Preparing for the game
To make a quest you will need a picture withwith the image of Santa Claus, a beautiful New Year's card, and you also need to pick 10-15 riddles about toys, objects, furniture, etc. Cut the picture with Santa Claus into the number of riddles in the form of triangles, diamonds. Write a riddle on each part and lay it out so that the answer to the previous riddle corresponds to the place where the next part of the picture is located.
A good script for children aged five or six,will help create a festive atmosphere in the house.. Photo: GettyThe New Year's card should be signed with something like this: "Hi, baby! I've prepared a present for you, But to find it, you need to put together a puzzle!" Put the card in an envelope, put in the puzzle with the first riddle, sign it with the child's name and put it in the mailbox. So, before the game starts, one of the parents goes out, checks the mail and brings a letter from Santa Claus. The child reads, guesses simple riddles and looks for the hidden gift. The whole search takes no more than half an hour. This option, if you make some changes, can be used for any holiday that is celebrated in the family.
Journey into a New Year's fairy tale
It's much more interesting to organize a holidaywhen there are several children in the family and everyone together goes on an incredible, fairy-tale adventure in search of lost gifts. The New Year's game can be designed according to the scenario of a fairy tale, for example, "The Snow Queen", who stole gifts and in order to find them you need to assemble a puzzle from fragments with tasks.
To organize a New Year's party you canchoose any room and decorate it beautifullyPhoto: Getty The game scheme is very simple, the children receive a letter from Santa Claus, where he says that the evil Snow Queen is against people celebrating the New Year and stole the gifts. Flying away, she accidentally dropped a kind mirror, which broke, and the fragments flew to different corners. The mirror can tell where to find gifts, but it needs to be collected. Put the first shard of the mirror in the letter, and to find the next one, the children need to guess the riddle, or complete a task with a hint. To play the game, make a circle out of ordinary cardboard, draw a map on it where the gifts are hidden, glue it with foil using a glue stick. Cut into 8-10 parts, write tasks with hints on the back side on where to look for the next shard. When the children complete all the tasks and collect the magic fragments, all they have to do is put them together, remove the foil and find out where the hidden gifts are. Don't forget that the New Year's quest should be atmospheric: children are waiting for a miracle, so the props for decoration need to be unusual and beautiful. Parents can easily decorate the room themselves, using a little imagination. As tasks, you can use riddles, the answers to which will tell you where the next fragment is. Or come up with some exciting actions that the children will have to perform to continue the search.
Organizing a holiday
Conducting the organization of the New Year's holidaycan be played not only in the apartment, but also on the street, parents just need to come up with a fairy-tale scenario and interesting tasks, in accordance with the age of the children. The main task of the New Year's game is to achieve the goal by overcoming obstacles that develop in search of gifts, and correctly presented information can "warm up" the interest of children in the game. It is better to prepare simple tasks so that children can independently solve riddles and find hidden gifts. The goal of the game is to create problem situations for children that will help develop creativity in the process of completing simple tasks. Of course, you can invite actors and arrange a grand celebration, but such pleasure is not cheap, and it is not always possible, for example, due to small living space, or the presence of small children in the family. And playing at home in such a "New Year's quest" will be interesting for both children and adults. Such exciting, joint games help to create a positive mood and a unique magical atmosphere on the eve of the New Year holiday. This DIY New Year's adventure will prolong the holiday feeling and start new family traditions. And the kids will remember it all year long and look forward to the next New Year.
