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
- Clean some tin cans or mason jars.
- Download the time capsule questions and the labels and have kids fill them out.
- You can also add a few mementos from the year. Stickers or little things that your kids won’t miss.
- Cut the labels with a paper cutter or scissors, and tape them around the outside of your time capsule container.
- Next, seal them up tightly. Store them in a cool, dry place.
- 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
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.
I have been printing these out to use for years. We keep them in a 3 ring binder. It’s so fun to look at past years and see how some stuff changes and some stuff stays the same.
Okay what a great idea to keep them in a binder! Thank you for sharing!
We’ve made these for the last 4 years! We use oatmeal containers. We add photos and newspapers from the day or as close to. Thanks for sharing this because I’ve lost my file lol.
What a great idea! I’m so happy you are using them, thanks Stacy!
How do you “seal” the tin can? Ideas would be appreciated ☺️
Hi! We don’t really seal them since we keep them in the Christmas decoration boxes, but you could maybe use duct tape or something?
Great Idea! Thanks fir sharing.
Where did you get your tin cans from? I am a classroom teacher who wants to do this with a class.
I love this idea, but I can’t get the document to download.
Love this! Thanks for sharing!!
I love this idea! I definitely want to do this with my kids. Just pinned it!
How cute! I forgot to do this for the first day of school this year, so maybe this will just have to be a New Year’s tradition instead! :)
That’s perfect! I’m glad you like it!
My boys are 2 1/2 and 18 mo and I think this will be so fun to fill out this year, and every year and then let them open them with their kids later in life! Thanks so much for sharing!
Yay!!! We are so glad you love it! Such a sweet tradition to institute!