Need Noon Years Eve party ideas? These children's New Years Eve family party tips are great for toddler New Years Eve, preschool new year party, an alternative to a midnight countdown party, a classroom countdown, or even New Year's Eve activities for seniors who don't stay up late.
Counting down to 12 p.m. instead of 12 a.m. allows your family to celebrate the new year together. Check out these Noon Year's Eve ideas for kids of all ages.
If you don't want your kids up until midnight celebrating the New Year, throw them a Noon Year's Eve Kids Party. Celebrating New Year's is tons of fun, but tired kids the next day is NOT!
Cue the Sprinkles! Throw a Noon Years Eve party to celebrate the New Year with kids! Make Confetti Drop Cupcakes and Cotton Candy Bomb drinks. An at home new years party to celebrate a happy new year with kids!
When children are really young and can't stay up until midnight on New Year's Eve you can still help them ring in the New Year by throwing a "Noon" Year's Eve party with morning festivities
Looking for things to do with kids on New Year's Eve (or even for adults)? This free printable 3-page New Year's Eve Scavenger Hunt is perfect for all ages.
This year I'm taking on a new party idea: a Noon Years Eve Party at our house. In case you're not familiar with it, it's typically hosted around 12 noon on New Years Eve and designed to focus on what
Share the excitement of the New Year with a Noon Year's Eve party for kids! Party ideas and more!
Welcome to my blog! I love exclamation marks and overusing them ! ! ! I also love all things literacy and bringing our learning to life. So today’s post is near and dear ! ! ! ( !!!!!! ) I am going to share one of my favorite classroom activities! ! ! ! ! Are you ready for this ? ? ? It’s called Noon Year’s Eve ! I saw this on Katie M’s Instagram account and knew I had to try it! So I did try it and LOVED it !!!! Let me tell you it was easy and a blast! I created some activities to make it rigorous and give me both Social Studies and Writing content for my first week back in January. Now, I want to share it all with you! Let’s start with the food! Any party needs good food! So we toast the “Noon” Year with some bubbly lime soda. Our appetizers? Why cookies of course! Decorations were kept at a minimum except for one large mystery hanging from the ceiling! On Monday, I put up a black plastic table cloth, and hung a sign that said “Happy Noon Year”. The kids were full of questions! 1. What is that? 2. Is it a HUGE trash bag? 3. What’s a “Noon” Year? 4. Is there anything in it? My answer was, “Let’s learn about NEW Year’s and I sure hope you are at school on Friday so you can see what 'Noon Year’s’ is all about!!!” Then I handed out this little book that perfectly explains: 1. What a calendar does. 2. When the year’s number changes. 3. Why people make resolutions. 4. How to make a goal. 5. Why people celebrate the New Year. They loved how easy this book was to understand and I like how much they learned! If you have used any of my books before you know that I make them to be interactive- where the kids write in the little book itself. Here are the interactive skills covered in the little book: 1. Writing this year and last year’s number (i.e. 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026). 2. Capitalizing calendar words. 3. “I am looking forward to _____________ in the New Year” sentence frame. 4. Writing a smart goal – What they want to do, who can help them make it happen, and what steps they need to take. The goal writing page is really amazing. I loved that the kids got to go beyond an academic goal and do a home and talent goal. I like hearing that my kids want to learn how to make cookies or score more soccer goals! Once we had read our little book and done the activities over a few days, we took our goal from the little book and wrote it on these pennants! There are a TON of little faces to choose from. I also provided lots of star options for you. I saved my scraps from the sides of the pennants to use as confetti for the party. Keep your scraps. Seriously, why buy confetti and the larger art scraps are easier to pick up? Your custodian will thank you!!! I wanted to let the parents know about the magic I am planning, so I sent home this note! The party is so easy and inexpensive that I did not collect money or get volunteers. I just wanted the families to know all about our amazing party! I also grab my shopping list, and head to the Dollar Store. You can do the whole party for about 10-15 dollars!!!! Although at the Dollar Store, I will end up spending another $90 on other things too! (Shhhhh don't tell my husband.) For my 1st week back I ease into math. The kids have been on 2 week brain-break filled with Santa, video games, candy, and cousins. Easing in is better than jumping in and drowning- at least I think so. I like to come back and begin to practice counting backwards so that we know what to do at the upcoming Noon Year’s Eve Party. I am always shocked who cannot count