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Welcoming New Year's Eve (Western New Year) at home with your family is a great opportunity for you to connect, celebrate and celebrate the New Year with the people you love. It can also be a good time with a variety of interesting food, drinks, games and activities.

Steps

Part 1 of 3: Preparing food and drinks on New Year's Eve

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   Self-cooking. Ordering food home on New Year's Eve usually costs more (because prices rise during the holidays), so this is a good reason to cook at home. Choose from dinner dishes that everyone likes but you have little chance to cook, such as steak, chili casserole or lobster. That meal can also become a family's New Year's custom.
   • You can also cook meals with appetizers. Dinner will be arranged more comfortably and children can also choose from a variety of options.
   • Cheese hotpot is a fun idea for a New Year's Eve dinner. Everyone will sit down to eat hot pot with bread and meat. Everyone can take turns dipping food into cheese and telling stories of the year when they ate.

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   Make interesting snacks or desserts. Consider making biscuits, caramel candies (toffee) or desserts that the whole family can make and enjoy on New Year's Eve. You can also add a new year atmosphere by making desserts for the occasion. Lots of cultures have New Year's desserts, such as Vasilopita, a Greek cake with a coin hidden in a dough. Whoever gets a piece of cake with a coin will have a lot of luck in the new year.
   • The New Year countdown marshmallow is also a delightful dessert. Write 2-3 numbers on each candy with baking ink, you can eat the candy while counting down until midnight.
   • A good idea for a baby drink on New Year's Eve is milk and cookies. Young children can join in the New Year celebrations by holding their own glasses of milk and eating cookies.

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   Mix up some alcohol and non-alcoholic drinks (mocktail) for your vacation. Young children will love hot cocoa, fruit soda and carbonated grape juice. You can also make mocktail glasses like strawberry and kiwi soda, carbonated cranberry juice and mint drinks. Use plastic drinking glasses or 'adult' plastic cups to make kids feel special. Adults can prepare their own forte or drink champagne.
   • If you or everyone in the family begins to feel tired, try making coffee, alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverages.
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Part 2 of 3: Enjoying the fun all night long

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   Host a game night with your family. Play board games, cards, video games, or multiplayer video games until midnight. You can also host a game tournament, or try to play each game at least once during the night.

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   Watch movies at night. Choose a movie from home or rent a movie that everyone wants to see. Watching movies can be part of your New Year's Eve plan, but you can also watch movies all night continuously. You can watch movies while eating and drinking the dishes that you prepare for New Year's Eve.
   • You can also watch old family movies and recall the beautiful past. Depending on how many movies your family has, this could be a dinner activity or you can play the video all night.

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   Create a photo corner of New Year's Eve. Arrange an indoor space to set up a photography stage. Find a wall or background as a backdrop, beautify it with holiday decorations or New Year goals. You can also print items that look like costume carnival outfits as photo props.

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   Wear nice clothes. Let the whole family wear the best clothes, making them feel like they are attending a luxurious party or dance on New Year's Eve. You can play music, dance and create amazing pictures in gorgeous outfits.

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   Make countdown bags to open every hour. Place candies or different items in small open bags every hour before midnight. You can choose how many bags you like, depending on how early you want to open the bag. Some examples of items in a bag:
   • Camera for disposable use
   • Activity recordings: watch movies, eat ice cream, play games, etc.
   • Handmade set
   • Candy

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   DIY New Year's Eve decorations. Make party hats with cardboard, strings, and decorative accessories. You can also make rice sound, confetti, and sparkling dust in the empty water bottle. All you need to do is close the cap tightly and shake the bottle to welcome the new year. Consider dropping balloons when the clock says midnight:
   • Blow the ball, create a net to keep the ball around the ceiling fan with tape, gift wrap or cloth.
   • Put all the balls in the grid, and release the balls as you start to celebrate the new year.
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Part 3 of 3: Celebrating the New Year

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   Relive the old year and set new year goals together. Near midnight or throughout New Year's Eve, you and your family can gather and reminisce about the past year of each person as well as that of the whole family. After that, set new year's goals and wishes to achieve and share them with everyone. You could also try setting family goals and supporting people to achieve their goals for the new year.

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   New year celebrations in a different time zone. If you have young children in your home, they may have trouble staying up until midnight. Consider celebrating the New Year on another country's time. For example, depending on where you live, try New York, Paris or Greenland to celebrate the New Year. In this way, the babies can both welcome the new year and sleep earlier.
   • To do more, you can also get a New Year's Eve theme depending on your country of choice. For example, if you want to celebrate New Year like in Paris, try crepes, cheese hot pot, quiche, wine and cheese.

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   Singing, celebrating and celebrating the new year. When the clock reaches midnight, everyone will rock, hug and celebrate the new year. After midnight, you can sing "Happy New Year", a song associated with the New Year greeting. This is also the time to use your own sounding gadgets or break pots and pans indoors.
   • If the weather permits, go outside to light the hand held fireworks, watch the fireworks while cheering for the New Year.
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Advice

• Skip parties you don't really want to join and don't take too much responsibility for yourself. Spend a lot of time enjoying yourself and your family.
• If you order food home, order early to avoid crowds doing the same on New Year's Eve!
• Caring for people who seem bored when spending New Year's Eve with family. A teen or young person may find themselves missing out on the fun of being at home. Listen to them and ask about the old year and what they look forward to - this is also a great opportunity for families to bond together.
• Some people want to turn on the radio countdown to New Year's Eve at low volume; This will help people keep an eye on the times. A radio program is also a good choice.
• You have no obligation to stay up until midnight. There will be family members who won't stay up all night! If you are tired and want to sleep early, do so; the new year will come when you wake up, and you can have your own new year welcome ritual in the morning.
• Consider burning fireworks in an approved area.

Warning

• If you spend the night regretful of spending time with your family and think you should do something more interesting, you will have a hard time enjoying and appreciating the value of reality. It will be much easier and more fun when you accept that staying at home is also a fun way to enjoy New Year's Eve. Think of all the things you don't have to endure at home, such as the long queue of taxi waiters, the bloated quarrels, the crazy crowds, or the drooling of people trying to kiss their socks. everyone when the new year comes!
• Make sure everyone in the family drinks alcohol responsibly.
• If you play loud music, take care of your neighbors. Even on New Year's Eve, many people still have to take care of their newborn babies or deal with illnesses.