When you wake up on New Year’s Day, you’ll have to keep the kids busy one last day before they return to school. No worries, there are some fun ways to celebrate the beginning of 2013 with your family. Since it’s my daughter’s 9th birthday, we always let her choose where to go. This year, we’ll be visiting the brand new MoMath: Museum of Mathematics in Manhattan.
Here are some fun, family ways to start the new year and spend the first day of 2013 together:
Go to a Museum
Here is a list of museums less than 30 minutes away that will be open for family fun:
- Liberty Science Center in Jersey City
- American Museum of Natural History
- Museum of Modern Art
- Guggenheim
- MoMath: Museum of Mathmatics
See a Movie
These family films are playing in Montclair and/or nearby theaters:
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
- Monsters, Inc. 3D
- Parental Guidance
- Rise of the Guardians
Go Ice Skating
There are many great rinks near us. Check our Ice Skating Guide for all the details.
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You forgot about the Newark museum. They have had some fun family days this week and their price of membership is the cost of tickets at other museums. A great deal.
We love Newark Museum glallin, but this post included places that are open on New year’s Day. We included Newark Museum in our “Fun Things to Do With the Family During Winter Break” post: http://bit.ly/TUBkHl
We coughed up the 3D fee yesterday and went to see Monsters, Inc. None of us had seen it before – we all loved it! It was pricey, but considering that we never go out to the movies, it was a great way to see our first feature film in a theatre together.
Walleroo’s Top Ten Fun Ways to Start the New Year With the Kids:
10. Tell them to shaddap.
9. Put them in front of the TV and grab a beer.
8. Tell them the cat goes woof and the dog goes meow.
7. Sign them up for AARP.
6. Lock them out of the house for 20 mins and see what happens.
5. Read to them from Shades of Grey.
4. Go to the mall and leave them in the car.
3. Tell them stories about a mean old troll called Walleroo that eats children.
2. Make them cook you dinner, and then criticize it.
1. Give them an account on Baristanet and tell them Santa Claus reads it every day.
Walleroo,
Promise me that one of your New Year’s resolutions will be to leave comments like this on Barista Kids for my reading pleasure.
Oh, ‘gette, what a nice thing to say, you’re a peach. But you shouldn’t encourage me.