backwards.... Actually, I am never shocked, but still it's a lot of kids who need practice. I use this count back from 20 sheet (see below!): I know… I know… You only count back from 10 at a party. BUT I want them to count back from 20 because this is an essential subtraction skill. Did you see what I did there? I was so sneaky and I got in a subtraction skill-drill and they were none-the-wiser! They think they are doing party prep… (Que mad scientist laughter) This activity is spring board off this Common Core math question from our math book. 32 kids need juice at a party. Juice is sold in boxes of 10. How many boxes do we need? THEY ALL SHOUT “3 BOXES! We need 3 boxes” They say this because they don’t want to overbuy and they know 40 is too many. But then I point out that if we buy 3 boxes then 2 friends won’t get juice. I created this sheet because it’s a fun 40 minute math lesson that hits the Common Core standard and fits the party theme of the week. OK !!!! Let’s PARTY! 1. Lay out a table cloth, sprinkle your confetti scraps onto it, and put out your food. 2. Fill the hanging table cloth with confetti scraps and balloons. I did black and gold. 3. Practice counting backwards a little and then bring them to the floor under the balloon drop area. Hand out noise makers (As if kids NEED noise makers!). 4. I did this with 2 classes and each teacher pulled down the tablecloth at the end of the countdown. P.S. decide who should let go of the tablecloth. I think we both almost pulled each other down last year! You can pull it down solo though too. 5. The kids loved counting down so much we let them collect confetti and balloons 5 or 6 times and we did the countdown over and over again so they could throw stuff, catch stuff, and shout “Happy New Year!” They did not fuss about cleaning up because they had already collected so many times. 6. Then we ate some treats!!!! 7. Once we had the shared experience of a the “Noon” Year’s Eve party, we did this little graphing page. They asked 10 friends what they liked best about the party. 8. We went to our desks to graph our tally results from asking 10 friends. 9. We wore off the sugar high by writing what we saw in our graph and getting up and showing our graphs and sentences to our friends. For “Noon” Year’s freebies click (here) or the “Noon” Year graphic below. To get the New Year’s little book, craft, and math sheets click the graphic below or you can click (HERE) to go to Teachers Pay Teachers I’m sending you love, and I am wishing you Happy Teaching in New Year! Special joy and thanks to Katie M from Little Warriors: She is a joy! Read her blog, see her at a conference if you can, and follow her Instagram for a daily dose of Warrior JOY! Big LOVE to you Katie. This party idea of yours is THE best way to start the year!
New Years Eve is just a few days away! Instead of keeping little kids up WAY past their bedtime, throw them a NOON YEARS EVE party! It's the easiest "party" you'll ever put together and most kids won't know the difference between 12 noon and 12 midnight. Here are a few party essentials to make
Throw a fabulous and fun party for the kids - at noon instead of midnight with these Noon Year's Eve Party Ideas & Free Printable
Mocktails for Kids' is a great way to ring in the New Year or any party. We added this fun Printable Kids' Mocktail Menu to our Noon Year's Eve Party that we threw our kids and it was a hit.
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These nine easy Noon Year's Eve party ideas will have kids hopping with excitement to celebrate the New year at NOON, then ready to SLEEP at night!
Mocktails for Kids' is a great way to ring in the New Year or any party. We added this fun Printable Kids' Mocktail Menu to our Noon Year's Eve Party that we threw our kids and it was a hit.
Help kids get it on this New Year’s Eve celebration with this fun craft kit that creates festive headbands with a “Happy New Year” message. Great as an activity for kids at a New Year’s Eve party, this craft also works perfectly as a craft activity for a “Happy Noon-Year” daytime activity for kids. Make a resolution to start the year in a crafty way! Includes self-adhesive foam pieces, chenille stems and adjustable tab and notch fastener. 22 1/2" x 5 1/4" Makes 12. All craft kit pieces are pre-packaged for individual use. Kits include instructions. © OTC Show More
When you have kids, New Year’s Eve definitely isn’t the same as the pre-children days. While it’s obvious young kiddos won’t make it until the 12am ball drop, it’s equally…
Cue the Sprinkles! Throw a Noon Years Eve party to celebrate the New Year with kids! Make Confetti Drop Cupcakes and Cotton Candy Bomb drinks. An at home new years party to celebrate a happy new year with kids!
Need Noon Years Eve party ideas? These children's New Years Eve family party tips are great for toddler New Years Eve, preschool new year party, an alternative to a midnight countdown party, a classroom countdown, or even New Year's Eve activities for seniors who don't stay up late.
