’… Watch the ball drop on TV and then head off to have your own ball-drop game with balloons.  Two people, each holding a balloon, stands up on a chair or couch or something similar and let your balloon drop to see who’s balloon drops faster.  ps- Put things into the balloons before you drop them to turn this into a science lesson (what drops faster- the balloon with a penny in it, or the balloon with a piece of rice in it?)

9.  Set up a S’mores bar – the kids are going to love this and its a fun snack before they go to bed.  We loved this s’mores bar. 

10.  Bang some pots & pans outside!   Don’t forget to spend time and Talk about the past year. Make lists and resolutions.  Spend time laughing about funny moments.

Enjoy being together! 💕💕.  Print out this 30 days of one-0n-one time calendar for a great start to a new year!