New Years Eve is always an exciting night so I thought I would give you a couple of New Years Eve party ideas for family parties. As I mentioned on Martha Stewart Living radio yesterday, with the current economic climate continually changing, we now, more than ever, are examining our spending habits with more care and consideration. Therefore, this New Years Eve, make it a family celebration and include the entire family when entertaining with your friends.

New Years Eve party ideas include having friends over for a potluck dinner and for your guests to enjoy and participate in, Guess Whose Baby Picture and family favorite board games could serve as the evening’s entertainment for a family celebration.

As I mentioned on radio, since we are talking about family parties, keep it simple and casual. Call the party time for early evening, request casual dress and create a menu complete with easy-to-make food items or fresh ready-served food that is easy to pick up at the market or deli.

Keep costs in check. Limit your guest list and ask guests to participate in a pot-luck dinner. Avoid duplicate food selections by tagging each family unit with the food item they need to bring. Spend more time with your guests at this family celebration and less time cleaning up by making sure your guests bring their assigned menu selections in ready-to-serve containers.

New Years Eve party ideas include the Guess Whose Baby Picture game. Simply ask each guest to bring theirs’ and their children’s infant pictures. Then randomly tape the pictures up on a board and hand out paper and pens. Each family plays as a team and the family who guesses the most correct pictures, wins a prize. For family parties, the prize could be anything from a gift certificate to a family-styled restaurant, movie tickets or a gift-card from the local market or video store.

A second family celebration oriented entertainment suggestion is to turn New Years Eve into family game night. For family parties, ask each family to bring a couple of their favorite board games such as Scrabble, Monopoly, Sorry!, Candyland, Barrel of Monkeys or Chutes and Ladders. For a more challenging time, try Trivial Pursuit, Jeopardy Board Game, Wheel of Fortune or a jigsaw puzzle. For puzzle parties, set a time limit. The family who completes or is closet to completing the puzzle in the least amount of time wins.

Your New Years Eve party ideas should include a family celebration dinner menu. For family parties especially, I recommend menu items that are filling, fun, kid-friendly and easy to eat. Again make sure your menu selection is easy to prepare or can be picked up at the local market ready-to-go.

Finally, select menu items from all food groups, avoid known allergens such as nuts and whenever possible, create a menu that allows guests gluten-free food selections too.

I hope you found these New Years Eve party ideas helpful for your family celebration. New Years Eve is a great time to host family parties and what better way to celebrate the New Year than with your family. Until next time, remember the Budget Bash mantra: make it simple, delicious, stylish, fun & economical to all!

With over 15 years in the special event industry, Andrea has now taken her knowledge and experiences and incorporated this information into an easy-to-read book called Budget Bash – Simply Fabulous Events on a Budget. You can talk to Andrea via Twitter @awynningevent or learn more about wedding and special event management by visiting awynningevent.com.

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“Nosey” or “Nose Game” is another good family game which always provides a lot of fun for everybody parents and children alike. It is a favorite at family parties.

After this teasing game and the well-known, hilarious “Costume Race”, it is well to give your guests a breathing spell. Ask the youngsters to sit on the floor while you tell them a Halloween story. Assign to each youngster a character which appears in the story. Whenever one’s character is mentioned in the story, he makes the sounds assigned to him. The storyteller should pause a moment after a character is mentioned in the story. You’ll probably have more guests than characters in the story but two or more can be assigned to the same character. It doesn’t lessen the fun a bit.

The “Cat Game” will give your guests a real thrill. It’s a must at our family parties on Halloween night. All lights are dimmed. Big and little guests sit on the floor in a circle, a sheet spread in the center. Each one takes hold of the sheet with his left hand and keeps his right hand free under the sheet. The hostess appears holding a tray covered with a napkin and says in a solemn voice:
“This evening when the Halloween cat was on the way to our party it was run over. His remains will now be passed around under the sheet. This is the cat’s eye just pass it to your neighbor and so on around the circle under the sheet.” The hostess reaches under the sheet to hand the first person an icy oyster, to be followed by the head a ball of yarn filled with hairpins; tail a coon tail from a child’s cap; teeth a string of large beads, chilled; hide a brushed wool helmet; tongue a very cold watermelon pickle; insides a bunch of soft dough, well floured. The shrieks accompanying this game are hairs rising.

The refreshments can be as simple or as elaborate as you want but after an evening of hilarity, apple cider and pumpkin pie are easy to serve and popular.

By all means give a family Halloween party. It’s such a good chance to have fun with your children and your neighbors and their children. It also provides a constructive way for young America to celebrate that American tradition of Halloween merrymaking.

Costume Race, Nose Game, Cat Game are all always top in fun in Halloween party. Every body enjoys this game. It can be play by anyone, no matter how old they are. It is also important to serve some popular and easy to eat food.

Mitch Johnson is a regular writer for http://www.kids-games-n-crafts.com/. His articles have also appeared on http://www.tipsforcostumes.info/ and http://www.urcostumesguide.info/

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