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Last January, I first heard about libraries hosting Noon Year’s Eve parties for kids on New Year’s Eve, celebrating the new year at NOON instead of midnight. My only regret was that I was going to have to wait a whole year to have the event at my library. I like to have at least... Read more »
These nine easy Noon Year's Eve party ideas will have kids hopping with excitement to celebrate the New year at NOON, then ready to SLEEP at night!
If you don't want your kids up until midnight celebrating the New Year, throw them a Noon Year's Eve Kids Party. Celebrating New Year's is tons of fun, but tired kids the next day is NOT!
Counting down to 12 p.m. instead of 12 a.m. allows your family to celebrate the new year together. Check out these Noon Year's Eve ideas for kids of all ages.
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Happy New Year! This is my first post of 2018! Like in years past, I kicked off the new year (or, more accuately, ended the old year) with a Noon Year's Eve Party, where we counted down to 12:00 noon! Only slightly modified from last year's version, the program included homemade crowns, time capsules, a balloon drop, sparkling apple cider, a photo back drop, and a few rounds of Noon Year's Eve Bingo, complete with prizes! Before the program, I set the room up with a few key elements: 1. The balloon drop (After trying a couple, this one, $10-ish on Amazon, is my favorite). 2. The countdown to noon projected on the wall to build anticipation (made with timeanddate.com, and seen above). 3. The photo backdrop (this one from Oriental Trading) so I could photograph the kids against it. 4. Plastic champagne flutes and sparkling cider. 5. Craft stuff (which I'll discuss below). 6. Music. Like I said, this year's program was really similar to past Noon Year's Eve programs. I started the kids off by having them decorate 2018 crowns (which I made and pre-cut for them) so they could be festive when the balloons dropped at 12:00. I had also created a two-sided worksheet which I called a "time capsule." On one side of the sheet it asked kids to list their favorite things (favorite color, favorite book, favorite movie, etc.) and on the other side it asked them to draw a self-portrait. When the kids were finished with their sheets, I had them fold them up and put them in boxes (these from Oriental Trading), which they could also color and decorate. I had out crayons and an assortment of foam stickerts that were leftover from other crafts (mostly these from Oriental Trading with a few others tossed in the mix) for all of their various crafting needs. Then, as each kid finished up, I came around and sealed each of their boxes up with sticker that said "Do Not Open Until January 1st 2019" (which I just made myself on on blank labels). Then it was time to countdown! The kids gathered at the balloon drop and, at exactly noon, the balloon bag was yanked open by its string, allowing the balloons to slowly tumble onto the kids. They were so excited about it, grabbing for balloons, like they were pieces of candy falling from a piñata. This was the highlight of the program for sure! It's all about the balloon drop! After all the balloons were successfully out of the balloon bag, I scrambled to play Auld Lang Syne on the iPod as quickly as possible, although I think the significance of the song was lost on the kids. Then I distributed the plastic champagne flutes of sparkling apple cider out to the kids (after explaing, at least 3-4 times, that it was just juice with bubbles and that we aren't allowed to serve alcohol to children). In past years I'd served other snacks too but I kept it easy this year and just did the "champagne." I don't regret it ONE BIT. It was totally enough! Then, there was about 10 minutes of "free time" for the more meticulous kids to finish up their time capsules and the more antsy kids to toss their balloons around, sip cider, and take pictures. Then, I ended the program with our game of Noon Year's Eve Bingo. For reference, the 2015-2016 Noon Year's Eve Bingo cards can be downloaded here. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Kids always like Bingo. As we played the game, I had the kids build onto their existing game boards until everyone eventually won. And, as they did, they got to come up and grab a prize from the basket (which was filled with leftover summer reading club stuff from years past). They LOVED it-- of course. They always do. When in doubt, Bingo! There were just a few minutes left when the Bingo game ended. The kids quickly finished what they had left of their time capsules, grabbed a few balloons to go, and endured my cheesy "See you next year!" comment as they made their way out. What worked least: I bought a different balloon drop this year (by accident) and it gave me anxiety. The string and hole were on the side instead of the bottom corner that I was used to and I was worried that I'd have to pull too hard to get it to open... and then, I worried that this hard pull would rip the pannels of the library's drop ceiling down and hit the kids on the head. At the last minute, I asked our clerk, Ryan, to yank the string for me at 12:00 because I was just too scared and, of course, it was totally fine. But it was my biggest source of stress! As I said, this one, $10-ish on Amazon, is my favorite balloon drop! This is the one I would recommend. What worked best: Despite my above answer, the balloon drop, without question, worked best! As long as it's hung tightly enough so that you don't yank the whole bag (or the ceiling) down when you go to open it, it's the best $10 thing you can do for a Noon Year's Eve Party. It's all in the hanging (which, thankfully, I had no part of). Happy 2018, everyone! Let's stay warm and make it good!
