A Family New Years Eve PartyRing In and Sing In the New Year
Plan a family New Years Eve party... one of the best pieces of advice I can give you. Back many years ago, when the kids were small, they begged us to stay home and have a New Year's Eve party with them. So we gave up the fancy dinners, saved money on the babysitter and planned a New Year's Eve party with friends, their children and family. It was a tradition we continued for many years. I missed it terribly when they got older and it ended. However, it seems to have be seeing a renaissance now that they are adults! Last year, our two oldest invited over friends and we did a New Year's game night.. they introduced us to a great game Apples to Apples Party Box - The Game of Hilarious Comparisons You can print New Years Bingo here
So the tradition continues in a new form!
The adults took over the karaoke!
We're learning the kids's dance!
As midnight approached out would come the pots, pans and any kind of utensil that you could bang against them. And over the holidays I saved all the bubble wrap from packages.. why you ask?? I would line our porch floor and let them stomp while they were they were ringing in the New Year with their pots and pans! It was great.. it sounded like firecrackers going off and they just loved it!!!
So long ago.. but such great New Year's Eve memories!
One of our New Year's Eve revelers who'd had enough!
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.They also added a couple of the games we have played every holiday season.
We'd do Christmas songs, kid's songs, music that the adults loved. Sometimes we'd make up group dances to go along. Our group's favorite was a dance the kids made up to Rod Stewart's "Rhythm of My Heart"! It was great and kept everyone together and the kids from running wild, although we did have some of that. Recently, now that they are all adults, we ran a New Year Idol with judges, scoring and comments.. way too funny!
