What a child should know about the New Year: a selection of interesting ideas for games, creative pursuits and traditions
The New Year is the time that everyone is waiting for. Especially children. A smart Christmas tree, a sea of gifts, sparkling snow outside the window and, of course, New Year's traditions. All this fills the last month of winter with magic. But the New Year is not only a favorite holiday, but also a great way to expand the horizons and creative abilities of the child. You can tell the children about the New Year traditions in different countries, teach them to make gifts and decorations with their own hands, tell them a lot of interesting things about the winter and snow, or just paint and play with all your heart.
Here are some wonderful ideas for pre-New Year activities with children.
Miracles in a Pocket
To the child believed in the approach of a miracle,read this book with him. This is a magical story that begins a month before the day X. The main character - the boy Valerka - receives letters from the magic boy Willie, who travels the world on a paper airplane in search of Santa Claus. In the book the baby is waiting for the ideas of games and master classes of New Year's crafts, stories about New Year traditions in different countries, recipes for festive dishes.
The idea from the book:
The recipe for a magic dust comes from Holland
You will need:
1 teaspoon of confetti and sparkles
1 pinch of multi-colored beads
an unlimited amount of the smell of chocolate, orange, cinnamon or freshly baked pie
a small jar with a cork / lid
Put all the ingredients in a jar tightlyclose it and shake it. Before bedtime, sprinkle with magic dust a place near the shoe with a carrot. According to old acquiescence, dust will shine in the moonlight, and Sinterklaas will easily find the way to your house. In the morning the carrot will disappear, and in its place will appear a sweet surprise.
Book of the New Year and Christmas
In this beautiful book with fabulous illustrationsthe traditions of Christmas and New Year of different countries and peoples are collected. Only 12 countries: for each - a story about traditions, a national festive dish and a folk New Year's fairy tale. which can be read with the children, wrapped in a more comfortable plaid.
Traditions for celebrating the new year in Norway:
A large number of decorative lighting -lamps, lamps, garlands, highlights. Shops and cafes are decorated with evergreen branches, bright onion flowers, punch and work until late at night. All December Norway looks like a fairy-tale country.
In Norway, the main person of Christmas andNew Year's holidays - Yulenissen, or Jolgne. Since the tenth century, when King Haakon the Good ordered the celebration of the Nativity of Christ instead of Jol, Julenissen gradually adjusted to the new order. Since the nineteenth century, he regularly presents gifts to children, putting them into stockings or shoes, his dwarfs Fiumpenissen Pius, as well as other nissens (dwarfs and gnomes), beasts, trolls and elves walk in assistants. The Nissens, according to Norway, live in old houses, in sheds and in inverted boats. They put a treat - usually porridge or pudding. And when the food is eaten overnight, it is very happy owners. In the olden days, Julenissen used to ride a sleigh drawn by foxes, and now he moves more and more on reindeer. And yet - Julenissen married. His wife's name is Nissmur. The house of Julenissen is located in the seaside town of Drobak, located near Oslo.
Snow
A fascinating book that will help your childrenlove the winter and snow. It contains photos of snowflakes, taken under a microscope and enlarged hundreds of times. And also a poetic and informative story about snow. Your child will know what form snowflakes are, how they form, whether there are two identical snowflakes in the world. And also learn how to catch snowflakes so that they do not melt. A book that will help to understand: snow is a real miracle of nature.
Excerpt from a book:
Each snowflake has six beams or sixfaces. All because of the fact that at a low temperature, water molecules combine into groups of six, forming regular hexagons. That's why snowflakes always have a hexagonal (flat) or hexagonal (three-dimensional) shape.
When the snowflake becomes bigger and heavier, itbegins to fall slowly. At this time the snowflake continues to grow and finally acquires its final shape. Sometimes the rays on one side of the snowflake grow faster than on the other: all because there are clouds on the way that have different temperatures and humidity.
Wonderful time: winter
A book that will make the winter magical. There are a lot of ideas for playing at home and on the street, master classes of New Year gifts and ornaments, advice for the preparation for the New Year, and family traditions. A real magic piggy bank that will tell your children everything about winter and New Year.
Homemade garlands:
Hang in the apartment homemade jewelry. Making garlands does not take long. You can sew or glue to a long thread cut out of paper circles, geometric shapes, long stripes, New Year silhouettes: Christmas trees, asterisks, small houses, squirrels, bunnies and so on. Children themselves can thread multicolored felt balls or self-made beads from plastics for modeling. An interesting garland can be gathered from natural materials: cones, twigs, wild rose berries, dried orange slices.
Paper New Year
You can not even imagine how muchNew Year's miracles can be created from a regular sheet of paper. Home decorations, New Year's toys, Advent calendar, beautiful Christmas tree, postcards, paper angels, magic kaleidoscope - all this and much more can be made of paper.
We make a Christmas heart:
Such a beautiful paper heart will be very like children. It's simple and fun.
Bend the white and blue ovals along the black dashed lines. Then gently cut the details of the heart along the red dotted lines. They turn out palms with fingers (as in the picture).
Take the white finger on the right and gently intertwine it with the blue fingers. The blue bar must first be above the white (see figure).
Go to the next white finger. But now it must first be on top, and the blue one at the bottom.
If it's hard for you to bind a heart, ask adults to help.
Now take an orange strip, apply glue on the shaded parts. Glue it inside like a loop. What a beautiful heart!
Happy New Year! Coloring-poster
This coloring is so big that it can bepaint the whole family, and so bright and beautiful that it will fill your home with the feeling of a miracle. Lay it on the floor or hang it on the wall and paint the whole family. In the picture gathered favorite New Year's characters. They are happy about the approach of the New Year and decorate the fluffy tree.
Show your children how many miracles New Year is wearing, and they will surely believe in a miracle.
