NYE: Stuck for ideas with a child in tow

This_Year

It's really just another evening for us. Bit of tv, lots of chatting, most likely with wine and nibbles, may not even see new year "in". Depends how we feel.

Your 3 year old won't even know what New Year is. Let her go to bed normal time otherwise you'll have an overtired cranky tot the next day because she'll probably wake up at sparrowfart.

Stephb1986_2

Make-it-3 wrote: »

Child in question is nearly 3 yrs. Getting to a hill would be more inconvenient than going to the actual display in terms of transport.

Its supposed to be multi-sensory this year, so would be interesting to see if they can pull that off.

Would be nice to have people over, but we seem to have left it too late and everyone has plans already.

A bit stuck as never normally in the UK at New Year and especially with a small child too.

They will pull it off trust me Kim Bolton who do the fireworks are the best in the UK at what they do.

A company who supply fireworks to the company that I volunteer for are bidding for next years fireworks we would be helping them out. I hope they get it, but it is very hard work with a strict timescale.

I will be handfiring a display at midnight.

What you could do is have a carpet picnic with the bbc1 fireworks on at midnight

Steph x

mcja

My kids are 9 & 6 and this is the first year we have been able to contemplate going anywhere for NYE. We talked about going to the local leisure centre for their evening but even now we can we have decided we don't want to!!

NYE with kids changes, and becomes either a night with friends or just the there of you.

Person_one

Have to say, I definitely wouldn't be keeping a 2 year old up till midnight!

Make-it-3

I'm sorry if the term "having a child in tow" offends anyone. I wouldn't bet on her being asleep tho - she's got completely out of routine over Xmas, having her afternoon nap at 5 pm and then not wanting to go to bed until we do.

I'm not hankering for a bar crawl and getting plastered - that was never fun on NYE. Just some fun things to do indoors.

justme111

What about organised entertainments at caravan holidays parks ?
To all those who say "do nothing , who cares " - that's an option of course. Op though clearly wants to do something as she asks "what to do" , not "how to spend the evening as any other mundane night "

mancbird

We have a two year old and will be going to a party at a friend's on nye. I am 24 weeks pregnant so may come home with our little boy if it gets too much for him, but the plan (and what we did last year) is to take him there and if he falls asleep, put him to sleep on the sofas in the snug. It's a one off and he's normally ok going to family parties etc so can't see it being a problem in terms of routine etc.

If we lived near a hill or a beach they both sound like fab ideas though

Spendless

In the days when our kids were too young to be able to tell the time we used to set off fireworks early and tell them 'Happy New Year' and pack them off to bed.

tinkerfairy

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

'With a child in tow'... what a delightful way to describe having offspring. You make it sound like a major inconvenience.

That is not how I read it at all.

mincepiemonster

I will be 38 weeks pregnant so we'll be stopping by a party for an hour or two with our little one, then home to watch drivel and eat rubbish! I won't make it til midnight though. I am hoping we will be awake in time for a lovely sunrise walk (sunrise isn't til 8am ish which shouldn't be a problem with a 2 year old to keep us on our toes) - home for bacon cobs, hot chocolate and Tangled on Sky+ box.