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5 New Year’s Eve Activities for Kids

December 26, 2023 by Editor 4 Comments

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5 fun and easy New Year's Eve Activities for Kids 2024

These New Year’s Eve activities for kids are easy to pull together for your party.

5 fun and easy New Year's Eve Activities for Kids 2024

New Year’s Eve is a special time for all kids and each of them has their own perspectives about what it means. For some, it is a new beginning. For others, it is a chance to reflect and learn. Their parents will help them to enjoy both perspectives and grow as a person. Here are 5 New Year’s Eve Activities for Kids that can help to cultivate those traditions and values while still having tons of fun.

5 New Year’s Eve Activities for Kids

Resolution Videos

With the proliferation of video cameras, smartphones, and other media, most families have some type of recording device to make memories. Sit your kids down for a recording session every single New Year’s Eve and have them state what their resolutions are for the coming year. Encourage them to think about it and try to improve over the previous year. The footage will be priceless and the kids love the camera.

New Year’s Sock Hop

Call it a sock hop, dance, or plain old slumber party, but make it a tradition! Be the mom (or share duties with other moms) that throws a sock hop every single New Year’s Eve. Counting down with a group of friends will encourage warm feelings about the holiday and show kids that fun can be had right at home.

How to Make a New Year's Eve Time Capsule for 2021. This is a fun and easy New Year's Eve Activity for the whole family this New year's Eve

Annual Time Capsules

Sit your kids down at the table with a stack of index cards and have them write down ten cards each.  Each card should be a specific memory that was important to them throughout that calendar year. Put all those into a “capsule” of some type and store it away safely. Years from now those memories will be priceless. Here are more ideas for creating a time capsule.

New Year’s Eve Milk Toast Glasses for Kids

Milk Toasting Tradition

No champagne here! Kids love toasting alongside their parents and milk is the ultimate choice. Not only will it give them nutrients that they need, but it will also provide them with a warm belly to go to sleep on afterward. Mom always let us stay up for the ball and a nice glass of warm milk at the strike of twelve. Here is how to make Milk Toast Glasses.

Charitable Resolution Contracts

Giving our children a civic-minded personality is the best gift we can give them. Have them sit down and commit to two causes throughout the coming year. Write up an “official” contract and explain that it is binding. Give them a civic award every new year for the work done the previous year. This can be done every year and keep them thinking of others all the year round.

What kid can resist glitter and slime? Put them together to create our New Year's Sparkle Slime Recipe to keep them busy while waiting for the big countdown! This is a great New Year's EVe party activity, you can let each child choose their glitter colors and help make it.

Make Silver and Gold Glitter Slime

Slime is a popular activity for kids. Let kids make this New Year’s Sparkle Slime recipe and it will keep them busy for a large part of the evening as they wait for midnight.

New Year’s Eve is a special time for everyone and should be enjoyed by the kids as well. These special traditions can help give them something to look forward to and to understand why we need to help our fellow man.

More New Year’s Activities

How to Make a New Year’s Eve Time Capsule

Frugal New Year’s Eve Celebration Ideas

New Year’s Day Tradition: Hoppin’ John

Tips for Throwing a Last Minute New Year’s Eve Party

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  1. Jessica says

    December 15, 2016 at 1:27 pm

    Great ideas! Thanks for sharing!

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  2. Kari Wagner Hoban says

    December 15, 2016 at 8:27 am

    I love these ideas. I feel like kids get lost in the NYE shuffle.

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  3. Kathleen Lovlie says

    December 12, 2016 at 6:20 am

    Inspiring ideas!

    But how did it get to be the holidays already? When did this happen? Wasn’t it just summer?

    Sigh.

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  4. Addi Ganley says

    December 16, 2015 at 12:43 pm

    These are great ideas to get the kids involved in New Years Eve celebrations. I really like the “Sock Hop” idea…so fun.

    Putting a cinnamon stick in their milk always makes my kids feel real fancy…so maybe we will try adding that to our Milk toast 🙂

    Thank you for the post

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