Cheers to Partying & New Year's Resolutions!

By Olivia LaBounty

Are you thinking about what you could do for New Year’s? There is a list of things you can do to celebrate the New Year right, starting with party planning ideas!

Party Games

You could start off by playing a party game with your friends and family. This could bring new amazing memories that you will not be able to forget! You could play “Pass the Hat”, “Banana Bump”, or“Guess the Number.” “Pass the Hat,” is a game that involves just a New Year’s hat. Everyone just sits in a circle and attempts to pass the hat from head to head without using any hands. If a player drops the hat, then they are to leave the group. The last player standing wins the hat. “Banana Bump,” is a game where each player will need a banana and an orange. You place a hula hoop in the center of the room and players form a circle around it at equal distances. The goal is to push the oranges in the hula hoop with the bananas. This game is difficult and fun because the bananas are tied to the player’s waist about a foot from the ground. Players are unable to use their hands and whoever gets their orange in the hula hoop first, wins. “Guess the Number,” is a game that involves having a large glass jar filled with anything in it. Each player will write down on a slip of paper, guessing how much of what they think is in the jar. Whoever guesses closer to that exact number wins what is in the jar. Simple board games or card games could be just as fun to play too!

Decorations

The display of your party is interesting to think about also. You could decorate your drinking glasses, have lots of glitter or confetti, and even have your own theme. You could decorate your walls to make them picture friendly. You could do such things as making a countdown wall or an instagram friendly wall that spells out an inspirational phrase. The key is to be as extra as possible!

Recap

Recapping the year is a good idea that could get very exciting and interesting to have at your New Year’s party. Recapping the year involves talking with your friends and family about what happened to you within the last 365 days. Sharing memories about your year is something special, because you are able to see what kind of year you have had overall, while getting to know how another person’s year happened to go. Looking back on a year, there could be upsetting things that have happened, but then you can remind yourself that there have been good things that have happened out of the last year also.

New Year’s Resolutions

A New Year’s Resolution is an important thing to have by the end of the year. A New Year’s Resolution is something that you think of based on how your year went. It could be something that you would want to do differently for next year or just something that you would like to do next year to better yourself. A New Year’s Resolution simply just wraps up your year.

New Year’s Resolution Ideas

A New Year’s Resolution could be anything that your heart desires. Your resolution could be to learn something new each day of your next year. It could even be picking up on a new hobby, eating fewer calories, moving more, to stop procrastinating, or being more grateful. My New Year’s Resolution is going to be working on myself more. I will be doing what is best for me at all times and working on the way I react to situations. I want a better and more calm me. What will be your New Year’s Resolution?

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