Tips for New Year’s Eve with children
- Buy (for each child) a confetti popper and sparklers to still have fireworks at midnight.
- No New Year’s Eve without a disco. Make a playlist in advance with the favorite songs of the entire family.
- Make edible fireworks. For example, think of candy rockets made of bacon or savory rockets made of sausages with puff pastry.
- End the year with a chat jar. Let everyone think of some questions in advance. Take turns choosing a card and start chatting!
- Write down your good intentions for next year together. TIP: Store the answers with your Christmas stuff, then you will find them again next year!
- Let everyone choose a game and make it a fun games night. Toppers for evenings like this: 30 seconds monopoly etc.
- Make it a real party with a variety evening or talent show. Choose your favorite song for a cool dance act, put on fancy dress for a funny play or become the best joke teller.
- Make your own children’s cocktail to toast with at 00:00. If you still have young children, you can toast with a festive cocktail around normal bedtime.
- Make a Happy New Year video with your family and send it to all your friends and family after 12 o’clock.
- New Year’s Eve is of course not complete without delicious food. And how much fun is it to make them yourself?
- Make your own New Year’s Eve conference at home. Have everyone in your family prepare a short speech/presentation/highlight story during the day and recite it to each other in the evening.
- Play a dice game. Find all the things in your room that you no longer need, make nice drawings and tasty pastries and wrap them up nicely.
- Very trendy,… make a grazing table. Fill the entire table with treats down to the last corner. Of course, a healthy corner is a must.
- Count down to the new year with the special countdown videos on YouTube and Netflix (and of course that is also possible at 8:00 PM 😉)
- Make countdown bags for the children from the afternoon with a craft, games, ingredients to make snacks etc. Every hour you can open a new bag!
- Make a firework painting by cutting a toilet roll, push the strips out, dip them in paint and stamp away!
- Do you fancy a cozy evening? Drag all the mattresses downstairs and sleep together in the living room.
- My kids love it. Roasting marshmallows at a campfire. Also really something to do on New Year’s Eve. Also search the internet for the tastiest s’mores recipes.
- Make a jar (and decorate it) in which you keep the most beautiful moments each week. You open this jar at the end of the following year.
- Make a mood board together for the coming year. What do you want to do, learn or perfect in the coming year?
Comment below what ideas you have for new year’s eve with children!
