New Year is always a noisy celebration. The pre-holiday bustle in the form of choosing and purchasing gifts, outfits, Christmas tree decorations, and food for preparing a dinner party brings only nervous breakdowns and fatigue to many. As usual, this holiday follows the same scenario every year. And every time we try to celebrate the coming year outside the home, outside the family, away from loved ones. The article presents reflections on the following topics: why the prospect of celebrating the New Year with our family scares us; why it is important to make this holiday truly family-friendly and what is needed for this.

New Year's Eve has long ago become for everyone a symbol of the renewal of the world created by mankind. On this magical day, December 31, until midnight, each of us gives ourselves a countless number of unshakable promises, unbreakable vows, makes a host of fulfilled or doomed desires, and, of course, prepares to begin on January 1 a completely different one, full of joy, goodness, love and happiness life.

Vanity precedes all this. Buying gifts, which in most cases are either very expensive (for extra showiness) or very similar to a ransom (after all, it’s customary to give, so you have to give something). Disputes about where to celebrate and what to wear. If you have children, then think about where to place them during the “adult” feast. If there are elderly parents, decisions are made about whether to visit them at all, and if so, how long to stay there. If you plan to visit several familiar families in the evening or night, then the order of their visits is established by quarreling and slamming doors. The options can be listed endlessly.

There is no doubt that the New Year's weekend intuitively makes us strive for a noisy, cheerful pastime due to historical background. “How you celebrate the New Year is how you will spend it,” our ancestors used to say. Therefore, January 1 has always been considered a day of idle idleness and unbridled celebrations, while December 31 was recommended to be spent quietly, boringly and sadly, so that the coming year would turn out to be joyful and blessed. Since ancient times, songs and shouts, the ringing of bells, the firing of rifles and cannons on New Year's Eve were called upon to drive out all evil spirits and call upon good spirits. Today's loud screams, explosions of firecrackers and firecrackers, small fireworks, the burning of sparklers and candles worthily continue the described ancient traditions of our country. We seem to have forgotten only one tradition amid all this external carnival: New Year - family holiday.

Most of us have a negative attitude towards all kinds of family celebrations and therefore are not eager to spend the New Year with your family. These are really not very pleasant chores: you need to clean the house, decorate the rooms, spend almost the whole day preparing holiday dishes (everything should turn out not only appetizing, but also elegant), get nervous about the money spent on food, alcohol, souvenirs, festive clothes and tinsel. In addition, almost everyone has at least 15 relatives, and you cannot invite some and not others, otherwise a mistake will result in a lifelong resentment on the part of the “rejected”. And like the apotheosis of excitement - the anticipation of the finale of the holiday. It necessarily contains, for example, immobile guests who will need to be sent home by taxi as valuable cargo. It also involves uncontrollable children who will constantly get in the way and do whatever comes into their head. And after the guests leave, the owners will be left with mountains of dirty dishes that they don’t want to wash after a whole day of cooking. As a result, there will be no pleasure left from meeting a new milestone, no strength, and no wishes for Grandfather Frost.

On the other hand, a troubling observation can be made. Everyday life - work; I want to devote my vacation to myself; Birthdays and other holidays are monotonous gatherings at the table that end the same way, so there is absolutely no desire to go there. It turns out that the family practically does not get together. And this is unfortunate, because this is exactly what our society lacks now - strong family ties. The family has been an important part of people's lives for many centuries. Everyone knew that behind him there was real support, protection, help, and this calmed him down and gave him strength. Now gender as such means nothing. He gradually lost his authority, and we, instead of returning its significance, on the contrary, in every possible way push away any opportunity to change this set of circumstances. Thus, with our own hands we make ourselves weak, and, partly, lonely.

Many European countries have their own long-standing traditions of celebrating the New Year. There are none in Russia. Noisy sleigh rides, trips abroad, trips to nightclubs, corporate parties, launching colorful lights into the sky, etc. - all these types of winter holidays take place in many parts of the planet. So why not create an authentic tradition that will not only become a distinctive feature of how Russians greet the coming year, but will also make us stronger spiritually?

There is nothing difficult about staying close to your loved ones on New Year's Eve and having fun with them. As they say, you can’t catch a fish without effort, so all family members will have to put in a little effort. It is advisable to think about the menu in advance, distribute responsibilities around the house, plan the day of December 31 so that everyone has time to take a walk together, go to the theater, to a concert, to the square where folk festivals take place, to the hill, play snowballs and carry out similar events.

In order not to turn the holiday into a dull, ordinary sitting at the table, into the process of absorbing food and alcohol, it makes sense to come up with interesting activities in advance in which the whole family will participate. Board games, watching positive New Year's themed movie(preferably without the TV - it’s better to prepare a CD of your choice), fortune balloons, gift exchange, karaoke (whoever has everything you need) - together with other exciting options, these entertainments will make staying at home, close to your loved ones, comfortable and positively saturated.

By showing imagination and involving the whole family in preparing the holiday, everyone will get the chance to give themselves the best New Year's gift, bringing together what supports a person's harmony with the world, peace of mind, and confidence in the future, despite prejudices.

Is New Year a family holiday for you?

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New Year is a good reason to add something new to your life. And it doesn’t matter whether your family is young or not - it’s never too late to resume old traditions or come up with new ones!

Perhaps it is these bright and joyful moments that your child will remember, will remember them with warmth after many years and will keep them in his family.

Here are ideas for traditions, rituals and just pleasant everyday little things that you can take note of.

