New Year's Eve Planner
A4, fits US Letter · 22 pages · color and black & white · printable PDF
Big party, small group or a family evening with kids: this planner takes you from the guest list through shopping and schedule to New Year's Day. Plus 16 games and activities with complete rules, ready-made game cards to cut out, countdown bags and a quiz. Print only the pages you need – the games work without the rest.
Purchase and download through Etsy. Structure and text are my own; the English edition was translated with AI assistance and checked. The illustrations were made with an AI generator.
A look inside
What's inside
PLANNING
- How to Plan Your New Year's Eve – timeline from 4 weeks before to January 1
- Our New Year's Eve – essentials, type of evening, plan B
- Guests & What They Bring – RSVPs, party size, allergies, who stays over
- Menu & Drinks – including alcohol-free and kid-friendly, with rules of thumb for a melted-cheese dinner and sparkling wine
- Shopping List sorted by area
- Schedule & Tasks – the evening hour by hour
- Budget – with cost sharing between households, no currency symbols
- Invitations & Place Cards
CELEBRATING
- 8 games for adults – Cliché Bingo, Draw & Guess, Forbidden Words, Year Charades, Two Truths and a Lie, New Year's Categories, Guess the Resolution, Resolution Auction
- 8 games with kids ages 3+ – Kids' Midnight Around the World, Bubble Wrap Fireworks, Lucky Charm Hunt, Foil Shadow Fortunes, The Longest Minute, Animal Resolutions, Wish Rocket, Time Capsule
- Every game with a rules box: players, ages, time, material, how to play, end and scoring
- Game cards to cut out – 24 Forbidden Words cards, 30 Draw & Guess words, 12 Animal Resolution cards
- Cliché Bingo – four different cards
- Lucky charms to color – 12 pieces for the Lucky Charm Hunt
- Countdown Bags – 6 bags with contents and a matching game, "early" or "late" variant, with tags
- New Year's Quiz – 12 questions with answers, plus a quiz about your own year
- Wishes for the New Year – 8 cards to cut out
KIDS' MIDNIGHT AROUND THE WORLD
Midnight happens somewhere all day long. Kids count down to a real midnight in a different place – with a list of UTC offsets and a world-clock app to find it. In the "early" bag variant the kids have a family countdown at 8:00 pm and go to bed (a real midnight elsewhere is optional); in the "late" variant they stay up until midnight.
CELEBRATE SAFELY
One page on fireworks (check your local rules, adults only, distance, water ready, never relight duds), kids, pets, the ride home, alcohol laws that vary by region and celebrating in hot or cold weather.
NEW YEAR'S DAY MORNING
Cleanup plan, brunch and a short look back at the evening.
DETAILS
- Format: A4 portrait, fits US Letter with "Fit to page"
- 22 pages, printable PDF
- Color and B/W versions included
- Not tied to a year: no printed dates, reusable every year
- No currency symbols – works in $, £ or €
- Instant download once payment is confirmed