How can our love go wrong if... we start the New Year right...

 

Here's how we set up a rockin' 

New Years Eve 

for a house full of kids:D  

 Starting the new year right!

The dining room set up with provocations to engage the kiddos in cooperative play or individual challenges:)

Here's one of my kiddos super proud to have completed the marble maze... it's a challenge to get all three balls through little holes from the outer rings to the inner rings:D
The new foosball table was a family gift this year and has had a lot of action...
 The kids often switch up the rules of the connect 4 game to make up their own games with patterns etc. for open ended play.
 This labyrinth was a new acquisition this year as well and no one has completed it yet... love a new challenge:)

 

 The Color Match Wheels Puzzle is a challenging matching game.  It contains 7 wheels and on each wheel there are 6 different colors dots. The objective is to place all the wooden wheels back into the box in a way that all the adjacent dots have the same color.

The honeycombs and the wood dominoes are both matching games that require all adjacent pieces to match as well... two different levels for the different ages of our kiddos.

These cups get set up in many creative ways... playing the classic game of "cups", sculptures in cups and today... there was also cups set up in pyramids for soft dart target practice;)

These bright, beautiful crackers made me smile when I found them... a nice tradition I like to carry on from year to year...

  

   One minute to midnight,
One minute to go,
One minute to say goodbye,
Before we say hello.
Lets start the new year right,
12 O’clock tonight,
When they dim the lights lets begin.
Kissing the old year out,
Kissing the New Year in.
Lets watch the old year die,
With a fond goodbye,
And our hopes as high as a kite.
How can our love go wrong if,
We start the New Year Right.
~Bing Crosby

 

1942 Bing Crosby - Let’s Start The New Year Right