How and how to entertain guests for the New Year at home: script, games, contests and ideas

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

How to entertain guests for the New Year at home? This problem has certainly been faced and still will be faced by those who decided to gather a company of friends or relatives. This task can be even more difficult than choosing gifts or decorating a room. To help with the decision, we have tried to collect some useful tips in this article.

Preparation

When planning to celebrate the New Year at home, ideas for preparation should be drawn from your head, calling for inspiration. Who, besides yourself, best knows the tastes and interests of the guests? So do not be shy and let your imagination run wild, and then New Year's Eve chores will turn into another, additional part of the holiday.

Gifts

The most important thing to think about in the first place is gifts. It is not enough to choose something that every guest will like, it is also desirable to present it in an original way. The simplest and most banal is to put beautifully wrapped gifts under the Christmas tree. If everyonewas chosen individually, it is still better to sign each box in order to avoid confusion and unpleasant surprises later.

There are more original ways to entertain guests on New Year's Eve. Buy universal gifts, such as unpretentious souvenirs, T-shirts with funny inscriptions or pictures in honor of the symbol of the coming year, greeting cards, notebooks - in general, something that will please any of the guests. Arrange them in different boxes so that it is impossible to guess the size of the gift by the size of the package. And now hang it all on the Christmas tree, and let the guests choose what they like. It will turn out such a kind of lottery, and no one will be offended for what they gave him. You can make this idea part of the contests, if the winner will receive his prize in this way.

Entourage

When wondering how to entertain guests for the New Year at home, you need to think about the theme of the event. Everything, of course, depends on the company that will gather, but there are several universal options suitable for any occasion.

Carnival or costume ball

When inviting guests to a costume party, be sure to warn them about this specifics of the holiday. After all, no one wants to feel out of place by being dressed inappropriately, right? But just in case, you should still have a spare prop for those who forgot or did not have time to prepare. Elegant masks for women and false beards for men, cardboard crowns, hatsor caps - all this will help to turn your guests' outfit into a carnival one cheaply and without any hassle.

Theme Party

A great way to entertain guests on New Year's Eve is to dedicate the holiday to a specific theme. In this case, the main thing is not to make a mistake with her choice. If among your guests there are young people obsessed with computers and gadgets, then they may be bored at an impromptu medieval ball, and vice versa, connoisseurs of the Middle Ages and knights may not like a steampunk holiday. When choosing a treat, you should also take into account the tastes and preferences of your guests.

The idea for a theme for a holiday may come to mind unexpectedly, but if there is no inspiration, there are several win-win options:

- Masquerade. Guests don't even have to rack their brains about costumes, because it's enough to add a mask to any evening outfit - and now you can already feel the mysterious spirit of a masquerade.

- Fantasy party. Suitable for those who are not averse to plunge into the world of elves and dwarves, magic and battles. True, here the preparation must begin in advance, because the manufacture of the costume may take some time.

- A fairy tale style party is another way to entertain your guests on New Year's Eve at home. Children will be especially delighted with such a holiday, but often adults also return to the world of childhood with pleasure.

- 60s (80s,90s, etc., depending on how old most of your guests are). Here it may be enough to decorate the house in the right style, choose music from the right time - and the right atmosphere has already been created.

- A pajama party is a great way to have fun with your friends.

- "Babylonian pandemonium". Invite guests to dress up in the traditional attire of the country they are interested in and bring one or two dishes that are eaten by its inhabitants. Let everyone tell a little about her culture, maybe teach the others a couple of phrases in her language. So the holiday will be not only fun, but also educational for everyone.

New Year with friends

Having gathered for a holiday with an adult company, it is not at all necessary to spend the whole night at the table, watching TV. There are a thousand and one scenarios for the New Year at home for adults, so with some creativity and imagination, you can turn an ordinary gathering of a friendly company into something unforgettable.

Treat

Whatever option you choose to celebrate the New Year, you still need to celebrate the Old Year first. The best way to do this is with food. You can invite each of the guests in turn to take some kind of treat from the plate (pie, sandwich, cookie) and share with the rest of the guests a story about your most pleasant event of the outgoing year. Let them be motivated by your words that the storyteller will definitely have events no less joyful next year. After each story, guests can toast past and future good luck.

You can add a touch of mystery to your holiday treat. To do this, it is enough to bake pieces of paper with predictions for the coming year into cookies, pies or buns. You can arrange a competition, for this one of the pies bake a special "secret" (a coin or other small object). The one who gets it will be able to choose a gift from under the Christmas tree. Just don't forget to warn the guests so that the winner doesn't accidentally hurt their teeth.

Entertainment for an adult company

Don't be upset if you had to stay at home for the New Year. How fun it is to celebrate the New Year at home, and even with an adult company - you can write entire books about this. The absence of children at the holiday at all opens up a lot of opportunities for fun.

