An article about how you can celebrate the New Year 2020 in an original way at home. It talks about creating a kind of festive atmosphere and describes the scenario of a small New Year's game.

On New Year's Eve, we strive to see some special meaning even in the most ordinary affairs, we try to put some symbolism into them.

We kind of play with ourselves and with others, indulge in dreams and guess a little, looking for hints and signs in everything.

And what is amazing and mysterious: the world around us responds to our innermost desires and appeals. Christmas trees are especially responsive at this time.

Next year, naturalness and frankness are in fashion. This also applies to the New Year's interior, so let's come up with something original, but not too pretentious.

New Year's tree

Let's try, for example, this year to abandon the big queen-tree, imperiously gathering around her all the gifts, all household members and guests.
Let's introduce a Christmas tree "democracy": let's allow small independent Christmas trees to be in all living rooms, as well as in the hallway, in the kitchen, in the hall - wherever a cozy place is found.
Let's not use the usual cross-pieces or containers disguised as "snow".

And let's take and find the most common household containers in the house - beautiful linen baskets, free flower pots, mushroom baskets, tubs for pickles, all kinds of buckets, saucepans and other household items. Here in all this we will plant pines and Christmas trees!
No glamorous pretentiousness, long live simplicity and naturalness!

New Year Gift Ideas

Packing, placing and presenting New Year's gifts - all this has long been part of a special home ritual.

In addition to surprises familiar in Russia under pillows, in wardrobes and under forest beauties, we often resort to European customs to hide gifts in socks and stockings.
But let's change the usual way a little: let's try to update the already familiar socks and stockings, replacing them with mittens, felt boots and boots.

Room Decoration Ideas for New Year 2020

Small Christmas trees, combined with the simplicity of mittens hung around the house, create a unified style.

But this year should not be uniform.

So it's time to sprinkle a handful of fun shiny details around the house - they will emphasize the soft sound of natural decoration with their sonorous silver voices. Now we're having a little fun commotion.

Let the brilliant outfit of Christmas trees (balls, garlands, beads, rigmarole, rain and any other tinsel) migrate into transparent glass vases and glasses, take places in tureens and salad bowls, magically transforming familiar things.
Let the sparkling signs of the holiday meet you all over the house - on tables, window sills, shelves and even chair armrests.

Now, in the glitter of silver and gold, the house is truly ready for the holiday!

New Year's Eve Scenario

In a house with magical decorations, the “mystical” scenario of the New Year's Eve should be remarkably perceived. It is he who will complement the novelty of your decoration, bringing his own zest to a grandiose celebration.

• Atmosphere: relaxed.
• Company: a large family or a group of people who have known each other for a long time.
• Number of participants: five to twelve people.
• Scene: apartment.
• Preparation: nothing is required from the guests, except for a good mood.

Guests enter the house, undress and take their seats at the table.
In the center of the table there is a magic hourglass, a magic arrow and an equally magical chest.
The hosts, who have taken on the role of leaders, explain the rules of the ceremony to be performed:

follow the arrow, follow the instructions of the casket, keep track of time.

New Year's game at the New Year's home meeting

• As soon as everyone is seated, the arrow will begin to rotate (to set it, use a children's tape measure or spinning top).
• The guest she points to should think of something good, put his hand into the casket, pull out one note and read it aloud.
• It encodes the place where the magical iconic thing is stored. Now we all go together in search of her. Soon there is a plate with three pies.
• The host explains that the guest, whom the arrow pointed to, must take one pie for himself, and distribute the rest.

Hidden inside one of the pies is a small salt dough cookie that says "Luck".

So someone got lucky. So that she does not leave the participants of the holiday for a whole year, it is necessary to cast a spell.

The magic hourglass turns over, and while the sand is pouring, there is time to tell everyone a story about luck. This story is the spell.

If you finish the story before time runs out, your luck will not fly away next year.

Game continues. The arrow spins to point to the next player.

• He dips his hand into the magic box and pulls out a piece of paper with the inscription "Look under the plate."
• Under the plate, a note with the wording "Joy" is found.
• Now it's the new member's turn to tell the story - the time has come.

• The next guest takes out a piece of paper from the magic chest with the call “Take a flower” and receives a chamomile from the hosts.
• She is allowed in a circle for the well-known game "Loves - does not love."
• The last one to tear off the petal from "Loves" will get love.

Congratulations! Now it remains only to keep it with history.

Arrow fires again.

• The selected person is instructed to look for the next definition under the seat of their own chair.
• Looking there, the guest finds the inscription "Support".
• Surely, besides the chair, there is some kind of support in life that you can talk about while the sand timer counts down.

And again on the arrow.

IMPORTANT: The number of notes in the chest must exactly match the number of people sitting at the table.

The game "Magic New Year's Cake"

When all the guests have gone through the rite of New Year's spells, a magical fruit and berry pie appears on the table.

• Try to distinguish apples, cranberries, grapes, tangerines and other gifts of nature baked in it.
• Cut each piece. After that, the last instruction is taken from the magic casket.

This is a detailed description with what fruits and berries in the pie correspond to what.

Thus, if you got a piece with an apple is creativity.

And if with raisins - pleasant surprises.

Pieces of the magic pie can be exchanged and shared.

As you can see, nothing complicated and requiring some kind of supernatural effort, additional costs or unusual skills.

But everything is absolutely new, everything is unusual, fun and with a twist!

Please yourself and your loved ones on this most fabulous night of the year, and they will definitely answer you with sincerity, sincerity and love!