- Celebrate the New Year with your family.

Make an advent calendar or countdown to the New Year.

Making Christmas decorations and making a figurine of an animal symbolizing
the coming year.

On the eve of the holiday, hide small gifts or notes from Santa Claus under the child’s pillow.

Place holiday harbingers around the apartment.

A week before the New Year, give up everything tasty so that holiday treats bring real joy not only to children, but also to adults!

- Collect unnecessary things and take them to charitable organizations.

Send homemade greeting cards.

Go to the library before the New Year and choose a thematic book there that you will read every evening.

Place books about Christmas, New Year and simply winter themes on the shelf. Read them on the eve of the holiday and throughout the winter, and then put them away again. Every year we find new books that are age-appropriate for children.

- Make a photo album with pictures of the most interesting and significant events of this year
of the year. Before the holiday, look at albums from previous years.

Write down on paper the saddest, most offensive and unpleasant moments of the past year, especially if they bother your child (or you), and burn the list.

Write a list of promises and wishes for the next year. Read it next year and note what you managed to implement. You can also cut and paste pictures from magazines if your child cannot write.

Before the New Year, change something in the interior of the house: rearrange the furniture or replace the covers and upholstery on it, change the curtains, tablecloth, towels or shower curtain.

For the holiday, take out the New Year's service and tablecloth. For example, made by yourself.

Make New Year's costumes for all family members and pets.

- Every year, arrange a photo shoot for the whole family, including grandparents and other close relatives. Or just take a photo every year in front of the Christmas tree. Over time, there will be more and more such photographs, and it will be very interesting to watch how family members change.

Make a photo album with pictures of significant events of the past year. Remember and discuss the happiest moments.

Decorate the Christmas tree, prepare salads and decorate the apartment while listening to good New Year's songs. These could be soulful retro hits of Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong or old Soviet songs.

Bake gingerbread or cookies. Collect all kinds of baking molds and decorations and make as many different gingerbread cookies as possible. Put them all in one bag and invite your guests to pull out one gingerbread at a time: what falls out is what awaits them in the coming year. You'll have to use a lot of imagination to figure out what a squirrel, clown, star or house means. You can also hang gingerbread cookies on the tree and, starting from January 1st, eat one piece at a time, and when there is not a single gingerbread left, remove the tree.

- The youngest member of the family begins to decorate the Christmas tree. You can hang a homemade toy first, for example, with the symbol of the coming year. Or start decorating the Christmas tree with a new toy every year.

When the Christmas tree is decorated, gather with the whole family and say in unison: “Christmas tree, light up!” and turn on the garland.

Figure out how to give gifts on New Year's Eve: discreetly place gifts under the tree so that the child opens them the night before or on New Year's Eve, put gifts in one large bag and then distribute them to everyone gathered, gifts are given by Santa Claus, the child finds gifts under the tree the next day morning.

Give your grandparents photo gifts every year.

Give gifts to all pets, be it a dog, a hamster or an aquarium fish.

Watch the same movie with the whole family every year, for example “Home Alone”, “Frost”, “Carnival Night”, “Miracle on 34th Street”.

- Leave a special gift under the Christmas tree for the apartment in which you live. This could be a new painting, a carpet, or even a “certificate” for installing windows or a new kitchen. And also smaller items to replace those that may have become unusable over the years: a toothbrush cup, cutting boards, a trash can or a door mat.

Make peace with friends and relatives before the New Year, ask for forgiveness, so as not to bear resentment in the coming year.

Thank each of those gathered at the table for some specific spiritual qualities or actions. Or just take turns saying compliments and kind words to each other.

Place almonds in a cake or salad. Whoever gets it will have a happy event in the New Year.

Place small gifts in slippers every day until the Old New Year, if the child did not forget to put the slippers under the Christmas tree. Also, gifts (for example, just candy) can be placed under the pillow or in a Christmas stocking.

- Every year, make a gnome from the trunk of a used Christmas tree.

On Christmas Eve (the evening before Christmas) put twelve different dishes or at least twelve different products on the table.

Fortune telling at Christmas, for example, with wax. Pour the melted wax into a bowl of water, and when it hardens, place it on a contrasting background and try to guess what kind of figure it is and what it reminds you of.

When a large family gathers around the same table, it can’t be boring. But it doesn’t hurt to diversify the holiday with fun competitions and games. How to create a fun scenario for the New Year for the family so that everyone present will be interested. What kind of quests and entertainment to choose so that both the youngest and the oldest would want to participate. We offer an interesting scenario for a home-based New Year with your family for all ages.

Scenario for the New Year at home with family: preparing a masquerade

Announce to your guests about the upcoming New Year's masquerade. You don’t even have to set a specific topic, which will allow your family to fantasize. There will be snowflakes, snow maidens, Santa Clauses, funny animals and fairy-tale characters.

Be prepared for the possibility that someone will ignore your request or be unable to find a suitable suit. Therefore, we prepare our own masks, tinsel or cool costumes.

It will be very interesting to play the costume. It’s so interesting to look at dad in the form of a bunny, or grandpa as a snowflake.

For the draw, we write the name of the hero or paste a picture with his image on a small folding postcard. We hang cards on the Christmas tree and invite our relatives to choose any card for themselves.

If you are preparing a scenario for the New Year 2018 for the family, do not forget about the main character of the holiday - the Dog. The image can be created not only with the help of a mask, but also by making ears and a tail.

