How to Plan a Children's New Year's Eve Party

Plan a children's New Year's Eve party this holiday season. Your children will love you, and your friends will owe you. You will save your friends a babysitting fee. Your children will have one last blast of fun before they have to return to school. You can have your children help you create your own special invitations. Get out the glitter and let them send an individualized invitation to each guest. Tell the kids, to bring their sleeping bags and tooth brush. It's a sleepover! Keep the refreshments simple, order pizza and have sparkling grape juice or cider.

Decorate with gold and silver balloons and streamers, for a New Year's Eve theme. Using greens and snowmen, or angels with white lights will create a winter theme, and you can achieve this by leaving up some of your Christmas decorations. You can also set up small tents or drape sheets and blankets in your living room to give the sleepover a campout theme.

Here are some great party games to play at a children's New Year's eve party:

Pin the diaper on baby new year. Sketch baby New Year on a large poster board. Use a pack of disposable diapers, and allow each child to try to attach the diaper in the correct spot.

Have the children each bring something to place in a time capsule. Bury the time capsule, and plan a date in the future to return and open it, maybe next New Year's?

Have the children think of some New Year's resolutions, and write them down. Divide into teams, and play guess the resolution charades. The resolutions can be serious, funny, or a mixture of both.

Depending on the ages of the children scatter puzzles and board games around the room for the children to play. Some great fun games include, Cooties, Life, Hungry Hippo, Twister, or Twister Moves.

A pinata would also keep the energy and fun going. Fill the pinata with candy, noisemakers, poppers, horns, confetti, and streamers.

Craft Ideas for a children's New Year's Eve party:

Help the children make paper party hats or crowns and tiaras to wear while they are ringing in the New Year. Have lots of cardboard, glue, and glitter on hand for this project. Have a contest to see who can make the wildest, most original, brightest hat.

Have the children bring a few of their favorite pictures from the last year and create a scrapbook page.

Create a resolutions or predictions journal. Purchase some single subject notebooks. Allow the children to write down their New Year's resolutions, or make predictions about what will happen in the new year. They can also use photographs, markers, or construction paper to decorate the front and back of the notebook. Let them keep the journal to write their thoughts in for the New Year.

Have plenty of horns and noise makers for the new year. If you are feeling brave you can also have some confetti on hand. Gather up several alarm clocks and set them to go off at midnight.

After midnight put in a movie and let them sack out in the living room in their sleeping bags with some popcorn.