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Home > Arts and Crafts Projects for Kids > New Year Crafts Projects Ideas for your Kids
Below you will find New Year Crafts Projects Ideas for your Kids. Find out how to make your own New Years Eve Crafts Activities with easy arts and crafts projects with with the following decorations, instructions, patterns, and activities for teens, children, and preschoolers
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Moving Hands Clock to Count Down to New Years Day
Since most kids can't stay up until 12 midnight to celebrate New Years...you can have them make a special Countdown Clock so they can experience the excitement of the holiday. These are fun to do and—best of all—can really be helpful in teaching the young ones how to tell time. Use any size paper plate that happens to be on hand. Take a pencil and lightly mark the numbers around the face, indicating the proper place for them. Then the children have a guide to follow and can put the numbers in in crayon and color a light border around the plate. Cut hands out of cardboard or colored construction paper—cutting one slightly longer than the other. Fasten them to the center of your clock with a metal paper fastener. Fasten them loosely and then the hands can be moved easily.Puncture a small hole at the top and run a ribbon through it so the clock may be hung on the wall. You can have a celebration when the clock hits 8 or 9 or whenever the child's bedtime is. Have fun! You Might Enjoy Our Other New Years Crafts
Making a New Years Memory Accordion Pocket Book to Hold Precious Memories - You can use this special fold-up, accordion pocketed book to hold all the memories of this year or next year … and then you can put it away as if it were a time capsule. Then you can try not to look at it for 10 years. You will be surprised at how much you have changed in that amount of time. Have fun.
How to Make a Confetti Blowing Pipe to Celebrate Festivities and Parties for New Years Eve - Tomorrow is New Years Eve so it is time to party (partaaaaaaaaaaaay). So how about making a toy confetti pipe to make cool little fireworks to celebrate the upcoming New Year. We will show you how to do this with the easy illustrated steps below. Have fun.
Making New Years Eve Party Horns - Learn how to make this New Years Eve Party Horn with an old cardboard paper towel tube.
Secret Book of New Years Resolutions - This is a fun book to make with friends and family. Every page is sealed until the following year....find out how to make it too.
Bright
New Year Mobiles - - Kids are
eager to help decorate your home for a New Year's Eve get-together!
This whimsical mobile adds glitz to any decor.
Cardboard
Roll Noise Maker Crafts - - Don't throw away the toilet paper cardboard rolls
as these make the perfect craft supply for noise makers.
Cardboard
Roll Poppers - - Save your toilet paper or paper towel
cardboard rolls for this kids craft idea.
Celebrate
Layouts - - Showcase the countdown to New Year’s with
this layout.
Celebration
gift Boxes - - Why not make the container as special as the
gift ? This box can be used year after year as an attractive
decoration.
Champagne
Candles - - These
champagne candles are beautiful and are not hard to make. Do
not be intimidated if you have never worked with gel wax before, it
is so easy to work with! It is much easier to use than regular
wax. The clean up is easy, and the gel has a slow burn time and
extra gel can be reused again!
Champagne
Glass Centerpieces - - Fill
your glass with festive shred and make it sparkle as your Special
Occasion Centerpiece! Add a candle inside a glass candle cylinder and
watch it glow! Great for weddings, anniversaries, New Year’s
Eve, and more.
Circle
of Kindness - -
Start the Jewish New Year-or the New Year your family celebrates-by
spinning this Circle of Kindness. Kids are inspired to do good deeds.
Confetti
Balloons - - At the stroke of midnight, you and your guests can pop the balloons
to ignite a confetti explosion! Or if you are hosting a Mardi
Gras party it's the perfect showstopper.
Cookie
Tin Time Capsules - -
Capture your memories by using a recycled cookie tin and making it
into a cookie tin time capsule. Have hours of fun making this fun
craft with your kids. Spend New Year's Day or special holidays
together with this family craft.
Countdown
Champagne/Wine Charms - - Are you throwing a New Years party and want to find some fun New
Year’s party ideas? These countdown to New Years Eve wine
charms are a great way for your guests to keep track of which glass
is theirs. And then when it's time to countdown the final seconds to
the new year, each guest can cheer out "their second" in
the countdown as they raise their glass to toast the New Year.
