New Year's Eve Crafts

New Year’s Eve is a wonderful excuse for a party, and an even better reason to make some fun New Year's Eve crafts. Liven up your next New Year’s bash with some of these quick and easy crafts.

When everyone gets their glass for the big toast at midnight, it can get a little confusing which glass belongs to which guest (especially when everyone has had a few glasses). Make it easier on everyone by making identification tags for your flutes.

You should be able to find wine glass tag makers at your local craft store. If you can’t, look for earring hoops; it’s basically the same thing. Decorate these with little charms, seed beads or glass beads, use jewelry pins to make drops out of big beads, whatever suits your fancy. Attach the rings to the glasses before your guests arrive and let each one pick out which one they want.

Or make the whole thing interactive by allowing guests to make their own charms. Have a variety of beads and charms on hand and help each guest pick out a few things to put on their glass tag, which they can then take home at the end of the night.

If you aren’t afraid of a little mess, make some confetti poppers. You can purchase confetti or make your own out of construction paper (or colorful magazines). Cut strips and cut those into small pieces, or buy a paper punch in a fun shape and use the “holes” as confetti.

Using a funnel, put confetti in a partially blown up balloon (you’ll need a helper with this project). Leave them in various places in the house and pop them at midnight.

You can make your own noisemaker with an old paper towel or toilet tissue roll. Decorate the outside with colorful paper, paint, rubber stamps, drawings, glitter, or whatever else you want. Poke a few holes in the roll, about an inch apart. Cut a piece of waxed paper big enough to fit over one end of the roll and secure it with a rubber band. Then blow through the other end.

Another noisemaker can be made with two paper plates and a handful of dried beans. Put a few beans in one plate and put another plate on top, so that the part where you put food is facing the other plate. You can attach a dowel or stick if you want something to hold onto, just slide it between the plates. Staple the plates together and again decorate any way you want.

Another use for leftover toilet tissue rolls is party poppers. Buy some tissue paper in a festive color or pattern (you can even find tissue paper with confetti embedded in the paper) and cut a piece so that it’s a couple inches wider than the tube and about a foot long. Roll the paper around the tube, and use a long piece of curling ribbon to tie one end. Fill the tube with candy or little treats, tie the other end and curl the ribbon.

While the popping is a little more challenging and less dramatic than the store-bought poppers, these are a lot of fun to make and stuff with good surprises.

Of course you have all sorts of options for decorating the house for New Year’s. White twinkle lights are a good choice for lighting, or a ton of candles if there aren’t children and pets around. Place party hats, confetti, and noisemakers around the place. Use mirrors to reflect the twinkly lights.

Or have a theme party: winter, a night in Paris, out with the old, New Year’s resolutions, even a New Year’s baby shower could all be fun themes to play with. The food and drink you serve as well a the décor can play into the theme, making a night that all your guests will remember for a long time to come.

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