Aspiration: Inspiration: Activity Countdown to 2012

After seeing several super fun & creative countdown ideas on Pinterest, I felt {inspired} to be a better mom and make this New Years Eve - a holiday I generally associate with adults - fun for my kiddos!

So, I came up with this:

A simple, but cute, activity countdown for a little family fun!

I decided to do 10 activities (get it? 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1-HAPPY NEW YEAR!) But, instead of counting down to the actual New Year (my kids are a little TOO little to stay up until midnight), we'll be counting down until it's time to go to our family party! Each little scroll has a fun activity to enjoy as a family.

Each hour, starting at 10:00am, we'll do an activity. I'm thinking we'll do the fun activity and then have a task we have to complete before the next hour in order to be able to open the next scroll... might as well use it as a good incentive to get some chores done, right?

Here's the activities I chose (in no particular order):

Play ring around the rosies

Make a cheese ball (for the party)

Read a book

Finger paint

Balloon Ping-Pong (link)

Dance with Streamers

Take a family picture

Make sock snowmen (link)

Go to honks (a local dollar store - partially to buy the rest of the supplies needed for our sock snowmen)

Make Pigs-in-a-blanket for lunch

I started out using my handy Cricut to cut out circles & numbers

I knew I wanted to use Brads - but I only have the cheap-o gold ones... so I got creative. A little fingernail polish gave them just the sparkle I wanted it!

I simply took an old sour cream container and taped a piece of scrap paper with holes punched in it to the top. That way the brads would be held steady for me to paint & let dry. New Years Eve is definitely a time for SPARKLE! {I found the glittery nail polish to be perfect!}

To make the accordion-style circle I had to get creative, once again, as I was unable to find my scoring tool... it turns out the dull side of a razor blade works BEAUTIFULLY for scoring!