How to celebrate New Years with the kids

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!

With a bit of planning ahead, you can have a memorable kid-friendly New Year’s Eve.

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

1. Dress up

Don’t be afraid to go all-out and over the top. Wear that dress that only gets worn on special occasions. Dress up the kids as well with white gloves, pearls, bow ties and tiaras which can be found at a local party store. Paint nails and style hair.

2. Create a cocktail

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. Dance, dance, dance!

Make a playlist that includes both music for the adults and for the children. Make some space 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

Commit to building a fort with your children. Love your fort. This is great fun for every member of the family. 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 color you can turn one of your walls into a photo booth. 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 and they won’t be zonked the next day. But whichever time zone you’re celebrating, count it down outside with sparklers.

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

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