Thinking of organizing a New Year's party? It is not that difficult. Although this event requires thorough preparation. You should decorate the room, think out snacks and buy drinks. Well, of course, you need to come up with entertainment. Perhaps you are organizing a party in some style. Then you should warn the guests about this and say that the dress code will work. Ideas for organizing a party will be presented below.
Room decor
New Year's party requires a specific design. It will not be enough just to hang the garlands. How can I decorate a room? Of course, snowflakes. Cutting them is a matter of minutes, and kneading them will not be a problem either. You can even throw snowflakes on the floor, thereby creating the effect of artificial snow indoors. You can hang tinsel and Christmas balls on the walls. Why not? A disco ball should be attached to the ceiling. Even if your party doesn't go in the style of the 60s, it will still be appropriate. Well, if you put a Christmas tree. But not everyone has such an opportunity. Therefore, you can buy pine branches and make decorative ornaments from them. It can be a wreath on the door or candlesticks. Such decor will not only look festive, it will also fill the apartment with New Year's aroma.
What other decorations for the New Year's party will be appropriate? If you have holiday banners or paper flags, hang them. They will remind many of their childhood. You can light candles. They should be placed on a table or chest of drawers. But if you are having a crowded party, then it is better to do with the lights of a garland to prevent a fire.
Festive table
New Year's party is simply unthinkable without appetizers and salads. If you arrange family gatherings, you can set the table. Cook favorite dishes of your dear people. But if you are organizing an evening with friends, then you should do with a buffet table. A large amount of food is welcome, but only in the form of snacks. If you cannot imagine New Year's Eve without salads, just fill them with tartlets. You can also make sandwiches. Be sure to make slices. They at such events diverge most quickly. Cut several types of sausage, boiled pork and cheese. Do not forget about the fruit. Holiday tangerines are a tribute to tradition. And, of course, it’s hard to imagine a New Year’s Eve without sweets. You can also make assorted chocolates and cookies. Cake at such events is not successful, but cupcakes fly apart in no time. They do not have to be sweet. You can experiment and make cakes with cheese cream.
Costumes
Adults, like children, love masquerade. But they have few cases to wear a suit. New Year's party will be a great occasion. You can set a theme for the event. For example, tell guests to come in costumes from the 60s. You can also set the theme of fairy tales. It is interesting to see how guests flaunt the apartment dressed as Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck. Or maybe your girlfriend wants to be Vasilisa the Beautiful? But, of course, there will always be people who do not want to dress up. No matter how many such persons you warn, they will come without a suit anyway. In order not to spoil the holiday neither to yourself nor to others, you can dress all the costumes at the entrance personally. It is worthwhile to warn everyone in advance. For example, buy face painting and paint people's faces with the theme of the party. Or attach funny hats to girls' hairstyles, and put on funny masks on men.
Presents
New Year's party at home is an occasion to bring all friends together. And it’s clear that gifts should be given. But not always the budget allows you to buy something worth it for 10-15 people. Therefore, you can do with souvenirs. You will organize contests, so make them with prizes. This will give your friends an incentive to participate in the fun. What can I buy as prizes? You can purchase small sweet gifts. Such boxes are inexpensive, and bring a lot of joy. Prizes can be more worthwhile things, for example, wallets, passport covers, diaries, New Year's toys or movie tickets.
But friends will also come with presents. Warn guests to bring alcohol. It is expensive, and it will be a chance for you to save. You don’t have to buy champagne, wine, cognac, etc. Each one will come with his own, and you will put it all on a common table. If it is not customary in your company to give gifts, then you can collect a small contribution from your friends. This money should be spent on presentations to all visitors.
And finally, just before the exit, you can give everyone a large Bengal fire. Guests will leave the house or the entrance and symbolically spend the passing night and will celebrate the New Year. It is beautiful and festive. You can replace sparklers with fireworks or firecrackers. Choose something to your taste.
Music
Remember that all your friends are different. And, accordingly, their musical preferences will also be different. Your task is to make everyone happy. But you know that this is more like a myth than reality. Therefore, it is worth making a selection of popular New Year's songs for the party. It can be the favorite hits of "Disco Crash" or the legendary Jingle Bells. Everyone is used to listening to them for the New Year. Even a person who does not like pop music will not say a word across. Therefore, focus on the New Year's classics. But you must admit, not everyone will want to dance under "A Christmas tree was born in the forest". If you are having a New Year's dance party, you should give preference to incendiary music. It can be something modern or, if the holiday is themed, related to the theme of the event.
Contests
New Year's party for adults is simply unthinkable without entertainment. And among them, the most popular are contests. What can guests offer? Hold a contest called Chain. Guests need to be divided into two teams. Now time is tracked, for example, 2 minutes. Players must make a chain of their clothes. Of course, you should not take off your evening dress, but you can sacrifice a scarf. The team with the longer chain will win.
Selfie contest for the New Year's party is also popular. How to carry it out? Participants line up and the facilitator begins to announce tasks. You need to start with something easy, for example, take a selfie with a Christmas tree. Each player must take a picture and run to the leader. Who came last, that leaves. But you need to make a reservation that the leader checks the photo. After all, someone could cheat, but someone smeared picture. In this case, it is not the last person who arrives, but the one who does not have the right selfie. The second stage may sound like this: take a picture with the oldest present. Players will need to understand who is the oldest in the company and take a selfie quickly. There may be a lot of such tasks. Show your imagination.