Video: Entertainment for the whole family for the New Year

Family New Year: games for children and adults, contests, script, free printables.

family new year

For our family, the New Year is not only a feast under the Christmas tree, but also pleasant moments of communication with each other. And without interesting contests, riddles and various unexpected magical surprises and notions, the New Year holidays lose their charm. And in creativity, the family unites and inspiration and new ideas are born!

We usually prepare the holiday very quickly - literally in a few hours on the last New Year's Eve days. We cook along the way, discussing it on the way to the store or in transport, as well as at night, so that no one hears anything from our surprises. And costumes are born from various improvised things. Baba Yaga appears from an ordinary dressing gown, a scarf on her head and a broom or mop in her hands. Snowman - from a sheet stretched over a gymnastic hoop, on which snowflakes are sewn. Koschey - from a tracksuit, a swimming cap on his head and a couple of lines of makeup on his face. Such characters do not scare and are very funny, amuse everyone.

This is not a fictional script, this is a sincere humorous family holiday in the home circle or with guests. It is performed without rehearsals and is based on improvisation.

Scenario family new year number 1.

We played out this scenario in the upcoming 2015 New Year. But you can use it not only on New Year's Eve, but also on any day when guests with children come to your house.

Let's start like this.

Action 1. New Year's letter from Koshchei.

When the New Year comes and it's time to find gifts under the tree, guests find a very beautiful festive envelope under the tree. Joyful, they open the envelope and read the message. And there!!! No, it's not New Year's greetings! In the envelope, instead of congratulations, there is a letter from Koshchei the Deathless!

It's like, "Happy New Year! Hahaha! Do you want gifts? Ha! You will not have a happy new year! I stole Santa Claus and hid New Year's happiness in a hot country. Soon Santa Claus will melt! You won't find anything! Koschei. (You can download this letter by clicking on the link and print it on a printer on a sheet of A4 paper) -

Action 2. New Year's trip around the countries.

We need to go save Santa Claus and we go on a trip to look for a hot country, Santa Claus and New Year's happiness. Along the way, we find ourselves in different countries and in games we learn a lot of interesting and funny things about them.

The first game. Let's all play together first. "Guess it." Questions are asked about how the new year is celebrated in different countries. In the game you need to guess if it's true or not. If it's a lie, then you need to correct it to the truth. Similar questions can be asked about Christmas.

Examples of tasks for the game:

- In Italy, there is a tradition at the very last minute before the New Year to throw broken dishes, old clothes and even furniture out of the window. Is it true or not?

— In Germany, Santa Claus comes to the children on an elephant. Is it true or not? If not on an elephant, then on what? Guess :-).

Tasks for this game on a holiday (questions and correct answers to them) You can free download

With young children, in the course of this game, you can depict how we either fly on an airplane, or ride a train, or sail on a ship from one country to another. And adults will guess. So we will occupy both children and adults in this game.

Second game. Rubbish. In the game you have to guess the meaning of the words. As a linguodidact by profession (i.e. a person involved in language teaching methods), I could not help but include humorous language puzzles for adults in the script. Almost all adult guests asked to give them tasks from this game in order to play later with their guests :). Therefore, be prepared - and print out several copies of the tasks for the game in advance.

Examples of tasks for this game. Guess what it is?

- What is "toadstool" in Czech: a) poisonous mushroom, b) buckwheat, c) an unpleasant incident?

- What is "bun" in translation from Bulgarian: a) homemade cakes, b) fat woman, c) bride, d) cake?

Want to know the answers? Then download the questions and answers from the links below:

You can play this game not only during the New Year holidays, but also at any family holiday.

While we are guessing these 12 questions, we are moving through the fairy forest to the fairy hut. The travel map helps us with this. The correct answer to one question of the game of nonsense is our one step forward to the hut. We move the chip across the field.

Action number 3. Tasks of Baba - Yaga.

We find ourselves in the hut of Baba Yaga. Yes, it was she who was drawn on our travel map. We remember how to get into the hut and all together we ask the hut to turn "back to the forest, and front to me."

Baba-Yaga meets us very politely and in a fabulous way: “You are my killer whales, where did you come from? On what business did the boyars and merchants pass by my hut?

She agrees to help us in search of Santa Claus and New Year's happiness, but only if we complete her tasks.

Baba Yaga gives a separate task to adults and children.

The task for children is riddles - tricks. They are constructed in such a way that some of the riddles require an answer in rhyme, and some - not in rhyme. You need to be careful and not make a mistake! Not only children, but also their mothers and even fathers are happy to guess tricks. And adults make mistakes just as often as children!

You can give chips for correct answers in this game (if even 7 people answered correctly at the same time, we give each of them a chip). At the end of the game, we count the chips and give out small surprises to everyone who has at least one chip.

Riddles - rhyming tricks alternate with regular riddles to confuse players. It is possible in snags to specifically pronounce the first syllable of the wrong word aloud.

PUZZLES FOR KIDS:

"Night. Winter. There are stars in the sky.
The kids are sleeping, it's too late
The moon in the sky is a horn,
A little white fell out ... (snow)

Well, dresses - all needles -
They wear it all the time ... (Christmas trees)

many, many, many years
Grandfather gives us gifts,
Gives a Christmas tree, congratulations,
This holiday is the Day ... (this is the New Year holiday)

prickly needles
At the elegant ... (Christmas trees)

With grandpa down the street
Rushing in a sleigh ... (Snow Maiden)

Who is he, with a white beard,
Himself ruddy and gray-haired,
He is the best and kindest of all!
Guessed? - ... Barma ... (ley ?!) (No. Santa Claus)

Who came from afar

Lightly covered in snow?

Who brought us gifts?

All the guys like

Green beauty.

Balls, needles

January starts
We need a new ... (calendar)

Come join us for a ball!
So that no one recognizes you
Let your mothers sew for you
Carnival… Pi — …? jamy? (no, costumes!)

