Meeting point
New Year is traditionally celebrated with family and close friends. The most practical place for a holiday is an apartment or your own house. It is easy to create comfort at home and feel yourself in a familiar, pleasant atmosphere.
The main thing here is to take into account the number of guests who will attend the celebration. For a small company, a standard apartment is suitable, but the advantages of a private house are obvious. There is enough space in your house for children's games, contests, dances.
An excellent option for New Year's holidays with children is a walk and fun on the street. The guys love playing with snow, sledding, and will be happy to admire the city Christmas tree. Then you should have a delicious dinner, exchange gifts and send the children to their beds. You can save a gift for the morning to keep the intrigue.
A good option is New Year's in a cafe or restaurant, here you can relax and unwind from the daily hustle and bustle. But for companies with small children, this option is not suitable, the child will soon want to sleep and begin to be capricious. In addition, the restaurant should be chosen in advance, tables are booked long before the holiday. It is worth thinking in advance about the pricing policy of the institution and the dishes on the New Year's table. The cost of a New Year's dinner sometimes goes off scale.
New Year's table
Sometimes children are not easy to sit down at the table, and traditional Olivier is unlikely to please the little one. Take care of the preparation of your baby's favorite dishes, show your imagination, children love everything bright and unusual. Even a banal salad decorated in the form of a turtle or a ladybug will interest the kid.
Fruit slices look good, you can make palm trees from bananas and tangerines, and a hedgehog from grapes. You just need a little desire and ingenuity. You can make canapés with chopped fruit, and jelly desserts will fly off in no time.
If parents do not have free time for culinary delights, it is worth buying cookies in the form of snowflakes, Christmas decorations, and candy of unusual shapes in the store.
To decorate the table, take a colored tablecloth, napkins with New Year's symbols, spruce twigs, cones and sparkles will not interfere.
Just do not neglect safety precautions, especially if a company of toddlers gathers at the New Year's table.
Christmas tree in the spotlight
What New Year can be without a festive tree? Every crumb knows that you need to dance around the tree, in the morning you will find a gift under the tree. The main thing is that the tree is decorated and shone with lights.
You can diversify the annual decoration of the New Year's symbol with a game for children. Leave the lower tier of the tree undesigned, make a separate competition for decorating this festive tree. For example, you can invite guests to prepare homemade toys in advance and bring them to the party.
A great idea is to arrange a master class for kids on making paper crafts, to give the little ones the opportunity to place their toy on the tree.
It is quite simple to include a tree decoration in a script. Santa Claus and Snegurochka may, for example, not have time to decorate the tree and ask the kids for help, and the evil wizard seeks to spoil the holiday on purpose, so he removed the toys from her.
New Year Music
It's no secret that music affects the mood and well-being of a person. It is impossible to create a festive atmosphere without New Year's music. Prepare a list of your favorite New Year songs in advance.
Choose calm, quiet songs for background music during dinner, while fun dance tracks are perfect for a New Year's disco. Be sure to create a list of children's New Year songs, let the kids jump and play pranks to the funny, naughty songs.
The holiday is in full swing, New Year's fun
It is worth considering in advance how the New Year's party will be held, whether there will be a presenter or you will have to cope on your own. Animators will make it much easier for parents to celebrate the New Year.
Professional actors will prepare scripts, easily interest and look after the kids. The animators do not have to be dressed in New Year's costumes. Children will be happy to spend time in the company of cartoon and fairy-tale characters.
The choice of games and entertainment depends on the age of the participants. For children from 1 to 5 years old, an interactive journey is suitable. At this age, the play activity of children is very high, the children will be happy to present themselves as heroes of a fairy tale, they will help to look for Santa Claus.
Children from 5 to 8 years old will be interested in showing their leadership qualities, taking part in contests and competitions, and feeling like their favorite super hero.
Children over 8 years old can participate in intellectual games, go through the New Year's quest. The passage of the quest will not leave indifferent either children or adults. The competition will give the children the opportunity to show ingenuity and erudition.
For this age group, dances, dance competitions, and battles will be excellent entertainment.
Show program
There are holiday agencies that will help you to widely celebrate the New Year, take all the trouble, organize an unforgettable show program:
- magicians. They will entertain and delight children of different ages, give a feeling of a miracle. It's great if the magician's program includes active communication and interaction with children;
- soap bubbles show. Even one-year-old babies look fascinated at the bursting balls. Older children can participate, inflate their own soap balls and even get inside a giant bubble;
- new year fireworks. Children will be happy to watch such a spectacular bright show.
If you decide to launch fireworks yourself, follow the safety rules and read the instructions carefully. Under no circumstances should children be allowed to launch them; babies should be at a safe distance from fireworks.
