Inventive Parties for the Finish of the Year
New Year’s Eve is all about the celebrations – parties that last all night. Partygoers and merrymakers observe with midnight kisses, champagne wassails and intriguing renditions of Auld Lang Syne. Ring in 2010 by saying bye-bye to your vices – whether it is smoking, junk food or unreasonable shopping and stating hello to a new you with a fun-filled New Year’s Fete. With glamor, sparkle and a little bit of mystery, masquerade parties are the perfect way to insure a different, fun-laden New Year’s Eve. Delightful dreams are made of these! With walkmans in hand, jive with while you pop the bubbly at a New Year’s ’80s Retro Party.
What really makes a party? The guests! Use our New Years Eve party ideas to plan activities leading up to the New Years Eve countdown where guests can interact with each other by playing fun games. Everyone makes New Year’s Resolutions. Have guests share theirs as a fun icebreaker. When guests enter the party, ask them to write their resolution on a slip on paper. Fold up the slips of paper and place all resolutions in a bowl. The party host reads the resolutions aloud and the guests guess who wrote each resolution. Play charades with titles, songs, and books that feature the word “time” in observe of the New Year’s Eve countdown. New Year’s merrymakers will inevitably end up singing Auld Lang Syne after the ball drops. But who really knows the lyrics, and who is mumbling along to the song?
The joyous celebration of the New Year is probably the world’s oldest. Inspire kids to think about the events of the past year with this fun learning activity of making a time capsule. They will each create a time capsule of important events from around the world and in their lives. Give each child an empty shoebox to decorate and fill. Provide old magazines, photos, coloring pages and memorabilia that kids can choose to fill their capsules. Older tykes can write down entertaining things that happened to them during the year. Be sure to tell youngsters to keep the time capsules until next year.
