Celebrations and Resolutions
Everyone likes to celebrate the New Year and kids are no exception ...
although often the children are sent to bed while the adults have all the fun!
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New Years Eve Party Game
by linette on December 12th, 2008
New Year eves party games don’t have to be complicated to be fun. Here are a few ideas to get you rolling.
- Get out some board games like Pictionary, Scene It, or Partini
- Come up with your own trivia game where you have guests answer questions about events that have happened over the last year. You can use local, national, or celebrity news, or a mixture of all of them to create your questions.
- You can turn the trivia game into a fun game of charades, where someone acts out an event from the last year, and the other guests try to figure out what event they’re doing.
- Play bits of old songs, and have your guests guess what year they came out, the artist, and the title.
- Have everyone write down their New Years resolution on a slip of paper, then put them all in a hat, draw them out and read them while you have all the guests guess who’s resolution it is.
Whatever games you decide to play, have fun with it, and don’t forget to let the guests have some time to mingle and chat.
Confetti Tubes
If your kids are too young to stay up late don't let that stop you from celebrating. Make confetti tubes by placing confetti, either store bought or make your own with a hole puncher and paper, inside a toilet paper tube and wrap it up with decorative paper. Tie the ends with ribbon and place these on your holiday table. Before going to bed go outside and yell Happy New Year. Tear the ribbon of the confetti favors and let your kids have a ball throwing the confetti. (even if it isn't midnight kids will love this activity.)
Set up teams with 2-4 players on each team.
For each team you'll need one T- shirt and one plastic storage bag.
Everyone remembers their very first slip and slide out in the yard on a hot summer day. Here's a variation.
Basically, it's every man for himself dodge-ball. A group of students...
This is a crazy scavenger hunt where each team has a disposable camera and a vehicle to get around town in...
For serious ball throwers you can have something set up for them but for those little ones you might want to set up a game for them as well.
Take a piece of plywood or foam board and cut a hole in it. You'll need one package of 5" beanbags that you can find on our site.
In Cub Scouting, leadership is the ability to accomplish the Cub Scout program in an efficient, safe and effective manner.
While the world is changing by leaps and bounds, let's not get too caught up in the change to leave behind the positive values of the past and present.
This holiday season is a time for focusing more on good cheer, and serving others. We reach beyond ourselves and give to others.
Great quick dessert for the family and kids alike.
Nice snack to make for the holidays.
Spray large bowl with vegetable spray. Combine popcorn, gumdrops and peanuts in bowl.
Combine 1/2 of the grape juice, lemonade, and strawberries in a blender
Combine grapes, oranges, pineapple, pear, and banana in a large bowl.
Cover a cookie sheet with wax paper. Melt chips in microwave for 1 minute...
Over low heat melt butterscotch chips in condensed milk....
Cut mozzarella into 2 inch strips and wrap in egg roll wrappers. Deep fry until brown.
Preheat oven to 400ºF. Roll pizza dough out onto floured surface. Cut into squares....
Mix ingredients together in large container and serve with ice. Makes about 8 cups.....
Add ingredients together in pitcher. Then freeze until mixture is slushy....
Fun to make while you are waiting for the countdown to begin.
Make a journal for the new year to record your thoughts through out the year. You pick the date.
Ring in the new year wearing a festive hat made from a visor.
No celebration is complete without tambourine music!
Christmas table or Blue & Gold Banquet Log Centerpiece
Spruce up your Christmas table or Blue & Gold Banquet with this attractive Log Centerpiece made from a recycled can.
This craft is easy to do and fun to make. Keep those little ones busy making these easy decorations for their tree.
These recycled multipurpose buckets are great for Cub scouts or campers. You can personalize them, store your rain gear inside and even use them as a stool.
Personalize your drink coasters with this excellent themed craft. Your kids can customize them for special occasions like New Years, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and more.
This will be a fun keepsake to make. Having a party? Make one for all your guests to take home as a keepsake!
Make a Christmas jigsaw game. Gather 10-20 cards and cut each one into 3 or 4 pieces, using straight lines.
Napkin rings
Make simple napkin rings for the Christmas table by cutting colorful strips from your Christmas cards and stapling them to form a loop.
Get the children used to the numbers of the New Year by letting them create their own crafty collage.
Equipment needed: three coloured felt pens for each team, masking tape, sheets of newspaper.
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On New Year's Day
On New Year's Day a year ago,I started off the yearby making resolutionsthat were probably severe.I said I'd save my money,as this seemed so very wise.I vowed I would improve my health.I swore I'd exercise.I stated I would do my homeworkevery single day.I'd brush my teeth religiouslyto ward off tooth decay.I'd eat my fruits and vegetablesand keep my bedroom clean.I'd treat my sister kindlythough she's often very mean.My resolutions lasted meabout a half a day.I promised I would keep thembut I broke them anyway.So now I'm fat and penniless.My homework's overdue.My sister's mad. My teeth are bad.My room is messy too.And yet I think I may have foundthe best of all solutions,and this year I've resolvedto not make ANY resolutions.
--Kenn Nesbitt
Well, Scouts, the new year is here and it's time for New Year's resolutions. In other words, as our theme this month says, it's time for a fresh start.
Well, Scouts, did you make any New Year's resolutions? I hope some of you resolved to bring up your grades in school and be more helpful around the house.
Have youth group leaders get all participants standing and forming two circles.
January is named for Janus (Ianuarius)....
Hi all,
It is Fuzzy and Scout here and as usual we will tell you a bit of our adventures we do in Cubs. As every year our district will have a carol service in the Cathedral here and they will collect money for a children’s hospice. We think it is very important to collect money for this to give these children something in the situation they are in. Also as a group we always try to collect some toys for a local children’s home, for children that do not have a mommy or daddy. We are so lucky to live with Baloo!
We think it is important to have a nice Christmas with all your family and friends, but also to think of others, as it says in our Cub Scout Law “think of others before themselvesâ€
To do this we have decided that next year we will donate a salmon to charity each week, to make sure we give something to children that are not as lucky as we are. Although Baloo thinks we better give some money.......but what would you do with money, salmon is nice to eat, money is not.
If everyone would make such a resolution the world would be a much nicer place.
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Anyways we need to go out and get Baloo a Christmas present. So if we don’t catch you before: Have a very bearry Christmas and a grrrrrreat new year!!!
Your friends,
Fuzzy and Scout
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"Here's to the bright New Year
And a fond farewell to the old;
Here's to the things that are yet to come
And to the memories that we hold."
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