Choosing gifts
Older children decide the issue with a gift long before the New Year and formalize their desire in a letter. For toddlers who still do not know how to write, parents and relatives choose gifts. The needs and tastes of each child are different, the desired toys are also different, but there are general preferences.
Children from one year old love large, bright, musical toys. Developing rugs with mirrors, buttons, rolling horses are suitable for kids. You can donate useful things, walkers, clothes, or just a teether.
Children from one to three years old will be delighted with toys for the bathroom, children's mills, crayons with which to draw in the water. A win-win option - cars for boys and dolls for girls, the child will always be happy to replenish the collection. Educational toys, materials for creativity are also good.
Children over the age of three will love role play toys. The girl will be delighted with the doll, which needs to be looked after like a child. The boys will be delighted with the costume of a pirate or a knight, a parking lot with cars.
For children over six years old, present board games, sets for creativity, a radio-controlled car.
A child of any age will be delighted if he receives a sweet gift, sweets and treats.
How to present a gift?
Buying a gift is half the battle; a lot depends on how the child receives it. It is corny to give it into the hands of older children, and the kids are waiting for magic and fairy tales, you should not deprive children of faith in miracles.
If you buy a few small gifts and hide them all over the house, the baby will rejoice at every find. You can make a treasure map and mark gifts with crosses. Or write on each gift a hint to find the next surprise.
For children under 5 years old, another game is suitable - wrap gifts in shiny paper and tie them with a ribbon or tinsel. The crumb will follow the thread and gradually find gifts.
It is also worth taking care of the traces of Father Frost's presence. Use flour and large boots to make the footprints your grandfather left at night. Girls will be interested in receiving a gift from the Fairy. Ask your neighbor to ring the doorbell, and while the baby runs to open it, hide the gift under the tree. Explain to the child that a Fairy came in through the open door and left a gift.
If possible, invite Santa Claus to your house. Just make sure that the grown up kid does not guess the neighbor or grandfather in the fairytale character, so all the magic will disappear. It will be interesting to receive a postcard with wishes or a video with personalized congratulations from Santa Claus.
Party Costumes
Dress up the child in a New Year's costume, it is desirable that the baby himself chooses who he wants to become. Unleash a flight of imagination and creativity. In kindergarten, it is not always allowed to choose a suit for a matinee, you have a chance to please your baby at home. The most extraordinary and extravagant suits will do.
The costume of Lady Bug and Darth Vader, Batman and a cowboy, Malvina or a witch will also be appropriate here. It all depends on the child's imagination and the wishes of the parents. A New Year's costume will improve your mood and fill the holiday with colors.
Themed parties
Do you want an unforgettable New Year, are you tired of banal plots, are you ready to be creative? So themed parties are perfect for you. It is not necessary to spend the holiday with a Christmas tree and Santa Claus, celebrate in a different style:
- Venice Carnival... A masquerade ball is the perfect time for New Years. Both adults and children will enjoy this holiday. Parents will be able to put on masks and pretend to be someone else, to play a role. The most diverse costumes are suitable, the main condition is to cover your face with a mask, this will add mystery to the evening. Decorate the hall for celebration with serpentine, garlands, colored ribbons. There should be a lot of light, lampshades, sparkles and mirrors, create an atmosphere of solemnity. You can choose any dishes to your taste, just do not forget to arrange them exquisitely;
- Chinese New Year. No one loves New Year as much as the Chinese, they celebrate the holiday several times. First, the inhabitants of the Celestial Empire celebrate in the Gregorian style - on the night of January 1, then - in the Eastern style. Decorating a room for the Chinese New Year is not difficult - red paper lanterns, bells, fans will do. Hang up the hieroglyph drawings and take out the tea set. It is worth paying attention to the symbol of the coming year, the zodiac animal of a certain color. From clothing, silk dresses, wrap-around robes, kimonos are preferred. It will not be difficult to choose a Chinese menu for the holiday - sushi, rolls, rice, the main rule - everything should be portioned;
- Pirate New Year. This idea will appeal to boys, men will also appreciate the efforts. You can pamper children with seafood, fried meat, a variety of cocktails with exotic names.
To decorate the hall, you can stretch sails made of black oilcloth, paint a jolly Roger with white paint. An old chest, all sorts of strings, telescopes will perfectly fit into the atmosphere. Posters with pirates from famous films will decorate the walls.
From clothes, a vest, sweatshirts, bandanas, skirts made of black tulle will fit well into the atmosphere. Toy pistols, binoculars, belts with metal plates, black markings will complete the image of a pirate.
New Year, first of all, is a family holiday, an occasion to be with loved ones and have fun. Do not spare time and attention for your family, children grow up very quickly, and the memory of bright moments remains forever.
It is not difficult to organize a good holiday, you need to prepare a little, think over the main points of the event, and then improvise. The child will definitely appreciate your efforts, will receive a lot of positive emotions.
