Fun Activities for Kids & Adults on New Year Eve

Fun Activities for Kids & Adults on New Year Eve

    Ringing the once in a year annual event has to be something special for the whole family...kids and the seniors alike. The event has to be memorable with some kid-centric celebrations after counting down past the midnight zero hours, of course with fireworks.  The events have to enchant everyone including the adults and the kids. Participate in fun activities, including counting down and catching hundreds of colorful balloons as they drop from the ceiling. The family-friendly party will also have music to keep the energy level upbeat, whether it is meant for a few family members or close friends, it has to be fun-filled and unforgettable through the whole year.

     Here are a few fun-filled spectacle plans for the New Year celebrations that are sure to delight the kids and the grown-ups alike:

Resolutions Guessing Game:

     Circulate slip of papers to all your guests and let each one put down resolutions….err honestly. Drop the slips in the basket, pull out one slip of paper at a time, and read out aloud without identifying the person. Thereafter the guests would write down who they think made each resolution. Finally, the person who guessed the most correctly is rewarded. Just for jest, read out some wrong guesses, as well! After all, it is fun-time.

Guessing Fake Resolutions:

        Let everyone tell the group 2 of their real resolutions and 1 fake resolution. Others have to make a guess and identify the fake resolution.

New Year Eve Scramble

        Jot down a cluster of different words associated with the New Year on a piece of paper and scramble the letters.  The guest who guesses the most words correctly wins a prize, obviously.

Right Word Guessing

       Write over 100 words on index cards like; cake, candle, gaze, chuckle, smile, laugh, tease, wink, yummy, sweater, typewriter, or any common word that comes to your mind.

Now pile the cards and keep them in the middle of the room.  Form 2 teams and make them sit opposite each other.  Set the time on a timer for one minute.  Let the player from Team One pick a card from the stack and start giving clues to his/her teammates within the stipulated 1 minute.

        For instance, if the word is ‘cake’, the team member might mime or ask; “What would one do on one’s birthday”.  Players from Team One try to guess the word and if they are successful during the one minute allotted time, they get a point.  If they are unable to guess the word and the timer runs out, the other team gets a bonus point.  Take turns until all cards are tried out. At the end of the game, total the points to declare the winner.

Funny Picture Contest

        Offer prizes for the best face…oops funny face; use a digital camera to take the pictures of your guests in funny moods. Once all the guests have obliged with their pictures, download them to your lappy or PC.  Arrange for a large screen monitor (this is of course optional) and declare the winner on the greatest laughter. You may even add consolation and runner-up prizes.

Celebrity Search

       This is a unique game as everyone writes the names of famous personality from different fields on a piece of paper and stick on the forehead of the player next to their left.  Ensure they don’t see the name stuck on their forehead! All other guest can see your forehead. By going around the table, each player takes a turn to ask the person questions relating to the name; as to who he/she is and other details associated with the personality.  The answer can be in monosyllable – Yes or No only. The intention is to work out who you are. If you get a ‘Yes’ you may continue to ask more questions, if you get a ‘No’ the play moves to the left. The last person to guess their name is hailed as a loser!

Indoor Treasure Hunt

         This is a huge indoor treasure hunt game with appropriate clues. Everyone, particularly the kids will enjoy by following the clues to get their treasure. If it is becoming quite stuffy and warm inside, send them outside for parts of it to hunt and locate.

Creating Time Capsule

     Here you are creating your own time capsule. Put away anything and everything, including your resolutions that you wish to remember, in a container and then hide it till next year.

Necklaces Made of Yarn

        During the entire party, this game can be played by young and senior alike. The players try to win as many yarn necklaces at they can. The players, who has the most at the end wins a prize.  Give each player a necklace.  The idea of the game is to get the other players to say “No”.  Try to make your friends say “No”.

Word Game

       Creating the most words out of the letter ‘Happy New Year’ wins the game!

Guessing the objects in the jar

     You need a plastic or glass jar with a lid large enough to fill it with candies, coins, tiny toy cars.  Decorate the jar and lid with festoons, stickers and a bow.  Place it at the entrance of the activity table.  Provide slips of paper for guests to write their names and their ‘guess’ also a small basket/box to collect the entries.  At the finish of the New Year Party, award the jar of goodies to the child with the closest guess.

Scavenger Hunt

     More ideas: Happy New Year cards and balloons, buntings, festoons, party hat, plastic champagne glass, drink stirrers, streamers, a calendar, a clock, a timepiece, chocolate coins, noisemakers, coasters, silver bells to ring in the New Year…..so on and so forth.  You may add knick knacks and trinkets.