The most reliable way to create a festive mood for yourself is to create it for someone else. And for this, it is best to arrange a small family holiday. Children will definitely accept such an offer with enthusiasm and will willingly participate in its organization. There is no need to invent anything grandiose. Almost everything you need for an impromptu celebration is at hand. Experts of TM “Soft Sign”share useful tips and recommendations on this topic.
Decorating the room
Let’s start with decorating the room. And here, of course, we can not do without balloons, because children love them. Collect as many helium balloons of different colors as possible, but of the same size, always with long curly ribbons. Place them under the ceiling so that the ribbons hang beautifully parallel to each other. Tie notes with humorous predictions or holiday cards to some of them. At the end of the holiday, each child will be able to take a balloon as a souvenir.
A simple, but very original decor can be made from improvised means. Paper towels of TM “Soft sign”will serve as an excellent basis for it. They can be used to make three-dimensional figures in the origami technique: airplanes, fans, flower buds, animals and birds, geometric shapes. Detailed diagrams are easy to find on the Internet. You can make them together with your child, and then paint them with markers or paints. Hang them all over the room on fishing lines or spread them out on the table, bookshelves and windowsill.
Effectively complement the festive decor with paper garlands across the entire width of the room. They can be assembled from multi-colored paper flags in the form of triangles, hearts, stars or snowflakes. For other decor, corrugated paper is ideal. It is easy to assemble into lush voluminous figures and looks festive. From colored yarn, textile ribbons, tassels and cellophane bags, you can make rustling pompoms, which will also be in place. Don’t forget about greeting posters and themed photo collages dedicated to winter fun and the New Year.
Preparing treats
As practice shows, snacks of buffet format served with a creative approach are the fastest at children’s holidays. Here are some proven hits that will appeal to even the uncooperative fastidious.
Cheese panicles will be good as snacks. To prepare them, we will need salted bread sticks and melted cheese in thin square slices. We cut the square in half, cut each half with a fringe, wrap it around a bread stick and tie it with a green onion feather. Serve the “panicles” with a sauce made of natural yogurt and fresh grated cucumber.
Colorful edible fly agarics will also go with a bang. Boil 10-12 quail eggs and carefully peel them from the shell — these will be the legs of mushrooms. We cut small round tomatoes in half and scoop out the juicy pulp with a teaspoon. We got hats. We put them tightly on the quail eggs, fasten the mushroom with a colored skewer and draw white dots on the red hats with the help of sour cream. Serve the fly agarics on a green meadow of lettuce leaves.
For dessert, treat the children to sweet kebabs. We cut out mugs from soft Viennese waffles with a glass. We cut into slices bananas, kiwis, peaches, mangoes, canned pineapples and any other fruits that are available. You can add strawberries and large red grapes here. We string the fruit and berry assorted on cocktail tubes, alternating with soft waffles. Beautifully arrange the dessert skewers on a platter, and next to it put a bowl with a sauce of 200 g of natural yogurt, 1 tbsp. l. maple syrup and ¼ tsp. cinnamon.
We entertain young guests
It will be great if you prepare festive attributes for each little guest. Colorful hats with pompoms, personalized crowns or miniature hats with elastic bands will be just right. Girls can be given headbands with the ears of kittens or mice, boys-fake mustaches or glasses on sticks. To make the holiday really noisy, give the children firecrackers, whistles, horns with tongues and miniature horns.
If there is no time left for the preparation of entertainment, all the same paper towels of TM “Soft Sign” and several markers will come to the rescue. Give them to all the children and play “Nonsense”. You act as a presenter and take turns asking questions: who? with whom? where? when? what did you do? why? how did it end? Each child, having written the answer to the first question, folds a strip at the top of the towel so that it is not visible, and passes it to a neighbor. He, in turn, writes the answer to the second question, also folds the strip from above and passes the towel further around the circle. At the end, the folded paper accordion is unfolded and the story compiled by different participants is read aloud.
Offer older children intellectual entertainment. Participants draw paper towels into several columns, from 5 to 10. In the header of each column, the names of the topics are written: “Animals”,” Plants”,” Food”,” Names”,” Cities”, etc.Then, randomly using the book, the letter is selected with which all the words in the columns should begin. The game is played in several rounds, depending on the number of columns. And to make it more interesting, it is better to compete in inventing words for a while. Be sure to prepare souvenirs for all participants, and a symbolic prize for the winner.
As you can see, nothing special is required to create a small family holiday. You just need to allow yourself to be a child for a little while and give free rein to your imagination. Arrange a fun celebration for the children, relax with them and be charged with a pure festive positive. TM “Soft sign”will help to bring any scenario to life. Soft snow-white durable towels will withstand any test. There is always an interesting and unexpected use for them. And they will also add a drop of comfort and warmth to your family holiday.