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.

It’s the time of the year to start bringing a little Halloween fun into every lesson plan you can, so here are some ideas for witch themed math activities your kids are sure to love.

Practice symmetry skills with this witch hat counting game from Friends Art Lab. Kids can stick stickers of the same type on each side of the hat, then count how many total, how many of each type, etc. And you end up with a cute piece of art to boot.

Frugal Mom Eh has a number of witch themed worksheets including a connect the dots, label the witch and Halloween themed scattergories. But the one that caught my eye was the witch’s leg coloring page, which is a color by the answer to the math problem.

Nurtured Neurons has a cute witch counting came where you match the witch to the number of bubbles coming out of her cauldron. This one requires membership in their community but you might be able to get a free preview.

The witches brew on a ten frame activity from Miniature Masterminds is a cute one to work on one to one correspondence. Use little erasers or buttons if you want to reuse the cards, or add stickers to match the number on the card, which adds a fine motor skill component.

The Teacher Bag has a cute Halloween counting game kids can use to make their own potion in a little cauldron. You could make your own version with all the little Halloween themed bits you have handy, and either make a spinner like theirs or just write out some recipes and have kids go through the bigger cauldron to find all the ingredients they need. Then count them up! This post from Pocket of Preschool has a similar idea you can use with their printable or make your own with whatever items you have on hand.

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