Musical New Year's games for children near the Christmas tree
Game "Don't get bored at the Christmas tree"
The music sounds based on the melody from the cartoon about the Bremen Town Musicians - There is nothing better in the world...
The king walked through the forest and found himself a princess.
The presenter chooses a person who wants to play the role of the king, then gives him the crown. Children, holding hands, dance in a circle and sing:
Game “Put on your mittens and dance”
Game "Imagine an animal"
Game "Hide and Seek" with Santa Claus
Decorating the Christmas tree
Game "Movements to Music"
Song game
The melody of a song from a children's film about Pinocchio sounds - “The bird danced a polka...”
Santa Claus, guess what we are doing.
Decorate the Christmas tree
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Musical and dance New Year's games competitions
In such entertainment, music plays a major role. Children always really like this. And it’s very difficult to imagine a holiday without music.
Friendly choir
Two or more teams gather. The presenter (Father Frost or Snow Maiden), waves a wand, and the team begins to perform any simple song. The leader waves the baton again and the choir stops singing out loud. However, they sing to themselves. And the next time the leader waves his baton, the choir begins to sing again, but from the place where he sang the song to himself.
In a new way
In this game any song can be sung, but in a new way. It could be different music, or you could offer to sing the song with the voices of hungry wolves or jumping squirrels.
Snow dancing
Children are divided into teams, and each team stands opposite the other. Children from one team perform dance movements, and children from the other team repeat these movements. The one who cannot repeat the movement in time is eliminated from the game.
Dance with a ball
This game can be played with children of any age. For example, younger children are asked to simply repeat the movements behind the leader, holding the ball in one hand, above their head or behind their back. For older children, you can offer this option - dance to fast music with a ball held under their chin so that the ball does not fall out. You can dance with a ball, holding it between your ankles. You can offer to dance in pairs, holding the ball with their backs.
New Year's round dance with tasks
There are no winners in this entertainment. Here the children stand in a circle and a round dance begins to the music. As soon as the music stops, the children freeze, and then, at the leader’s command, they begin to perform tasks - jump like hares, depict a fox that dances with its tail, show a wolf that catches fish in an ice hole with its tail, or others.
Fun games for kids
What's in Santa Claus's bag
The organizer prepares a bag and puts toys there according to the number of children. Each child puts his hand into the bag and tries to guess what kind of toy he got and describe it in words. If you guess correctly, you receive this toy as a gift.
Relay "Carrots"
Children need to be divided into two teams, in front of each, place a small Christmas tree at a distance of 5 meters. Each team is given a plate and a carrot. Music begins to sound, the first players in the teams take a plate on which there is a carrot and run to the Christmas trees, but try not to drop the carrots. Having gone around the Christmas trees, they come back and pass the baton to the next one. The team that does not drop the carrot once or fewer times wins.
Game "Herons"
Children walk around the Christmas tree to the music, pretending to be herons and raising their legs high. When the music stops, everyone freezes, while remaining standing with one leg raised. Whoever can stand the longest wins.
Game "New Year's bags"
Various toys are laid out on the table, including Christmas trees and tinsel. A pair of players are selected, blindfolded, given a bag and brought to the table. Children should select toys that relate to the New Year holiday by touch and put them in bags. All the action takes place to the music; when it stops, the game is over. Whoever managed to collect the most New Year's toys is declared the winner.
Game "Collect more snowballs"
Children stand in pairs, the distance between them is 3 meters. One player has a bucket, the other has a bag of rubber balls simulating snowballs. At the signal, one player in a pair begins to throw snowballs into the bucket, while trying not to miss. The players' task is to collect as many snowballs as possible.
Game “Show the snowdrifts”
The presenter plays the role of Snowstorm. He turns to the children and says that he has made snowdrifts of different sizes in the forest. When she speaks - big snowdrifts, everyone raises their hands up, small snowdrifts - everyone lowers their hands. Metelitsa performs all the movements together with the guys, but from time to time he deliberately confuses and does the opposite.
Game "Forbidden"
Before the start of the game, the snowman presenter shows the children a prohibited movement, for example, you cannot stomp with one foot, but you can stomp with two. To the music, children perform movements following the Snowman, and when they see something forbidden, they shout “No, it’s forbidden” and lower their hands.
