Celebrating New Year’s Eve with little kids can be difficult. New Year’s is a waiting game more than anything and waiting isn’t something that kids do well. If you’ll be celebrating the holiday with kids here are a few tips for making the night awesome!

Make a meal: decide on a meal and have the entire family pitch in. Get the kids involved and let everyone help. The meal prep will make the time fly by.

Play a game: set up a few board games and play something every other hour. This will keep the kids busy and might help them stay up until midnight. If you have active games that get the kids moving be sure to play those.

Open Goodie bags: create a few goodie bags with candies, stickers, or little knick knacks and open one during the off hour between the board game fun. The bags will help relieve the anticipation of waiting until midnight because they get to open something every hour.