New Year is the most adored holiday among children. Christmas tree sparkling with lights, decorations, a sea of gifts, merry feast, games, fireworks. Of course, everyone remembers New Year's Eve from childhood. Or rather, the process of preparing for the holiday.
How to interest your baby? To make the New Year's Eve memorable? If this is the child’s first and most conscious holiday, then you can talk a little about gifts, about the Christmas tree, about Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden. Learn poetry with him New Year's theme, read fairy tales (of which there are many, for example: “The Bunny and the Christmas Tree”), watch cartoons. Domestic cartoons can create a great New Year's mood.
Is your child impatient? The time has come to get serious about preparing for the holiday. You can decorate your child’s room with handmade crafts: cotton balls, garlands, snowflakes. Children benefit from creativity together with their parents. Helps build mutual understanding, improves creativity, even if the child is too young. You can make your own New Year's costume or mask.
The most memorable moment of preparing for the holiday is decorating the Christmas tree. Balloons and garlands can be purchased at the store, or you can make them yourself. You cannot deprive a child of the pleasure of helping adults in this matter, otherwise you will deprive him of the best memories from childhood.
How to spend New Year's Eve?
If the child is still very small, you can get by with the minimum that your child can accept: giving a gift, watching fireworks, decorating a Christmas tree, a carnival costume. Do not disrupt your baby's normal daily routine. Have a celebration during the day, leave the evening for sleep. For older children, to make it more fun, invite other children. Take care of the festive table for them: interestingly decorated and delicious. Also take care of funny competitions. To do this, you can invite Father Frost and the Snow Maiden. They will cope with this better than others.
Get creative with receiving gifts. Many parents like to leave gifts under the tree. But it is better that the fantastic guests, Father Frost and the Snow Maiden, give the child what he has been dreaming about for a whole year. Before calling Father Frost and Snow Maiden, you need to make sure that the baby will treat unfamiliar guests calmly. Particularly shy people should be told about the arrival of guests in advance.
Regardless of any reason, creating a fabulous atmosphere cannot be neglected. Children, even the smallest ones, are able, if not to understand, then at least to feel. Order Santa Claus to your home, decorate the Christmas tree, attend the New Year's party, prepare a carnival costume. Fill your childhood with the most vivid impressions, it goes by very quickly. As you grow up, your child will remember his childhood with gratitude.
How to prepare for the New Year? What to surprise with at a special moment? What and how to give? Of course, the most important thing for a child is parental attention and care. It is also very important to give your child faith in miracles. By surprising him with something unusual and completely unexpected, you will give him great and genuine joy!
It's right to wait
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It is believed that the anticipation of the holiday prolongs the pleasure. Therefore, the process of preparing for the New Year will be remembered by the child for a long time. Children need to be fully involved in decorating the house, decorating the Christmas tree, preparing a festive dinner. Show your child that his opinion on everything is important to you.
Psychologists believe that it is best to start preparing about 4-5 days before the New Year, so that the child can spend longer in the magical pre-New Year atmosphere, and at the same time, the anticipation of the holiday should not drag on too long.
1. Crazy hands: decorating the house together
Just walk around the house and collect not very necessary items (it can be anything: a cardboard box, a broken decoration, a wine cork, a bag with a dozen beads, etc. The more unexpected, the more original the composition as a whole will be!). Discuss with your child what style and color you should create the decor in and, in fact, what exactly it will be - garlands, Christmas tree decorations, magic figurines or something else? Buy more necessary materials (colored paper, foil, paint and/or others). And then everything depends only on your tandem and ability to fantasize!
2. Photo collage or home wall newspaper
Collect photos of the most pleasant and wonderful moments of the outgoing 2015. Options for a wall newspaper - photo collage with brief descriptions, wishes, confessions and even investigations (VOVA GOT FIVE TEN IN A ROW: HOW?!) and sensations!
3. Questionnaire "Best of 2015"
Favorite dish of 2015, favorite toy, unforgettable event of 2015. Seal. You should open the jar at the end of next year and be touched.
By the way, you can add pleasant moments to your piggy bank all year long as they arrive, and New Year's Eve open and solemnly remember all the best that the year has brought (idea for the next 2016).
4. Petya/Dasha/Sasha’s personal magic hat
Make your child’s personal magic hat for an unforgettable New Year. Mom, dad, sister, grandmother and even the cat should also get these hats. You can also make crowns to represent fireworks.
5. Confetti balloon
You can make it yourself, place it under the ceiling and ceremoniously burst at the stroke of midnight on December 31st.
