8 Special Ways To Ring In New Year’s Eve With Kids

We are definitely sure that we’re not the only ones who are excited to wave goodbye to 2021. The year was quite hard for everyone around the world with remote learning, masks, and social distancing- but we all made it. To make your new year’s eve special and memorable we have researched and prepared a list of unique ways and things to do on new year’s eve 2021. Here are the ideas for a new year’s eve celebration at home that you and your family can enjoy. Cheers to a better year that awaits all of us!

1. Organize a Fancy Family Dinner

Well amid the Covid-19 surge night curfew has been imposed in all the major cities of India, but don’t worry because you can welcome the new year with your family. All you have to do is rather than step out, you can organize a lavish and fancy dinner party at your home. Take out your fancy china dishes, dress up, and give your guests a tasty treat to remember. All you need to do is to make your dinner party a complete family affair by assigning everyone a task that is from creating the menu to laying out the table and cleaning the entire place.

For additional fun, you can even include some fun and entertainment-based activities that will keep your family hooked to the new year celebrations. All this will not only keep you and your family safe but will also make way for the much-needed family time and you will be welcoming the new year with positivity and smiles.

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2. Have a Dance Party

Who doesn’t love to dance? We are pretty much sure that your kids might be missing out on the dancing part when it comes to the new year’s eve celebrations. Don’t feel disappointed because you can still organize a dance party at your home. All you need to do is to take out all your blankets and pillows into the living room and prepare a safe campsite for the night. You can even prepare a list of movies or a groovy song playlist that you would like to be played in the backdrop of your celebration. To make your dance party fun, you can prepare a peppy playlist directly from Spotify and let your kids dance to the tunes of their happiness and galore. While dancing, you can even prepare a balloon pop countdown and let the good times roll in easily.

3. Create a Bucket List

When planning on the different things to do for new year’s eve 2021, you can sit down with your kids and get a little creative. By creative, we mean that you and your kids can sit and talk about the things and the goals you could not do in 2021 but would like to do in the coming year. Because new year’s eve is not only about partying and dancing, but it is also about spending quality time with your family.

Therefore, you along with your kids can create a bucket list for the coming year and talk about your goals. For instance, where would you like to visit in 2022? What is the one thing you would like to achieve academically which you could not achieve this year? Take a printout of all your wishes and bucket list and you can even add pictures to it. This will help you to align your goals and will make way for a productive new year celebration.

4. Convert Your Christmas Tree into a Special Resolution Tree

Creativity has no end. When you are looking for different ways to celebrate your new year’s eve with kids you must show your creativity and enthusiasm to them. If you have a Christmas tree at your place, all you have to do is to transform it into a resolution tree. Well, the new year is all about making resolutions that you would like to achieve in the coming year. Therefore, you can hand over some colorful paper to your kids along with cute stickers and ask them to write down their resolutions over it. For example, eating healthier or getting good grades, and tying them on the tree. Voila, now your Christmas tree is a Resolution tree!

5. Host a Favourite Night

To make the last day of the year special and memorable, you can host a favorite things night! All you have to do is to do things that you and your kids just love. For example, you along with your kids could eat your favorite food for an entire day, wear your favorite pajamas and pose for some really cute and Instagram-worthy pictures, or else you could even organize some heartfelt storytelling sessions and make it a productive day. To keep it lively and interesting, you can even do a mix of everyone’s favorite. Remember that the end of new year’s eve is all about spending quality time with your family.

6. Attend a Virtual New Year’s Event

Another great way to celebrate new year’s eve with your kids is by attending a virtual event. There are an endless number of museums across the globe that hold a virtual new year’s event. From the Please Touch Museum to the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose in California, all these museums organize virtual museum tours so you can research about such events and attend them virtually with your kids.

7. Visit Down the Memory Lane

With the new year just days away, everyone is busy setting up their goals and planning for things that they would like to achieve in the coming new year. Before the clock strikes 12, take out your smartphones and display a collage of photos in front of your kids from 2021 and you both can together take a trip down the memory lane. Talk about the good times and the bad, and as a parent, it is your responsibility to make them understand that even during the hard times there was something positive to look forward to.

To make this exercise interesting and fun for your kids you both can prepare a 2021 time capsule together which you would like to open in the future. You can give this activity another twist by doing a year review with your little fellas. Go the extra mile and ask your kids to present their year review in the best possible way that is by emoji representation or any other way.

8. Don’t Forget to Raise a Toast

All the new year parties are incomplete without raising a toast. Therefore, raise a toast with your kids for the new beginnings. And since you are raising a toast with your kids, take out some fancy champagne glasses and pour in some fresh juice and let the toast begin. It’s up to you whether you want to cheer with fresh fruit juice or some hot chocolate, ring in the brand new year with a little “clink”.