Already at the beginning of the holiday, everyone will be intrigued by what kind of quest has been prepared for the family for the New Year.

Scenario for the New Year with the family - saying goodbye to the Old Year

On the eve of the New Year, it is customary to take stock of the past year. Therefore, we invite you to look back and remember all the significant events that happened to everyone.

– You can play with these memories in the form of a cool New Year’s game for the family. We read short poems. And the one who recognizes himself in them shouts loudly: “It’s me!”

Have you acquired housing?
Housewarming played in it.
Tell us without hiding,
Who is this?

Tell us all urgently
Has a son or daughter been born?
Tell us without hiding,
Who is this?

Now it will go forward
The one whose income has increased.
Tell us without hiding,
Who is this?

Who was distinguished by diligence,
Getting an education?
Tell us without hiding,
Who is this?

Who waited so long
And did he still play the wedding?
Tell us without hiding,
Who is this?

Who found his love
Which one have you been dreaming about for a long time?
Tell us without hiding,
Who is this?

Who has achieved success at work,
Not expecting such a turn?
Tell us without hiding,
Who is this?

Who had a great rest,
Haven’t you heard about the bans?
Tell us without hiding,
Who is this?

Who, wanting fun, cake and sweets,
Have you come to our New Year's banquet?
Tell us without hiding,
Who is this?

– That’s how many interesting events there were in the past year. It’s time to make a rating of the most significant and most unusual. Maybe we missed some important things? Let's raise our glasses to have a wonderful year.

We offer another New Year's entertainment for the family - a toast constructor. It is necessary to write the first part of the toast on sheets of paper in advance. The guests’ task is to come up with a cool continuation of the wish. We put the blanks with the text into a container and invite those present to draw out their toast.

- Let's drink to the Snow Maiden and Father Frost. For as long as I can remember, they.....

(….they don’t grow old, don’t get sick, and they always have money for New Year’s gifts. I wish we all were the same!)

– The Jewish Santa Claus came and said: “Hello kids!...

(……We buy gifts. Let’s drink so that your Santa Clauses are not Jewish, and your dreams come true like a fairy tale.)

– The man fell asleep right on New Year’s Day. And he sees a wonderful dream in which a beautiful stranger is next to him. I woke up after the holiday, and...

(…..there is no one nearby. Let’s raise our glasses so that good dreams come true in the New Year.)

– New Year is a holiday of fun and contrasts. It’s dark outside the window, frost and wind, but inside the house it’s warm, cheerful, the lights are sparkling, the Christmas tree is fragrant and the festive table is happy.....

(…. Let’s drink to the fact that in the New Year you won’t be frightened by contrasts. So that the storms and winds rage only outside the window, but your soul remains warm and calm.)

– Close your eyes for a second and make a wish. Did you make a wish?...

(….Now let’s drink so that Santa Claus will definitely fulfill your wishes)

– New Year and champagne are inseparable...

(... Let's drink so that in the New Year our lives will be inseparable from happiness.)

If the guest finds it difficult to come up with a continuation of the toast, give the floor to others present at the table.

New Year 2019 scenario with family: warm-up

It’s not a good idea to immediately offer guests active, dance or funny competitions for the New Year for the family. It's better to start your entertainment program with table games or quizzes.

Quiz “Where does Santa Claus live”

To celebrate the New Year with your family, we include a cool quiz in the script: “Where does Santa Claus live?”

“Everyone is used to the fact that Santa Claus gives us gifts for the New Year. Many people are also familiar with Santa Claus, who comes to the children of America.

But the world is so big that these popular grandfathers are not able to bypass everyone with congratulations.

So, are children from Brazil and India, Vietnam and Congo left without gifts? Of course not. There are many Santa Clauses. Moreover, each has its own name.

Before the New Year, the grandfathers gathered in the bathhouse for a meeting. They drank a glass of strong drink and took off their fur coats and caftans. And then a messenger from Brazil is looking for his commander-in-chief. But the grandfathers already barely remember what country they came from. And the outfits are all mixed up. We'll have to help Frosts decide on their origin and guess where grandfather came from.

• Came from the Netherlands;
• Lives in the Kremlin;
• Gives all students good grades.

• Grandfather grants wishes that are spoken in obscene language;
• Came from Germany;
• Santa Claus of Landsknechts.

• Came from Hawaii;
• Loves to sail in gondoliers along the Venice Canal;
• An intern for our Santa Claus, overly curious. Therefore, experienced grandfathers shout to the young: “Kana, Kaloka, from here.”

• Grandfather arrived from Italy;
• Santa Claus of the Colombian drug mafia;
• Papa's brother Carlo, who, out of envy of his relative's popularity, began to study as Santa Claus. But I haven’t found shelter yet.

• Ded Moroz of transvestites;
• Came from Italy;
• New Year's symbol of the Amazons.

• This is the historical Santa Claus. He congratulated Khan Mamai himself on the holiday. There they began to respectfully call him: “Popeye”;
• The same Grandfather from Brazil;
• Grandfather's fate is very difficult. He congratulated the British, but all the gifts were inappropriate, for which he constantly heard: “Yohar Papaya.” Later he escaped to a French colony. Grandfather also failed to please the aborigines. Here they shouted to him: “Noel,” that is, “I’m tired of my ale.”

Right answers:

Sunderclass - from the Netherlands;
Weihnachtsmann - from Germany;
Kanakaloka - lives in Hawaii;
Papa Pasquale - brings gifts to the Colombian drug mafia;
Fairy Befanu - from Italy;
Popeye Noel is from Brazil, where there are many wild monkeys.

