Musical Pots and Pans New Year's Eve Parade

By Julie Pirkle

Ring in the New Year with a musical pots and pans New Year’s Eve parade. Preschoolers will be thrilled to create festive music by beating on pots and pans with serving utensils, while they waltz through the neighborhood welcoming a new year. The musical pots and pans New Year’s Eve parade activity is a wonderfully marvelous way for preschoolers to celebrate the arrival of a new year and say goodbye to the old with a bang. This holiday preschool activity works well with groups or can be done as a family.

What You Will Need

Pots and Pans

Serving Spoons and/or Spatulas

What to Do

Step 1:

Equip each preschooler participating with a pot or pan and a serving utensil. The pot/pan will serve as your preschoolers drum and the serving utensil will be his/her drumstick.

Step 2:

Once all of the preschoolers have their “instruments,” walk them around the neighborhood for a New Year’s Eve parade.

Step 3:

As preschoolers stroll through the streets wishing neighbors a happy New Year, have them beat on their pots and pans with the serving utensils, creating “music” to welcome the New Year.

Musical Pots and Pans New Year’s Eve Parade Tip

Since most preschoolers’ bed times are well before midnight, celebrate the New Year early. Ring in the New Year at 9:00 p.m. It will be midnight somewhere! Celebrating the New Year a smidge early will also ensure that your musical pots and pans New Year’s Eve parade activity excites, instead of bothers, neighbors.

Happy New Year!

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