Making New Year craft is a simple way to engage your kids creativity and imagination. Here are 16 Best New Year Crafts 2025, easy to make and simple craft ideas for the children of all ages to enhance their motor skills. These crafts are great to do as family, friends, and group. There’s something here for the whole family to get involved. The New Year crafts could also make great gifts for your friends, family, and for yourself.
Parties and celebrations looks a bit different when you have kids because kids loves arts and crafts projects, there are so many other reasons you should do art and craft with your kids. These crafts are great for kids to boost their motor skills. Your child can practice math skills including length and geometry by creating different crafts and projects. These New Year Craft are fun way to add a homemade touch to your New Year’s Eve, party, and rainy day fun.
Benefits of creating New Year’s crafts:
- Increase self esteem
- Brainstorming
- Vocabulary development
- Maintaining math skills
1. Fire Works Ring
Are you thinking about making something new for New Year’s party? Try to make these cute fireworks rings that are so simple, good looking, and easy to make. You can make the ring for yourself or giving as a gift. It can make an adorable jewelry to wear to fireworks displays and parties on New Year’s Eve and on other patriotic holidays.
Supplies to make fireworks ring:
- Pipe cleaner
- Scissors
- Silver tinsel stems
2. Party Crackers
Party crackers provide a colorful and exciting start to any celebration and present to each guest with a gift to remember the days events. These crackers are also great for Christmas party. The party crackers are consist of wrapped and decorated cardboard cylinder and resemble a large candy twist. They have become popular as party favors used to celebrate other holidays, special events, and festive occasion throughout the year. You can fill them with toys, candies, or goodies for an extra special surprise.
Supplies needed:
- Colored Paper
- Cardboard stock
- Scissors
- Wrap tape or glue
- Confetti
- Gold pipe cleaner
- Cut ribbons
- Star stickers
3. Paper Fortune Cookies
Paper fortune cookies are a fun, creative, and DIY project to make for Valentine’s day or a special family dinner. This is a fun craft project for your children to make on New Year’s Eve, kids will love them all year round. They are perfect for many other occasions like birthdays and wedding reception etc.
Supplies needed:
- Scrapbook paper
- Fortune strips
- Scissors
- Glue dots
- Circle template
4. Paper Plate Noisemaker
Create an amazing paper plate noise maker with this fun New Year craft activity, inexpensive party favors, great for keeping your little one busy before the big event. Children will love making this noise maker paper plate and they will enjoy using it in the New Year celebrations.
Supplies to make paper plate noise maker:
- Paper plat
- Markers
- Paint
- Curled ribbon
- Dried beans
- Tape
- Glue
5. Celebration Playdough
Making celebration dough is a super fun, simple, and an easy activity to do with your kids. This would be a great activity for kid’s birthday celebration. Kids can make any shape from paper dough like star, rectangle etc. This is a great activity for kids of all ages to boost their mind.
Supplies needed:
- Snow spray
- Party poppers
- Straw pipes
- Paper plate
- Sparkles
- Spoon
6. Fireworks Painting
This glittery firework painting is so pretty, colorful, and easy to make using acrylic paint and paper roll. You can use different paint color to make this beautiful firework. This is a great art project for all skill levels, you can be so creative with the color and placement of the fireworks.
Supplies needed:
- Acrylic paint
- Paint brush
- Black card stock
- Glitter
- Black water color paper
7. Paper Sparklers
The paper sparkler is a fun way to step up your bonfire night celebration. This super craft begins by cutting a fringe along some tissue papers. After attaching the some curly pipe cleaners it’s then time to wrap the cut tissue paper around the paper straw. It’s a super fun for New Year and any other celebration.
Supplies needed:
- Pipe cleaner
- Tissue paper sparklers
- Different color paper
8. Chinese Lanterns
This classic chinese paper lantern is so easy to make and can be a best decoration for festive occasion or event. You can hang these lights in your bedroom to lighten up the decor. This is an expensive decor idea, quick, and easy that you can involved the kids in making them. Chinese paper lantern is great for family, friends, and family craft time.
Supplies needed:
- Colored paper
- Pencil and eraser
- Ruler
- Scissors
- Tape
- Scissors
9. Wishing Wand for New Year 2025
Wave in the New Year’s celebrations by bringing a little magic with this fun wishing wand craft. This is super easy to make and looks so colorful. This paper wand is perfect DIY New Year’s wishing wand for kids.
Supplies needed:
- Tissue paper
- Popsicle stick
- Scissors
- Glue
10. Paper Plate Party Hat
The paper plate party hat is great addition to any celebration like Christmas party, New Year’s Eve, Birthday, and tea party. It’s a great project for kids to prep for parties. This process is great for family with some basic material. This craft is great for kids to boost their mind skills.
Supplies needed:
- Paper plate
- Paint
- Glue
- Glitter
- Pom poms
- Stapler
- Scissors
- Paintbrush
11. Party Paper Mask
Create your own party mask using simple color paper for any party like Birthday, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve. These are fun and easy craft for kids to do as a group activity.
Materials:
- Mask template
- Card stock paper
- Construction paper
- Glitters
- Scissors
- Barbed elastic cord
12. Confetti Popper
Make confetti popper for a biggest celebration, fun, simple, and easy craft project for kids of all ages. You can make your own confetti popper to celebrate New Year. Each popper is filled with vibrant confetti that showers down when release, gives an elegant atmosphere to your party. They are safe and easy to use, also perfect for the kids of all ages.
Supplies needed:
- Confetti
- Tissue paper
- Confetti shooter
13. Bottles Noisemaker
Make New Year’s Eve noise maker from recycled water bottles, easy, fun, and perfect noisemaker idea for kids. For this project you just need some things that are lying around the house. Kids can easily make these bottles as group activity.
Material needed:
- Plastic water bottle
- Beads
- Ribbon
- Glitter
- Craft glue
- Stickers
14. Silver Slime
The silver slime is super easy to make, perfect opportunity for students to join the fun of making something from scratch. The beautiful silver slime is easy to make any time of the year, but it’s perfect for New Year’s Eve. Kids can make different little things using slime.
Supplies needed:
- 5 ounces clear glue
- 4 ounces liquid starch
- 2 tablespoon silver liquid watercolor
- Silver glitter
15. Celebration Slime New Year Crafts
Make your New Year celebration slime with confetti and glitter, simple and easy to make. This slime is also great to celebrate birthday party, party slime steam activity, and many more. The slime recipe is a fun way for kids to celebrate New Year and birthday. It’s also great for preschooler to give them a chance to enjoy some craft time.
Supplies needed:
- Borax powder
- Glitter
- Confetti
- Glue
- Food coloring
16. Popsicle Sticks Noisemaker
The noisemaker craft for kids is a fun and great way to boost their special celebration, easy to make with Popsicle sticks. It can be customize in so many ways. You can make these popsicle sticks noisemaker with your kids to celebrate Christmas and New Year Eve.
Supplies needed:
- Popsicle sticks
- Glitter tape
- Sparkly pipe cleaner
- Glue
- Jingle bells