Need Noon Years Eve party ideas? These children's New Years Eve family party tips are great for toddler New Years Eve, preschool new year party, an alternative to a midnight countdown party, a classroom countdown, or even New Year's Eve activities for seniors who don't stay up late.
When you have kids, New Year’s Eve definitely isn’t the same as the pre-children days. While it’s obvious young kiddos won’t make it until the 12am ball drop, it’s equally…
If you don't want your kids up until midnight celebrating the New Year, throw them a Noon Year's Eve Kids Party. Celebrating New Year's is tons of fun, but tired kids the next day is NOT!
Cue the Sprinkles! Throw a Noon Years Eve party to celebrate the New Year with kids! Make Confetti Drop Cupcakes and Cotton Candy Bomb drinks. An at home new years party to celebrate a happy new year with kids!
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Since the students are never in school for New Year's Eve and Day, this escape classroom helps you and your students celebrate the new year through a Noon Year's celebration (activities for counting down to noon the day the students return to school). Even if you aren't celebrating the Noon Year, yo...
Welcome to my blog! I love exclamation marks and overusing them ! ! ! I also love all things literacy and bringing our learning to life. So today’s post is near and dear ! ! ! ( !!!!!! ) I am going to share one of my favorite classroom activities! ! ! ! ! Are you ready for this ? ? ? It’s called Noon Year’s Eve ! I saw this on Katie M’s Instagram account and knew I had to try it! So I did try it and LOVED it !!!! Let me tell you it was easy and a blast! I created some activities to make it rigorous and give me both Social Studies and Writing content for my first week back in January. Now, I want to share it all with you! Let’s start with the food! Any party needs good food! So we toast the “Noon” Year with some bubbly lime soda. Our appetizers? Why cookies of course! Decorations were kept at a minimum except for one large mystery hanging from the ceiling! On Monday, I put up a black plastic table cloth, and hung a sign that said “Happy Noon Year”. The kids were full of questions! 1. What is that? 2. Is it a HUGE trash bag? 3. What’s a “Noon” Year? 4. Is there anything in it? My answer was, “Let’s learn about NEW Year’s and I sure hope you are at school on Friday so you can see what 'Noon Year’s’ is all about!!!” Then I handed out this little book that perfectly explains: 1. What a calendar does. 2. When the year’s number changes. 3. Why people make resolutions. 4. How to make a goal. 5. Why people celebrate the New Year. They loved how easy this book was to understand and I like how much they learned! If you have used any of my books before you know that I make them to be interactive- where the kids write in the little book itself. Here are the interactive skills covered in the little book: 1. Writing this year and last year’s number (i.e. 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026). 2. Capitalizing calendar words. 3. “I am looking forward to _____________ in the New Year” sentence frame. 4. Writing a smart goal – What they want to do, who can help them make it happen, and what steps they need to take. The goal writing page is really amazing. I loved that the kids got to go beyond an academic goal and do a home and talent goal. I like hearing that my kids want to learn how to make cookies or score more soccer goals! Once we had read our little book and done the activities over a few days, we took our goal from the little book and wrote it on these pennants! There are a TON of little faces to choose from. I also provided lots of star options for you. I saved my scraps from the sides of the pennants to use as confetti for the party. Keep your scraps. Seriously, why buy confetti and the larger art scraps are easier to pick up? Your custodian will thank you!!! I wanted to let the parents know about the magic I am planning, so I sent home this note! The party is so easy and inexpensive that I did not collect money or get volunteers. I just wanted the families to know all about our amazing party! I also grab my shopping list, and head to the Dollar Store. You can do the whole party for about 10-15 dollars!!!! Although at the Dollar Store, I will end up spending another $90 on other things too! (Shhhhh don't tell my husband.) For my 1st week back I ease into math. The kids have been on 2 week brain-break filled with Santa, video games, candy, and cousins. Easing in is better than jumping in and drowning- at least I think so. I like to come back and begin to practice counting backwards so that we know what to do at the upcoming Noon Year’s Eve Party. I am always shocked who cannot count backwards.... Actually, I am never shocked, but still it's a lot of kids who need practice. I use this count back from 20 sheet (see below!): I know… I know… You only count back from 10 at a party. BUT I want them to count back from 20 because this is an essential subtraction skill. Did you see what I did there? I was so sneaky and I got in a subtraction skill-drill and they were none-the-wiser! They think they are doing party prep… (Que mad scientist laughter) This activity is spring board off this Common Core math question from our math book. 32 kids need juice at a party. Juice is sold in boxes of 10. How many boxes do we need? THEY ALL SHOUT “3 BOXES! We need 3 boxes” They say this because they don’t want to overbuy and they know 40 is too many. But then I point out that if we buy 3 boxes then 2 friends won’t get juice. I created this sheet because it’s a fun 40 minute math lesson that hits the Common Core standard and fits the party theme of the week. OK !!!! Let’s PARTY! 