Family Fun Ideas for New Year's Day

New Year's Day is the day you and your family enjoy, celebrate, and create an atmosphere of fun and frolic. You bid adieu to the year last and wait to welcome the New Year 2009. So it becomes a very special day to enjoy with your family, friends or loved ones. To create the ambience of fun and frolic filled New Year's Day the following ways have come to my mind:

New Year's Day Party
The idea of New Year's Day party itself creates in one's mind with showers of happiness, rolling over of next year i.e. 2009, keeping aside all the differences, sorrow, sufferings, misery, agony and pain. My fourteen years teenage son and my younger one the small and loved my six years daughter came together with novel ideas to celebrate the New Year's Day. They both agreed that this year's New Year's Day celebration should be different from last year. Children's are the one who enjoy the celebration and as a father I too enjoy with them and my happiness multiplies many folds.

My son said "Dad this year we will not go out to restaurants but have a New Year's Party at home. We will call our ailing Grant Parents to enjoy this New Year's Day celebration and spend, enjoy and reduce some of their loneliness and misery of Cancer."

I said yes why not son? This is really a very noble gesture and I am sure they will enjoy the most.

We all then decided to decorate our house with balloon's, colored stars, good will messages, twinkle and sparking lights and bulbs. We will decorate outside the house with colored candles to show that we want to enlighten our lives and come out from the darkness of misery and troubles of last year. There is an old saying that "If you start New Year's day one with positive note, fun, frolic, empathy towards elders, determination, and with courage to fight battle against the predicaments of day to day , then your whole year you will have the same kind of mood and can have a meaningful New Year.

Antakshari
My son decided to spend the New Year's Day by watching his Harry Potter's latest movie and play Antakshari with his younger sister, grand parents, his close friends and neighbors. "(Antakshari is a game between two teams, each team will sing a song and the last word will be the starting word from which other team has to sing a song. When one team unable to sing with the last word, then the other team gets a mark.)"

"What is the theme?"
Another game called what is the theme? In this game involves two teams and each team is given five chance to guess the other team thought about. The topics can be on History, Historical events, places, personalities, Monuments, sports or films.

"Kaun Banega Crorepati "on New Year's day
This is a very popular game with children of all ages. Here one game master is selected who has good knowledge and he calls each individual and he asks certain number of questions. Each right answer the participant gets 1000 marks and it increase by 1000 points. One who answers more number of questions and reaches 10000000 points becomes "Crorepati".

Musical Chair on New Year's Day
This game where certain number of chairs are kept in round shape, which will be one less than the number of participants are kept. Upon pause of music the participants sits on the next chair to him. And one who is found to stand will have to exit from the game. Each time one chair is reduced. At last one who sits on the last chair is announced as the winner.

These are some of the games played by children and adults in this New Year's Day. Adults play cards games, sing songs etc.

We will arrange some popular Hindi film music, some old western music like come September, French and Spanish dance numbers. All of us can dance on the numbers and drink and enjoy this New Year's Day.

As the night intensifies we will have fire crackers, and toast for the New Year's Day 2009 by all.

Send messages on new year's day
Send sms messages on mobiles, emails and twitter messages on computer. I will make telephone calls to near and dear ones, friends and neighbors.

New year's day- Dinner

For refreshments for children and ladies soft drinks, fruit juices or Milk shakes will be served along with potato chips, paneer tikka, fruit cakes, samosa or cookies. I decided to have good wine which my father can enjoy along finger chips, egg pokodas.

Dinner this New Year's day will be vegetable biriyani, paneer butter masala, green salad, potato geera fry, cakes, channa podo( It is sweet made from Chenna and cooked on fire from both side, it is a typical Oriya sweet)

Gifts on new year's day party
Since this the first day of the New Year 2009 I would like to present gifts to all my loved ones, friends, parents, aquitances with different gifts . I would like to present Konark wheels, Patachittra, Pipli appliques . Story books and video game CD to children.

These are some of the ways I want to celebrate with my family on New Year's Day.

Camp on new year's day
On the first day of New year's day you enjoy with your family on a camp. Since new year means fun, togetherness, family union, giving time with your loved one and your children. Prepare tents ,barbeque, fishing rods and outdoor games, music . Take you day out of the town, jobs and totally devoted to you and your family in the camp. Playing all shot of out door games like cricket,football or throwing disc with you wife and children. If river or stream is near by it is good idea for going fishing. Fry the fishes you have caught in your fishing rods, grill potatos, or meat. Lot of raw salads, apples and cakes can be partaken. Play may be beach volley ball if you are camping near sea.

Camp fire on new year's day
In the evening have a camp fire, play camp fire games ,dancing, barbeque on the camp fire. Children and family members can sing and create happy new year's party atmosphere. Each one of you can tell stories, some on bravery or some scary stories or remembering all the good or bad things/events that has happen to you. Take resolution on the camp fire what are the things you are going to do different this new year's 2009.

Dream Vacation on new year's day
It is a good idea on New Year's Day to go to dream vacation to places like Goa, Sydney or any other tourist destinations. Enjoy your new year's day with your family visiting zoos which your children will enjoy. Go to shopping were your wife will enjoy. After all it the time to enjoy create happiness , excitement in your family. Having a romantic dinner party on new year's day. Taking your family to best restaurants dinning and drinking make fun and enjoying probably the best Family Fun Ideas for New Year's Day.

Wishing all my friends Happy new year's day 2009