Are you planning to organize New Year's Eve dinner at home and you need ideas for New Year with children?
Here are some ideas.
l New Year's menu for children
A menu for children should be simple, even on New Year's. If you plan to host a one or two year old child, organize yourself so that you can prepare a pastina dish topped with vegetable purée, fresh cheese or, if you want to respect tradition, lentil purée. For older children, a first and a second course will suffice.
As a first course you could serve, for example, pasta with a light tomato sauce, lasagna or cannelloni with ricotta.
As a second course, try the meatballs or the burgers, which the kids love; meatballs or vegetable burgers, meat, fish, or maybe lentils, to revisit a traditional dish. For example, you could serve lentil burgers with chips . Fried? For once, if you prepare them at home and with the right oil, the chips can also be good, a healthier idea is to cook them in the oven and brown them well, they will still like them very much.
An alternative to the New Year's menu with children, simple, but always winning, is pizza . The children love it and with only one course you have solved the dinner of the little ones. You could then accompany it with fried or baked chips and with a few pieces of mozzarella and / or ham cut into cubes or strips.
And the sweet? After the New Year's Eve the dessert should be simple for everyone, even for children. A fresh fruit salad with a few dark chocolate chips is a great way to end the New Year's Eve dinner and you could also offer it to adults.
Even on New Year's Eve it would be advisable to avoid sugary drinks with added carbon dioxide: children can drink natural water and a nice orange or mixed citrus juice .
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New Year with children: activities to be organized
If for New Year you expect to have a small group of children at home, perhaps of a different age, all you have to do is give them some games and then they will be autonomous in managing the evening. Sometimes it is more complicated to manage a single child (who is bored) than a group of two - four children playing with each other.
The games to be made available vary according to the age of the children, for example:
- Children of 1-2 years: construction
- Children of 2-4 years: buildings, colors and colored cards
- Children aged 4-10: colors and cards, puzzles and, if they are in groups, board games.
If the evening becomes too lively, offer them a nice animated film, which usually succeeds in calming the spirits.
Avoid the barrels, which are dangerous for everyone. Instead, make available colorful caps and streamers that, without a bang, liven up the evening and are very popular with children.