Kids Table
Kick off 2012 with a kickass kids table
If your kids are relegated to the kids table for New Year’s Eve, stock their setting with fun accessories.
A glowing setting:
Since New Year’s Eve is one of the few nights when kids can stay up late, create a night-time themed table stocked with glow-in-the-dark goodies. Fill jars with glow sticks, mini flashlights or glow in the dark temporary tattoos. Use glow in the dark stickers to create a night sky on the table cloth. Glow in the dark balloons are available at some party supply stores, and can be tied to each chair as a place marker for each guest. Achieve an ambience worth raving about by turning all the lights off close to midnight (or whenever you wish for your kids to celebrate the new year) and counting down to midnight! Read more...
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Twenty-ten was a pretty great year for Bunchland.com, but we’re hoping to make 2011 even better!
We’ve had some time to reflect on what we liked in Bunchland this year, but now it’s time to look into the future. As the incoming online editor of Bunchland.com, I’m looking forward to bringing you the sort of fun and interesting things you’ve come to expect from us, but even more.
Next year, we want to hear more from you! We know you know there are other cool parents like you, so we want you to know one another. We’ve been talking about family profiles for a while and it’s high time we started showing other Bunchlanders just what a Bunch family looks like. Maybe it’s too much Seinfeld, but we’re pretty convinced there’s someone pretty much like you elsewhere in the world. (Though not exactly like you because you’re obvs uniquely awesome in your own way.) Read more...
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No idea what to do this weekend? Bunchland’s got your back
TORONTO
What: Happyview P.S.
When: Sunday, 1:30 p.m.
Where: Lower Ossington Theatre (100A Ossington Avenue)
Price: $24.50 or $80 for a family 4-pack
The details: We saw this hilarious one-man show last time it ran in Toronto, and we laughed till we thought we were going to pee our pants. It’s a great concept: the audience members are supposed to be “students” watching a school assembly, and Mike McMurtry plays all of the ridiculous characters, including a Bieber-obsessed teenage girl, a cranky custodian and a cop who secretly dreams of being a kids’ entertainer. His interaction with the crowd makes this already extremely entertaining show even more awesome.
CALGARY
What: Fire & Ice
When: Friday, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Where: Olympic Plaza
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New Year's Eve
New Year’s Eve doesn’t have to mean scrambling to find a babysitter or skipping a night of partying. With a bit of planning ahead, kids and New Year’s can be seamlessly combined to create a fun night for the whole family, full of activities you’ll all look back on.
At a loss for how to pull this off? Presenting the Bunchland Guide to New Year’s Eve, our collection of ideas for having the best lead-up to midnight (and the most relaxing New Year’s Day) ever.
For starters, night tobogganing is a perfect multi-family activity. Round up some friends and neighbours and head for the hills. Enjoy the crisp winter air and the shrieking of your kids as they coast along at lightning speed. With some preparation, you can avoid your tobogganing sesh being cut short because everyone’s too cold. We recommend lots of layers and a thermos filled with hot chocolate or another hot beverage. Read more...
New Year's Eve
Why not countdown to a paper mâché ball of candy?
Countdowns are fun. Candy is fun. Countdowns with candy at the end are superfun. (If you don’t like that much sugar, glitter is also fun. Messy, but fun.)
For a kid-friendly countdown, make a disco ball piñata. Note: this needs to be done two days before New Year’s Eve to ensure your paper mâché creation dries.
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- A large balloon
- Strips of newspaper
- Some sort of paste (either pre-mixed wallpaper paste, or flour-and-water)
- Shiny paper OR paint and sequins/sparkles
- Candy
- Blow up balloon and start covering with newspaper strips and paste.
- After a solid layer, set aside to dry.
- When balloon is dry cut a hole and fill with candy (or whatever you like.)
- Patch hole with more newspaper and paste.
New Year's Eve
A collaborative art project sharing memories and resolutions makes for a great party activity
Kids and parents can all take part sharing their favourite memories of the last year as well as their hopes for 2011.
Establish an art corner for this particular party activity. (We can’t even tell you how many times we’ve accidentally dipped a chip and realized we just ate paste rather than some sort of sour cream-based concoction. Kidding! But wouldn’t that be awful? Don’t let it happen at your party.) Read more...
- Spread out a sheet of mural paper (postal paper will do) on a table
- We’re also way into the idea of using dozens of mini canvases (You can find 1″x1″ or 2″x2″ at your favourite craft supply store)
- While we would never dream of stifling anyone’s creativity, we suggest coming up with a palette and offering your guests four colours that compliment the mood of the party. (playful primaries? sophisticated charcoal and eggplant? gold and silver uberglamour?)
New Year's Eve
The best family entertainment for this lazy, lazy day
Presenting Bunchland’s Guide to New Year’s Day. You ready? Got a pen? Okay, here it is:
1. Sleep in.
2. When you eventually wake up, with the help of no alarms whatsoever, make pancakes.
3. Eat the pancakes.
4. Do not, repeat, do not change out of your pajamas.
5. Watch DVDs. For the rest of the day.
New Year’s Day is the perfect time tear into a TV show or movie box set for a marathon session in front of the tube. A box set is a beautiful thing: no commercials, no planning your life around a TV schedule, and best of all, you can watch as many episodes as you want in one sitting. Read more...