We looked out the window
Well, I can't believe my eyes!
Everything around is white - white
And sweeps ... (blizzard)

Bright glitter of silver
Glittered ... (tinsel)

Forget the whims
Sweets for everyone, surprises for everyone!
Don't cry on New Year's Eve
There, under the tree, ... an old bast shoe?!!! (no, gifts!)

Comes to visit us
Leads round dances,
Meet the New Year
Grandpa helps.
thin figurine -
Granddaughter - (Snow Maiden).

To brighten up the night
We need to help Grandpa.
All the children say on holiday
In chorus: “Christmas tree, ... turn off?” (no, Christmas tree, burn!)

Bach! Papers like from a cannon
They fly out of ... (crackers)

I love to skate on ice.
Hooray! Winter is getting closer!
I'm going to the skating rink with my friends
And there I will put on ... skis? (no, skates)

Flew, circled

Went down on the path

And sparkles like ice

Flying up with a roar
Multicolored ... (fireworks)

We can do it without error
Name all the months of winter.
Let's call first.
Of course, this is the month… May? (no, December)

New Year! There is no better day
For Bengal ... (fire)

The snowman has a funny nose
It is long, bright vegetable!
Now we need to think together
Which vegetable should we choose?
Who guessed - well done!
Of course it's... a cucumber? (no, carrot)

Near the Christmas tree in the New Year
Children lead ... (round dance)

Get into a round dance

Santa Claus is coming soon!

He walks on a quiet street

With granddaughter ... (Snow Maiden)

Are you my friend or not?
Get in a circle!
Hand in hand, kids
Friendly drive...? bear by the nose? (no, they dance)

We made a snowball
They made a hat on him
The nose was attached and in an instant
It turned out ... (Snowman)

We will arrange a “war” in the winter,
Let's build a snow fort!
How are we going to "fight"?
Every "warrior" should know!
Guess soon, my friend
Round ball - ... (snowball)

Santa Claus came to us
I brought my young granddaughter.
Children are waiting for her gift -
This girl is… Mermaid?! (no, this is the Snow Maiden).

Who is Santa's Helper?
Who has a carrot instead of a nose?
Who is all white, clean, fresh?
Who is made of snow? - ... Goblin? (No, Snowman)

Look through the crack in the door
You will see our tree.
Our tree is high
Reaches the ceiling.
From pedestal to crown
They hang on the branches ... (Toys.)

Here she is, beauty
Everything is overflowing!
They brought her from the cold,
This tree is... Birch? (no, tree)

Houses and parks are covered

Everything became white,

Outside the window it's snowing

The river hid under ... (ice)

Two birch horses
They carry me through the snow.
These red horses
And their name is ... (skiing)

We eat this fruit on New Year's Eve,

A magical smell in the house comes with it.

Eats with appetite Santa Claus

Orange and round... apricot? (mandarin)

Bouquets of roses on the window
We draw...
(Father Frost)

gray beard
Good old …
(Father Frost)

Paint the nose red
To all the guys...
(Father Frost)

Pulled the girls to tears
For pigtails...
(not Santa Claus, but a bully)

The shawl is silver on the branches of birches,
This outfit gave...
(Father Frost)

Who brought us gifts?
Well, of course, …
(Father Frost)

Electric locomotive on New Year's Eve
Gave me...
(Father Frost)

He grew up in hot Africa
Black…
(not Santa Claus, but a black man)

Punch us all seriously
Winter morning…
(Father Frost)

In the cold, the fierce did not freeze,
The cold is only happy ...
(Father Frost)

In the school of "twos" a whole cart
Earned…
(not Santa Claus, but ...)

Bouquet of mimosas on women's day
Giving mom...
(not Santa Claus, but dad or son) "

The task for adults is a question-and-answer game. You need to tell the whole truth about yourself in this game.

You will need:

- printed tickets with questions and answers for the game (download them from the link below, print them out on a printer and cut them so that there is only one question or one answer on one narrow strip),

- two opaque gift bags. Put the questions in one bag and the answers in the other.

How to play:

The first player pulls out one strip with a question from the bag with questions and reads it aloud to the player sitting to his left. The second player pulls out his answer to this question from the answer bag.

Very funny combinations often turn out. We have this game going through several circles, because everyone really likes it.

In this game, children can help adults by pulling strips from bags. Many kids do it with great pleasure.

Action 4. Baba-Yaga's riddle.

For completing tasks, we receive help from Baba Yaga. Like this one:

In our case, we hid the letter under the largest flower in the house (the rose). Under the flower - a cart - a wheelchair. There was a note under the gurney. So we came up with this riddle:

“Find the biggest tree in the whole area (meaning in the apartment). Under the tree is a magical item. It contains 4 skewers, 2 sticks and 1 bed. Today he is here, tomorrow he is there. Under this item you will find a helper.

And you can come up with your own riddle. Here riddle form, in which you yourself can fill the frame -

Action 5. We get an assistant and a hint in our hands.

In our agreed place of the apartment (under our cart with a large rose) we find an assistant - a hint. It contains another mystery. And in it is a clue about where Santa Claus is hidden by Koshchei and our happiness in the coming year.

The riddle is complicated: “There are blue flowers on an iron flowerbed - they help to cook any food.” If the players do not guess, then below there is a riddle - a hint, from which it is immediately clear that the hot country is ... in our kitchen! Next to the stove or in the stove! Let's go there!

(My husband and I thought for a long time where to hide the gifts - and decided that the hot country is clearly only a stove, or rather, an oven. We came up with the riddle ourselves).

Action 6. We save Santa Claus and find New Year's happiness.

