For various reasons, it happens that we ourselves cannot go to visit on New Year's and we cannot invite guests either. For example, if a child is sick. But this is not a reason to cancel the holiday.
1. Dress up in fun costumes
The fact that you will be celebrating at home is absolutely no reason to celebrate the New Year in stretched sweatpants and a shabby dressing gown. Have fun dressing up. You can pile up different interesting clothes (panama hats, pareos, funny pants, etc.). Let the children blindfold mom and dad, turn on the music, time the clock - and you will have to, say, in 5 minutes, without seeing anything, create your New Year's costume. Your kids can change in the same way. She will especially like it if you allow to transform your face, for example, into the face of a tiger - with the help of paints and felt-tip pens. Better, of course, face painting is suitable for this purpose: it is easier to wash off. So it is better to prepare in advance, otherwise you will be washing the art of your young artists for a long time.
Alternatively, you can open a New Year's tattoo parlor at home and stick festive tattoos to each other (write them down in the list of New Year's purchases).
2. Turn your apartment into a winter kingdom
Can be made from improvised means volumetric snowflakes. Paint the windows with artificial snow. Arrange a "den" by decorating the children's tent with rain and fluffy white garlands. In general, by turning on your imagination, you can turn your apartment into a real winter kingdom.
3. Have a battle of verses
To tell more than one children poems on New Year's Eve. Mom and Dad can also learn a couple of poems and arrange a poetic battle. Or, together with the children, you can compose your own family verse, which you will tell every year, gathering at the family table.
4. Contests with the symbol of the year
The symbol of 2022 is the Tiger. You can play a game where each one in turn names cartoons, films, books or fairy tales, where a tiger or a tiger cub appeared. Whoever names the most gets the sweet prize.
5. New Year's quest
To do this, you need to come up with a chain of interesting tasks, completing which the child, with your help, will find new clues. In the end, they should lead to a small but pleasant gift. The kids are very fond of various experiments. What experiments can be carried out, for example, with water, read here.
6. Come up with a family New Year tradition
If it takes root and will be repeated from year to year, the child will remember the warmth and joyful feelings from the joint action for the rest of his life. A tradition can be joint baking of cookies, drawing up a list of wishes for the New Year (not only material ones), in snowy weather - a trip to the forest and making a snowman.
7. Arrange an online call to Santa Claus
There are special paid services for this, you can also persuade friends or relatives who have a Santa Claus costume. At a certain time, you will call them via video link, and the child will receive his magical congratulations.
You can cheat a little: before calling, write a message to "Santa Claus" what you did with the child just now, what they played so that when communicating with the baby "Santa Claus" would mention it and amaze the child that he sees everything.
8. Magic tangle
You will need thick threads for it. Give one end to the child, and tie the other to different surfaces (the leg of a chair, table, etc.). Following the thread and untangling it, the child should come to the gift.
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