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New Year’s Eve Countdown Clock Craft

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Celebrating New Year's Eve with kids this year? Help them countdown to the new year with a fun New Year Countdown CD Craft!

Are you celebrating New Year’s Eve with kids this year? Help them countdown to the new year with this New Year’s Eve Countdown Clock Craft.

Celebrate the New Year with kids! Create this New Year's Eve Countdown Clock Craft with recycled materials for this winter craft.

These countdown clocks are made by recycling Old CDs and have movable hands so kids can move them at each hour. (And they can even be used later on for practice telling time.)

Materials Needed For The New Year’s Eve Countdown Clock Craft:

Celebrate the New Year with kids! Create this New Year's Eve Countdown Clock Craft with recycled materials for this winter craft.

  • Old CD
  • Foam Sheet
  • White Glue
  • Gold Paper
  • Number Stickers
  • Chalk Markers
  • A Brad
  • Scissors

Making The New Year’s Eve Countdown Clock Craft:

Start by cleaning an Old CD with some alcohol wipes to remove dust and fingerprints. Draw a circle that’s bigger than the center of the CD and cut it out. Using Glue stick it at the center of the CD as shown.

Celebrate the New Year with kids! Create this New Year's Eve Countdown Clock Craft with recycled materials for this winter craft.

Turn the CD into a clock by sticking number stickers around the CD like a real clock. You could make a second countdown clock that counts down from 10, so just before the midnight strikes 12, go 10, 9, 8 7 .. till it’s Happy New year! Else, do what we did. Countdown each hour leading up to midnight.

Celebrate the New Year with kids! Create this New Year's Eve Countdown Clock Craft with recycled materials for this winter craft.

The next step is to add the hands of the clock. You could add just the hour hands or both the hour & minute hand for the kids to have fun updating the clock every 5 minutes. To make the hands move, use a brad to pierce a hole through the 2 hands & the foam. secure at the other end by bending the edges of the brad. We just cut out the clock hand from a gold cardstock.

Celebrate the New Year with kids! Create this New Year's Eve Countdown Clock Craft with recycled materials for this winter craft.

The kids decorated the CD using chalk markers. You could also use acrylic paints or more sparkly stickers too. To help the kids understand when the new year would arrive, I attached a golden star with the numbers ‘2018’ to the top of the clock with some glue. Now the kids could visually see the when the new year would start- when the clock hand points up to the ‘2018’!

Celebrate the New Year with kids! Create this New Year's Eve Countdown Clock Craft with recycled materials for this winter craft.

These New Year Countdown CD Craft are so cute. Just get your New Year’s Eve activities and some lunch bags, and have your kids open each surprise bag as each hour passes.

Whether you stay up until midnight to ring in the new year or bail for bedtime and celebrate a few hours early, you can still host a memorable party for your kids.  Make the last night of the year one they’ll never forget.

Celebrate the New Year with kids! Create this New Year's Eve Countdown Clock Craft with recycled materials for this winter craft.

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…Happy New Year!

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New Year's Eve Glasses and Writing printable is the perfect way to ring in the new year. Whether you are celebrating New Year's Eve or teaching your students about new year's traditions, these free glasses and writing printable will be a great addition. 

Filed Under: Crafts/Activities, New Year's Eve, Time and Money Tagged With: Craft, First Grade, Holidays, Kindergarten

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4 Comments

  1. Jayaraj Chanku

    April 8, 2018 at 10:35 am

    Awesome. I loved this. I think the kids too love this. Thanks for sharing.

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    • Jennifer

      May 3, 2018 at 1:08 pm

      You are so welcome!!! I am so glad yall enjoyed it. 🙂

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