New Year's With Preschoolers

You can celebrate New Year's Eve with your preschooler, you just need to adjust the clock! Change your clock back a few hours, whatever time frame you decide (it should at least be dark). Plan a celebration, with sprakling juice or cider (add club soda to some juice to make a perfect celebration drink!), some fancy foods, and some fire works or sparklers. As your "clock" approaches midnight, have a count down, and scream and yell with it strikes 12! Then, you preschooler can go to bed and you can stay up to watch the real ball drop. Your preschooler will enjoy the celebration of the new year without the crankiness in the morning!
One other option is to celebrate the first New Year's on our planet in the Christmas Islands near Australia. Their New Year will be at 1:00 pm EST. You can see all of the New Year's Count Downs at Countdown to New Year 2008. Choose a county and countdown to their celebration. This could be an all day event! With a world map handy, it can be an introduction to a geography lesson too!
You may also choose to follow Greenwich, UK. This is where time is set. As of this posting, it is a 5 hour difference from the Eastern Time Zone. That would put our celebration at 7:00 pm! Perfect for preschoolers!

Happy 2008!

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