Attributes
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Surprises that parents secretly prepare for their children in order to amaze them at the right moment:
6. Snowfall made from artificial snow
7. Live butterflies
In December? - Nothing is impossible! Many event agencies can help you with butterfly supplies.
True, the cost of one piece can reach 20 euros.
8. Fireworks
Fireworks are absolutely win-win. You can buy . Or you can order a personal show (cost from 100 euros) and.
9. Set up a special lighting design
For example, you can take a starry sky projector. Probably, even adults would be very interested in turning on this projector and admiring the starry sky effect that appears right on the ceiling and walls of the room!
10. Smoke machine
Just imagine: New Year, midnight, dim lights, suddenly the room is filled with smoke, and when it clears, the gifts are already under the tree! Wow! Here even an uninitiated adult will begin to believe in miracles!
You can rent a device from many companies that rent gas cylinders. But it’s better to clarify whether the unit can be used as a smoke machine.
NB! Dry ice will need to be purchased separately.
The "action" itself
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11. Throw a New Year's Eve party for the kids.
A great idea for kids who are too young to stay up until 12.
12. New Year in the styles of different countries
In the evening - English, French or Norwegian, Russian, Latvian. And in the morning, Japanese, Australian, American and Brazilian can be noted! If you have the strength, of course!
13. The child in the role of Santa Claus - let him give everyone gifts
Both he and you will be interested in how he will cope with the task and look with a beard. And the offspring will check his acting and will experience a sense of responsibility for the entire holiday as a whole.
14. New Year's masquerade ball
Organize a carnival! Invite your child's friends and peers. Ask everyone to come up with costumes. A themed party based on popular cartoons among children might be a good idea.
16. Quests
For the little ones, you can prepare tasks in a simplified form: parents read out, the child performs simple actions like “Look under your bed - there’s a surprise!” And for the older ones, you can come up with a real pirate map with compass orientation, math problems and more.
17. You can even arrange a new quest every hour
It’s done like this: children are delivered a package with a task and the necessary paraphernalia! That's all! Time has passed!
Present
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18. Fancy or multi-layer wrapper
The more you wrap the gift, the more interesting for a child will reveal it. A variety of different wrappers and bows will enhance the impression of the gift itself.
19. Location of the gift
In most cases, gifts are placed under New Year tree, but you can come up with your own specially designated places - by the fireplace or in one of the rooms. Some dreamers scatter gifts throughout the house so that the child finds one gift, then another - they prolong the pleasure. You can also put a gift under the pillow (such a magical feeling: in the middle of the night or immediately after waking up, you can feel a pleasantly rustling package under the pillow with your hand) or attach a mysterious package to the window (organize “incomprehensible rustling sounds and find a wonderful gift together with your child!).
20. Gift from Santa Claus and letter
No child will rejoice New Year's gift the way he rejoices when he receives it from Father Frost and Snow Maiden! And a letter in which Santa Claus addresses you personally!
And what can become the main gift depends on what your child likes. Very little ones can give babywearing beads- the first toys created with love; storyteller cat who knows long tales by heart. For older children - kinetic sand, Princess Celeste's pony. From 6 years old - a fashionable doll from the Monster High series, and surprise teenagers with a cute gadget.
The main thing, we repeat, is love and care. Well, a little organized magic!
The ability to enjoy holidays, be it New Year or any other, does not arise on its own. The baby needs to be taught this.And this is best done by personal example. How you want to become a wizard, at least for a day, in order to give your child that very New Year's miracle that he is so looking forward to.
Shall we try?
Of course, there are no New Year's miracles without Santa Claus! Any child and most parents absolutely know that this cheerful grandfather exists. Otherwise, where do the most desired gifts come from under the Christmas tree? And their appearance, of course, must occur in some mysterious way.
For example… Surprise on the balcony Why not congratulate your baby on December 31, when everyone is in an upbeat, festive mood? For example, go out to the balcony in the evening with your son or daughter and there, on the railing, find a beautifully packaged package with a note from Santa Claus.
It is clear that Frost simply did not have time to visit (after all, how many children he still has time to congratulate!), and, flying past, left a gift on the balcony.
Gift in the snow
Bring a bucket of snow from the street, pour it in a pile near the door on the landing, and put a gift on top (or even gifts for all family members). Don't forget to leave a few shoe prints in the snow large size. Then ask one of your neighbors to ring the doorbell and run back home. The main thing is that the child does not notice your absence.