If you have a theme party, then the contests should correspond to it. For example, if your theme is fairy tales, then you can have fun in this way. Divide the guests into two teams and say that now there will be a competition for the best Baba Yaga. Each team is given a bucket and a mop. With one foot, the player should be in the bucket, and with his hand - take the mop. In this position, you need to run to a certain mark and back. The host announces the start, and the fun begins. The first players of each team open the baton, and then pass the bucket and mop to the next. The team whose players will cope with the task faster wins.
Games
Competitions are good, but not only them can be arranged. Games for the New Year's party are no less in demand. What can adults play? For example, in "Who is superfluous." The rules of the game are very simple. The presenter says that all participants are flying in a balloon. But then something goes wrong, and you should throw off the ballast. I don’t want to get rid of food, so I need to throw one of the people overboard. Participants sit opposite each other and begin to reason. Everyone proves why he should stay in a balloon. You can bring a profession or unique skills to your defense. But no one forbids lying. It is interesting to see how adults are very worried whether they will remain on board a mythical balloon or not.
You can play a game of courage. It should play men. It is advisable that the participants were no more than 3 or 5. People sit at the table, and 5 boiled eggs are laid in front of them. But the participants are informed that in front of them lies 4 boiled eggs and one raw. The task is this: to break eggs on the forehead. It is ridiculous to watch how men cautiously beat one egg after another and sincerely worry about the outcome of events.
Scenario
To make the party fun, it's not enough just to hold contests. The evening should have a lead. He will hold a New Year's party according to the script. If your event is costumed, you can change the presenter. He must immerse himself in the atmosphere of a fairy tale and lead the guests. A variant of the scenario of the New Year's party is presented below.
Baba Yaga: "Hello, friends. Today you came to the hut on chicken legs to celebrate the New Year. I am glad to see you all here. I am the mistress of this institution, so all issues should be resolved with me. Well, now I want to play with you "Why don't we run around a bit and see who does this best."
A relay race with a bucket and a mop is carried out, as described above.
Baba Yaga: "What a fine fellow you are. But that was only the beginning. Now entertain the old woman."
The festive pantomime game "Crocodile" is held, in which fairy-tale characters are played.
Baba Yaga: "Well, you must be hungry. Eat, my good. And who is the most hungry? Koschey the Immortal? Come here."
A competition is being held. Guests are divided into two teams. Each of them is given a leaf and a pen. One of the participants bites off a large piece of bread or cake and begins to read a little-known New Year's verse with a mouth full. Guests must listen carefully and record what they hear. The most attentive team wins.
Baba Yaga: "Well, now let's find out who we have the most courageous."
The game with eggs is described above.
Baba Yaga: "You must be tired. Well then, let's dance."
The New Year's disco begins.
Karaoke
Music for the New Year's party can flow not only from the speakers of the computer. Today karaoke is very popular. Everyone loves to sing, regardless of whether they know how to do it or not. Therefore, provide guests with the opportunity to try themselves in an unusual role. If your friends really know how to sing, download the minuses of songs and put them. In order for no one to forget the words, they must first be printed. If your friends love to sing, but do not know how to do it, it is better to include a song with words to them. In this case, there is no need to strain too much. You can sing for fun, and it will not sound very ugly. You can also install karaoke software on your computer. In this case, you do not have to print the words. They will appear on the monitor. But in such programs, the list of songs is sometimes limited.
Dancing
No New Year's Eve party is complete without a disco. Even if no one wanted to dance at the beginning of the evening, this does not mean that at the end of the night or in the morning there are no such people. That is why it is worth preparing for such an unexpected turn of events. Select a place for the dance floor, remove the chairs from there, do not put a Christmas tree in the center of the room, or move the sofa to the wall. Be sure to prepare dance music. But if you forget to do it, that's okay. If necessary, you can simply turn on the radio.
When you decorate a room, think about light music. If you have it, put it on. And if not, then you can simply turn on multi-colored spotlights. They will give the holiday a joyful atmosphere and cheer up.
Provide for various emergencies
If you are accustomed to planning everything, then you should not have problems in order to think over the various ways of developing the situation. But if there is no such experience, then sit down and imagine how the party can go. Maybe someone will fall or cut themselves. A bandage, patch or hydrogen peroxide will come in handy. Maybe someone will feel bad and need to rinse the stomach. Or maybe a person will get tired and decide to spend the night, even if he originally planned to go home. Therefore, prepare everything you need, buy pills and take air mattresses from friends.
Waking up in a mess is very unpleasant. Therefore, do not let guests go home until they help with cleaning. Someone should wash the dishes, someone - to take out the trash, and someone - sweep. Of course, have a conscience and do not force friends to wash the floors or wipe your chandelier from an annual layer of dust. But here to help clean up well-mannered people still have to. And do not go to bed right away when the guests disperse. Wait 10-15 minutes. There are sure to be those who forget your phone, handbag, car or apartment keys.