10 New Year Celebration Ideas for Kids
Family Slumber Party
Grab your sleeping bags, pick out a couple of your favorite movies, make a yummy dinner that everyone will enjoy, and bring out the board games. Hunker down for a great family slumber party while you watch the clock tick tock down to the New Year. Here are some of my suggestions for a great family slumber party.
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Apple Juice Toast
Indulge your kids and let them be part of the New Year’s toast. Pick up these plastic fancy champagne flutes so they don’t feel left out. Fill them with your kid’s favorite drink.
Host a New Year’s Ball
At home of course! Decorate your living room, or even your garage to create a Ball fit for your family. Customize your ball to fit your family’s style. Choose from casual or former attire (or both if someone wants to dress up and others don’t) and give everyone a chance to pick out their favorite music to dance to until 12:00 rolls in.
Vasilopita
Vasilopita is a Greek tradition. It stands for “New Year’s Cake.” Spend New Year’s Eve baking a cake with your family. Mix a charm or penny into the batter and bake as normal. Let your kids decorate it any way they’d like. Serve your cake on New Year’s Eve night by letting the head of the household cut and serve the cake. The person who ends up with the charm in their piece of cake will have good luck the next year. Here is a great decorating kit that would be perfect for this occasion. And don’t forget the sprinkles!
Homemade Noise Makers
Have your kids make and decorate their very own noise makers for the New Year’s countdown. Recycle used water, soda, juice, or milk bottles and fill them with dry beans or rice and have them decorate them with pens, paper, or paint.
Balloon Drop
Have your kids’ help you blow up balloons, grab a balloon net, and make a balloon drop! This is a fun, easy, and inexpensive way to ring in the New Year!
Karaoke Party
Nothing brings more laughter and fun than a karaoke party. Pick up one of this great karaoke party bundle, pass the mic to the kiddos, and sing your way into the New Year! If you have younger kids at home, try this karaoke mic on for size.
Stay at a Hotel for the Night
Pack up the family and head over to your favorite local hotel for the night. Pick out one with an indoor pool for even more fun. Order room service and a movie for a wonderful New Year’s night.
Create a Time Capsule
Grab an old coffee can and let your kids fill it with memories of the year. They will have a blast gluing pictures to the outside of the capsule. Bury it or hide it away until next year and open it next New Years to bring back all of the memories of this year.
Watch Family Movies
We all take family videos to capture all of those great memories, but when do we actually sit down and watch them? Take this opportunity to take a look back on the past and reminisce with your kids about all of the good times you captured on video.
Those are all awesome ideas. We keep it really low key in our house, but I Might make them some noisemakers this year.
We keep it low-key at our house. I love the idea of getting a movie and some apple cider and just cuddling up on the couch and watch until midnight.
Is it bad that we do a lot of these already? LOL We never need an excuse to have a good time
Kay!! That is awesome! Good for you. That’s nice to hear.
These are all great ideas. There’s nothing more fun a sleep over for little girls, and New Years is the perfect time for it.
the Family Slumber party sounds like a great idea – combined with the apple juice as well 😀
You gave me such a wonderful ideas, my favorite one is the Balloon Drop, I bet my kids are going to love it 😀
The balloon drop sounds like a really fun idea. I wish I would have known about that when my kids were little!
What a great list of New Years celebrations for kids. Kids should celebrate too. It can be fun for them to try to stay up and watch the ball drop.
we do several and will incorporate more in the next year
This is a great list of things to do with kids for NYE!! My parents used ti throw EPIC NYE parties and let us stay up until the ball dropped. We thought we were so cool getting to stay up so late!!
These are great ideas! It can be hard to incorporate kids into the chaos that surround New Year’s Eve but these ideas are awesome. I love the time capsule.
These are all great ideas for New Years Eve when there are little kids in the house. My kids are now all grown, so usually, we just revel in the togetherness, hope and pray for a more blessed year ahead.
We always watch a family moviewheilewaiting for the new year. Writing our goals for the new year is abother activity.
These are some great ideas. We usually have a gingerbread decorating contest and play family games on that night. The kids love it.b they also make their own pizzas too.
I love these ideas to get the kiddos involved on New Years. I think my favorite thing as a kid would have been having a ball. I always looked for any excuse to get dressed up.
This is great list of New Years celebrations for kids… I love all these great ideas!!
We always watch family movies. A karaoke party would be awesome. I haven’t had karaoke in years. We loved doing it back home in my home country. 🙂
How adorable does that balloon drop sound?! My kids would love to do something like that.
These are some really great ideas for ways to celebrate New Year’s with kids! I will definitely try some of these out!
These are great New Years ideas for kids. My kids always wanted to stay up with the adults when they were little.
These are some great ideas. I love the slumber party idea. I don’t know if my girls are going to be staying up the whole night, but if they want to it’s okay with me. They’re only 5 and 6, so I don’t know if they’ll be able to make it up that long.
What amazing ideas for NYE + kids. I dont have kids but I think the NYE apple juice toast is cute and a hotel for me sans kids even sounds like a good idea!
Omg so many fun ideas!!!! I can’t wait for my daughter to be a tad bit older to actually do some of these with her
Love these ideas especially the balloon drop. My daughter always ends up sleeping but hoping this year she will be awake to join in the fun.
Wow, I love all these New Year Celebration ideas! We were going to have a family game night. But I think we are going to do some of these ideas now too.
We do balloons and noisemakers. We also celebrate a little bit earlier now since we do have kids!!
You gave me such a great ideas! My son and his friends are going to love it!
I’ve always been a homebody when it came to celebrating New Year’s. Therefore, I love these family ideas!