When the doorbell rings, we all open the door together and find (well, isn’t this a miracle?) gifts and snow footprints - a clear sign that Frost has just been here. No mistakes! The main thing is not to repeat the mistake that one grandmother made. While her five-year-old granddaughter was changing into a smart dress, the grandmother rang the doorbell and in a “rude voice” began to ask whether Katyusha lived here and whether she was a good girl. What followed was a dialogue between the grandmother and “Moroz” about gifts. While the girl hastily pulled on her dress and ran out into the hallway, “Santa Claus has already left,” the grandmother was closing the door and holding a gift in her hands.
The “prank” ended in bitter tears and resentment: “Why is it needed, this gift, if the most real Grandfather Frost came, but I didn’t see it?” If grandma was talking to Santa Claus, then he simply had to wait for his granddaughter! In general, the holiday was ruined...
And one more thing: don’t forget to better hide gifts from the ubiquitous kids before the holiday. Otherwise it will turn out like in the old joke:
Girls, Santa Claus turns out to be greedy! - Where did you get the idea? - And he, instead of bringing me a gift, found a doll that my mother hid in the closet and put it under her Christmas tree...
Before calling your child to see if there is a gift under the Christmas tree, open the window and sprinkle some snow on the carpet - Santa Claus has flown in! Everything must be real.
Modern children become adults too early... And if we have it in our hands to extend fairy tale childhood, let's do this! After all, the New Year is a holiday when even the most incredible miracles become possible.
You will need
- Christmas tree and decorations for the room, for New Year's crafts- stationery and decorative decorations, for competitions - various board games and small souvenirs for prizes, collections with New Year's tales and cartoons, and many, many, many gifts, big and small.
Instructions
First and foremost, miracles in the house begin with the first click of an old and dusty suitcase opening, containing Christmas tree decorations. Try to store this suitcase so that little explorers won't discover it in the middle of summer.
The main attribute of the New year a is a Christmas tree, real or artificial. There is no need to show your children that this is unnecessary trouble for you, that it is better to put up the tree closer to the 31st, and maybe on the day of the holiday itself. A Christmas tree is the key to a good mood, both for adults and children. Let the process of decorating this fabulous tree become a celebration. Gather the whole family on December 25 and assign roles, let the baby have the honorable role of placing a star on the “top” of the tree, let dad assemble the tree itself, let grandparents hang the toys, and let older brothers and sisters decorate the entire room with garlands and tinsel.
Over the next five days, together with your child, you can make crafts - snowflakes, postcards, funny toys, with which the room will gradually be filled in anticipation of a miracle. On the eve of the holiday and after goes to TV festive program, however, it is by no means designed for children. Stock up on old Soviet new ones year them with cartoons and fairy tales, as well as good Disney publications. Let your child enjoy watching in the cold winter evenings, before going to bed, so to speak, gradually bringing the holiday closer.
Definitely in good time year sculpt snowmen and snowmen, it will be great if you can watch them from your window. Go sledding with your child! And also go for a walk in the evening, when the snowflakes “dance” under the light of the lanterns.
If peers live next door baby, try organizing competitions and games for children. Prizes can include sweets and small souvenirs. Competitions can be very diverse - from putting together puzzles on speed, mixed into a common pile, to playing “hot and cold”.
Now about gifts, children love bright boxes, so don’t waste time packing surprises. Prepare one gift from Santa Claus, attach a postcard that says how the baby behaved over the past year, and what is expected of him in the coming years. The gift should appear under the tree at 12.00. For everything to work out, turn off the lights, count to 10 and light the lanterns on the Christmas tree; in these 10 seconds, dad or relatives will quickly be able to plant surprises in the dark.
And lastly, if a child asks you not to put him to bed, respond to his request, because this is a holiday, and on this day any wishes come true. The baby will be happy and fall asleep sweetly on the sofa next to you. And then you take him to his crib, cover him with a blanket, watching the contented smile on his face. Don't forget to leave a little surprise under your pillow - after all, you promised that reindeer and Santa Claus' helpers would come to visit, they just come unexpectedly. Meet the New year With a smile, with joy, with trepidation, plunge into childhood headlong, and you yourself will believe in Santa Claus!
From the first days of December, when schools and kindergartens begin preparing for New Year's matinees, my family never stops talking about celebrating the New Year. Children's dreams suggest that turning a holiday into real magic is not a whim, but the responsibility of parents. Is there anything more satisfying than a child who feels happy? I literally melt from my kids’ faith in miracles and fairy tales about Santa Claus, realizing that life has taken these feelings away from me. The opinion that children should not be lied to about miracles does not bother me at all. The longer I can create the feeling of a fairy tale for them, the more vivid their memories of childhood will be. In addition, this is an excellent reason to plunge into a fairy tale yourself, even if only for a while.
