A Sleepover For Your Childrens Friends: What A Great Way To Ring in the New Years With Your Children

If you are a parent with small children, you may be finding it a challenge to ring out the old with a New Year's Eve celebration. One way to be a sure hit on this holiday, and to have a wholesome good time yourself, is to offer to organize a New Year's Eve Celebration sleep over for your children's friends. Depending on the ages on the guest list, you may or may not be able to ring in the New Year with your guests, but you can certainly have a great time until the last little reveler turns in for the night.

Create an invitation by uncurling a noise maker, writing the details, and hand delivering them. Ask each guest to bring a sleeping bag and pillow, and be sure to include any other relevant information such as pick up and drop off information and a map to the party location.

Be prepared with staples to see you through the night. Word games, puzzles, New Year trivia, recipes and activity ideas may all be found online. Have more to drink and eat than you imagine you could need, including easy no-cook foods such as muffins, fruit, bagels, individual serving sizes of cereal, and juice boxes, so the guests can help themselves the morning after the celebration. Consider making sandwiches from cold cuts and peanut butter and jelly and cutting it into star shapes with a cookie cutter.

Gather items through out the year from craft stores, thrift stores, and dollar shops for the guests to use to "Dress up" and store them away until you need them. Good choices are sparkly, glittery fabric remnants and trim, feather boas, and funky hats. You can also purchase in dollar shops, small high heels for little girls playing dress up. Pieces of fabric may be pinned on to be used as impromptu skirts. You can also often find dress up clothes at thrift shops.

If your guests are up at midnight, serve them ginger ale in plastic champagne flutes! You might not get much sleep on New Year's Eve, but truth is if you were partying with adults, you would not have gotten much sleep either, and you are certain to be the most appreciated person in your world on New Years Eve.