Those who guess the correct answers to a fun quiz are given small souvenirs: candies, nuts, tangerines. And, of course, we pour glasses to congratulate the winners and celebrate the New Year once again.

Table game "Pig Waltz"

- The chimes will strike very soon. And the mistress of the New Year, the Pig, has not yet joined us. To attract her attention to our cheerful banquet, we will sing her a song in her native language.

Let’s play the children’s song “The Little Christmas Tree is Cold in Winter”:

The guests grunt to the music of a familiar children's song.

Scenario for celebrating the New Year at home with family

The chimes are striking - the New Year has arrived. It's time to give gifts and congratulate each other. Children are happy to take out gifts from under the tree.

The New Year's greeting scenario at home with your family can be supplemented with a couple of cool competitions and games.

Cool gifts

We hang multi-colored flags on the tree in advance, which can be easily removed.

There should be as many of them as there are guests. You can prepare 2–3 flags for each person present.

On the back of the flags are written quatrains or riddles telling which gift the guest won. Accordingly, the same gifts should be in the bag of the presenter or Santa Claus.

Options for labels on flags

For soft skin

Apply the desired...(Cream)

This fruit is in a bright shirt

Likes it to be hot.

Doesn't grow among aspens

Round red... (Orange)

We will give you an elegant, fragrant, delicious, chocolate cheese.

If you touch it, it will immediately rattle

And the baby will be surprised.

What is this bright toy?

For the baby... (Rattle)

Take me,

Wash, bathe,

And what am I -

Guess quickly

And know:

It would be a big disaster

Whenever, not me and not the water... (Soap)

To always be neat, hurry to get toothpaste.

Lined up into squares

Wrapped in silver

How do you unfold it?

Instantly you will understand

That a sweet treasure was found.

This is delicious...(Chocolate)

Your winnings are a little original - you got a baby pacifier.

Without wasting a word,
It is always ready to say
Whether the hairstyle suits or not,
Does the color of the suit look good?
It won't hurt to lose weight.
Who can guess what this is?... (Mirror)

Elastic band – Akulinka
I went for a walk along the back.
And while she was walking,
The back has become pink... (Washcloth)

By chance you got this tea on your ticket.

I'm gentle, smooth in flight,
If the holiday is “The most important”.
Children need air like they need it,
I'm cheerful...(balloon)

You look great: both clothes and hairstyle, and as a reward it was not in vain that you won... (Comb)

Dishwasher... (Washing mesh)

Must always be in your pocket
At Nadyusha, Bori, Tanya,
Aunt Vera, Uncle Petya
And for all the people in the world.
It’s impossible to live without it!
We must take it with us, friends,
To the theatre, park or skating rink
Clean...(Handkerchief)

The lights are on, the engine is humming
Tires on wheels
Dashing along the road
Us in ourselves... (Machine)

Its leaves are white and white,
They don't fall from branches.
We make mistakes on them
Among the stripes and cells... (Notebook)

For different records, for important records
Will last you a whole year
Instead of incomprehensible scraps of paper
Item called...(Notepad)

Wonderful thing
This ballpoint...(Pen)

She pinches her finger tightly,
And the linen grabs tenaciously.
It's called...(Clothespin)

He's black as the devil.
Hot as poison!
He is pure like an angel
And tender as love... (Coffee)

Comic predictions

What would a New Year be without fortune telling and predictions? After all, I really want to look into the future. Therefore, we propose to include comic predictions in the New Year 2018 scenario with your family.

Write your predictions on small pieces of paper. Remove the wrappers from the sweets and wrap the finished predictions in them. We invite relatives to take out the candy and read what awaits them in the New Year.

Options for cool predictions:

From a bad habit in the New Year
You will definitely get rid of it.
But here's the problem: instead of one
Two new ones will replace them.

The cockroaches in your head will have a very fun year.

You will spend your vacation at sea,
You will warm both body and soul.
You spend the entire amount, you get burned five times,
You'll gain six kilograms.

Next year your friends will not forget you. You can't forget someone who owes you money.

Smile always, smile everywhere,
Smile on land and water!
Fate will repay you for your smiles
A couple of wrinkles and a lot of dough!

Next year all your problems will go away. Because even they are bored with you...

Either you eat it, or you pump it up,
Either you sit in a chair -
Know that next year
You will grow your butt significantly.

Your life next year will be as multifaceted as a glass. Well, you understand…

If you start kissing
Every day for half an hour,
All dreams will begin to come true.
Life will be filled with miracles!

Your dreams will gain strength and declare war on your sofa.

Have a higher power for you
Disappointing forecast:
New Year promises you
Love madness!

Next year you will understand that your inner core is an awl in one place.

If you can, without being lazy,
Plow like a horse on Thursdays
Fate will open the way for you
To big, big money.

Next year, your body will decide for itself when it sleeps, where it sleeps and with whom it sleeps. Don't contradict him - he knows better!

If you walk across the field,
You will find money in the field;
When you find the money,
You'll spend it all on carousing.

You will spend your vacation where everything is inclusive - with relatives.

Go around three miles
Talkative hairdresser:
Shreds at random
And he'll cut off your ear!

If you get bored, sing romances. Your finances will always keep you company.

We need to forget for a year
About cognac, tequila, vodka.
Otherwise you will
In crime reports.