Game "Who's ahead"
One set of winter clothes is laid out on two chairs - a jacket (turn inside out in advance), a scarf, a hat and mittens. Two children are competing, their task is to get dressed faster than their opponent, but they need to put on the jacket correctly. When finished, sit on a chair and shout “Happy New Year!” The one who completed the task first won.
Game "Find the Color"
The players stand up, forming a circle. At the command of the leader - touch the blue color, the players must touch the clothes of the person standing next to them, where there is a blue color. Those who did not have time are eliminated, but if their neighbor does not have that color, they continue the game along with everyone else. The last one standing wins.
Game "Fairy Broom"
The Snow Maiden was stolen by the evil Baba Yaga. Her salvation depends on the children learning to fly on a broom. Players are divided into teams, each receives a broom, which they need to saddle and ride on it to a certain place, then turn around and return to their team, pass the broom to the next one. Whoever is faster wins.
Games at the table
These games are the very first to be held. You don't even need to leave the table for them. This game is good when the children have just arrived, because not everyone has yet gotten used to it and coped with the embarrassment.
Good luck in the New Year
While everyone is sitting at the table, the Leader throws notes with the names of all the children into the hat. Then the presenter reads the questions (which he composed in advance), and one of the children takes out notes with names.
Questions:
- Who will be the best student in the coming year?
- who will be the most athletic?
- Who will be given the most cherished gift?
- who will become famous?
- who will receive the most gifts?
- Who will travel the most?
- who will be shown on TV?
- who will be the best this year?
Any questions can be asked.
Psychics
For this entertainment, you need to take out a box that needs to be decorated in advance. There must be items in the box. For example, a mug. One child is called and asked to guess what is in the box. He can touch the object with his hands, but he cannot just look.
New Year's words
A piece of paper with a drawn letter is placed in front of each child sitting at the table. At the leader’s command, everyone must come up with a New Year’s word starting with this letter.
Such a song
One of the children at the table puts a mask on his head (Bunny, Monkey, Christmas Tree, etc.). The rest of the children, at the Leader’s command, must quickly remember and sing a song that mentions the hero of the mask.
For example:
- bunny - “The cowardly gray bunny was jumping under the Christmas tree...”;
- monkey - “Ah, monkeys, hippos...”;
- Christmas tree - “a Christmas tree was born in the forest”;
- dog - “a dog only bites because of the dog’s life”;
- Snegurochka - “Tell me, Snegurochka, how are you doing...”
- Wizard - “Suddenly a wizard will fly in...”
Important!!! The Leader should have a song for each mask in order to give timely hints.
New Year's games and competitions for the whole family
Find out your own face
Game "Find your name"
Game "Song with stops"
Hat game
Christmas tree game
Players are selected for two teams, each with 5 people, one of whom will play the role of a Christmas tree.
First stage:
- Christmas tree players assume a "T" pose and wait to be decorated.
- Teams line up at a distance of 10 meters from the “Christmas trees”.
- The first players run to their Christmas trees and wrap them in toilet paper until the roll runs out.
- Next, the next players run, but now they attach clothespins to the trees so that they are hidden under the paper.
Second phase:
- .Teams change places, now they must find and remove clothespins from the opponent’s Christmas tree as quickly as possible, and also unwind the paper.
- The team that completed the task faster is declared the winner.
Games with blindfolds
Such games develop children's coordination, train their memory, and teach them how to navigate in space.
Nose for a Snowman
Here they draw a Snowman in advance, but without a nose. The nose is sculpted from plasticine.
The player is blindfolded and must go up to the Snowman and glue his nose.
You can also glue a beard to Santa Claus, a tail to a dog, or Snow Maiden’s boots. Only in this version, the beard, tail and boots need to be drawn on paper, and can be glued with tape.
Catch a deer
Children stand in a circle, one of the children puts on a hat with horns - he will be a deer. And the other player is blindfolded. They are placed in a circle and music is turned on. The blindfolded player must catch the "deer". The rest of the children can make the circle wider or narrower. If a blindfolded player fails to catch the “deer,” then he chooses any player from the circle and he catches the “deer.”
Game New Year's locomotive
The presenter walks around the hall and assembles a train to the accompaniment of cheerful music, while saying:
- Who wants to be healthy?
- Who wants to be happy?
- Who wants to be beautiful?
- Who wants to be rich?
Gradually, players are attracted to him. The locomotive “rides” around the hall, avoiding obstacles, and at the end brings everyone to the Christmas tree, and there are gifts under it.
