Tips for a Family Friendly New Year's Eve Party

If you are throwing a kid-friendly New Year's Eve Party, you will definitely want to be well prepared. We have some great tips to help you plan every detail from invitations to activities, you're covered. Just use these fun and easy tips to create the biggest New Year's Eve bash your little ones have ever seen!

Invitations

Send a blow horn as the invitation. When your guests blow the horn, attach a piece of paper to the horn with the party details. Clever and easy to do! Make sure to ask everyone to dress up in party gear.

Decorations

Instead of decorating the house or the kids' party room beforehand, have all of the New Year's Eve decorations on hand for the kids to decorate the party home. Have balloons, streamers, confetti, party hats, and noisemakers make ideal decorations.

Crafts

Make party hats as a craft.

Make noisemakers using beans, rice, and beads in plastic drink bottles.

For older children, have T-shirts on hand for the kids to iron-on the New Year, "2011."

Kids can put together a collage using magazines and newspaper to remember 2010.

Menu

Bake a cake or a batch of cupcakes and have the kids frost and decorate. Stick a candle in and sing "Happy Birthday" to 2010.

Easy meal for the kids is pizza or pasta with sauce, salad and bread sticks.

Toast the New Year at midnight if the kids are still awake with sparkling apple cider.

Activities

Teach them to sing "Auld Lang Syne."

If older kids will be there, explain what New Year Resolutions are all about, and have them write their own resolutions that they can take home with them.

Rent some age-appropriate movies for the kids to watch. Make flavored popcorn balls as a festive treat.

Tip: Keep in mind if little ones are attending they may not stay up until midnight. Have a bedroom available for the children to sleep in. If you don't have enough extra bed space, ask parents to bring along a sleeping bag that their kids can use to sleep in during the party.

Happy New Year!