We come to the kitchen and find there another sheet with tasks. It turns out that Santa Claus is guarded by security. And we need to speak her teeth to save them. We play tongue twisters - “we speak the teeth of the guard”, at the same time we find out and discuss what this expression of the Russian language means (to distract the interlocutor with extraneous conversations). You can take any tongue twisters for this game. We had these this year.

After passing through the security, we find ourselves at the stove. And we find in it a bag with a toy Santa Claus and gifts, as well as another bag called "New Year's Happiness".

What is this bag of happiness - I'll tell you more. It contains New Year's wishes. Each wish is printed on a piece of paper. A sheet of paper is wrapped several times (as a result, a dense lump of 2-3 cm is obtained) and packed in corrugated colored paper (like in a bag). The pouch is tied with a gold narrow ribbon. Everyone pulls out their bag, unties it and reads out what they have for a wish for the new year.

Wishes can be different - you can find them on the Internet and change them a little - rhyme for your family.

For example:

Wish 1. “Many incidents await you
And interesting trips -
On courses, on vacation, abroad -
Where will fate decide!

Wish 2. “You have to, my friend, and henceforth
Burn with creative work.
But you won't burn your wings,
Take care of your health!”

Wish 3. “Your hairstyle, appearance
We will all be pleasantly surprised.
Since then you will continue
Everything is prettier and younger!”

Scenario of the family new year number 2.

If you are going to visit, it will be difficult to fully implement the first scenario without prior preparation. But that doesn't mean games are cancelled. You can play different games right at the table.

What can be done at a home holiday away:

- play in question and answer game(see description and download file above).

- And also to play the games described above: "Bullshit", "Guess: a journey through the countries" and in "Riddles - snags". For the correct answer in each of these games, we give chips to each player who said the correct answer. If five people answered unanimously correctly, then we give an encouraging chip to each of the five. At the end of the game, we count the chips. Whoever scored the most chips - he gets the right to be the first to take a bag of happiness and read out a wish from it aloud so that it comes true.

- play a game Activity (ready desktop - print game).

- play in games "Convolution", "Changeling", "Win-win lottery". We played these games last New Year, so we didn’t repeat ourselves. And you can read about these and other fun games with guests at a family holiday in the article

I wish you all a happy New Year and Christmas holidays! And let the games on family New Year's Eve bring joy, creative ideas to your home, unite your family and strengthen it!

You will find a complete collection of games for a family holiday, medals, certificates, chips for game winners, masks for staging in the book

You will find more games for the family New Year in the site article

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New Year is, first of all, a family holiday and it is traditionally celebrated in the circle of the closest relatives and friends. Those who do not plan to go to a corporate party this year and are not going to meet NG in a noisy and large company of friends and acquaintances, probably want to spend holiday hours with their families. What could be better than a cozy family celebration? Only a celebration with competitions for children and adults, as well as an interesting scenario for the holiday.

Let's see: what action plan can you have for New Year's Eve 2017-2018!

New Year's script for the family

1. Prepare carnival masks / costumes in advance. Shortly before the New Year, invite all family members to draw lots, which will determine who he will be that evening.
2. Together with the whole family we see off the old year.
3. We welcome the New Year 2018.
4. Competition for the most original wish "in the image" - everyone comes up with wishes for family members on behalf of the character, makes a toast and congratulations.
5. mental crossword
6. Together we come up with a comic horoscope for each family member.
7. Competitions for the New Year 2018 for children and adults.

How can all these 7 points be organized?

Scenario for the New Year 2018: ideas with carnival masks and costumes

Naturally, each scenario of the holiday should carry a considerable charge of humor. So the idea of ​​masks and costumes, which are given to family members by lot, can bring a lot of positive to your family feast. for example, if men, by chance, get the costumes of the Snowflake or the Snow Maiden.

Don't forget that we have the year of the yellow dog - among the masks and costumes you must have a dog!

2. Seeing off the old year

- toasts. Distribute cards with the first part of the toast, and you need to come up with the second part yourself (here are examples of toasts)

Let's drink to Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden: as long as I can remember, they don't get sick, they don't age, and there is always money for gifts! For us to be like that too!

The Jewish Santa Claus has arrived:
- Hello, kids ... Buy gifts

The New Year is a holiday of contrast: it’s frost, snow, dark outside, but at home it’s sunny, fun, warm, the Christmas tree is smart, the table is festive. We wish this contrast to be carried through the whole year, and no matter how the winds and snowstorms rage, no matter how uncomfortable it is around, it was always sunny and warm in the soul!

One man fell asleep on New Year's Eve and had a dream: next to him was a beautiful woman. Woke up - no one. Let's drink to the fact that in the new year all good dreams would come true!

— New Year's quiz
(a large poster is being prepared in advance, where participants in competitions and quizzes will be entered (hare, snowflake, Baba Yaga, etc.) - for each correct answer or victory in the competition, a snowflake is drawn, at the end all snowflakes are summed up and the winner has the right to be the first to pick from the Christmas tree “ jokes from the Christmas tree ”, the second in the amount of snowflakes - the second, etc.)

1. In the New Year, it is customary to give not only gifts, but also postcards. But few people know that for the first time a New Year's card appeared in London. But in what year - you need to guess. A small clue is between 1800 and 1850. (Participants of the holiday name their answers. The one who named the correct answer - 1843 - gets the right to take part in the competitive program of the holiday).
2. As elsewhere, the New Year in Germany is celebrated in December, but here it is celebrated not for one day, like ours, but for much longer. Who can tell me what date the New Year holidays begin in this country? (And again, the participants pronounce the words of the answers. The one who named the exact date - December 6 - is the next participant in the competitive program, which will be later).
3. No one will argue that the New Year's clock strikes 12 times, thereby proclaiming the onset of the New Year. But there is one country where there are many more blows - this is Japan. And how many times the Japanese clocks hit - you have to guess. Hint - from 100 to 150. What are your answers? (The one who correctly named the number - 108 strokes - becomes the third player).
4. And tell me, please, in what year did Peter I issue a decree to celebrate the New Year on winter days? (And again, the one who gave the correct answer - 1700 - will come to you on the playground).

