Lawyer&Mom Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 Any ideas for how to celebrate New Years with a toddler? Staying up late isn't an option. I'd still like to do something fun to mark the occasion. She was old enough to really enjoy the rituals of Christmas this year, I want to do something for New Years too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathmarm Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 Read books about new years Do a new years themed craft Watch a video of the New Year ball drop from a previous year before your toddlers bedtime Make a small ball to drop at home after dinner Go outside at night and say good bye to the year 2015 Shoot fireworks from home Sing a New Year song Buy a 2016 calendar and hang it in your childs room at their eye level Practice doing a countdown You could also set your clocks forwards a few hours and do a mini-ball drop at home so that your child feels apart of a larger celebration that she won't be awake for. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pink and Green Mom Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 My kids were adopted from overseas and when they were young we would celebrate when it was midnight in their country of birth (because it was 9 hours ahead). Could you celebrate midnight in the country of your descent? See if there are any traditions there that you can incorporate here? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeAgain Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 Montessori does something special for a child's birthday that is fully adaptable for new year's. You sit around a candle or lantern and share pictures/stories of what happened throughout the year. On birthdays you do one walk around the light for each year the child has been alive, telling stories from birth on. Then you have a celebration (crackers, noisemakers, etc. ) to ring in the new year and all the memories to come. We tend to do an early celebration, starting about 7pm, and keep it relaxed and family centered with all the junk food we don't eat usually, like pizza and potato skins. LOL As soon as eyelids start to droop, that's when we celebrate New Year's. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 Countdown at noon instead of midnight? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawyer&Mom Posted December 27, 2015 Author Share Posted December 27, 2015 Maybe we can have a NYE party. Get all dressed up and drink sparkling cider (at 7pm!) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bolt. Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 In our family, New Years is a grown up holiday (like Valentine's Day). DH and I go out, and the kids get to see their grandparents for a sleep over. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squawky Acres Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 My toddlers and I once went to a swanky Noon Year's party at noon at our local art museum. It was lovely, with a balloon drop, mocktails, crafts, parade (with instruments), and "fireworks" (jumping around in a room lined with bubble wrap to make loud popping), but too, too crowded. I actually ended up losing a child for a few minutes in the press of people in the gallery for the balloon drop. Since then, we have recreated the party at home. I serve a special meal of finger foods and sparkling juice beverages, we have a parade around the house with paper hats and instruments, bubble wrap fireworks, and a balloon drop. For now, it is just a parent at the top of the stairs dumping laundry baskets full of balloons, but soon I hope to get one of those in-home balloon drop nets to string up on the cathedral ceiling. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirstenhill Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 We've done "British New Year's" a couple of times where we counted down when London was having their midnight (I think this was 6pm for us). My DH figured out a way to use a little bit of "internet magic" to somehow show the BBC New Year coverage. This may have been one of those legal-gray-area sort of things, but I didn't feel too guilty about stealing an hour's worth of tv from the BBC. ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Ivy Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 Tons of ideas on Pinterest for "Noon Years Eve". A friend of mine also set all the clocks ahead and had a count down at 9:00 (but the kids thought it was 12:00). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starr Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 A friend in California used to have a few families over to celebrate New York New Years. Everyone was home by 9:30. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bettyandbob Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 I used to invite the neighborhood kids for dessert, sparkling cider and then we'd do a loud parade (pots, kazoos, drums everything that made noise) through the neighborhood a 8 pm. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebbyribs Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 We stay up until 9PM to celebrate New Year's Eve on the East Coast (since we're in California). We have a great counting book called "P. Bear's New Year's Party." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 (edited) My friend often hosts a play date at noon. We do the count down and make lots of noise at noon, it's fun. Fixed typo Edited December 27, 2015 by Rach Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 We also used to do Greenwich New Year's - I mean, it makes a weird sort of sense anyway to celebrate when the capital of time turns the new year over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storygirl Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 We used to watch Sesame Street Celebrates Around the World (DVD from the library, but it is also on Amazon) with our toddlers. Or sometimes Rudolph's Shiny New Year. Then they would put on party hats and blow horns and go to bed at 8 or 9. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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