This picture of champagne flowing down into the pyramid of glasses (from mydesignchic.wordpress.com) perfectly illustrates a little fantasy of the very party I’d like to throw this year. No cares, no worries, and champagne pouring everywhere!
When reality sets in, I realize that it would be super messy and difficult to clean up. A girl can dream though, right?
How about setting this display up in the back yard this New Year’s Eve? If weather permits, this idea could be a complete home run.
If you’re hosting family and/or friends for an evening of fun, these New Year’s Eve Countdown Bags from theidearoom.net are sure to be a huge hit.
You can either use them as party favor bags to hold the noisemakers and streamers for each guest, or you can use them as “activity bags” for the family and kids.
There are downloadable/printable designs on theidearoom.net to make the clocks. After attaching the clock pictures to the bags, you simply draw the clock hands on each bag to represent each hour of the evening you want to have an activity for the family and kids to do together. This example started the countdown bags with the year 2011 at 5:00 pm and made one for every hour till 12:00 am 2012.
In each bag I added some fun activities to do on the hour. For example:
5:00 pm—Make/Eat Chinese Food
6:00 pm—Play a the New Year’s Eve Game {I will be sharing one here soon}!
7:00 pm—Watch a movie with the family
8:00 pm—Intermission: Make some Ice Cream Sundaes & finish movie
9:00 pm—Make a New Year’s Craft—confetti, noise makers, hats, etc.
10:00—Play another game
11:00 pm—Turn on some music and dance
12:00 am 2012—Watch fireworks out the window, bang noise makers, toast the New Year!
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