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In a few days, we will celebrate the beginning of a new year. If you are looking for no-fuss activities for your child to start the year with these simple art and math projects fit the bill. Offer them at home or save them for the first days back at school in January.
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Related: 2025 New Year’s Crafts
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2025 New Year Keepsake Supplies
For this first craft, gather the following supplies:
- golden glitter cardstock
- tan cardstock
- 8 ½ x 11-inch cream cardstock
- gold sequins, stars, balls, and confetti
- gold glitter
- gold glitter glue
- glue paddle
- collage containers
- pencil
- scissors
- metallic gold felt pen
- glue stick
- glue gun
The 2025 New Year Keepsake Craft
Trace your child’s hand on a piece of tan cardstock, or let your child do the tracing.
Help your child cut out the hand.
Add gold glitter glue and collage items to small containers.
Set the collage items, glue, glue paddle, and paper hand on a table.
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Invite your child to glam up the hand with gold-colored collage items.
Sprinkle on gold glitter and confetti at the end for an added dose of glitz.
Let the handprint dry.
Cut a pair of number two shapes and one number five shape from golden glitter cardstock.
On cream-colored cardstock, help your child use a glue stick to tack on a number two, the decorated paper hand, another number two, and the number 5. Reinforce the shapes with a glue gun if needed.
Add the words “Here I Come” underneath the number 2025 with a metallic gold felt pen.
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To introduce a simple version of this art project, trace and cut out a couple of number twos, a number five, and a hand from white cardstock. Let your child color the paper hand and numbers, and glue them onto a contrasting background.
Feel free to download this template to use for the numbers.
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For more 2025 templates, view my blog post “New Year’s Crafts.”
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New Year Countdown Fireworks Picture
This second activity gives practice in number recognition and counting down from 10 to 1. It does double duty as an art activity.
Supplies Needed:
- Happy New Year printable (download below)
- scissors
- three toilet paper rolls
- magenta, yellow, and light blue tempera paint
- small plates or lids
- paintbrushes
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Download this “Happy New Year” printable on 11-inch by 17-inch paper, or 8 ½ x 11-inch paper.
This printable was created in PicMonkey and is for individual and one classroom use only.
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Paper Roll Firework Paint Project Set-Up
For this second New Year’s activity, cut fringes into one end of three toilet paper rolls.
Bend the fringes on each paper roll outward.
Pour magenta, yellow, and light blue paint into small plates or lids.
Set the paints, paper rolls, and paper on a table covered with a waterproof tablecloth.
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Ask your child to dip the fringed end of each paper roll into a color of paint and make a firework print on the printable.
Encourage your child to add more prints in each paint color to the page.
Tip: Try this on a practice sheet first.
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For more control, paint the fringed ends with a brush instead of dipping them in paint.
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To incorporate number recognition and matching practice, ask your child to cover the numbers 10 to 1 with numerical stickers.
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These two art and math activities are sure to help your child start the new year off on a positive note. I hope 2025 will be fabulous for you and your loved ones!
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More New Year’s Activities
New Year’s All Gold Sensory Activity
New Year’s Countdown Activities
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© Annette Kaminsky Revised December 8, 2025
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