New Years Eve Ideas
Are you getting ready? Another holiday after yesterday’s holiday is coming up! Hummm…how about a fast, CHEAP, last-minute idea for the New Year’s Eve celebration? Not a lot of thought is required… promise. On to New Years Eve Ideas.
NEW YEARS EVE IDEA
Items needed:
- balloons (12)
- 12 strips of paper
- 12 easy fast ideas…
- Easy things found around the house
Your kids will think you are cool.
Take the 12 strips of paper and write ideas on them. Here are a few:
- ‘Paint’ with shaving cream
- Have a snowball fight
- Eat a cookie
- Read a story in front of the fireplace
- Have a thumb war
- Sing a song
- Clean the bedroom (ya have to have one chore in there)
- Balloon Volleyball
- Drink hot chocolate with marshmallows. YUM.
- Call Grandma and wish her Happy New Years!
- Turn on the music and dance like it’s 1999
- Tell a favorite memory from 2010
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Roll up the strip and place it in the balloon. Blow that sucker up and tape it to the wall. Any wall will do…even on the top of family pictures (note: I covered up my kiddo’s pics with balloons. They thought it was fun to discover who’s picture was under it.)
Write on the balloons a time starting at 1 pm and counting down to midnight. On each hour have the kids pop a balloon and discover the ‘game’.
FUn. FuN.
Note: **Be careful with the balloons. They can be a choking hazard for those little one who put things in their mouths.** I know you know this, but just to sound like your mother I thought I’d add it!
Kim ~ Recipes To Run On says
What a FUN idea! Just pinned this to Pinterest. Thanks for the great tip. Happy New Year.
Alison says
Thanks Kim for pinning! Happy new years to you too!
shelley says
Brilliant and EASY! Love this idea. 🙂 {Adorable pictures too btw} 😉
Kim @ The Educators' Spin On It says
This is such a cute idea! Can’t wait to celebrate with my little one this year. We do a Noon New Years party too so we can watch the clock count down to Noon but don’t have to keep them up until midnight.
Alison says
Great idea for the wee ones…although it’s hard for me to stay up late anymore so this may be just for me:) thanks for sharing the idea Kim!
Jamie says
Great idea! Something we did when mine were younger was to set a clock ahead so that midnight would come at 8pm. We’d party with the young ones and then get them settled in bed in time to ring in the new year together.
Alison says
LOVE LOVE LOVE the clock changing idea! Might try it all year:)
Maren says
Fun idea! We will definitely be doing this!
Inde says
This is a great idea!! Will def try next year since my lil one is too small. 🙂
Alyssa says
Such a cute idea! So want to do this, but don’t have little ones yet. Will definitely save this for when I do…can anyone guess my resolution this year? 😉
Cheryl says
Love it! Found you on pinterest… will be repinning and trying your idea. THanks for inspiring family fun!
Alison says
Thanks for pinning!!
Melinda T says
Great idea! My daughter will love this!
pineconegirl says
Love Love Love This!!!! I am crazy about Advent and countdown calendars and this fits right in! Fabulous idea!
The Scrapbooking Housewife says
This is such a great idea!! 🙂
Iffy aka Cameron says
Hello there! I wanted to let you know that I featured this on Stay At Home Nation. I would love for you to come check it out! You can grab a button from my sidebar & post it proudly since you have been featured! I also have a Post Your Button Link Party going on until Thursday if you would like to like up. Have a Happy New Year!
XoXo
~Cameron~
aka Iffy
Julie says
This is so fun and simple I can actually follow through with this idea. Thanks for the idea.
Anne says
We loved this idea and did it this year! My kids had so much fun! Thank you!
Jen L says
I wanted to tell you that we did this on New Years Eve with our four boys and some friends and it was so fun that we adults found ourselves kind of hanging around for the balloons to be popped and see what was next! Our kids were a bit older, and we only started it at 6pm, but some of the things we included were – write a song and perform it (and we’ll film it), a scavenger hunt,
make a skit and perform…etc. Brilliant idea of yours! thanks!!
vanessa says
What an idea! 😀
Really gets every one excited for the next hour to come as the anticipation for the new year grows
Making the best of every last hour of the year!
Also a great way to reflect on the whole year
Nicole from Mudpies and Sunshine says
Hello – what a wonderful idea! It is so great that I have linked to it on my blog! Thanks for sharing, Nicole
http://mudpiesandsunshine.com/2012/12/25/12-new-years-activities/
Cindy deRosier says
What a fun project! I submitted it at Fun Family Crafts and it’s being featured there! You can see it here:
http://funfamilycrafts.com/new-years-eve-party-shaker/
Thanks for a wonderful idea!
Cindy deRosier says
What a fun project! I submitted it at Fun Family Crafts and it’s being featured! You can see it here:
funfamilycrafts.com/new-years-countdown-balloons/
Thanks for a wonderful idea!
Angela Smith says
WHAT a FAB idea! I have 4 kids who are always wanting to do something fun but this working momma comes up short with creativity after a long day at work. Thanks so much for sharing!!
Lexi says
It just dawned on me that my littles understand the celebration tonight and I was searching and searching for fun things, but a lot of ideas required more than I had on hand. Thanks for sharing, I have all of this and am taping balloons up as I type!! THANK YOU!!!
Nicole Burrows says
Totally using this idea with my girls tonight! I’m stealing the balloon volleyball for sure, but also throwing in some Kinect dancing, and some Easy-Bake Oven baking. Thanks for a great kid-friendly party idea!
Cheatbee Jameson says
Wow what a great idea. Ill defly keep this in mind.
Lookin forward to next new years eve.
Greetings from Berlin 🙂
Fiveadventurers says
Fab idea! We have a similar one along with a few others on our blog post here http://fiveadventurers.com/Home/new-years-eve-family-fun-ideas/
Kim says
This is awesome! So many people I know leave their kids with babysitters on New Year’s Eve. I have always celebrated with my kids and this might be fun even though the youngest of the 6 is 14!