Great New Year's Eve Games for Kids

Your kids are finally old enough to stay up until the ball drops, so you have decided to host a New Year's Eve slumber party completely with a sparkling cider toast. But what are you going to do to keep the kids entertained until midnight? If you're finding yourself fresh out of New Year's Eve game ideas for your child's slumber party, don't fret. Below are some great game ideas for your child's New Year's Eve celebration.

New Year's Traditions From Around the World
American New Year's traditions are probably familiar territory for your children, but what about other countries' traditions? This game will help your children become more familiar with some foreign New Year's traditions.

Idea of the Game:

You can get as fancy or as simple as you want when creating the poster boards for this game. In the simplest form you need to write the "Chinese New Year", "Cambodian New Year", "Sinhalese New Year, India", "Tamil New Year", and "Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year)" across the top of a poster board, you also need to write a characteristic for each of these New Year's celebrations on an individual note card. Below the titles on the poster board the kids will be placing a note card with a characteristic of a New Year celebration. The idea is to have the teams race against each other in matching the characteristics of New Year's celebrations with the foreign New Year they are representative of. You can find characteristics that you want to you use on your own by doing a quick Wikipedia search, or you can use the characteristics I've provided below. Make sure you make yourself a key so that you know what the correct answers are. Have the kids match up the characteristics with the New Year's celebration they think they go with. Then have them tell you when they want their answers check, if they are all correct they win, if they aren't, tell them how many they have correct and tell them to keep going. The first team to match all the characteristics with correct New Year wins.