The bad news: you'll gain weight. The good news is that the increase will occur in the wallet area.

Musical program for the New Year for the family

It's time for fun. Therefore, we feel free to include active and fun competitions for the New Year 2018 for the family.

Guess the melody from the movie

We select films for the New Year for the whole family and invite guests to guess the melodies from them.

An example of popular family and New Year's films with excerpts of songs:

12 chairs

watch out for the car

The Diamond Arm

The most charming

Gentlemen of Fortune

Ghost

Sannikov Land

Love and pigeons

Caucasian captive

Those who guess the melody go out onto the dance floor. At the end of the competition, we congratulate the winners. And we suggest continuing with a musical moment.

We turn on lively music and invite all relatives to join a fun dance flash mob.

After a lively musical release, you can refresh yourself. A hot dish and delicious salads are already waiting for guests on the festive table.

Musical horoscope

We all, or almost all, believe in horoscopes. Therefore, it is worth getting acquainted with the predictions of the Eastern sages.

We include the horoscope in the program in the form of a musical game for the New Year for the family.

Horoscope for those born in the year of the Pig:

- A wedding awaits you.

We turn on the track “Oh, this wedding..”

– Why such perplexed looks? Unmarried people will find their soul mate, and married people will enjoy hanging out at their wedding.

Horoscope for Mice and Paints:

We turn on the track “Weekend”

-Yes Yes. Work comes first. And you will have to catch the buzz on weekends.

Horoscope for those born in the year of the Ox:

Play the track “You are always with me”

- Oh, friendship, love. These are such colorful prospects.

Horoscope for harsh Tigers:

Turn on the melody "Paris"

- We're learning French. Beautiful Paris awaits you.

Horoscope for Rabbits:

Let's play the song "Sponges with a bow"

- Yes, it will be a real miracle.

What awaits those born in the year of the Dragon:

Play the track "Playboy"

- Men, calm down. This is a horoscope for the female half. I have another horoscope ready for you.

Play the track “3 wishes”

- Believe me, they will definitely come true this year.

What awaits the Snake in the New Year:

Play the track “Happiness”

– Oh, happiness with a loved one or beloved.

Horoscope for Horse:

We turn on the melody “I will become rich”

“No one doubted that wealth awaited the hardworking horse.”

Horoscope for Goat:

Play the track “Real Man”

- Let's hope that everything will be so.

What the New Year promises for the Monkey:

We turn on a musical excerpt: “Love will come to you too”

-True love awaits you.

Horoscope for Rooster:

Play the track “I’ll go live in London”

– Have you really decided to change your place of residence?

Prediction for Dogs:

Turn on the music: “Everything will be awesome”

- Yes, it can’t be any other way.

- So let’s pour glasses. I propose to drink to changes for the better.

The holiday continues. If you wish, you can include other interesting competitions and games in the family New Year scenario.

Video: New Year's scenario with competitions

Several fun and exciting competitions with detailed instructions in the video:

Family New Year: games for children and adults, competitions, script, free materials for printing.

Family New Year

For our family, New Year is not only a feast under the tree, but also pleasant moments of communication with each other. And without interesting competitions, riddles and various unexpected magical surprises and inventions, the New Year holidays lose their charm. And in creativity, the family unites and inspiration and new ideas are born!

We usually prepare the holiday very quickly - literally in a few hours in the last days before New Year. We cook along the way, discussing it on the way to the store or in transport, as well as at night, so that no one hears anything from our surprises. And costumes are born from various improvised things. Baba Yaga appears from an ordinary robe, a scarf on her head and a broom or mop in her hands. The snowman is made from a sheet stretched over a gymnastics hoop, onto which snowflakes are sewn. Koschey - from a tracksuit, a swimming cap on his head and a couple of lines of makeup on his face. Such characters are not scary and are very funny, making everyone laugh.

This is not a fictional script, it is a heartfelt, humorous family holiday at home or with guests. It is conducted without rehearsals and is based on improvisation.

Family New Year Scenario No. 1.

We played out this scenario in the coming New Year 2015. But you can use it not only on New Year’s Eve, but also on any day when guests with children come to your house.

Let's start like this.

Act 1. New Year's letter from Koshchei.

When the New Year comes and it's time to find gifts under the tree, guests find a very beautiful holiday envelope under the tree. Joyful, they open the envelope and read the message. And there!!! No, it’s not a Happy New Year greeting! In the envelope, instead of congratulations, there is a letter from Koshchei the Immortal!

Here it is: “Happy New Year! Hahaha! Did you want gifts?! Ha! You won't have a happy new year! I stole Santa Claus and hid New Year's happiness in a hot country. Soon Santa Claus will melt! You'll never find it! Koschey." (You can download this letter by clicking on the link and print it on a printer on a sheet of A4 paper) -

Act 2. New Year's trip around the countries.

We need to go save Santa Claus and we set off on a journey to look for a hot country, Santa Claus and New Year's happiness. Along the way we find ourselves in different countries and in games we learn a lot of interesting and funny things about them.

The first game. First we all play together "Guess what." Questions are asked about how the New Year is celebrated in different countries. In the game you need to guess whether it is true or not. If this is a lie, then it needs to be corrected to the truth. You can come up with similar questions about Christmas.

Examples of tasks for the game:

— In Italy, there is a tradition at the very last minute before the New Year to throw broken dishes, old clothes and even furniture out of the window. Is this true or not?

