For the last several years, we've had a very kid-friendly party ending with a balloon drop.
We have numbered bags for the kids to rip open in succession. Each bag has an activity to do. Our line up for tonight is:
10- New calendar. You can write everyone's birthdays (kids like seeing what day of the week their's falls)
9- Pizza dough to make individual pizzas
8- 100 piece puzzle to put together while the pizzas bake
7- Paper to record a goal
6- Fancy toasting glasses which we'll fill with eggnog milkshakes
5- Play ping pong--if nec'y, improvise with any small ball (hollow or rubber bouncy ball) on your kitchen table using books as paddles
4- Card game to play together
3- Simple craft (you could make paper snowflakes to hang in a window)
2- Popcorn to eat while watching an episode or their favorite cartoon. We love Shaun the Sheep!
1- Music for freeze-dancing
A balloon drop is easy to set up if you have a ceiling fan and crepe paper to form a net. When you turn on the fan, the balloons spin off!
You don't have to wait 'til midnight. It's always 12 somewhere. I like celebrating Greenland's or EST... a decent amount of sleep makes for happier campers the next day.
Happy New Year!
2 comments:
How fun! What creative and clever ideas! You come up with great traditions.
This is really really cool! What a brilliant plan for a kid friendly evenly!
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