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Home Β» Holidays & Special Days Β» New Year's Β» Adorable Bags for New Year’s Family Fun

Adorable Bags for New Year’s Family Fun

December 19, 2014 by KC Coake 12 Comments

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Can you believe it is already time to talk about New Year’s? I know we haven’t had Christmas yet, but I’m taking two weeks off this year! Yay! Can’t wait! I wanted to bring you an updated version of the New Year’s bags we have used for the last couple of years and share with you how we celebrate New Year’s together as a family and have tons of fun!

Love cute crafts like these bags. They will be perfect for our family New Year's Eve Party Ideas this year. Can't wait! Sponsored

As you may remember, I’ve been working with Offray. They have been sending me ribbon and paying me to come up with ideas using their beautiful ribbons. I knew that Offray ribbon would make a gorgeous update to our New Year’s bags.

We have been celebrating as a family, making our own New Year’s Eve celebration since 2011. I showed you that post in 2012 and had been using those same bags since then. I know we could continue to use them, but this year I thought it would be fun to update and make the bags a bit more pretty.

You want to make some yourself? I’ve got you covered as usual. Follow along with the tutorial on this easy and cute craft. 

Love cute crafts like these bags. They will be perfect for our family New Year's Eve Party Ideas this year. Can't wait! Sponsored

Supplies:

  • Paper Bags
  • Clock templates (free printable in that post)
  • Glue stick
  • Scissors
  • Bold-tip Pen(s)
  • Blue Stars Adhesive Ribbon (coming soon!)
  • White Dots Adhesive Ribbon (coming soon!)
  • Single Face Satin 1.5″ wide Ribbon in Navajo Turquoise
  • Simple Sheer Asiana Champagne Ribbon 1/4″ width

 

Love cute crafts like these bags. They will be perfect for our family New Year's Eve Party Ideas this year. Can't wait! Sponsored

To start, print out your clock template (it is a free printable at the bottom of that post) or freehand clocks for the front of your bags. Add the time to each clock using a bold tip pen.

As a side keeping it real note, make sure you buy enough bags and print enough clocks for the hours you plan to celebrate. Don’t fall for the same mistake I did. I thought if we celebrate from 6pm to Midnight this year since my girls are older, we only need 6 bags. Hello! 6 to midnight with a bag for each hour is 7 bags! Oh boy!

Love cute crafts like these bags. They will be perfect for our family New Year's Eve Party Ideas this year. Can't wait! Sponsored

Use your glue stick to adhere the clock to the front of each bag.

Love cute crafts like these bags. They will be perfect for our family New Year's Eve Party Ideas this year. Can't wait! Sponsored

Now comes the fun part! Decorate your bag. I used the Blue Stars adhesive ribbon first on this bag. As you can see I cut it just about the size and trimmed the little bits that hung over the edge (pictured above) after the ribbon was attached to the bag.

Love cute crafts like these bags. They will be perfect for our family New Year's Eve Party Ideas this year. Can't wait! Sponsored

For this bag, I used the White Dots adhesive ribbon just above the Blue Stars. You can vary the placement and look of each bag by varying the placement of the ribbons.

Love cute crafts like these bags. They will be perfect for our family New Year's Eve Party Ideas this year. Can't wait! Sponsored

Fill your bags with your clues and any goodies that go with the family activity for that hour. You can look at my Family New Year’s Eve post for some ideas of things we have done and really enjoyed.

Finally, use the Navajo Turquoise Ribbon and 3 cuts the same length of the Sheer Champagne ribbon to tie a pretty bow and close your bag.

Love cute crafts like these bags. They will be perfect for our family New Year's Eve Party Ideas this year. Can't wait! Sponsored

Keeping it real again, if you want to actually tie the bag closed so your kids don’t peek….it will be best to tie the ribbon to both a front and back handle. Unlike I did on the bag on the right. I only tied the front handle. Yep, I know my kids will be peeking in that one or that I will need to re-tie that ribbon.

Love cute crafts like these bags. They will be perfect for our family New Year's Eve Party Ideas this year. Can't wait! Sponsored

Now you have adorable bags that are ready for your New Year’s family fun! I can’t wait! I love how we spend our New Year’s. I look forward to it. We have had so much fun each year opening the bags and spending a whole evening together.

What do you do for New Year’s Eve? Celebrate with the family or do you go out? If you celebrate with the family, please feel free to leave your ideas in the comments so others can gain even more ideas. πŸ™‚

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  1. Bonnie @ Uncommon Designs says

    December 19, 2014 at 10:16 am

    Love these New Year’s Eve bags!! So cute!

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    • KC Coake says

      December 19, 2014 at 10:26 am

      Thanks so much! What are your plans for NYE?

      Reply
  2. Ashley @ Simply Designing says

    December 19, 2014 at 10:26 am

    Such a cute idea!

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    • KC Coake says

      December 19, 2014 at 10:49 am

      Thanks, Ashley!

      Reply
  3. Amy Anderson says

    December 19, 2014 at 10:57 am

    This gift bag is so cute! I want one!

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    • KC Coake says

      December 21, 2014 at 4:53 pm

      Thanks, Amy!

      Reply
  4. Malia says

    December 19, 2014 at 12:45 pm

    How fun and festive! Pinned

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    • KC Coake says

      December 21, 2014 at 4:55 pm

      Thanks! Have a great NYE!

      Reply
  5. Leanne says

    December 20, 2014 at 3:46 pm

    We do New Year bags every year. I love how these are decorated!

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    • KC Coake says

      December 21, 2014 at 5:10 pm

      Thanks! Aren’t they so fun? We have had the best time each year!

      Reply
  6. Carissa Bonham says

    December 21, 2014 at 8:01 pm

    These look great. I especially love the adhesive ribbon.

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    • KC Coake says

      December 28, 2014 at 5:11 pm

      Thanks Carissa! They were fun to make and we can’t wait to use them. πŸ™‚

      Reply

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