For a child, the holiday begins with preparations - the children are always enthusiastically participating in all pre-New Year "procedures." Be sure to involve the child in decorating the Christmas tree and preparing a festive table. It's great if you make some decorations for a Christmas tree and an interior with your own hands. Remember the school lessons of labor - for sure you can show the child how to make a garland, glue the beautiful flashlights, cut snowflakes from napkins and decorate the usual plastic Christmas balls from the store. Along with Christmas-tree toys, hang on the Christmas tree delicious jewelry - sweets, nuts in foil.
Ask the child to help you with the preparation of the treats. Let's have simple and interesting tasks: for example, suggest strung multicolored fruit or biscuit canapés. Bake together the "New Year" cookies - in the form of Christmas trees and little animals, show your baby how you can decorate it.
If you invited Father Frost and the Snow Maiden home - prepare with the child for the arrival of dear guests - learn a song, a poem or a dance. Invite the baby to cook and small gifts - for example, homemade Christmas cards.
Carnival costumes are a bright component of the holiday. Sew or buy a child outfit of his favorite fairy-tale hero. It's great if you can arrange a costume party. Entertain guests with fabulous mini-productions - for this you can use children's musical tales on discs. Or - write the script yourself. Do not engage in long performances - a 10-minute fairy tale is enough to make the children enjoy participating in the production and not get tired. Ask an adult to take a video. After the performance, arrange a standing ovation with the presentation of gifts.
A great idea of how to give a gift to a child for the New Year is a "treasure map". Under the Christmas tree the child finds an "old scroll", and, with his help, begins traveling around the apartment in search of treasures (as an option - a bag of gifts from Santa Claus, which he hid for the baby). You can make the task more interesting - cut the map into several parts and hide in different places, and under the tree leave instructions for their search. Fill the journey with a variety of adventures, riddles, puzzles. If there are two or more children, tasks that require team cohesion and mutual support are ideal. Here, some variants of tasks:
- unravel the rebus
- draw a drawing - for example, add to the portrait of Santa Claus the necessary details - beard, bag, etc.
- pretend to be an animal (for example, a bunny) to outsmart "villains"
- game "do not wet your legs" - children should move along the intended route without stepping on the floor - using different furniture, ropes and "bridges" built for this occasion by parents. At this entertainment it is important to remember about safety, parents should be sure of the reliability of the constructions and insure the children in the process of the game.
- to find any objects to the touch - artifacts that fit into the script (for example - the key from the chest, etc.). For this task you need an opaque bag, the artifact itself and filler - for example - dry beans or kegs from the Russian lotto.
- get into the target (use darts, or - the usual basket and ball)
Another version of how to give a gift to a child for the New Year: on the Whatman sheet make and beautifully complete the crossword. Pick up not very complicated, but funny questions with the New Year theme. From letters, in the selected squares, ask the child to make up a word (for example, this may be the name of the gift, or the place where the surprise is hidden).
It is possible to arrange a merry unfolding of presents by the whole family, or a children's company: all gifts are packed in as many layers of packaging as many people participate in the holiday. On each layer, the names of those present are written (one name - once on each layer). The name of the person to whom the gift is intended should be written on the innermost layer of the package. Now - handing: gifts take in turn, and give that guest whose name is written on the outer packaging. He removes the top layer of the package and passes it to the other participant, the one whose name has appeared in sight. And so on. In the end, a gift, it turns out the one to whom it was intended.
If there is not much preparation time, you can, at least, arrange a game in the spider web: the gift hides somewhere in the room, a long string is attached to it, then the entire room becomes entangled with this rope - the cord is passed through the furniture handles, wrapped around the handles of furniture around the legs of chairs, etc. The essence - the child, taking, for the "tail" of the rope should unravel the whole spider web and get to the gift.
Thinking about how to give a child a gift for the New Year, remember - the process should enthrall, in the first place, the baby himself. Take into account his age and range of interests. Do not try his patience for too long - it can bring frustration and smear the effect of surprise.
And, a few words about the gifts themselves. As already mentioned, the choice is great. How to please a baby? For young children, clothing is not a gift. The greatest pleasure is delivered by toys. And, a beautiful dress - can complement. It is important not to disappoint the baby: he will be upset if he does not get what he longed for. Well, when there are several gifts - it is not necessary to give something very expensive - let the variety be better. Pay attention to the numerous sets for creativity presented in children's stores - developing gifts - that's it! It's great if, in addition to toys, sweets and new clothes, the child will receive an invitation to new impressions. What it can be depends on the age and preferences of your baby. Here are a few ideas for every taste:
- tickets to the water park
- excursion to a secret bunker
- a trip to the children's kart
- horseriding
- training with an instructor on the climbing wall
- air flight
- masterclass in the drawing of sand \ stained glass \ pottery circle, etc.
- recording a song performed by a child in a professional music studio.