Happy New Year 2013
New Year, as the name suggests, marks the end of one year and the beginning of a new and fresh year. New Year is believed to bring along with it new hopes and aspirations for every individual. New Years’ time is nothing less than a festival, which is celebrated by one and all with fun and fervour. However, the origin of New Year dates back to the era of emperors, wherein the emperors had thought of celebrating a special day which should mark a day for beginning and end of the year. Interestingly, the first New Year celebration was observed in Mesopotamia, around 2000 years ago. The New Year celebrations differ from place to place and religion to religion, across the world. This is so, because people across the world follow different calendars.
New Year Celebrations
The notion behind celebrating the New Year’s Eve is to bid farewell to the year passing away and to welcome the New Year with open arms. Usually, people prefer to be with close family and friends during this point of time. The New Year comes with many traditions associated with it. The most commonly followed practices are making New Year’s resolutions, exchanging gifts and wishing good luck to all the near and dear ones. The celebrations for this occasion commence from 31st December, the last day of the Gregorian calendar year and the celebrations continue until the stroke of midnight.
How to celebrate New Year at home?
- Explain the concept of New Year’s resolutions to your children. Ask them to make a resolution for the upcoming year.
- Dress up your children in party clothes and offer the prayers at a holy place like Temple, Gurudwara, Church etc.
- Brighten up your home by decorating it with colourful lights.
- Encourage your children to decorate the house using ribbons, balloons etc. Besides this, they can also make colourful banners with 2013 written on it.
- The children can be engaged with making New Year cards for their loved ones.
- Involve your children to prepare a cake with you.
- To keep up the celebration mood in full swing, organize a bonfire and invite your relatives and friends at your place to celebrate together.
- Do something interesting to mark the remaining seconds of the year. For example- pop balloons and party poppers for each second remaining to midnight.
Happy New Year!!
