New Year’s Eve is a time of celebration with friends and loved ones. I’m excited about closing out the old year and ringing in a new year full of new adventures, new opportunities and lots of new memories! The celebrations looks a lot different now that we have kids. The day’s of wearing a fancy dress, sipping champagne, and staying up late waiting for the clock to strike midnight isn’t a reality to a lot of us anymore thanks to our kids.
Here’s the good news: you can still throw a new year’s eve party that you and the kids will both enjoy. Check out these kid (and adult)-friendly party ideas we rounded up for this coming Eve. So don’t even think of slipping into those comfy pants and turn off the t.v!
You and your little ones will have so much fun that you’ll make a plan to do this every year!
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- Countdown bags
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- Confetti Poppers
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- Balloon Drop
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- Bingo
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- Photo Props
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- Milk & Cookies
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- Resolution Cards
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- Memory Scavenger Hunt
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- Rolling around the clock
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- Mad Libs
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- Pom Pom Party hats
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- Noise makers
12 ways to ring in the New Year’s Eve with the Kid’s
1. Countdown Bags by The Idea Room
2. Confetti Popper toilet paper ~ Smashed peas and carrots
3. DIY Balloon Drop – One Good Thing By Jillee
6. Milk & Cookies ~style me pretty
7. Resolution cards ~ run lucas run
8. Memory Scavenger hunt ~ no time for flash cards
9. New Year’s Game ~the idea room
11. Pom Pom Party hats ~brit.co
12. Noise makers ~ giggles galore
These are just a few suggestions to get you started, but we know you all have some great ones too so please share them in the comments below.
We hope you all have a safe and happy New Year’s Eve and we will see you again soon…cheers!
My kids spend new years with my parents every year. It is something that they love to do! I will have to pass these ideas on to my mom
I love these suggestions for NYE! We plan to go to a big party but the kids have nothing to do. I am totally making them the memory scavenger hunt to complete with the babysitter. Happy new year!
I know that confetti poppers are a fun thing for kids and grown-ups. Something we do, is do a family “Olympics” of sorts with games, inside sports etc. Mixing the teams with young and old. We do have a lot of laughs.
New Years with kids sure is different, but fun! I love these ideas!
I love to do things with my kiddos on NYE! Lots of great ideas. I especially love the confetti poppers as well as the countdown bags.
These are great ideas. Son is having a friend over fro New Years eve and we are going to eat our self in a food coma.
Oh my word. I absolutely love that balloon drop idea, MY kids would go absolutely nuts for that!
New Year’s Eve is usually just another day in my household, but I do love these ideas. Thanks for sharing!
These are great ideas! I was thinking about doing a noon-year countdown with the kids, since they won’t be up until midnight (hopefully!). I love to sit and reflect on the previous year myself, and last year started doing little interviews with my oldest two so they can reflect on their year as well.
Such fun ideas! I always stay up late with my son, it’s become a tradition. My other 2 are old enough to stay up, too, so I’m hoping to put some of these ideas to use.
We were just discussing NYE plans last night and talking about how we have celebrated in the past when our kids were little. NYE is very low key for my husband and I but if my kids want to have a party. Not so much.
I always want to get our kids involved with New Year’s but am never sure how to since they can’t stay up that late yet. I am going to try the memory scavenger hunt with them! Thanks for the ideas.
These are such lovely ideas! I’m definitely going to have to jot a few of these down and try them out!
All such great ideas! My boys would love the balloons and confetti! Can’t wait to try a few of these this year!
I love your ideas! We usually buy the noise makers and the sparkling cider for the kids. I love the idea of cookies and milk!
What kid wouldn’t love any of this!? They’re all such great ideas. Especially the cookies and milk in the fancy glass. So cute!
Wow! All of these are great ideas. Love the photo props and the confetti poppers. Plan on doing a few of these since we will be home once again this year!
I did the Mad Libs and the countdown bags last year! The kids loved it and so did I!
We like to do the poppers and sparklers. I want to do milk and cookies this year at midnight !
These are such fun ideas, especially the Mad Libs! My kids used to love those when they were younger. We always make pizza on New Years Eve – it’s become our tradition!
Great ideas. We have never really celebrated NYE with the kids. Maybe this year we will make some of those confetti poppers.
The milk in the champagne glasses with cookies on top is so cute! I used to make hats with my friends at our NYE parties when we were young, so much fun!
These are all great ideas. I love the ideas to pay bingo, make resolution cards, and the photo props are awesome. I might have to do the photo props!
Hello Heather! I’m a Heather as well. Great roundup of some fun New Year’s Eve ideas when it’s all about staying home with the kids.
These activities look like so much fun! My kids are so young that midnight isn’t even close to a possibility, but it’ll be fun to party a bit before bedtime! (Plus, they go to bed early enough that Mommy and Daddy can have a bit of wine at midnight!)
We love snuggling up and watching movies on NYE, now that we have kids! Last year, we had a party with 3 other families and it was so fun to have 17 kiddos running around and enjoy our friends at the same time!
We like to play games, watch the countdown, and eat lots of goodies. I need to hit the grocery store for goodies. Great list!
Photo prps and countdown bags are my favourite. Children will have a lot of fun with all these ideas. Happy wonderful New Year.
Those are all great ideas. We never celebrate NYE and honestly, we will all be in bed by 9 like we are every year.
I don’t have children, but my husband and I tend to do low key on New Year’s Eve, mostly to avoid any crazy crowds. I’ve been thinking of doing a party at our house with our friends that is a PJ party (no fancy clothes here!) and that milk & cookies idea is awesome!
I like the idea of countdown bags and the party props are cool. You should set up a photo booth so they can all take pictures.