Ideas for celebrating New Year’s Eve with your family

New Year’s Eve may not be the party it once was now that you have little ones, but that doesn’t mean you have to miss out on all the fun!

You may not be able to go to the club but there are other ways to have fun.

Here’s Today’s Parent’s seven awesome ideas to help you celebrate the New Year with your family:

1. Dress up
Are you tired of your everyday clothes? Don’t be afraid to go all-out and over the top when dressing up for your special New Year’s Eve party. Wear that dress that only gets worn on special occasions. Dress up the kids as well, with long white gloves, pearls, bow ties and tiaras which can be found at a local party store. Paint their nails and style their hair.

2. Play barista and create a cocktail
You can add a little bit of alcohol to the adult’s cocktails. Give it a long and important sounding name and garnish it to the point of ridiculousness, drink it in your fanciest glassware and be sure to toast the new year.

3. Have a dance party
Make a family playlist that includes music for both the adults and the children. Make some space in the living room and dance like no one is watching. When you get tired, have a seat and check out your kid’s moves. Have a dance competition with candy prizes, declare the winner and take pictures.

4. Build a fort
Building a fort with your children is great fun for every member of the family. You can bring in some snacks and play a movie on the laptop. The upside of a blanket fort is that once it’s built you can sequester the kids in there until they fall asleep.

5. Make it glow
Illuminate the awesomeness of being awake when it’s dark by taking glow sticks and sticking them inside balloons to make glowing balloons! Pretty easy and pretty cool.

6. Set up a photo booth
By buying a roll of craft paper in white or any bright colour, you can turn one of your walls into a photo booth where you can capture these memories forever. You and your children can paint on it, draw on it, write out your resolutions – the possibilities are endless. Now get some silly props on a stick and have fun.

7. Celebrate the New Year
Your kids don’t have to stay up super late for the countdown. Just rely on another time zone to countdown to 2021 with sparklers and they won’t be tired and moody the next day.

• Source: https://www.todaysparent.com/family/activities/7-ways-to-celebrate-new-years-eve-with-kids/image/2/

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