New Year’s Scripture: Printables for Your Celebration
Looking for something fun and meaningful to do with your family this New Year’s? Get FREE New Year’s Scripture printables, plus fun activities to welcome the year with your family.
I’ll be honest. I’m one of those moms who puts her kids to bed at 8 pm on New Year’s Eve and doesn’t even feel guilty about it. After all, in my 30-something years of life, I’ve probably rung in the New Year from under the covers at least 30 times.
I know. I’m a real party animal, huh?
It’s not that I don’t love the new year. I do love the idea of new beginnings. I genuinely enjoy thinking about the blessings of the previous year that have come to pass and the potential of the year before us. I’ve just never been one to get into the staying-up-all-night celebration part. Until this year.
The kids are getting older, and they’ve wondered what all the hype could be about, and I love simple traditions like staying up until midnight! So, this year I decided it was time for a New Year’s Eve celebration! I thought about everything I wanted my kids to get out of the event, and I crafted up a plan.
Let the Festivities Begin!
The festivities will start at 7 pm with the popping of balloon #1. I created some New Year’s celebration Scripture printables and rolled them up. (Don’t worry, I’m sharing them with you. Just scroll down to the bottom of this post.) Next, I placed them inside a deflated balloon. The kids helped me blow up the balloons, and then I drew a time on each one. To keep it simple, I did 7 pm, 8 pm, and 9 pm. Then every half hour starting at 9:30 pm. This made a total of 9 balloons.
I tied the balloons to the light fixture over the kitchen table. You could also tie them to the blinds of a large window or just hang up a string and create your own line of balloons. I thought the light fixture would be fun because we will have to search through them to find the next time!
Each time we pop a balloon, we will read the New Year’s Scripture verse. It’s actually just a reference on the slip, so we can read them straight from the Bible. After we read the Scripture, there is a question to discuss. They are simple and upbeat topics on things like favorite memories from the past year and things we hope will happen next year.
After our discussion, I have activities planned for each segment. I didn’t add these to the printable because I wanted you to be able to have the flexibility of deciding your own activities. Depending on the age of your kids, items you have at home, and budget, your activities might look a bit different.
(Scroll to the bottom of the post to get your free New Year’s Scripture printables!)
Our Family-Friendly New Year’s Eve Celebration:
7:00 pm—> Play “Minute to Win It,” one of our family’s favorite things to do together! The materials are simple and usually on hand. Plus, it’s awesome fun for all ages. Click here for game ideas.
8:00 pm—> Have a year-in-review scavenger hunt. (Or you could make a time capsule.)
9:00 pm—> Make a vision board for the new year. I use this idea for my goals and dreams in my business, and I love the idea of making one for our family. I think we will make one altogether instead of two separate ones, but you get the idea! Pinterest has lots of great ideas as well.
9:30 pm—> Make party hats to wear when the clock strikes 12. They are super simple, and you can make them with any craft supplies that you have on hand.
10:00 pm—> Cupcake fondue time! I cannot tell you how excited I am about this idea. Hop over and see all of the great ideas for dippers!
10:30 pm —> Photo booth time! I’ve never done a photo booth with my kids, but I think they will love it. Plus, it’s a fun way to make a memory with these cute FREE printables.
11:00 pm —> Make our own noisemakers. I love this idea because it’s so simple. Just a paper plate, some filler, and ribbons. The kids can be super creative with these.
11:30 pm—> I want the last half hour of our celebration to be very special. We will spend this time looking at the fun things we did tonight, like our photo memories scavenger hunt and our family vision board. We will then get all of our materials ready for the big countdown and then gather on the couch to ring the new year in through song! Our family loves to sing. We usually read the story behind a hymn and then sing the song from Then Sings My Soul. It’s such a beautiful time!
12:00 am—> Happy New Year! Have a balloon drop. I can’t wait to do this. At midnight, we will release the balloons for a moment of sheer delight! Another fun idea is to hand out midnight kisses.
GET YOUR NEW YEAR’S CELEBRATION SCRIPTURE PRINTABLES:
To get the New Year’s Scripture printable set, fill out the form below. I pray you sense God’s nearness as you celebrate this new year!
I pray that your family has an amazing celebration together this year! Don’t forget to download your free New Year’s Celebration Scripture Printables.
Through practical tools & Bible-based resources, Kim Sorgius is dedicated to helping your family GROW in faith so you can be Not Consumed by life’s struggles. Author of popular kid’s devotional Bible studies and practical homeschooling tools, Kim has a master’s degree in education and curriculum design coupled with over 2 decades of experience working with kids and teens. Above all, her most treasured job is mother and homeschool teacher of four amazing kiddos.
