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6 fun and creative ways to ring in the New Year with your kids
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Dec 31, 2015
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6 fun and creative ways to ring in the New Year with your kids
Hint: It may involve a lot of balloons.
Celebrating New Year's Eve with your kids may involve a lot of balloons.
Celebrating New Year's Eve with your kids may involve a lot of balloons.
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Hint: It may involve a lot of balloons.

If you've got kids, celebrating New Year's Eve is an entirely different ballgame than those times you could go to parties and drink champagne.

Amber Guetebier is an editor for Red Tricycle, a website created to help every parent feel like a rock star by inspiring them to do fun things with their kids. She offered these suggestions for ringing in the New Year with your little ones.

If you want to hit the town

"When you have little kids, especially when they're 7 or 6 and under, we all know what happens past bedtime," Guetebier said. These events will ensure fun while still getting them tucked in at a good hour:

If you want to stay in

DIY at-home balloon drop: Guetebier recommends blowing up small balloons and keeping them in a towel, sheet or pillowcase that you can rig up to a ceiling fan, or even release manually. When the hour is just right, let those balloons fly!

Make a family time capsule: Have each member of your family pick a small object, and write down one thing that they think was important about this year. Store the items in a jar, or an envelope if you're able to, snap a photo of time capsule, and bury it in your yard or store it away. When next New Year's Eve rolls around, dig up the time capsule so that you and your children can reflect on the year past.

Make New Year's resolutions: Aim for ideas that you and your kids can keep up together, like having a family game night once a week, letting them help with dinner more often, or even getting your family photos off your computer and turning them into a keepsake. "Whether you choose a few to print, or you just make a photobook of an entire season, it's so wonderful to just make that your resolution to have that keepsake," Guetebier said.

KPCC web extra: Netflix is also bringing back its New Year's Eve countdown for kids. Check out the video below for more information.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udo6Cgu6EMQ

For more ideas about fun things to do with your kids, visit redtri.com.

To listen to the full interview, click on the blue audio player above.