- song contest
In a hat, notes are passed in a circle in which words are written on the New Year theme (winter, snow, Christmas tree, Christmas tree, needles, dog, Santa Claus, puppy, Snow Maiden), etc. The one who pulls out the note must sing a piece of the song in which the given word occurs.

3. Meeting the New Year 2018

- unwrapping gifts placed under the Christmas tree in advance

celebrating the year of the yellow dog

a. Remember dog terms (faithful dog, wag your tail)
b. Remember songs about dogs (A dog can bite).
c. Poems about dogs ().
d. Proverbs (sbaka is a man's friend).
e. In which movie / bookbacco is the acting character? (Mukhtar, Mu-mu).
(I understand that it’s not quite the same date, but anyway - let it be)

4. Arrange a competition for the most original "wish in the image", i.e. on behalf of your character, say an unusual congratulation / toast

5. Mental crossword

• Name and surname of an elderly man. He is a ladies man dressed in Winter 2018 fashion (8 letters). Answer: Santa Claus.
• A dairy product that maintains the temperature in winter but is consumed in summer (9 letters). Answer: ice cream.
• Fairy tale. It takes place in winter. The main characters are two girls. One of them is helped by the hero whose name the fairy tale is named. He gives her gifts and marries her (7 letters). Answer: Frost.
• A tree whose absence of leaves speaks of its special purpose (4 letters). Answer: tree.
• Fashion model with a blond braid, always participating in the winter holidays. Appears always accompanied by an elderly sponsor (10 letters). Answer: Snow Maiden.
• The location of the long-awaited joy for people who survived until winter. It has always been a symbol under a tree without leaves (5 letters). Answer: bag.
• A liquid that is consumed internally with great joy (10 letters). Answer: champagne.
• An object of artistic creativity of Santa Claus (4 letters)? (Window)
• Father Frost's snitch (5 letters). (Staff)

6. Horoscope

Come up with a comic horoscope for each family member.
We read a comic characterization of the sign and a comic forecast.

7. Competitions for the new year 2018 for children and adults for a family holiday

Well, competitions. They were selected taking into account our small and uneven-aged company.

Wind up soon
For this game, you need to prepare two spools and threads 3-5 m long. A mark is made in the middle of the thread - with paint or a knot. The players stand opposite each other, holding each spool in their hands so that the thread is taut. On command, they begin to quickly wind the thread on the spool, all the time approaching each other. The first person to reach the middle of the thread wins.

With closed eyes
Putting on thick mittens, you need to determine by touch what kind of object they gave you.

Frosty breath.
In front of two participants, a snowflake cut out of paper of a sufficiently large size is placed on the table. The task is to blow off your snowflake so that it falls from the opposite edge of the table. It is held until everyone has blown away their snowflakes. After the last snowflake falls, announce: “The winner was not the one who first blew off his snowflake, but the one who was the last, because. he has such frosty breath that his snowflake "froze" to the table.

Competition "Take a Prize!"
A package with a prize is placed on the chair. Around the chair are the contestants. The host reads the poem "One, two, three!". Those who do not try to grab the prize in a timely manner are eliminated from the competition.
I will tell you a story
In half a dozen phrases.
I'll just say the word "three"
Get your prize now!
Once we caught a pike
Gutted, but inside
Small fish counted
And not one, but TWO.
Dreaming boy hardened
Become an Olympic champion
Look, do not be cunning at the start,
And wait for the command one, two, SEVEN.
When you want to remember poetry
They do not bison until late at night,
And repeat them to yourself
One, another, and better FIVE!
Newly train at the station
I had to wait THREE hours.
But why didn’t you take the prize, friends,
When was the opportunity to take?

Competition "Theatrical"
Wishing contestants are given cards with a task that they perform without preparation. You need to walk in front of the tables like:
1. woman with heavy bags;
2. a girl in a tight skirt with high heels;
3. sentry guarding the food warehouse;
4. an infant who has just learned to walk;
5. Alla Pugacheva during the performance of the song.

"Funny nonsense"
The host has two sets of strips of paper. Questions in the left hand, answers in the right. The host goes around the tables, playing alternately "blindly" pull out a question to a neighbor at the table and read aloud, the neighbor also pulls out a blind answer and reads. It turns out to be a funny joke.
Sample questions:
Tell me, is your heart free?
Do you love making gifts?
Are you making mistakes in your life?
Tell me, are you jealous?
Do you love your husband (wife)?
How often do you use public transport without a ticket?
Do you often fall out of bed?
Do you like to read other people's letters?
Are you under the influence of alcohol?
Do you love cooking delicious meals?
Would you like to get drunk today?
Do you like to dream in the moonlight?
Do you love gifts?
Do you get dizzy when you drink?
Are you often lazy?
Have you tried to seduce someone else's man (woman)?
Do you like swimming naked?
Do you like pickles on Mondays?
Do you play sports?
How do you feel about striptease?
Do you sometimes sleep at your workplace?
Do you snore in your sleep?
Are you afraid of the policeman?
Do you like visiting?
Are you putting on weight?
Do you hide your age?