— In Germany, Santa Claus comes to children on an elephant. Is this true or not? If not on an elephant, then on what? Guess it :-).

Tasks for this game at the holiday (questions and correct answers to them) You can download for free

With small children, during this game, you can depict how we are either flying on an airplane, or riding a train, or sailing on a ship from one country to another. And the adults will guess. So we will entertain both children and adults in this game.

Second game. Nonsense. In the game you have to guess the meaning of words. As a linguodidact by profession (i.e., a person involved in language teaching methods), I could not help but include humorous language puzzles for adults in the script. Almost all the adult guests asked to give them tasks from this game so that they could play with their guests later :). Therefore, be prepared - and print out several copies of the tasks for the game in advance.

Examples of tasks for this game. Guess what it is?

— What is “toadstool” translated from Czech: a) poisonous mushroom, b) buckwheat, c) an unpleasant incident?

— What is “bun” translated from Bulgarian: a) homemade baked goods, b) plump, c) bride, d) cake?

Want to know the answers? Then download the questions and answers from the links below:

You can play this game not only during the New Year holidays, but also at any family holiday.

While we are guessing these 12 questions, we are moving through the fairy forest to the fairy hut. The travel map helps us with this. The correct answer to one question in the game of nonsense is our one step forward to the hut. We move the chip across the field.

Action No. 3. Baba-Yaga's tasks.

We find ourselves in Baba Yaga's hut. Yes, this is exactly what was drawn on our travel map. We remember how to get into the hut and together we ask the hut to turn “its back to the forest, and its front to me.”

Baba Yaga greets us very politely and in a fairy-tale way: “You are my killer whales, where did you come from? On what business did the boyars and merchants pass by my hut?”

She agrees to help us in the search for Santa Claus and New Year's happiness, but only if we complete her tasks.

Baba Yaga gives separate tasks to adults and children.

The task for children is riddles - deceptions. They are structured in such a way that some of the riddles require an answer in rhyme, and some - not in rhyme. You need to be careful and not make mistakes! Not only children, but also their mothers and even fathers are happy to guess deceptions. And adults make mistakes no less often than children!

You can give chips for correct answers in this game (if even 7 people answered correctly at the same time, we give each of them a chip). At the end of the game, we count the chips and give small surprises to everyone who has at least one chip.

Riddles - rhyming tricks alternate with regular riddles to confuse players. You can deliberately pronounce out loud the first syllable of an incorrect word in deception.

TRICK RIDDLES FOR KIDS:

"Night. Winter. There are stars in the sky.
The kids are sleeping, it's too late,
The moon in the sky is a horn,
A little white thing fell... (snowball)

Well, the dresses are all needles -
They wear it all the time... (Christmas trees)

Many, many, many years
Grandfather gives us gifts,
Gives a Christmas tree, congratulations,
This holiday is Day... (this is the New Year holiday)

Sticky needles
At the elegant... (Christmas tree)

Down the street with grandpa
Rushing in a sleigh... (Snow Maiden)

Who is he with the white beard?
Himself ruddy and gray-haired,
He is better and kinder than everyone else!
Did you guess it? -...Barma... (lei?!) (No. Santa Claus)

Who came from afar

Is it slightly covered in snow?

Who brought us gifts?

All the guys like it

Green beauty.

Balls, needles

January begins
Need a new one... (calendar)

Come to our ball!
So that no one recognizes you,
Let your mothers sew for you
Carnival... Pi -...? jams? (no, costumes!)

We looked out the window,
I can’t believe my eyes!
Everything around is white - white
And it’s sweeping... (blizzard)

The bright shine of silver
Sparkled... (tinsel)

Forget about whims
Candy for everyone, surprises for everyone!
There is no need to cry on New Year's Day,
There, under the tree, ... an old bast shoe?!!! (no, gifts!)

Comes to visit us
Leads round dances,
Celebrates the New Year
Helps grandfather.
Thin figure -
Granddaughter - (Snow Maiden).

To make the night bright,
We need to help Grandfather.
All children say on holiday
In chorus: “Christmas tree, ... go out?” (no, Christmas tree, burn!)

Bang! Papers like from a cannon
Flying out of... (crackers)

I love skating on ice.
Hooray! Winter is getting closer!
I'll go to the skating rink with friends
And there I’ll put on… skis? (no, skates)

Flew, spun,

I fell onto the path,

And sparkles like a piece of ice

Soars up with a roar
Multi-colored... (fireworks)

We can do it without mistakes
Name all the months of winter.
Let's call first.
Of course, this month is... May? (no, December)

New Year! There's no better day
For Bengal... (fire)

The snow woman has a funny nose
It's a long, bright vegetable!
Now we need to think together,
Which vegetable should we choose?
Who guessed it - well done!
Of course it's... a cucumber? (no, carrot)

Near the Christmas tree on New Year's Day
Children lead... (round dance)

Get into a round dance,

Santa Claus will come soon!

He walks along a quiet street

With granddaughter... (Snow Maiden)

Are you my friend or not,
Get into the circle quickly!
Holding hands, kids
They drive together...? by the nose of the bear? (no, they dance in a circle)

We made a snowball
They made a hat on him,
The nose was attached and in an instant
It turned out... (Snowman)

We will start a “war” in winter,
Let's build a snow fortress!
What are we going to “fight” with?
Every “warrior” should know!
Guess quickly, my friend,
Round ball - ... (snowball)

Santa Claus came to us,
He brought his young granddaughter.
The children are waiting for her gift -
This girl is...a mermaid?! (no, this is Snegurochka).

