Making Your New Years Eve Celebration a Family Affair

Staying at home to celebrate New Years Eve? What a great way to start out the New Year. Spending time with your family at home can start a new tradition with a lot of wonderful memories. Here are few ways to share a New Years Eve celebration with those who mean the most to you.

• Board games. On a regular night it might be hard to get everyone together to have a family game night. On this night, everyone is at home. Bring back a little of those childhood years with games like Monopoly, Chutes and Ladders, Sorry, Life or even card games. Old Maid, Crazy Eight and War are at the top of the card game list. For a large family, set up more than one game station then everyone can play what they like.

• Team games. This is when people traditionally play charades, drawing games, trivia games and other type of games such as these. Divide into teams and see who can put on the best game face. Keep changing teams so that each family member gets to be on a team with each other. You can also make up your own games like a team scavenger hunt throughout the house.

• Watch movies. There will be enough time before midnight for everyone to throw a movie they like into the mix. You can give your movie night a theme. Choose a variety of movies celebrating other holidays in the year. You’ll have scary, funny, romantic, dramatic and jingle bells thrown in for good measure.

• Reminisce. Bring out the photo albums. Who is that kid in the plaid pants and butterfly collar shirt? It might be you. This is a great time to bond as a family and reminisce of old memories. There may be a few pictures of folks you don’t remember. Tell some interesting stories about some of the photos. Before you know it, everyone’s sides will threaten to burst from laughter.

• Bake. All this other fun may make you want to feed your sweet tooth. For those who want to, let them make a dessert for the family to try. The more desserts you have, the more yummy goodness you can enjoy.

If you spending time at home with the family this New Years Eve enjoy. These five ideas offer fun for the family who wants to spend time celebrating together.