Sample answers:
I can't imagine my life without it.
I don't answer political questions.
Only on pay day.
You can try it away from home.
I don't know myself, but others say yes.
This is my hobby.
Just not here.
Why not? With great pleasure!
Without witnesses, this case, of course, will go.
This opportunity should not be missed.
You can already try this.
I can for hours, especially in the dark.
Damn it! As you guessed.
Only on holidays.
Only for decent pay.
But something must be done!
This has been my passion since childhood.
These are the best moments of my life.
This is the main goal of my life.
I just can't stand it.
I will never turn down such an opportunity.
This often happens to me at a party.
In principle, yes, although it will be very difficult.
Only in desperation.
Well, this is, excuse me, a luxury!

"The most sensual"
Sweets (nuts) are placed on the chairs, they are covered with a newspaper on top. The player must sit on top and count with his sensitive place how many nuts are under him (he does not see them in advance).

Christmas tree jokes
All participants take off "their" papers from the Christmas tree. Jokes can be taken as a prediction or as a joke.
1. Dear parents! Do you want grandchildren?
2. “Closer to the mother-in-law - the stomach is fuller, further from the mother-in-law - love for her is stronger ...”
3. There can only be 2 opinions in a family: one is for the wife, the other is wrong!
4. It is best to give useful gifts. Wife to her husband - handkerchiefs, and he gave her a mink coat.
5. A compliment doubles a woman's performance.
6. I will take on a difficult task -
I will spend the family budget economically.
7. There are no secrets from me in cooking, I will cook both dinner and lunch!
8. Between worries, between deeds.
I will try my best to lie on the couch.
9. We all, sometimes, go somewhere,
We go, we swim, we fly like birds,
Where there is an unfamiliar shore ...
The road to the border awaits you.
10. And you will dedicate this month to art -
Go to the theatre, ballet and opera!
11. To be a beauty for you tomorrow morning, an asterisk, a berry, a kitty, a fish, but if you give beer, you will become a wife again.

Moderator: Good afternoon, dear participants and guests! Today, on the eve of a merry New Year's holiday, we gathered with you to have fun, listen to funny jokes, show our resourcefulness and ingenuity ourselves. (There is a knock on the door.) Maybe more guests have come? .. I want to introduce you to two teams: “Critters” and “Ushastiki”! Meet them with applause! (The knock on the door is repeated.) Come in!

Santa Claus enters. He has a distracted look.

Santa Claus: I've been knocking for an hour! Is there anybody here?
Moderator: You probably didn't get there, did you?
Santa Claus: How is it not there? Is this a support center?
Host: Yes.
Santa Claus: Well, then very much even there. I found out that something unusual and fun is going to happen here today.
Host: You are right. A New Year's quiz is being held here today, but just let me know, where is your magic staff?

Santa Claus rubs his forehead, trying to remember. There is a knock on the door. Snow White runs.

Snow White: Wow, barely had time! Hello! Grandfather Frost, you forgot your staff on the bus (holds out the staff).
Santa Claus: Oh, thank you, Snow White, helped me out. Here is my magical staff.
Host: Well, did you leave your bag somewhere too?
Santa Claus: Where did I leave my bag? Oh, my head is full of holes, I went into the store, probably left it on the counter!

There is a knock on the door. Skomorokh enters. He drags the bag with difficulty.

Buffoon: Wow, how heavy! What can be here? Grandfather Frost, here is your bag from the store.
Santa Claus: Oh, you are my helpers, what would I do without you?! Well, now everything is with me - both the bag and the staff.
Moderator: Yes, but it seems that someone else is missing ...
Santa Claus: What else? Ah yes...

Three times knocks the staff on the floor. Everything is quiet. Still knocking. Silence again.

Santa Claus: (with anxiety). The staff, is it stuck? (shakes the staff) Or is the Snow Maiden delayed?
Leading: Probably, the Snow Maiden has a lot to do before the New Year. Let's start the quiz, the Snow Maiden will come up later, and we ask you, Santa Claus, to take a place on the jury to determine the winning team.
Santa Claus: Okay. And Snow White and Buffoon will help me.

Everyone takes their seats. Teams answer questions.

Quiz 1
Which sea is the most salty? (Red).
Who has both eyes on the same side? (Flounder).
Who has a mouth on his belly? (Shark).
Who has one leg carrying the house? (Mollusk).
What bird hatches an egg on weight? (Penguin).
Who blushes when they see dinner? (Squid).
Who swims tail first? (Pink salmon).
What kind of fish builds a nest? (Smelt).
Who breathes through one nostril? (Sperm whale).
Who plows the bottom with fangs? (Walrus).
Who rides the sea on a shark? (Stuck).
What dog doesn't bark? (Fish-dog).
What forest bush does not know leaf fall? (Cowberry).
What flying flock promises snow? (A flock of geese).
Who has a cheek instead of a bag? (Chipmunk).
Which bird has the largest family? (At the gray
partridges 26-28 chicks).
Who runs backwards. (Hare).
Who goes six months without lunch? (Bear).
On which side of the tree should you look for mushrooms? (From the north).
They carry burdens heavier than themselves. (Ants).
What animal carries mountains? (Camel).
What bird did the sea teach to fly? (Penguin).

Host: Well, our first quiz has come to an end. Word to the chairman of the jury.
Santa Claus: We need time to consult. Let my beloved Snowflake entertain you for now.

Snowflake flies.

Snowflake: Hello, children and adults! Listen carefully.

