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As you are making your New Years Eve plans, I thought you all might enjoy these fun New Years Eve Countdown Goodie Bags that I shared last year.
Traditions…one of the things I love most about the Holidays. Many, many years ago, we started a great tradition…New Year’s Eve Countdown Goodie Bags.
My boys were quite young, but still wanted to stay up until midnight, and quite honestly, it was hard for my husband and I to stay up that late too. So, we started using Goodie Bags to countdown to midnight.
Using cardstock or construction paper, cut a circle, then simply draw a clock on each circle, facing the hands toward each hour. I start with 8 p.m., but only because it’s less expensive to fill only 5 bags per child.
Walmart has a great selection of bags with multiple goodies, to further cut down on the cost. I also always put the noise makers and poppers in the midnight bag and hand those out a few minutes before the hour, that way, we aren’t hearing the noise for hours. Some other items I have used in the past are glow necklaces, small puzzles and toys, and candy.
I display them on the Buffet with shiny gift bag filler and noise makers. You can also color coordinate for each child if you want, making it easier for each child to keep their bags seperate. I also keep the clocks from year to year.
This has become such a tradition for my boys, last year, my oldest, then 18, had to work, but he asked me to be sure to save his bags for him.
Do you have New Years Eve traditions?
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I LOVE this! What a great idea! My kids are still too young, but I am going to store this one in the memory banks for a couple years from now!!
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I found your site through Beauty & Bedlam…LOVE the idea about the countdown goodie bags! My kids are 9 and 6 and I was trying to think of something fun to do for Thursday night with them. I think I found my answer!
And I hope you don’t mind if I share this post on my little blog.
Love the idea!!
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@Jennifer, Sure! That would be great! I’d love for you to share! Happy New Year!
~Liz
I love the idea of Count Down bags! I think I might try a mini-version this year.
Love this! I think I shall steal it
Thank you!!
What a great idea!!! Thanks for sharing!!! I just may do this, this year! =)
Totally stealing your idea!!! This will be soooo fun for my kids!!
Thanks for sharing!
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What a neat tradition:-)
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What a fun idea! Thanks for sharing!
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I LOVE this idea. Our tradition is a party with friends and kids. We hang tarps and set up heaters on our back porch for the adults and the kids have access to the XBox, Wii and movies. We all get together to watch the peach drop (Hey, we are in GA after all!) These bags would be great to hand out at midnight for the kids. Off to the dollar store…..
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Love this idea! I am going to try to make these today for my two sons…and make it a tradition as well!
What an awesome idea. I’ll be snagging this one! Thanks for sharing.
This is an awesome idea! I’m so doing this tomorrow with my boys! Thank you.
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What a fun idea! We have all the cousins over for New Year’s Eve and this would be a great way to pass the evening.
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What a fun and creative idea! I absolutely love it. Thank you for sharing your brilliance with the blogging community.
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I hope you don’t mind …I featured this today on my blog! LOVE the idea. May just have to toss some together for tonight. Just looks SUPER FUN for any age.
This is such a fun idea! Thanks for sharing and for the great photos to help me really “see it.”
Thanks so much for this neat idea! I did this using 5 bags. I started with 8PM. My son (7 yrs old) loved these bags. He waited for each hour so that he could see what was in each bag. I will be using this idea each year now. Thanks again!
@Lowbudget, Great, I’m so glad you had fun with them. It really makes the night go faster. Happy New Year!
~Liz
What a neat idea! I love it! Thanks for sharing.
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we just started the countdown bags this year & the kids loved them! http://puertabella.blogspot.com/2010/01/nye-sleepover.html
we also write down our wishes for the new year & place them in our “wish boxes” & open them the next year to see if any of our wishes came true!
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@susan@pocacosas, The wish boxes are a great idea! Thanks for sharing!
~Liz
This is such a fun tradition! Thanks for sharing. Found you through Tip Junkie.
