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Celebrating New Year's Eve with kids
We have never celebrated New Year's Eve with our kids, mainly
because we've only recently found friends with kids to celebrate. This year we've managed to build a circle of close
friends and are planning a gathering which will include eight adults and nine kids. I have 1200 square feet in my
humble home, this means we'll each get approximately 70.59 square feet of celebration space.
In order to make sure the party is fun for the adults and the kids I've been searching the internet for advice on planning a party which is kid-friendly, but not so kid-friendly I have to eat pigs in a blanket and go to bed at 8pm. I think I found my answer at, where else, Family Fun magazine's site.
They have a collection of great ideas for entertaining kids during a New Year's Celebration with games, crafts and food. Including the idea to celebrate the "New Year" at 9pm with the kids to avoid over-tired melting down kids. If we can get all the kids to go to bed at our house, we'll be able to ring in the New Year as adults with some of our favorite fellow breeders. Wish us luck!
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12-18-2005 @ 6:34PM
Cathy said...We buy small carbonated sodas, let the kids shake-shake-shake them and then open and watch them explode foam all over the yard. They love it!
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12-18-2005 @ 6:34PM
Heather said...We always hosted New Years at our house (soley because neither hubby or I wanted to be the DD)
Two things our friend's children loved:
The banging of the pots and pans to ring in the new year (best to use old fry pans if possible - we had broken handles on our everyday pans - opps)
A designated camping area. We let the kids camp out in the kitchen on the floor. That way they felt like they were still in the action. The condition was they had to stay within their camping area (which was in front of the fireplace) All were asleep by 10pm while the adults continued the party in the adjoining room.
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