Who is Santa Claus' helper?
Who has a carrot instead of a nose?
Who is all white, clean, fresh?
Who is made of snow? -...Leshy? (No, Snowman)

Look through the crack of the door -
You will see our Christmas tree.
Our tree is tall
Reaches to the ceiling.
From stand to crown
Hanging on the branches... (Toys.)

Here she is, beauty
Everything is shimmering!
They brought it in from the cold,
This tree is... Birch? (no, Christmas tree)

Houses and parks are covered in snow,

Everything became white and white,

It's snowing outside the window,

The river hid under... (ice)

Two birch horses
They carry me through the snow.
These red horses
And their names are... (skis)

We eat this fruit on New Year's Eve,

A magical smell comes into the house with it.

Santa Claus eats with gusto

Orange and round... apricot? (mandarin)

Bouquets of roses on the window
Draws for us...
(Father Frost)

Gray beard overgrown
Good old …
(Father Frost)

Paints the nose red
To all the guys...
(Father Frost)

Pulled girls to tears
For the pigtails...
(not Santa Claus, but a bully)

The shawl shines silver on the branches of birch trees,
This outfit gave...
(Father Frost)

Who brought us gifts?
Well, of course, …
(Father Frost)

Electric locomotive on New Year's Day
Gave me...
(Father Frost)

He grew up in hot Africa,
Black...
(not Santa Claus, but a black man)

Plucked us all seriously
Winter morning...
(Father Frost)

I didn’t freeze in the bitter cold,
I'm only happy about the cold...
(Father Frost)

There’s a whole cartload of “twos” in the school
Earned...
(not Santa Claus, but...)

On Women's Day, a bouquet of mimosas
Gives to mom...
(not Santa Claus, but dad or son)"

The task for adults is a question-answer game. You need to tell the whole truth about yourself in this game.

You will need:

- printed tickets with questions and answers for the game (download them from the link below, print them on a printer and cut them so that there is only one question or one answer on one narrow strip),

- two opaque gift bags. Put the questions in one bag and the answers in the other.

How to play:

The first player draws one question strip from the question bag and reads it out loud to the player to his left. The second player pulls out his answer to this question from the answer bag.

The result is often very funny combinations. We have this game going around for several rounds because everyone really likes it.

In this game, children can help adults by pulling strips from bags. Many kids do this with great pleasure.

Act 4. The riddle of Baba-Yaga.

For completing tasks we receive help from Baba Yaga. Like this:

In our case, we hid the letter under the largest flower in the house (a rose). Under the flower there is a trolley - a gurney. There was a note under the gurney. So we came up with this riddle:

“Find the largest tree in the whole area (meaning in the apartment). Under the tree is a magical object. It contains 4 skewers, 2 sticks and 1 bed. Today he is here, and tomorrow he is there. Under this object you will find an assistant.”

And you can come up with your own riddle. Here riddle form, in which you can fill out the frame yourself -

Action 5. We receive an assistant and a hint.

In our appointed place in the apartment (under our cart with a large rose) we find a helper - a hint. There is another mystery in it. And it contains the answer to where Koshchei hides Father Frost and our happiness in the coming year.

The riddle is complex: “There are blue flowers in the iron flowerbed - they help to cook any kind of food.” If the players do not guess, then there is a riddle below - a hint from which it is immediately clear that the hot country is located... in our kitchen! Next to the stove or in the stove! Let's go there!

(My husband and I thought for a long time about where to hide the gifts - and decided that in a hot country, we obviously only have a stove, or rather an oven. We came up with the riddle ourselves).

Act 6. Save Santa Claus and find New Year's happiness.

We come to the kitchen and find another sheet with tasks there. It turns out that Santa Claus is protected by security. And we need to speak her teeth to save them. We play tongue twisters - “we charm the teeth of the guards”, at the same time we find out and discuss what this Russian expression means (to distract the interlocutor with extraneous conversations). You can use any tongue twisters for this game. We had these this year.

Having passed through security, we find ourselves at the stove. And we find in it a bag with a toy Santa Claus and gifts, as well as another bag called “New Year's Happiness.”

What is this bag of happiness - I’ll tell you more. It contains New Year's wishes. Each wish is printed on a piece of paper. A sheet of paper is wrapped several times (the result is a dense lump 2-3 cm in size) and packed in corrugated colored paper (like a bag). The bag is tied with a narrow gold ribbon. Everyone pulls out their bag, unties it and reads out what their wish is for the New Year.

Wishes can be different - you can find them on the Internet and change them a little - rhyme them to suit your family.

For example:

Wish 1. “Many incidents await you
And interesting travels -
For courses, on vacation, abroad -
Where fate will decide!

Wish 2. “You will, my friend, continue to
Burn with creative work.
But you won't burn your wings,
Take care of your health!”

Wish 3. “Your hairstyle, appearance
It will pleasantly surprise us all.
From then on you will continue to
Keep getting prettier and younger!”

Family New Year Scenario No. 2.

If you are going on a visit, it will be difficult to fully implement the first scenario without prior preparation. But this does not mean that the games are cancelled. You can play different games right at the table.

What you can do at a home party as a guest:

- play game "Question and answer"(see description and download file above).