Super cute idea! I linked to it on my weekly roundup (post is under my name). I’ll file this away for when my little one gets older!
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What a great idea! I bet my kids would love it!!
I LOVELOVE LOVE this idea. We have no traditions for Holidays. I need to make some and this is a great start! i have to do it for 6 children so Dollar Tree here I come! Plus i am going to share this idea.
I’m so glad you like them! They are very fun for the kids and even adults
Happy New Year!
~Liz
Wow what a fun and cute idea!
Alison, Thanks so much for stopping by! Happy and Healthy New Year to you and your family!
~Liz
Neat idea…thank you for sharing.
The New Years Eve Man (aka The Leftover Man) sneaks into the house each New Years Eve while everyone is outside yelling Happy New Year. Now the Leftover Man can only bring items that weren’t bought at Christmas, those poor little gifts left homeless. We are 3 families who have been friends for 35 + years, and every Labor Day Weekend we camp together and on New Years Eve they pack up and come spend the night at our house. We’re down to just the adults now (well, our children are now adults, but you know what I mean)but we still have a wonderful time. It’s fun to see what the Leftover Man can find on the cheap cheap.
Thanks! A perfect way to give everyone their horns, confetti poppers and our traditional can of Black Eyed Peas.
What a super idea! I have passed your link along to several friends. I already have bags and cardstock.
I love the cute bags that you created
we stay up to watch the ball drop snack and visit
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Great idea! Definitely going to do this next year! How fun! Thank you for sharing!
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Oooh, what a fun idea!! My son is 3 so we’re just starting to try and come up with some New Year’s traditions we can enjoy with him…I’m thinking this would be a great one. Would you link it here at my party?
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I absolutely love this idea. And great tip about saving the noise makers to midnight! haha
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I used your idea last year with my three grandchildren. I color coded the clocks, so each child had their own color. They are young, so it made it easy to keep track of their bag. They were so excited and loved the little treats. I am doing it again this year. Thanks for the great idea!
This is an awesome idea. I am featuring this at somedaycrafts.blolgspot.com. Grab mY “FEatured” button.
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This is a great idea. I will use this idea but I think I will make just one bag for all the kids to open – we will have 6 for New Year’s.
Thanks Elizabeth! That is the beauty of it, you can make as many of as few as you need. And fill with whatever you like. I found some great packages of little toys at the Dollar Tree and in the party section at Walmart today.
Happy New Year!
These are adorable! I’m including them in a Things To Try – New Years with Kids idea post on my craft blog : )
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Hello there! This is a great idea! Thank you for sharing! I wanted to let you know that I featured this on Stay At Home Nation. I would love for you to come check it out! You can grab a button from my sidebar & post it proudly since you have been featured! Have a Happy New Year!
XoXo
~Iffy~
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Just stopping by to let you know that I have featured your project on Fun Family Crafts! You can see it here
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If you have other kid friendly crafts, I’d love it if you would submit them
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Hi Liz! I love this idea and I know my kids will too. I made them this morning for tonight and the kids are already dying to see what’s in them. I hope you have a Happy New Year and 2012 is great for you and your family.
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Hi Leanne! So glad you found them! Wishing you the very best in 2012 to you and your family!
~Liz
What did you put inside?
This year I found items at the Dollar Store and at Walmart in the party section. Small games, soft nerf type airplanes, word search puzzles, glow sticks, pencils, candy, fruit snacks, etc. And in the last bag, is always the noise makers and poppers.
Hello, sorry I am late to stop by and let you know how much we love your goodie bag idea – it has featured over on my blog twice! I thought I had left a note already- sorry!
It is 10.36am here on New Years Eve and I have just finished getting our goodie bags ready for the first one at 12pm. The kids will love it so thank you so much for being an inspiration. Happy New Year to you!
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Hi Nicole, I’m so excited that you liked the Countdown Bags! Have fun and Happy New Year!
~Liz