Countdown
Clock for Kids - -
Get the little ones involved in New Year's by making this cute New
Year's countdown clock and let the kids countdown until 8:00 instead
of 12:00 using a fun firework time marker that you attach to the
clock.
Custom
Coasters - -
Personalize your drink coasters with this excellent themed craft.
Your kids can customize them for special occasions like New Years,
Christmas, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and more.
Easy
Can Noisemakers - -
Shake, shake, shake! It's the sound of your very own homemade can
noisemaker.
Easy-Fold
Party Favors - - Create fun, unique party
favors that your guests will love. Customize these twisty treat or
gift holders to match any party or holiday theme.
Fancy
Flutes - -
With these clever wire-wrapped glasses, your toast to the season is
sure to be unforgettable.
Fantasy
Fireworks Display - - Create a display with
colorful POP! Use Crayola Color Explosion Spinner™ art and
recycled materials to make these fabulous fantasy fireworks!
Fireworks - - Create your own fireworks picture by using dark construction paper,
glue and different colors of glitter. These fireworks pictures are
great decorations for New Year, Chinese New Year, or Independence
Day. The Chinese invented fireworks thousands of years ago.
Fortune
Bubbles - - Good fortune for the new year can smile on everyone at your party
with these fun ribbon-bedecked favors.
Frugal
New Year's Craft Idea -- Sparkly 2009 Banners - -
Emily had a great time making this sparkly 2009 banner! You can
add glitter glue or further decorate it, if desired.
Ghastly,
Ghostly Noises - - Looking for a fun
activity for Halloween, Mardi Gras, or the New Year? Kids can make
noisemakers ahead of time to give as party favors.
Glitzy
Glasses - - This
January 1 we ring in 2010 — the last year for some time whose
numerals can be easily turned into a pair of novelty glasses. Make
the most of this fleeting occasion with a customizable pair of paper
specs.
Happy
New Year Handprint Posters - - Decorate
the house for the New Year - and capture a picture of your child's
hands to keep forever, too!
Happy New Years Horn Crafts - - Learn how to make your very own New Year horn.
”Happy
New Year” Champagne Glass Shaker Card - This
card is just bubbling away and is perfect for sending a new year’s
wish or to even be used as an invitation to a new year’s eve
party. The filling for the shaker card is iridescent flakes which add
to the sparkly look of the card. Follow the step-by-step pictures and
instructions below to find out how to make the shaker effect of the
glass.
Happy
New Year Heart Cards - Fresh green and
orange—a hot color combination trend—make this funky New
Year’s card stand out.
Homemade
Instruments - Rainmakers - - This
homemade Rainmaker is a fun way to make lots of noise at a
celebration such as New Year's Eve or a birthday - or just for a
kitchen band!
Homemade
Instruments – Trumpets - - This
homemade trumpet will allow the children to "toot" very
noisily whenever a loud noise is required! Great for New Year's Eve
parties, birthdays and kitchen bands!
How
to Make a New Years Eve Tambourine - - The
best part of New Year's Eve is all the noise you are allowed to make
at midnight. There are always pots and pans you can bang together,
but that gets old after awhile. If you allow your children to stay up
on this special night, you should help them to create their own
instruments to play at the stroke of midnight. The beloved tambourine
can easily be made at home with a few simple household items.
How
to make Noise Makers - - Have
some fun this New Year's Eve by putting together these fun craft
noise makers. They're perfect for a kids' New Year's party.
Lucky
Penny - -
This cute coin-headed doll, good for one wish, makes a great New
Year's party favor.
Make
a Paper Noisemaker - -
A sheet of paper is all you'll need to create some buzz this New
Year's Eve.
Make
a Time Capsule - - This
is an idea which makes a super family project - and tradition! Get
the kids to make a "time capsule" for the year ahead, and
fill it, together, as the year goes on - with photos, ticket stubs,
copies of certificates won, birthday cards, writing samples, and
anything else with meaning to your family.
Masquerade
Masks - -
To disguise your bright eyes for a New Year's party or Mardi Gras,
let them take flight in a fantasy of feathers.
Memory
Boxes - - Make
a memory box at the beginning of a New Year. It is a great way for
children to think about what they have done and achieved over the
previous year, and makes a super memory to pull out once a year and
enjoy as a family.
