Unlike Christmas fortune-telling, New Year's predictions were always humorous and amusing, that is, they were entertainment, not a mystical ritual.
Of course, you can be serious about making wishes for a chime. Or to the custom of burning a note with a desire and dumping the ashes into a glass of champagne, which then should certainly be drunk. However, fortune-telling and predictions of the New Year's Eve - this is primarily a way to have fun.
How to issue?
It is necessary to issue with imagination, for that New Year's predictions and comic. Printing them out and handing them out to guests is the easiest but most boring option.
The most common way to make cool predictions or fortune-telling texts is, of course, cookies. A note with words does not have to be baked with dough. It’s much more convenient to write New Year’s predictions on a beautiful brown paper cut into squares to the size of cookies. Of course, every piece of goodies should be wrapped. This is most conveniently done in the same way as conical-shaped candies are wrapped, and tied with a smart rope on top.
The advantage of this design is that you can use any cookie - from crackers to kurabye. If you wish, you can wrap not cookies, but Macaron, now fashionable, or even sandwiches or biscuit.
Options for using predictions in desserts are not the only way to have fun in this way. You can pull the notes out of the box, respectively decorated, or find them in different places on the table: under a plate, in a napkin, between fruits, in a salad and so on.
All these options have one thing in common - the need to print New Year's predictions. Although this is not difficult, but there are situations when listing for some reason is not possible. This is not a reason to give up entertainment. Guests should be given a very long and not particularly wide sheet of paper on which they will write their predictions, bend and pass on. That is, the result will be a paper accordion.
What to write
Choosing predictions requires imagination and humor. The main rule of such texts is kindness. They should not offend anyone.
But, besides this, it is important to take into account a number of points:
- type of holiday (corporate, friendly gatherings or family feast);
- number and age of guests, as well as their mentality.
Usually the difficulty arises not in the choice of content, but in the question of the design of the text. Do I need to write New Year's predictions in verse, or enough short phrases and phrases? They think about it longer than anything else. In fact, you need to write as you want. The meaning of the whole action is in entertainment and positive emotions, including during the preparation of fortune telling.
How to do well?
If everyone knows each other, is friends and constantly communicates, for such a company the best option would be a paper accordion. And to the hosts of the feast, it will facilitate the task of preparing entertainment.
New Year’s predictions on pieces of paper, comic and any others, are best put in a big beautiful box if a lot of people who are almost unfamiliar to each other have gathered at the holiday. It can simply be left in a conspicuous place, as is done on New Year's holidays in hotels, shopping centers or clubs. Such a box with predictions can be freely approached and pulled out fortune-telling.
You can hold a lottery by inviting guests to pull out a prediction. This is convenient for small corporate parties, when it is possible to get around people sitting at tables with a box or bag.
For entertainment to succeed, it must be appropriate. And besides this, of course, to meet the tastes and perceptions of those gathered at the holiday as much as possible.
How to spend for a family?
If relatives gathered at the table, then you need to think through the content of the predictions. Moreover, it will be more convenient not to use a common lot for fortune telling, but to put a few notes with predictions to where a particular person is sitting. For example - under a plate, in paper ornaments tied to a chair, in a napkin or somewhere else.
This is due to the peculiarity of family feasts. Such holidays unite several generations, from grandmothers to grandchildren. Of course, gathering the whole family at the table is wonderful, but it is incredibly difficult to prepare entertainment for people with different outlooks on life and reactions. What makes grandfather laugh about 70 years, the teenager will cause bewilderment. And if there are parents and grandmothers on both sides, that is, from both the husband and the wife, the task will not be easy at all.
Therefore, it will be more convenient to “predict” each separately. This way to use New Year's predictions in the celebration has one advantage. There is no need to announce anything and somehow organize the guests, you just have to be patient. During the holiday, one of them will surely find a piece of paper. Following the “discoverer,” all the guests will come to life and begin the search. This approach eliminates the stereotyped and the wrong choice of time for comic fortune-telling, because randomness is always appropriate.
Do you need a style?
New Year's predictions on pieces of paper do not need to be framed in the form of narrow tubes with printed phrases or quatrains. There are no limits for imagination and creativity in the New Year, including the appearance of amusing fortune-telling predictions.
Under the style understand two nuances: text and design. Words can be written on small postcards or on note sheets adorned around the edges. And the text itself can be performed in the form of Chinese phrases, quatrains, folk proverbs, mystical messages and so on.
Predictions in letters from Santa Claus
You can imagine the predictions in the form of letters from Santa Claus. This is a very good and stylish design of fortune-telling predictions, but it will require effort.
Small envelopes that do not exceed the size of a business card will be required. It is desirable that they be decorated with drawings on the theme of the New Year, but you can use simple ones - white, red, green, silver, blue. Colors should be New Year or, so to speak, winter. Their combination with the gamut of table setting is not required, on the contrary, such messages should stand out.
The envelope must be signed with the phrase "From Santa Claus." In an individual layout of predictions on the envelope, you should write the name of the person to whom it is addressed, for example, "Svetlana Lvovna from Santa Claus." Writing that this is a prediction is not necessary.
Inside, of course, will be the prediction itself. You can contact the addressee by name if the message is stylized as a letter, but this requires a lot of effort and time from the organizers. It will be enough just to write a phrase of the prediction itself.
Envelopes sealed with colored candle wax or stearin look very good. An imitation of a wax seal can be completely complete if you attach a New Year's image to the hot wax, for example, the contours of a Christmas tree.
Funny fortune-telling for a year
Although funny fortune-telling and New Year’s predictions for the year are often perceived as the same thing, there is a difference between them.
Amusing fortune-telling is carried out in the form of "question-answer". Preparing for them will require more thought over texts than to fill predictions. Most often, for fortune telling, they take answers from the Book of Changes, or rather from any version of it available on the Internet. This is the easiest and most convenient option, however, ready-made phrases should be adjusted taking into account the mentality of the guests and the characteristics of the holiday.
For example, the phrase “Do not wait for the crane to board the boat if your lamp is extinguished” should be turned into something simpler. Suppose, if the year of the horse comes, then we can write this: "Do not wait for the donkey to run past."
The adjustment of Chinese phrases depends on which company the celebration will take place in. For example, the phrase about a donkey will be appropriate in the company of young people and girls or at a corporate party. But it is absolutely not suitable for families to celebrate the New Year, for example, when three couples of newlyweds gather.
Answers to questions can be framed in the Slavic style. For this, you can use sayings, for example, "When the cancer on the mountain whistles."
In general, amusing fortune-telling loses predictions. But only at first glance. After all, the main condition for any entertainment is relevance. If you propose to guess at the beginning of the first hour of the night, then this method will not have success. But at five in the morning, when most of the guests had already gone to bed, and the most persistent remained at the table, success was guaranteed. Of course, you need to light candles and somehow highlight the upcoming fun.
Predictions in the form of tips
Comic New Year's predictions can be framed in the form of tips, and not vague sayings.
Examples of such texts:
- "Do not ask, but go and take it."
- "Choose routes, do not go where women walk with empty buckets."
- "Do not eat yellow snow" and so on.
It is much simpler to prepare such predictions, and there is more positive and laughter from them than from traditional phrases.