New Years Time Capsule Free Printables

 Print our free New Years time capsule questions and have kids fill them out to put in their very own capsule! This is a meaningful family tradition and one of our favorite New Years activities for kids!

Hi It’s Annette from Tips From a Typical Mom bringing you one of our favorite New Years activities for kids! We do this, along with New Years Bingo and making New Years Eve goodie bags. How do you celebrate the new year with your family?  *This post contains affiliate links.

New Years Time Capsule Tradition

A lot of us will make new resolutions. Decide to be a little better each day. Ponder on the year that has passed and reflect on what was good, what was bad, and what we learned.

If you are like me, you’ll also start thinking about how time flies. How your children are growing up too fast, and trying to remember what they were like last year. Wishing you had frozen them in time in your memory.

Well, I have something that will help you do just that.

This printable New Years Time Capsule will help you remember what your kids where like a year before. What their favorite things were and their dreams for the future.

We started this tradition last year with our kids. We will be opening our first time capsule this New Years Day. I can’t wait to read the things they wrote last year. This is a fun New Years Eve tradition to do as a family.

Time Capsule Questions:

The questions are simple. You can use these and even add a few more of your own on the back of the paper if you want! 

Favorites: 

• Color 
• Book 
• Dinner
• Treat
• Friend
• Toy 
• Movie

The best thing that happened to me this year was ____________.

This new year, I want to ____________.

When I grow up I want to be ____________.

How to Do New Years Time Capsules

1. Clean some tin cans or mason jars. 
2. Download the time capsule questions and the labels and have kids fill them out.
3. You can also add a few mementos from the year. Stickers or little things that your kids won’t miss. 
4. Cut the labels with a paper cutter or scissors, and tape them around the outside of your time capsule container.
5. Next, seal them up tightly. Store them in a cool, dry place. 
6. Each December, get them out and keep them sealed until it’s time to open them on New Years Day.

*We celebrate Christmas, so we store our time capsules in our holiday decorations box and keep them under the tree until New Years Day. You can do it however works for you! 

See the form below to print your time capsule printables. You will check your email and confirm your subscription, then you can save the file to your computer and print at home on 8.5 x 11 paper. 

Here are some printable instructions too if you want those:

How to Do New Years Time Capsules with Kids

New Years Time Capsule Questions and labels to print - this is a meaningful family tradition, one of the best New Years activities for kids!

Print Pin Rate

Total Time: 10 minutes

Makes: 1 Time Capsule

Author: Pretty Providence

Cost: $0

Equipment

• printer
• Scissors or Paper Cutter

Materials

• Printer Paper
• Scotch Tape
• Tin Cans or Mason Jars Cleaned and labels removed

Instructions

• Clean some tin cans and remove their labels, or use mason jars.
• Download the time capsule questions and the labels and have kids fill them out.
• Cut the labels with a paper cutter or scissors, and tape them around the outside of your time capsule container.
• You can also add a few mementos from the year. Stickers or little things that your kids won't miss.
• Next, seal them up tightly. Store them in a cool, dry place. *see notes
• Each December, get them out and keep them sealed until it's time to open them on New Years Day.

Notes

We celebrate Christmas, so we store our time capsules in our holiday decorations box and keep them under the tree until New Years Day. This helps us to actually remember  where they are when it's time to open them. You can do it however works for you! 

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