Musical
Shakers - - Use an large empty spool from
lanyard, curling ribbon, wire, etc. to musical shakers.
New
Year Collages - - Get
the children used to the numbers of the New Year by letting them
create their own crafty collage. We did this every year when the kids
were young and the collages were proudly displayed right through
January, then photographed for posterity.
New
Year Hair Bands - - It is fun to scrunch up and model with tin foil and this New Year
hair band looks spectacular - a shiny way to bring in the New Year!
New
Year Noisemakers - -
Those straight-laced Victorians gave themselves one day to cut loose
- New Year. If you've seen or read depictions of the holiday, it was
a time for dancing, drinking, kissing on the sly, and making NOISE!
Vintage noisemakers from the era included rattles, pans, gongs, fire
crackers, and various firearms too dangerous to mention.
New
Year Numbers - - Familiarise
younger children with the "numbers" for the New Year with
this fun textured number craft.
New
Year's Cards : Make New Years Card Crafts for Kids- Step into a photo booth
and strike a pose with our easy-to-make number props, and you've got
an extrafun way to wish the folks on your list a happy New Year.
New
Year's Cards : Make New Years Card Crafts for Kids - Rosh Hashanah, which in
2008 falls on September 29, begins the celebration of the Jewish New
Year. Ring in the year 5769 with a card expressing a traditional
wish: Shana Tova Umetukah, or "a good and sweet year." A
cheery pomegranate, whose numerous seeds are said to symbolize the
613 Jewish commandments, adds to the card's sweet sentiment.
New
Years Cards : Make New Years Card Crafts for Kids - Happy New Year Card-Bleach
technique.
New
Years Cards : Make New Years Card Crafts for Kids - Snowmen Friends New Year’s
Card.
New
Year’s Champagne Buckets - - Make
this New Year’s Bucket to keep your champagne cool until the
countdown.
New
Year’s Champagne Candle Favors - - Learn
to make a New Year’s champagne candle favor from this tutorial.
New
Year's Confetti Bags - - Count
down to the new year with confetti in hand! Made with the Cricut
Expression machine.
New
Years Crackers - - These
New Years Crackers are an easy craft for kids to dress up the holiday
table. Make it even more special by putting the names of each dinner
guest on each cracker!
New
Year's Eve Bottle Decorations - -
Celebrate the coming new year with style! Dress up your refreshments
with the Cricut Expression machine!
New
Year's Eve Noisemakers - - A New
Year's Eve noisemaker is a fun project for kids and adults alike.
This simple craft will only take a few minutes to put together and it
give you a surprisingly loud and festive noise when you shake it.
Here's how to make your own New Year's Eve noisemaker.
New
Year’s Eve Noise
Makers - My
kids have yet to make it to midnight on New Year’s Eve, but
this year my son is determined to stay up… we’ll see! So
in preparation, we’re gathering our pots, pans, and noise
makers for the big count down. We’ve been crafting these fun Homemade
Noise Makers out of recycled paper rolls.
New
Years Eve Pages - - New
Year’s Eve is all about the countdown on the clock. Showcase
your photos with these pages.
New
Year's Eve Party Favors - - These New Year's Eve party favors will help your party be a
hit this year! Your kids and party guests will love to crack these
open at midnight. They can be filled with candy and small toys, or
fill them up with confetti! This craft is easy enough for children to
make. Keep them all in a basket and hand them out right before
midnight!
New
Year’s Eve Serving Trays - - Learn
to make this attractive New Year’s Eve serving tray.
New
Year's Favors - -
Celebrate the new year with pop-open party favors that are full of
surprises.
New
Year's Invites : Make New Years Card Crafts for Kids - A
cool craft to make!
New
Year's Journals - - Make a journal for the
new year to record your thoughts through out the year. You pick the
date.
New
Year's Noisemakers - - This
New Year's, make a few items that create a festive mood without
deafening the adults.
New
Year's Ornaments - -
This will be a fun keepsake to make. Having a party? Make one for all
your guests to take home as a keepsake!
New
Year’s Party Favors - - In
this tutorial you will learn how to make this party favor for your
New Year’s Eve party!
