16 Creative and Fun Things to Do With Your Kids on New Year's Eve

If you're up for more of a party, invite your neighbours and their kids over for a New Year's Eve celebration. While all the adults enjoy themselves, the children can play games with their friends, have a New Year's Eve-themed treasure hunt, or play in the snow.

Make some cupcakes, and decorate them with edible glitter, sprinkles, and icing. Then add some number candles that spell out the upcoming year, perfect for them to blow out when the clock hits 12.

Make a playlist of all the kids' favourite songs from the past year, and dance to them all night. For an added extra, bring out the karaoke machine!

The old-school games are still a hit with the kids (we love Clue, Monopoly, and Scrabble), but you can also mix in a few new games, too. And if friends and family are stopping by, ask them to bring their favourites.

Create your own photo booth to help the kids celebrate the night! Buy some cuts of fabric or a large roll of paper for a backdrop, add a set of fun props, and you're good to go. For any camera-shy kids, let them get behind the camera and be the resident photographer for the night instead.

Don't let all your pictures live in your phone. Instead, print them out, and get the kids to make scrapbooks about the past year. They will love reliving all the memories, and they can have fun with arts and crafts in the process. Get them to write or draw all over the scrapbook about their favourite moments of the year.

Rather than the usual resolutions, get some poster cards and ask your kids to write down three things they would like to do in the new year (maybe start a club they want to join to a sport they want to try). Get them to decorate the posters and hang them on their wall, ready to be checked off when they reach their goals.

Get some old shoe boxes or a few of the many cardboard boxes left over from Christmas, and get the kids to fill them with things that remind them of 2018. They could put a note with their favourite song or film on it, old movie ticket stubs, or a favourite book they read. Then hide or bury the boxes, and open them at the same time next year.

Fill some goody bags with sweets, mini toys, party hats, and streamers, and let the kids open them at the start of the night so they'll have all their party essentials ready to go.