Quiz 2
What kind of star is this
On a coat and on a scarf,
All through, cut out,
And you take it - water in your hand.
(Snowflake).
What grows upside down?
(Icicle).
The blanket was soft and white,
The sun is hot and the blanket is gone.
(Snow).
Silver grains are scattered on blue ice.
(Stars).
No planks, no axes
The bridge over the river is ready.
The bridge is like blue glass:
Slippery, fun, light.
(Ice)
They gave the brothers a warm home,
To live together.
The big brother did not agree
And settled separately.
(Mitten).
My new friends
And shiny and light
And they frolic with me on the ice,
And they are not afraid of the cold.
(Skates).
warm, eared,
Make friends with the head
Frost is not afraid.
(A cap).
The skids run, with their socks up.
(Skis).

Snowflake: What good fellows you are! All mysteries solved!
Santa Claus: We are ready. Wow, and you gave us a difficult task, because both teams are so friendly, smart and funny!

Announces the decision of the jury. Winner's reward ceremony

Santa Claus: Well, the quiz is over, the gifts have been distributed. Only I'm worried about the Snow Maiden, because I should have been here for a long time. (There is a knock on the door.) Here, probably, the granddaughter came.

An envelope flies. The buffoon prints it out and reads:
You will not see your Snow Maiden! I sedated her. But if you complete my tasks, so be it - I will return it to you.
Hello from Vyugi.

Santa Claus: (angrily) That's an evil old woman! Again the holiday spoils us. How will I be without my granddaughter?!
Host: Santa Claus, maybe we can help you? (To the guys). Can we help?
Voice from the audience: Help!

The buffoon takes a sheet from the envelope and reads the assignments:
Blizzard tasks.
Write a poem about the New Year.
Perform the dance of the Blizzard.
Perform a song where the word "Snow Maiden" occurs.
After the last completed task, your Snow Maiden will appear.

Santa Claus: Snow Maiden! Granddaughter! You are alive and well!
Snow Maiden: Hello! Really late? I've been sleeping for so long!
Host: Unfortunately, the quiz is already over.
Santa Claus: But the holiday continues. I still have a lot of gifts left.
Snow Maiden: Well, what is a holiday without songs? I see someone sitting sad. And let's play. I will start the song, and each team in turn will continue. Who did not finish it - he lost.

There is a song contest.
Song Contest
The Forest Raised a Christmas Tree.
She grew up in the forest...
Little Christmas tree
Cold in winter...
Once upon a frosty winter...
Oh frost, frost...
Somewhere in the world
Where it's always cold...
Tell me, Snow Maiden, where was ...

Snow Maiden: How great you sing! Now let's check your lungs. On my command, you need to inflate the balloon. Whoever breaks it, wins. A fun competition with balls begins,
Buffoon: I also want to play, I have a magic hat. I pour magic candies into it ... mix them. Who wants to enjoy...
Santa Claus: Buffoon, can I try first?

Draws a phantom, performs the task.
Then everyone who wants to play.
Competition "Magic Hat"
Draw a boiling kettle.
Sing like a rooster. Depict a broom,
Draw a blooming flower.
Draw a whistle.
Mimic the donkey.
Picture melting ice cream.
Draw an inflating balloon.
Read the poem "Our Tanya cries loudly": menacingly, plaintively, laughing, frightened

Santa Claus: Yes, I see that there are only talents in this school!

A self-assembled tablecloth flies in.

Snow White: Oh, what is this? Self-assembled tablecloth?
Moderator: Why doesn't it work?
Buffoon: Probably, it is necessary to say the magic words. Let's remember.
Snow Maiden: Creeble-crable-booms ...
Host: Cracks-pax-fax...
Buffoon: No, nothing works.
Santa Claus: Oh, I think I remembered: this tablecloth will unfold at the sound of a song. Let's sing!

Everyone sings some funny song. Tables are set at this time.

Santa Claus: From such a fun song, not only the tablecloth-self-assembly will unfold. Appetite rises! I ask everyone to the table!

The holiday ends with New Year's tea. At the table during tea drinking, you can offer several tasks.
Questions for tea
Who will be the first to guess the riddle about the edible.
Name musical instruments in order.
That one wins. who will name the last.
Guess what is in the box. (guessed
hand over the contents of the box.
Guinness Book of Records. Which of the participants
holiday the most curly, the most cheerful, the most
tall, the most buttoned, the most silent,
Who has the loudest voice...

I already know...

I know how difficult it is to arrange a holiday when people gather at the same table several generations. Someone wants to watch New Year's programs, someone just wants to eat delicious food, listen to jokes. Children run between the table and the Christmas tree, the hostess with salads - from the kitchen to the living room.

And that's it! There is nothing to remember. After the chiming clock, do we start to yawn and crawl away?

No! The festive mood is the work of the most talented, mischievous and cheerful people. Us with you..

Welcome the Year of the Rat 2020

Look at interesting contests in other scenarios:, (this is my favorite selection),
Here is the script and !

Prize Collections

I annually update collections of cute little things that are suitable as a reward for participating in competitions with links to the store.

Competition order- of your choice. I'm just reminding you what you can use when writing your own script for the New Year's home holiday.

Ready-made scenarios with props in boxes

To begin with, I will advise saving sets with a description of games and fun! You do not need to have the skills of an experienced host, and you will find a clear party plan with props and a description in one set assembled by professionals.

"Magical New Year's Eve 2020"— a new script for the 2020 meeting. If you wish, you can have fun for 5 hours, the script can be easily adjusted to your number of participants and the duration of the holiday! This box is for the whole family, the age of the guests does not matter. There are a lot of different funny contests, for which there is the necessary props and printing, a clear party plan (they even indicate the time), ideas for original toasts, predictions and jokes. For dancing, the best New Year's hits are collected, you can simply download them.