New
Year’s Pillar Candle Ensemble - - Fun, funky and playful are
the Delta Ceramcoat® colors our New Year’s painted pillar
candle ensemble. Use them in an entry hall or on a dining room table.
They’re sure to brighten the room no matter where you place
them. Templates are provided with this project to make candle
painting easy!
New
Year's Pot Bangers : Make Cool Stuff for New Years Day Activities for Children- - Make extra
noise this New Year's Eve! Bang your pots with a special spoon
you've decorated just for the night.
New
Year’s Rockets : Make Cool Stuff for New Years Day - -
Children will have a blast ringing in the New Year with this colorful
Rocket!
New
Year Star Hair Bands - - The
kids will enjoy making this star hair band - and wearing it - to
celebrate the New Year!
New
Years Time Capsules - - Make
this New Years Time Capsule an annual family tradition! A great
family activity for New Years Eve, and it sure beats watching the
ball drop!
New
Year Streamer Pots - - Here's an unusual craft for kids at New Year -
perfect if you are having a New Year's Eve party or want the kids to
have an exciting "count down" to the New Year!
Noisemaker
Crafts - - This
noisemaker craft is a children's project they can put together
themselves, and use for New Year's Eve! They are made from
plastic glass tumblers, and be filled with anything to make noise.
The outside can then be decorated with paint, stickers,
stencils, etc. Happy New Year!
Painted
Wine Glasses - - These
painted wine glasses are an easy and classy way to dress up
inexpensive clear wine or champagne flutes for your New Year's Eve
party! Or, they make a wonderful host/hostess gift to bring if you
are attending a party. Anyone can do it, just follow the step by step
instructions below. This technique can also be used to decorate the
disposable plastic wine or champagne glasses if you use those at your
party.
Paper
Plate Castanets - - Here's a
quick way for kids to make a paper plate castanet - perfect for
celebrations (such as New Year's Eve or birthdays) or for a kitchen
band!
Paper
Plate Maracas - - This
Paper Plate Maraca is an easy homemade instrument. Fill it with what
ever you have around the house and you're ready to make some music!
These also make great noise makers for special occasions!
Paper
Plate Tambourines - - This fun
musical instrument is perfect for playtime or parades.
Parade
Floats - - Adults and kids
get in on the action with festive cardboard box floats. Celebrate
with your own parade!
Party
Balloons - - These
Party Balloons are an easy and fun craft to help celebrate New Years
Eve, American Holidays, or any celebration, just change the color of
the balloons to match your holiday!
Pop-up
New Year's Cards : Make New Years Card Crafts for Kids - Make
a great (but simple) pop-up New Year's card from construction paper.
Quick
Custom Noisemakers - - Bring
a touch of whimsy to the table with noisemakers to match your decor.
Raise
Your Glasses - - Who needs champagne flutes? The New Year will look awfully
promising as seen through these kooky party glasses.
Serving
Trays - -
When the clock is about to strike midnight, you'll be ready to serve
the bubbly with this classy clock tray, bright with metallic paints
and a rainbow of colorful gems.
Shimmering
New Year's Streamers - - Leftover holiday paper gets a fresh start when used to make
decorations for a New Year's party. We used metallic paper to make
streamers of shimmering circles that descend from above like the
Times Square ball.
Sparkling
Beaded Napkin Rings - - Your
child can help you set a pretty holiday table, with these easy to
make beaded napkin rings. This is also a festive touch to a New
Year's Eve party table. Easy enough for little fingers and a super
holiday craft for classrooms, Sunday school or scout troops!
Sparkling
Centerpieces - -
Fireworks add excitement to any festive holiday. Create your own
sparkling centerpiece for a permanent celebration!
Sparkly
Firecrackers - - This pretty firecracker is perfect for celebrating the New Year!
It's easy to make from a cardboard tube, and kids will enjoy making
their own sparkly firecracker to ring in 2010.
Star
Bead Champagne/Wine Charms - -
Are you throwing a New Year's Eve party and need some great New Years
Eve ideas? These star bead wine charms are a great way for your
guests to keep track of which glass is theirs. They are so easy and
quick to make, and are bold and showy to brighten up your guests'
glasses. As you can see, we used bold colored star beads, but you can
also find metallic star beads which would really add some fun sparkle
to this design.