New Year is a holiday that almost everyone loves. Despite the fact that it is considered a family holiday, it is celebrated en masse in our country. This euphoria in shopping centers, parks, squares, shining with bright multi-colored lights, anticipates the holiday itself, which usually takes place at breathtaking speed. That's why I initiate the New Year's bustle at home long before December 31st. Already today, children's carnival costumes are ready, which the children chose on their own. The daughter in Malvina’s outfit and the son in the cabin boy’s costume already received a bit of happiness, but there was only one fitting, so as not to give them the opportunity to get used to the images. Every evening we spend time cutting out lanterns, snowflakes, and flags with which we will soon decorate the apartment.
And it all started with a letter to Santa Claus. They have been familiar with this ritual for a long time. A few days before this sacrament, I give them time to think about what gifts they would like to receive from Santa Claus. If earlier they were limited to sweets, then with age they are already trying to realize their dreams. Watching the kids suffer is pure pleasure!))
And so, the letters were written (this year my son wrote on his own, and my daughter dictated to me), and we solemnly loaded them into a beautiful mailbox on the balcony (Santa Claus’ mailbox was also decorated together). Naturally, in the morning they were no longer in the box. From that moment on, the kids began to anticipate magic and the approaching holiday.
What's next for them? Christmas tree decoration! I love this process. Thank God, they have grown from the age when the toys on the Christmas tree were exclusively plastic, and the tree itself had to be firmly tied to the closet and chair, masking the ropes. To turn a forest beauty into Christmas tree we spend half a day. Of course, disputes about which toy and where to hang cannot be avoided, but we manage to find a compromise. We have a lot of fun! The children literally squeal with delight, jump and clap their hands. I love these moments more than the holiday itself. This year I plan to decorate the Christmas tree with gingerbread, so we will bake and paint on them with icing together. I have no doubt that the Kittens will like it.
In the first years of the children’s lives, Santa Claus came to our house, in the role of his son’s godfather or grandfather. The children were interested, but they could not feel relaxed. Last year we changed tactics by inviting an actor. It was fun, lots of competitions and gifts out of the bag. This year we decided to change tactics. The fact is that we have many friends in the yard, and I communicate with my parents, so we want to organize a mass congratulations, resorting to the services of actors, but not in private, but on the street. Firstly, children should have more fun in each other's company. Secondly, such an undertaking will cost much less. Thirdly, I really want children to associate the New Year not only with receiving pre-ordered gifts, but with a feeling of miracle. Of course, I don’t belittle the importance of gifts, but the New Year’s mood and magical atmosphere are no less important components of the holiday.
By the way, about gifts. A three-year-old child is already quite old enough to make gifts with his own hands for his brother and sister, parents, and grandparents. There are a lot of ideas on the Internet, so on the eve of the holiday you can devote an evening to this issue. free time. The feeling of joy from the fact that you yourself will please someone will definitely arise in the baby’s soul. Even if the child does not succeed, parental help and great desire will correct the situation. The enchanting atmosphere of anticipation can be warmed up by decorating the front yard. Who will be against it if snowflakes or lanterns cut out of paper appear on the walls of the entrance? Make sure that your child becomes an active participant in preparing for the holiday, and not a passive observer.
So, let's summarize. What can be done to ensure that the pre-New Year atmosphere and the holiday itself remain in the child’s memory?
Share your joy with him in anticipation of the New Year.
Create your own gifts for your loved ones or beautifully package those you purchased in stores.
Invite your child to become an active participant in the process of decorating the apartment. Trust him with what he can do on his own.
Write letters to Santa Claus so that the process of writing, sending, and receiving a gift will be remembered as a single logical chain.
Involve children in preparing New Year's treats, taking into account their gastronomic wishes.
Surprise older children with the opportunity to celebrate the New Year at midnight. Breaking the usual routine on this night is another proof that it is magical.
Think it over entertainment program, because the New Year is not a table bursting with goodies, but unbridled joy and fun on a planetary scale.
While writing the post, I caught myself thinking that I myself get excited when I remember about this holiday)). Neither the slush outside the window, nor the global economic crisis, nor a ton of work can convince me that miracles do not happen on New Year's Eve. By the way, my daughter is a gift from Santa Claus, so I continue to believe in him, “but that’s a completely different story”!