1. Lay out a table cloth, sprinkle your confetti scraps onto it, and put out your food. 2. Fill the hanging table cloth with confetti scraps and balloons. I did black and gold. 3. Practice counting backwards a little and then bring them to the floor under the balloon drop area. Hand out noise makers (As if kids NEED noise makers!). 4. I did this with 2 classes and each teacher pulled down the tablecloth at the end of the countdown. P.S. decide who should let go of the tablecloth. I think we both almost pulled each other down last year! You can pull it down solo though too. 5. The kids loved counting down so much we let them collect confetti and balloons 5 or 6 times and we did the countdown over and over again so they could throw stuff, catch stuff, and shout “Happy New Year!” They did not fuss about cleaning up because they had already collected so many times. 6. Then we ate some treats!!!! 7. Once we had the shared experience of a the “Noon” Year’s Eve party, we did this little graphing page. They asked 10 friends what they liked best about the party. 8. We went to our desks to graph our tally results from asking 10 friends. 9. We wore off the sugar high by writing what we saw in our graph and getting up and showing our graphs and sentences to our friends. For “Noon” Year’s freebies click (here) or the “Noon” Year graphic below. To get the New Year’s little book, craft, and math sheets click the graphic below or you can click (HERE) to go to Teachers Pay Teachers I’m sending you love, and I am wishing you Happy Teaching in New Year! Special joy and thanks to Katie M from Little Warriors: She is a joy! Read her blog, see her at a conference if you can, and follow her Instagram for a daily dose of Warrior JOY! Big LOVE to you Katie. This party idea of yours is THE best way to start the year!
This Kids' Noon Year's Eve Party post is sponsored by and created in partnership with Oriental Trading for their Fun365 site. Although I am a contributor for Fun365 and was compensated to create this party, all of my opinions and thoughts are 100% my own. For more information, see my disclosures here. Hi Friends! I think we can all agree that it's
Cue the Sprinkles! Throw a Noon Years Eve party to celebrate the New Year with kids! Make Confetti Drop Cupcakes and Cotton Candy Bomb drinks. An at home new years party to celebrate a happy new year with kids!
Cue the Sprinkles! Throw a Noon Years Eve party to celebrate the New Year with kids! Make Confetti Drop Cupcakes and Cotton Candy Bomb drinks. An at home new years party to celebrate a happy new year with kids!
I’ll be the first to admit that I am a big homebody. I love to stay in my own home and eat my own food, drink my own drinks, listen to my own music and not worry about putting on makeup or doing my hair. My husband and I don’t go out for dates very …
Last January, I first heard about libraries hosting Noon Year’s Eve parties for kids on New Year’s Eve, celebrating the new year at NOON instead of midnight. My only regret was that I was going to have to wait a whole year to have the event at my library. I like to have at least... Read more »
Can't stay up until midnight? Host a Noon Year's Eve Party this year and celebrate at -- you got it -- noon! This is a fun party for kids and adults alike.
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Family friendly ideas to ring in the New Year at Noon with your kids. In lieu of staying up till midnight having a Noon Years Eve Countdown with the kids is a great idea to ring in the New Year.
New Years Eve is just a few days away! Instead of keeping little kids up WAY past their bedtime, throw them a NOON YEARS EVE party! It's the easiest "party" you'll ever put together and most kids won't know the difference between 12 noon and 12 midnight. Here are a few party essentials to make
Last January, I first heard about libraries hosting Noon Year’s Eve parties for kids on New Year’s Eve, celebrating the new year at NOON instead of midnight. My only regret was that I was going to have to wait a whole year to have the event at my library. I like to have at least... Read more »
New Year's Eve Poppers are a fun project for kids to make to celebrate the New Year. We made these for our Noon Year's Eve party and they were a hit.
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Print out these new year questions to ask each other at the end of the year! Or turn it into a game and see who can guess your answer!