On New Year's Eve itself, you can entertain a company of adults and children (from 6 to 30 people) using a box "New Year's MegaBox".
Laugh, Play, Wish, Guess boxes - 15 tasks each. Oracle pouch – 1 pc.
Leaflets for names - 60 pcs. (in the Oracle bag). Talisman tokens - 60 pcs. Envelopes with competitions - 6 pcs. Wish fulfillment form - 5 pcs. Scroll "Letter", "Song", "Results of the year" - 1 pc. Set "Garland" (16+16 letters + ribbon) - 1 set. Set "Letters" - 2 sets. The leaves are clean - approx. 100 pieces. Instruction (script).

New Year Waiting Calendar- a holiday that you start 2 weeks before the chiming clock. This box is filled with mystery envelopes that you give to (or discreetly place in a room with) kids ages 4 to 10. The envelopes contain very beautiful pages with author's drawings, on which children will read not only 14 parts of an interesting fairy tale, but also receive interesting tasks to prepare for the New Year.

Solemn part (comic award for success in the past year)

I host awards every year. From the Internet (look for “Diplomas” in the pictures), I print out empty Certificates of Honor and Diplomas, enter my own text there for each family member.

For example, I have a one year old niece. He received the following diploma: “Artem Evgenievich is awarded for masterly mastering the technique of upright walking and using the word “Give” instead of all other words of the Russian language.”

My husband's mother processed documents for several months in a row, so she was awarded a large chocolate medal "For going through information."

My daughter made progress in the development of flexibility and received an "A" in physical education, so she has a diploma "For building a strategic bridge (okay ... a bridge) between legs and arms."

I awarded my son for the most sonorous pronunciation of the sound “Rrrrr” (learned in December)

Himself, of course, for blogging success, together with maternal care. It's hard, why didn't I deserve a medal?

Elections of Father Frost and Snow Maiden

I propose not to arrange a vote, but simply write and add in one hat the names of all the men, and in another hat- the names of all the ladies. The Snow Maiden is 60, and Santa Claus is 1 month old? Great! We put on a hat and cap for the chosen ones, take a photo for memory.

You can also come up with roles for all the other guests. Only now write these roles on pieces of paper and hide them in capsules from the Kinders, and the guests will pull themselves. For example, I have only 10 guests. I have assigned the roles like this:

• Santa Claus, Snow Maiden (who happened to dance together dance)
• Sheep is a symbol of the year (show this animal and “bleat” everyone happiness in the new year)
• Snow Woman and Snow Queen (even if it fell to the males, we put on crowns and ask to sing the duet “Oh, frost-frost”)
• "I'm just the boss here." The one who got this should say a toast and congratulate everyone on the upcoming New Year.
• Snowflakes (everything else). They also have crowns! Now we put them side by side and ask them to perform the “Dance of the Little Snowflakes”. Of course, we borrow music from little swans :-). It will be fun, I promise!

Comic fortune telling

After my sister got a rattle, and I got the keys to the car, I believe in this fortune-telling.))) At the end of December I graduate from a driving school and for a month now I have been wearing the title of Aunt Ira.

What can be wrapped in a napkin or wrapping paper? All, what can be deciphered as a prediction. Screwdriver? There will be repairs. Coin- to good earnings, jar of vitamins- excellent health throughout the year, theater ticket- bohemian life tassel- to the discovery of hidden talents, globe- there will be interesting trips, folded thin handbag- to successful purchases, mirror- someone will become very prettier in the new year, etc.

More options:

• Book - you will learn new things
• Letter is good news
• Hours - interesting events await
• Ring - you will receive an unexpected offer (even at work)

Or so. We pull "Fortune telling", I assure you, everyone will be pleased! For an adult company, the list can be supplemented with predictions of changes in personal life.

• You will be the most successful in work and business in the new year
• Will you study the most in 2013
• You will travel the most
• You will discover new talents
• The most pleasant and unexpected surprise awaits you!
• You will be the pride of our whole family
• You will show the greatest sporting achievements
• You will receive the best gifts for the New Year
• Your wildest dream will come true
• You will have many good changes in your life

Let's remember childhood

The competition can be held immediately after showing the presentation of photos of your relatives "I'm at the Christmas tree." Offer to read a short New Year's poem "as then, at 3 years old." Prepare the quatrains in advance.

Another option is to read poetry, imitating a cartoon character. And once I suggested that someone born in the year of the Rat read like a rat, in the year of the dog - like a dog, the dragon talked about snowflakes, the tiger growled about a smart Christmas tree.

Or so (we have 2018 - the year of the Dog). Poems are read by Sleepy Dog, Kind Dog, tired, cunning, greedy, cocky, etc ...

Dancing!

There is nothing special to invent here. We launch proven "Dance of ducklings", "Gypsy", "Polka", "Lezginka", "Ledka-Enka", Oriental melodies for belly dance, and so on.

Couples "grandmother-grandson", "grandfather and granddaughter" always win, don't forget to reward.

Story without adjectives

Old-fashioned fun. Write a story about your family "Unusual adventures in Far Far Away" without adjectives. Harmless, but bright words (“glossy”, “pompous”, “abstruse”, “super-duper-smart”, Pimply”, “loud”, “slippery”) let your guests call. Then insert the words into the prepared text instead of the ellipses in the order in which they were called. It always turns out funny.

Here comes the New Year. The whole ... family is assembled: ... father, ... mother, ... aunt Nina and ... Masha. How beautifully decorated ... Christmas tree! On it hang ... toys and ... garlands. What is not on the ... table! This is ... herring under a fur coat, ... Olivier, ... meat. When we eat all this, we will become very ...!

And we will have ... dancing! Grandfather will dance ... dance with ... grandmother, and mother in ... dress will dance with ... dad to the very ... music!