New Year’s Activities for Kids

My daughter is 14 and she’s never stayed up until midnight on New Year’s Eve. She finds it boring (and as a lover of sleep I can’t say I blame her!). But there are plenty of ways you can mark the new year with kids even if you don’t want to stay up all night. Check out these fun new year’s activities for kids.

Print and color party hats with these free printables from The Pragmatic Parent.

Rock Your Homeschool has five cute printable color by number coloring pages for New Year’s Eve, including fireworks, a clock, party hat, balloons and a ball to drop.

The printable playdough mats from A Little Pinch of Perfect let kids make a clock, decorate a party hat, color the fireworks and make a colorful ball to drop.

Play New Year’s bingo with printable cards from Mom Envy. Her set has 40 different cards so it’s perfect to do with a group or in a classroom if you’re in school this time of year (or as a fun activity for the first day after break).

Make some simple New Year’s Eve slime with confetti in it with this recipe from Little Bins for Little Hands. They also have a printable pack (free with email address) that includes bingo cards, a word search, sudoku, a printable for your word of the year and more.

You can make your own party crackers and fill them with confetti and treats with the printable template from Messy Little Monster. From the photos it looks like some of them have an old date but I’m not sure if they’ve been updated. You can always just use the ones that say Happy New Year without a year.

Help kids look back and ahead with a year in review printable. This one from Skip to My Lou has a space for a self portrait as well as writing some favorites for the year and things they want to learn, see and improve on in the new year.

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I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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