Thank you! We were just talking about doing New Year’s Eve with only our children this year and they will love these simple but fun ideas 🙂 May you and your family be blessed in the coming year!
You’re so very welcome. May it be the sweetest time for you guys!
Kim, this is so wonderful … Our church is doing a family fun game night on NYE, I think I will bring this idea too … My older girls are on the “decorating team” 🙂
Hi! Thank you for the printable New Years celebration and ideas!! I can’t get the link to the photo booth to work, am I doing something wrong?
Nope. Not your fault. It was my error. I fixed it. Thank you for letting me know!
Love this idea!!
Love this! Your ideas are fabulous and fun. What a great way to ring in the new year!
What a great idea and edifying in the Lord too! You are a great mom! Be encouraged. 🙂
(It’s so nice to know that there are godly mothers out there. That can be encouraging to the rest of us). 🙂
Thank you for your sweet encouragement!
You’re so wonderfully creative. Thank you so much for this — we will be doing this in our house!
I was planning on doing fondue, but Cupcake Fondue – Oh Yeah! Thanks for the idea!!
I want the scripture printables!!
I love the idea of focusing on Scripture to bring in the New Year. What a fun idea!
I never leave comments but this idea is Awesome!! I have a 16 y/o teen & I thought this would be too childish for him, but he absolutely LOVED IT!! Every hour he got such a kick out of popping a balloon. He loved the scriptures & questions & even wanted to pray afterwards. Thank you for posting a spiritual New Year’s Eve idea. Our church has a night-watch, but I never want to go out that late especially on New Years & have always wanted to have a spiritual New Years with my son. And the scriptures were so appropriate!! I’m also a single mom & homeschooler, so I have pinned your website for future reference. Thanks!!!
I’m so glad that you had fun. And I’m glad to have you around. Welcome!!
Great idea
Thank you so much for this resource! We used the printables and ideas and modified them for our family. The last several years we had a few families over for a New Year’s party, but due to health issues, I just could not do it this year. My children were a little bummed that it was going to be just our family for New Years, but your ideas gave me inspiration and everyone enjoyed our New Year’s celebration. Maybe a new tradition……..
Aww. Thank you for sharing your testimony. I love it when God provides little things like this in our time of need!
Thank you so much! I am right with you as far as our kids ages and this is the first year we were planning to let them stay up to celebrate as well. I was just about to look for fun ideas when I received your e-mail! So excited to use some of these ideas!
I love it when that happens. 🙂
We are going to have a Noon Year’s Eve party this year! I’m excited to try many of your ideas, only in the day time!
Can’t wait to hear how it goes!
This is one of the best post ever. Thank you so much for this great ideas and happy new blessed year
You’re welcome. Happy New Year!
❤This is amazing and I am so excited to do these things with my family! This sounds like a new tradition! I hope youg and your family have a wonderful new year filled with love, laughter and blessings! ❤
I can not find the link in order to download the bible verse. Do you no longer have that link available?
There isn’t a link. Click on the free printables image at the bottom of the post.
I would love a copy of the New Year’s craft for my Sunday School class
This looks so great!
Love this to use with my OWLS group – Older Wiser Lutherans!!!
I love your ideas and downloaded the printable, but I didn’t see the Scripture verses with the questions on the back. I would love to receive those somehow. Did I overlook the link?
Hi Joyce, the scriptures references and questions are all on the same side of the page. That printable starts on page 6 of the Holiday Collection 🙂
Suzanne@Not Consumed
Great ideas! Want to try one or two…
Thank you for sharing your files they are really appreciated
NY Eve Printable Scriptures, please. Thank you!
Just fill in the request form in the post and you will receive the list by email ?
Suzanne@NotConsumed
Love this idea; good for a mixed age group.
Thank you for the resources
Thank you so much for this fabulous product.
Ithink the scripture cards and questions would be great for this year especially after all of the challenges children have been through. It’s hard for adults not knowing how the next days will play out, maybe these will help ease the minds of the littles? Am I missing how to print them out? THANK YOU!!
Hi Heather,
Just fill in the request form in the post and you will receive the list by email. If you are not seeing the form you may try using a different browser.
If you are still having trouble please email us at joy@notconsumed.com ?
Suzanne@NotConsumed
What wonderful ideas! Thank you for sharing!!! God bless you!