A home New Year's holiday is a long-standing good tradition. Older family members want to give the younger ones a fairy tale, miracles, joy ... On New Year's Day, younger family members have a wonderful opportunity to learn folk customs, try themselves in the role of the host (after all, you need to meet guests and come up with an interesting program together with adults), and also - this is the birth of family traditions.

Mysterious flags

Prepare a garland of flags, write a riddle on the back of each flag (if the guys are familiar with the puzzles, then draw a puzzle). During the holiday, remove the garland, distribute flags to the children and conduct "Guess-ku" (if children do not know how to read - read the riddle). Children can take turns reading riddles aloud, you can hold this contest before lighting the Christmas tree: after the last riddle solved, the Christmas tree is lit.

Puzzles

Snow in the fields, ice on the rivers,

A blizzard is walking. When does that happen? (In winter.)

I, like a grain of sand, am small, and I cover the ground. (Snow)

The tablecloth was white all over the world. (Snow)

Who bridges the river without an axe, without nails, without wedges and without boards? (Frost.)

They go into the forest – the canvases are laid, from the forest they go – they are overlaid. (Skiing.)

Not a beast, but a howl. (Wind.)

There is a tree, this tree has twelve appendages, twelve processes have four rods each, a rod has six tassels, and the seventh is golden. (Year, months, weeks, days of the week.) In summer he walks, in winter he rests. (Bear.)

The black cow overcame all the light, and the white cow lifted. (Night and day.)

It does not burn in fire, nor does it sink in water. (Ice)

Bel, yes not sugar, no legs, yes goes. (Snow)

Without arms, without legs, but he can draw. (Frost.)

There is a mountain in the yard, and water in the hut. (Snow)

Angry uterus, yes covered the babies until the red day with a duvet. (Winter.)

Uphill is a horse, uphill is a tree. (Sanki.)

Two Clubs run into the woods, their sock bent. (Skiing.) The escapes are running, the creeps are creeping. (Horse and sleigh.) Three brothers live: one loves winter, the other summer, and the third does not care. (Sleigh, cart and horse.)

Guess what

Santa Claus offers to put his hand in a bag in which various small objects are hidden, grope one of them and, without taking it out of the bag, say what it is. If the item is named correctly, the player takes it for himself. In the bag you can put a chocolate bar, gingerbread in a wrapper, a candy pencil, a chupa chups, an eraser, a coin, a pencil sharpener, a calendar, a tennis ball, an apple, etc.

Range of wishes and predictions

Turn off the lights and light the candles. Seat the guests in a circle and place a chair in the middle of the circle. Guests take turns sitting on a chair. The host blindfolds them. The rest of the participants say New Year's wishes to the person sitting in the center. Such an exchange of wishes creates a friendly atmosphere and gives the celebration of the New Year a little magic.

Shifters of proverbs and sayings

Invite gamers to decipher the shifters of proverbs, book titles, lines from poems and songs. You can offer to guess three shifters (one of each type). Points are awarded for the correct answer. The time for reflection is limited - 10-20 seconds.

Glowing ball

Show the audience a table tennis ball. Count to three and a light will appear inside the ball. The light is moving!

To achieve this effect is very simple. Three meters from the ball should be a light source, let's say, a simple light bulb. And in the ball there is a round hole with a diameter of up to one centimeter. When you show the ball to the audience, you cover the hole with your finger. Counting to three, turn the ball with the hole to the bulb and, removing your finger, open it. This is where the audience gets the impression that there is light in the ball. And in order for the light to move, you just need to move the ball up and down and left and right, but do not turn it.

Five seconds to think

This game can be played in different ways. The main rule: the answer is given five seconds. The number of correct answers is the number of prize points.

Option 1. Prepare the required number of cards with questions and invite the player to take any to choose from (agree in advance on how many cards to take). And then according to the rules.

Option 2. Ask, for example, five questions to the first player, five to the second, and so on.

Option 3. You can ask questions alternately to several players at once. Just make sure that all players answer the same number of questions.

Note: If several participants have scored an equal number of points, you can offer them the final round.

Five Seconds to Ponder (continued)

Own bingo

Prepare cards for each guest or for a couple, three, etc.

Offer to remove any items from handbags and pockets and put one item on empty cells, just in case, prepare a bag with small objects. Agree in advance which cells should remain empty: horizontally, vertically, diagonally. And now in a circle... Each player (or player from each deuce, three) takes one item from his card, picks up and loudly tells those present the name of the item, for example, "phone". All players who have a phone on the cell remove it from their cards. The next player repeats everything again, and so on. This continues until someone who has left certain cells empty shouts, "Bingo!"

Game "Establish a personality"

Ask guests in advance to bring their photo as an infant (preferably no older than one year).

Prepare pencils, paper, and labels (you can use name icons).

Before the game, all photos must be collected, numbered and placed on the wall or table (this should be done in the absence of guests). Guests need to pin labels or name badges to their clothes.

Guests are invited to a room where photos are hung or laid out. They must "identify" each of the guests from the photo and write down the number of the photo and the name of the guest on a piece of paper. No more than eight minutes are given for "identification". The winner is the one who gave the most correct answers.

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