Steal
Me a Kiss Matey - - New
Year’s Table Centerpiece - You're never too old for a Pirate
Party! Delta Creative’s great new colors make this ship a joy
to create. Can you imagine the look of delight on your guest’s
faces? You'll be the talk of the town on New Years!
Tambourines - - No celebration is complete without tambourine music!
Three
Decorative Bottle Stoppers - - Top off your bottles with
these festive stoppers for a crowning touch that adds beauty and
elegance.
Time
Capsule - -
Fun to make while you are waiting for the countdown to begin.
Toilet
Paper Roll New Years Horn - -
You know it can not be a holiday at my house without a craft
involving a toilet paper roll. It is sad, the other day a friend's
Mom told me that every time she throws away a toilet paper roll she
thinks of me. I am not sure if that is good or bad.
Time
Capsule Cans - -
Make this time capsule can and start your own tradition with your
family each New Year! Place one item from each family member inside a
decorated can marked with the year on the front. Wait until all the
kids are grown to open all the time capsules for a wonderful family
memory!
Timely
Table Decors - -
Special table coverings, napkins, and plates combine to set the stage
for a memorable New Year's Eve party.
Water
Bottle Maracas - - Dig
through the recycling bin and make this Water Bottle Maraca, a great
homemade musical instrument for children of all ages! These also make
great noise makers for New Years, birthdays or other special
occasions!
Water
Bottle Noise Makers - -
Save that water bottle from the landfill by creating this fun noise
maker for New Year’s Eve!
Wishes
Can Come Trues - - Ring
in the new year with a project that your child can bank on: a custom
container that lets him save up for something he really wants.
Clock-Face Piñata - - Celebrate the stroke of midnight with a tick-tock clock chock full of treats.
Confetti Wands - - Get the New Year off to a magical start with a wave of these sparkling wands.
Giggle Shakers - - Raise a rousing New Year's ruckus with these big-grinned gleeful rattlers.
Happy New Year Horn - - Instructions for making a Happy New Year Horn out of a toilet tissue roll.
How to make a "time machine" for New Year's Eve the kids will enjoy - - Get the kiddos involved in this neat idea on a great way to look back on 2008! A chance for you and them to create your own time machine!
How to Make New Years Party Favor Bags - - New Year's Eve is a time for noise makers, throwing confetti and shooting off party poppers while making a toast to the start of a new year. For your upcoming New Year's Eve party, make these easy party favor bags so that all your guests have what they need to ring in the new year with lots of noise and fun.
How to Make Noisemakers - - Noisemakers aren't just for New Year's celebrations; you can use them year-round for other parties or to keep the kids busy. The easiest noisemakers to make are the rattle type. Even young children can get into the action and help make their own. Use things from your craft stash and from around the house to make these colorful and loud noisemakers. Have fun thinking of items to add to make your noisemaker rattle.
How to Make Noisemakers for New Year's Eve - - Want to save money and use up all those silly film canisters we have collected before the age of digital cameras? This is a very kid friendly craft and good for adults, too.
New Year Noise Maker - - Instructions for making New Year Noise Maker out of paper plates.
New Years Candy Holder - - Make this party favor cup to help celebrate New Years.
New Years Candy Holder - - Make this party favor cup to help celebrate New Years.
New Year's Eve Confetti - - A celebration is just around the corner, but you can make confetti any time of year to use at kids' birthday parties.
New Year HeadBand - - Make a basic band to fit around the child's head.
New Year's Memory Box Craft - - Preschoolers can learn to appreciate the meaning of the New Year celebration by creating this New Year's Memory Box Craft. This memory box, made from a recycled gift box and photos taken during 2006, will help your preschooler remember special events and important moments over the year. Take time to discuss each photograph and its special memory or meaning as you and your preschooler put together this momento to commemorate the passing year.
New Year's Noisemakers - - Whether your kids stay up 'til the ball drops, they can take part in the festivities by making these noisy party favors.
New Year's Poppers - - These unusual New Year's favors will brighten any dinner table. Watch the kids' faces light up when they find their favorite trinkets and candies inside!
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