- Fanta is a universal, simple and fun game. To carry it out, you just need to collect one small thing from each of the players. We put the entire “catch” in a box, bag or opaque bag. The host (it can be anyone who does not really want to take an active part in the undertaking) takes out one item without showing the rest, and asks what to do with this phantom. And what the answer will be depends on the specifics of the gathered company (and on the amount of alcohol taken, perhaps, so if you want to be crazy, hold a contest towards the end of the holiday).

- Twister is another traditional way to entertain guests on New Year's Eve at home. Perfect for a youth company (after all, participants need to have at least minimal flexibility).

- Mafia is a game for lovers of psychologicalpuzzles and those who want to practice their gift of persuasion. At first, everyone is assigned a certain role (civilian, mafia, policeman or doctor). The task of civilians is to figure out all the mafiosi and put them in jail, the task of the mafiosi is to “kill” as many civilians as possible, and preferably also police officers with doctors, while not impersonating themselves.

- Riddles. It would seem like child's play, but it can be a great option for entertaining guests on New Year's Eve at the table. At the same time, the complexity and “adultness” of the riddles can be chosen for the assembled company.

- If you decide to spend your holiday in the style of "Babylonian pandemonium", then guests can be invited to play games traditional for different countries of the world. For example, the Cambodian game "akugun". Players throw some fruits to each other, for example, tangerines. To win, you need to hold as many fruits as possible in your hands without dropping them. You can arrange an impromptu home bowling alley (Thai game "saba"), where instead of pins there will be plastic bottles.

- Dancing on the newspaper. A very close game, during which the guests, who have broken into pairs, must dance on the newspaper without stepping beyond it. The trick is that over time, the presenter folds the paper in half for as long as possible.

- Divination. What New Year's Eve is complete without making wishes for next year under the chiming clock? Turn this seemingly banal action into an attraction. Have everyone write their warmest wishes for the other guests on a piece of paper and throw it in a hat or box. Pulling out a piece of paper with a fallenwishes, the audience will be able to find out what awaits them for the next year. It will be even more fun if each wish is divided into two, and then, by the will of the lot, connect the different halves.

Family New Year

One of the most important tasks of hosts who invite guests to their place is to develop a scenario for the New Year at home. A family holiday is always an occasion for relatives to show how much they love each other. That is why it is worth filling this holiday with an atmosphere of warmth and love.

This can help create comfort in the festive decoration of the house. Let the kids join in on this fun activity. Joint hanging toys on the New Year tree, cooking interesting sweets, recipes for which the children themselves will come up with, making various crafts on the New Year theme - all this will help you feel the spirit of the New Year long before it officially starts. And to make it more fun, you can already guess riddles while preparing for the celebration. Let the child take a candy, tangerine or other sweet as a prize for each guess, then it will not seem painfully long waiting for midnight.

Preparing for a family holiday

It's hard to imagine New Year's Eve in the family circle, especially if there are children in it, without a Christmas tree. Let the kids choose the toys they would like to see on it, and then ask them to help you hang them up. Perhaps they would like to see bright shiny new balls on the green branches? Go to the store and choose together what you like. Or maybe atDo your children have favorite toys, even if they are old and worn, but very important? Let the Christmas tree turn out vintage.

Many children love to make things with their own hands. Give them the opportunity to make their own decorations for the Christmas tree or just for the room. Snowflakes, paper garlands, snowmen - even the smallest can do all this. Let older children make more complex toys: Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden, beautiful complex lanterns.

Children's contests

Snow collection. Scatter as many paper snowflakes as possible on the floor. Let the children collect them in bags at speed with cheerful music. The one who manages to collect the most will receive a sweet or memorable prize.

Riddles. Find out which of the children is the most savvy by guessing riddles. The winner can be given a chocolate medal or other symbolic gift, and the rest, so as not to be offended, give consolation prizes.

Merry disco. The host turns on the music for a while, and then, turning it off, calls the number. All participants should be divided into groups with the named number of people. The time for everything is three seconds. Those who fail to do everything right are eliminated from the game.

Good luck. Arrange chairs in the middle of the room so that there is one less chair than the participants. To the music, the players walk around the chairs, and when the music stops, they must have time to sit on the chairs. The unsuccessful person leaves, and one chair is removed with him.

Guess. The participant is blindfolded and asked to identify by touch any of theChristmas items. The one who was right most often wins.

Fairy tale. Invite the children to act out a play at home (adults are welcome to participate). Let everyone choose their favorite role, and then the narrator will read the beginning of the tale. Then you can either use ready-made scripts with already time-tested dialogues and a well-known plot, or arrange an improvisation.

A last tip: when deciding how to entertain guests for the New Year, games, contests and other entertainment are best thought out in advance and discussed with future guests. However, even if plans change at the last moment or nothing comes to mind for a long time, you should not be upset. Sometimes spontaneity and unpredictability make the holiday even more interesting than if everything was decided in advance.