10 New Year’s Events for Families on Long Island
Help your kids say goodbye to 2024 and hello to 2025 with these awesome family-friendly celebrations happening all across Long Island. Here’s a roundup of the best ways to ring in the New Year with your family!
Nassau County
Noon Year’s Eve Party
United Skates of America, 1276 Hicksville Road, Seaford
Tuesday, Dec. 31, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
All ages
$22
Advanced tickets required
Enjoy a fun-filled event where you can meet some beloved characters and enjoy music, games, pizza, dancing and more!
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Merrick Library’s Annual Noon Year’s Eve Party!
The Merrick Library, 2279 Merrick Ave., Merrick
Tuesday, Dec. 31, 10 am – 12 pm
All ages
Free
Enjoy crafts, games, and an indoor carnival, culminating in a spectacular cascading balloon drop down the atrium when the clock strikes noon.
Blast Into the New Year
Planet Play, 418 Bedford Ave., Bellmore
Tuesday, Dec. 31, 11 am – 1 pm
All ages
$45 per child, includes one adult
Celebrate the New Year with Woody, Buzz and the Little Green Alien featuring a glow party, glow accessories for each child, balloon drop, tattoo station, craft, apple cider toast, dance party, and an $11 game card.
Countdown to 12! -“Out of This World 2025!”
Long Island Children’s Museum, 11 Davis Ave., Garden City
Tuesday, Dec. 31, 11 am – 4 pm
All ages
$20
Celebrate the New Year with space-themed fun, featuring three ball drops, live DJ entertainment and confetti-filled dance parties.
Farmingdale Village Family Friendly Early NEW YEAR’S EVE Celebration
Farmingdale Village Green, 361 Main St., Farmingdale
Tuesday, Dec. 31, 7:30 – 9 pm
All ages
Free
Farmingdale Village is hosting an early, family-friendly early NEW YEAR’S EVE Celebration. Ring in 2025 with a New Year’s Eve 9 pm Ball Lighting/Ball Drop with live music – free admission, free hot cocoa, and free noisemakers, weather permitting. See music by Farmingdale’s own Electric Dudes at the gazebo. Bring noise makers, pots, and pans. The festivities conclude with the countdown & NYE ball lighting at 9 pm. Dine & celebrate locally throughout the Village before & after the festivities.
Suffolk
New Year’s Snowman Paint Event!
Key to My Art Amityville, 10 W Oak St., Amityville
Friday, Dec. 27, 3:30 – 4:30 pm
Ages 7 and older
$30
Follow step-by-step instructions to create a New Year-themed snowman painting to ring in the new year!
Noon Year’s Eve Party
Northport Public Library, 151 Laurel Ave., Northport
Monday, Dec. 30, 11 am – 12 pm
All ages
Free
Celebrate New Year’s Eve with a countdown to noon! There will be games, crafts, music, and more to ring in the New Year.
New Year’s Eve Bash 2024
Children’s Museum of the East End, 376 Sag Harbor Tpke. Bridgehampton
Tuesday, Dec. 31, 10 am – 12 pm
All ages
$25; $5 members
Join CMEE for the biggest family-friendly New Year’s Eve party on the East End! During this daytime celebration kids will create noisemakers, share resolutions for the upcoming year, and mark the end of 2024 (and the start of 2025) with open play, crafts, and dancing.
Nautical New Year’s
The Whaling Museum & Education Center, 301 Main Street, Cold Spring Harbor
Tuesday, Dec. 31, 11 am – 1 pm
Ages 12 and younger
Included with admission: $6-$8
Did you know the New Year’s Eve ball is based on an old nautical timekeeping tradition? Join a countdown to noon, and enjoy festive self-serve crafts all day during gallery hours.
Midnight on Main Street Winter Wonderland
West Main St., Patchogue
Tuesday, Dec. 31, 7 pm
All ages
Free
Welcome the new year with music, face painting, food trucks, games, DJ, ball-rise, fireworks, holiday attractions & more!
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