- And also play the games described above: “Nonsense”, “Guess It: A Journey Through Countries” and “Riddles - Tricks”. For the correct answer in each of these games, we give chips to each player who said the correct answer. If five people answered correctly, then we give an incentive chip to each of the five. At the end of the game we count the chips. Whoever collects the most chips gets the right to be the first to take the bag of happiness and read the wish out loud from it so that it comes true.

- play a game Activity (ready-made board and printed game).

- play games “Bundle”, “Changes”, “Win-Win Lottery”. We played these games last New Year, so we didn’t repeat them. And you can read about these and other fun games with guests at a family holiday in the article

I wish everyone a happy New Year and Christmas holidays! And let the games on family New Year's holiday bring joy and creative ideas to your home, unite your family and strengthen it!

You will find a complete collection of games for a family holiday, medals, certificates, chips for game winners, masks for staging in the book

You will find more games for the family New Year in the site article

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What are family traditions? With a high degree of probability, it can be assumed that when the phrase “family traditions” is mentioned, most people have associations with the words “home”, “relatives”, “parents”, “children”.
And indeed, if you close your eyes and mentally say the word “childhood”, then, along with loved ones and family and the homeliness of your parents’ home, other associations arise in the human mind, something that is unique only to your family. It is precisely this “something” that can be called a family tradition.

These memories are very deep in the human consciousness, since the actions that we mean by the concept of “family traditions” have been repeated many times since early childhood. If your family did not have established traditions, other memories from childhood loom large in your memory - usually bright and colorful, but often they are not related to the family.

It is also characteristic that in human memory not only the tradition itself is stored, but also the smallest details associated with it - starting with a special method of preparing seasoning for dumplings, and ending with such little things as a place to store an album with photographs of children.

Our favorite holiday of the year is approaching - New Year. For most people, New Year is a family holiday with its own traditions and customs. Family traditions bring all relatives closer together, making a family a family, and not just a community of relatives by blood. Home customs and rituals can become a kind of vaccination against the alienation of children from their parents and their mutual misunderstanding. And New Year's celebrations are perfect for this purpose!

Everyone is preparing to welcome the coming year in their own way. Some people get together with the whole family on the eve of the holiday and go buy a Christmas tree that everyone likes, some make New Year's toys with their children every year and decorate the Christmas tree, and some go to celebrate the New Year with their loved ones or friends. All these are wonderful New Year traditions that play an important role in the development of personality (especially if there is a child in the family). After all, a family is not just loving parents, but also its own traditions. By observing them, the child feels like one of the participants and organizer of the holiday, and subsequently becomes a self-confident optimist.

All these are wonderful New Year traditions that play an important role in the development of personality (especially if there is a child in the family). After all, a family is not just loving parents, but also its own traditions. By observing them, the child feels like one of the participants and organizer of the holiday, and subsequently becomes a self-confident optimist.

Do you have your own traditions for celebrating the New Year? If there is, that’s great, but if not, then maybe get them? After all, all traditions once had their beginning! It makes sense to do this both for our own sake (to create a festive mood and vivid memories of the past holiday), and for the sake of our children. After all, their own family happiness largely depends on how cozy and comfortable they feel with their family.

For example, some families have the following New Year traditions:
1. The New Year tree is installed 2 weeks before the New Year and remains until Epiphany. The selection, purchase, installation and decoration of the Christmas tree is carried out by the whole family.

2. Walking through the evening city, decorated with bright holiday illuminations, a romantic dinner in a cafe and buying several new toys for your New Year tree.

3. Buying New Year's outfits for a fun carnival held on December 31 in the family circle with friends. These are different New Year's costumes, masks, ears, horns, in general, everything that can be useful for organizing a fun New Year's evening.

4. When going on a visit, we take with us a pre-prepared bag of New Year's gifts, put on masks, wigs, false noses and go to congratulate the whole family with neighbors, friends, close relatives (parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts...).

5. Exactly at midnight, at the chime of the clock, on December 31, for 1 minute, everyone makes their cherished wishes and lights sparklers.

6. An hour before the New Year, you can write a letter to yourself. In the letter we describe our plans, dreams and hopes, wishes to ourselves and loved ones. The letters are put into envelopes, sealed and waiting in the wings - the next New Year. It will be interesting to read them in a year.

7. A few days before the New Year, invite your baby’s friends to visit and arrange a party for them with New Year’s treats, competitions, games and, of course, gifts. Organize a real carnival with New Year's costumes and outfits.

8. Keep a family history. Get together as a family and write down all the important family events of the past year. These could be the personal achievements of each family member, or they could be memories of where they managed to visit this year. It all depends on your imagination.

9. Making Christmas tree decorations with the whole family (or with friends) indicating the upcoming New Year is a mandatory New Year’s tradition. A few years later, you will look with admiration at toys made, it would seem, quite recently.

10. On the box of Christmas tree decorations that we take out every year from our mezzanines, write New Year’s wishes for the upcoming New Year to each other. How nice it will be to read them next year in preparation for the New Year holidays.

These, of course, are not all New Year’s traditions - and only you, with your imagination and creativity, can multiply them and create the atmosphere of a real family holiday. Create your own family traditions and treasure them carefully! But whether these are difficult-to-perform home performances, a special New Year's dish, or a family song performed at the festive table or under the Christmas tree is not so important. The main thing is that after many, many years, your now grown-up child remembers the family New Year with joy and hidden sadness and wants to revive the traditions of his parents’ home in his own family.

Happy upcoming holiday!

The material was prepared by Voronina I.A., deputy. head according to UVR

based on materials from the site www.7ya.ru