 No New
Year's Eve celebration is complete without noisy music from a homemade tambourine. This quick and easy project is great to
make while you are waiting for the countdown to begin. Our visitors had many more fun ideas for making noise or making
crafts. Here are some of the ones we think you will like:
2001 Glasses
"Make a 2001 in big letters hooking them together so the two "0"s will be
glasses. Glue it to a stick and decorate."
--Anonymous
Shaker Noise Makers
Fill an empty soda can with rice or stones. Seal the top of the can with tape and
decorate it.
--Anonymous
"My Wish For the World" Box
Instruct children to write their hopes and dreams for the future on small star cut
outs and place them into a decorated box. Read them on New Year's Eve. Great class project
to do and read before holiday break!
--Beth, Mobile, AL
Make Instruments
Two plastic cups filled with beans, rice, or other small hard objects and taped
together make great shakers; empty plastic containers with lids make great drums! You can
decorate them with glued on confetti and markers!
--Beth, Mobile, AL
Bubble Stomp
Get some plastic wrap from the post office. At midnight, let the kids stomp it with
there socks on. It sounds like fire works.
--Lesa, New Brunswick, Canada
Party Hats
Use a large bowl as a pattern to cut a 12" circle out of construction paper. Cut a
slit to the center. Overlap and staple together to make hat shape. Decorate with feathers,
sequins, buttons or anything for a festive look!
--Becky, McKinney, TX
Classroom Time Capsule
Cover a Pringles can with contact paper. With my fourth grade students, we include a
picture of the class, a cassette tape that the child puts his favorite songs on and allows
his friends to talk on. Also an essay that tells what they want to be when they grow up is
included. These are sealed by using wide clear tape, and a note is attached "Do not
open until Graduation.
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Lunch Bag Noisemakers
Have the kids color or paint a lunch paper bag and then fill with fairly tiny cut
up pieces of newspaper/construction paper. Blow a little air into the bag and tie with a
ribbon. At midnight the kids can pop the bag by holding the top end with one hand and
smacking the bottom of the bag quick and hard with the other hand. All the confetti flies
out! What a mess... grins.
--Mary Beth, Hanover, MarylandParty
Hats
Turn a large paper grocery bag inside out. Roll up the opening, scrunching it together to
fit the child's head. Shape the hat in various ways. Roll the brim only a little its a top
hat; roll it a lot, a bowler. Punch in the side for a pirate hate, etc. Now decorate using
glitter glue, paint, markers, streamers feathers, etc.
--Jean, East Lansing, MI
New Year's Good Luck Cake
"Mix up a box cake and pour it into a small pie pans. Make a small cake for every
one. Place a coin into each cake and bake it according to the directions. Whoever receives
a coin will have good luck for the next year."
--Miss Jackie
New Year's Eve Tree
Remove the Christmas decorations from your tree and made it a New Year's tree. Put
on white lights and decorate it with blue and purple ribbon for garland. Add party hats,
paper horns and other noise makers for the decorations. In the center of the tree, they
put a clock with the time set to midnight.
--Carrie L. Phoenix, AZ
Wish Bags
Decorate brown paper bags with stamps, stickers and crayons. Instruct kids to whisper
their wish into the bag, blow it up and pop it. I don't know why it's so popular, but they
LOVE it!
--Cindy S., Rochester, NY
Make Pretend Book
Give kids pictures cut from magazines -- even outrageous ones work -- and a lot of
blank paper. Have them create a book called "What I Did (in my Dreams) Last
Year" and make up a story to go with the pictures. Kids vote on whose story is best!
--Cindy S., Rochester, NY
Pinecone Noisemakers
Drill a hole in the base of a pinecone. Inserted a dowel and hot-glued it in place. Attach
bells all over the pine cone and attach streamers of ribbon to the base.
--Becca P., Whitmore Lake, MI
Make poppers.
Fill empty toilet paper rolls with confetti and treats. Cover it in wrapping paper
paper letting a little hang off the ends. Tie some ribbon around each end. When ready to
use just pull the ends.
--Heather K, Mason Michigan
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