The new 2013 year will come very soon, and each family prepares for its meeting in its own way. Someone focuses on buying gifts, someone - preparing a festive table, while others carefully consider the scenario of New Year's Eve.
All parents, of course, want their child to receive from this holiday a maximum of pleasant emotions. And in order that you could approach this issue fully armed, we prepared this article. From it you will learn how to better meet the New Year with a young child, how to prepare a themed party for children, what suits to give preference and much more.
We are preparing for the new year
Prepare for the holiday is best about a week before December 31. During this time, you just have time to do everything, and the child will not get tired from the long waiting for the holiday. So, here's what you need to prepare for the New Year's Eve:
- buy and decorate a Christmas tree;
- decorate your house with holiday attributes (New Year's toys, tinsel, rain, calendars and posters, snowflakes, bells, etc.);
- to think over the New Year's menu, including children's dishes;
- determine the scenario of the holiday;
- choose New Year's costumes for both children and adults (note that the new, 2013 in Chinese calendar - is the Year of the Black Water Snake);
- To buy gifts to all members of their family, relatives and friends.
Doing all this can and should be done with the children, telling them about the traditions of the New Year meeting and actively involving them in training.
Meet the New Year with children of different ages
- The first New Year of the child is celebrated in a relaxed home atmosphere. The regime of the day now plays a big role in the life of the crumbs, and there is no need to try to change anything to celebrate the holiday cheerfully. You can easily put the baby to sleep at the usual time, and they themselves continue the celebration. And before the crumb goes to bed, about 2-3 hours before sleep, arrange a mini meeting of the New Year specially for the baby. Show him how beautifully the garlands are blinking on the Christmas tree, tell the New Year's tale. If the baby is already crawling, it will be a great joy for him to find a toy under the tree.
- The New Year with a one-year-old will be slightly more diverse. Make him feel the festive atmosphere. In the afternoon, go to the tree together, tell us who the Santa Claus and Snow Maiden are. And in the evening at home include children's New Year's songs, lead a round dance, light the Bengal lights and the whole family rejoice at the approach of the holiday.
- If your child is already 2-3 years old, you can already meet the New Year and with him. On the eve of the holiday, arrange a performance of the puppet theater, showing filmstrips, and after midnight let the real Santa Claus with a bag of gifts come to the guys.
- For older children, you can organize a themed New Year. It would be best to do this in the format of some famous fairy tale or popular cartoon. It will be necessary to prepare the appropriate costumes and props. Well, what a holiday without cheerful competitions, quizzes, prizes and gifts!
Choosing a New Year's costume
On pre-holidays, all moms are racking their brains to choose a costume for the New Year.
The most popular at all times are children's masquerade costumes snowflake, bunny, chanterelle, bear cub, Cinderella, Red Cap, gray wolf. In addition, Santa Claus costumes, beads, a spider-man, a ladybird, a fairy, a Luntik, a goldfish are now in fashion. Very spectacular will be the appearance of the child on the matinee in the snake, to match the mistress of the next year, the apparel.
Let the meeting of the new 2013 be a real miracle for the children, a holiday that will be remembered for a long time.