Unlike Christmas divination, New Year's predictions have always been playful and amusing, that is, they were entertainment, not a mystical ritual.
Of course, you can take seriously making wishes to the chimes. Or to the custom of burning a note with a desire and dumping the ashes into a glass of champagne, which after that you should definitely drink. However, fortune-telling and predictions of New Year's Eve are, first of all, a way to have fun.
How to apply?
You need to decorate with imagination, for that New Year's predictions and comic ones. Printing them out and handing them out to guests is the easiest but most boring option.
The most common way to design cool predictions or fortune-telling texts is, of course, cookies. A note with words does not have to be baked with dough. It is much more convenient to write New Year's predictions on beautiful wrapping paper, cut into squares the size of cookies. Of course, each piece of delicacy should be wrapped. It is most convenient to do this in the same way as conical-shaped sweets are wrapped, and bandaged on topelegant rope.
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 fashionable now Macaron or even shortbread cakes or a biscuit.
Dessert predictions aren't the only way to have fun this way. You can pull notes out of a suitably decorated box, or you can 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 there is nothing difficult in this, there are situations when printing is impossible for some reason. This is no reason to give up entertainment. Guests should be given a very long and not very wide sheet of paper on which they will write their predictions, fold and pass on. That is, in the end you get a paper accordion.
What to write?
Choosing predictions requires imagination and humor. The main rule of such texts is kindness. They must 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 issue of text design. Do I need to write New Year's predictions in verse, or is it enoughshort phrases and phrases They think about this longer than anything else. In fact, you need to write the way you want. The meaning of the whole action is entertainment and positive emotions, including during the preparation of fortune-telling.
How to do well?
If everyone knows each other, are friends and constantly communicate, for such a company, a paper accordion will be the best option. And for the hosts of the feast, it will facilitate the task of preparing entertainment.
New Year's predictions on pieces of paper, comic and any other, are best put in a large beautiful box if a lot of people who almost do not know each other have gathered at the holiday. You can simply leave it in a conspicuous place, as they do on New Year's holidays in hotels, shopping centers or clubs. You can freely approach such a box with predictions and pull out fortune-telling.
You can hold a lottery by inviting guests to pull out a prediction. This is convenient at small corporate parties, when it is possible to bypass people sitting at the tables with a box or a bag.
For entertainment to be successful, it must be appropriate. And besides this, of course, to meet the tastes and perceptions of those gathered at the celebration as much as possible.
How to spend for family?
If relatives gathered at the table, then you need to think over the content of the predictions. Moreover, it will be more convenient not to use a common lot for fortune-telling, but to put several notes with predictions where a particular person is sitting. For example - under a plate, in paper bags tied to a chair.jewelry, in a napkin or anywhere else.
This is due to the peculiarity of family feasts. Such holidays unite several generations, from grandmothers to grandchildren. Of course, getting the whole family around the table is great, but preparing entertainment for people with different outlooks on life and reactions is incredibly difficult. What makes a grandfather of 70 years old laugh will cause bewilderment in a teenager. And if there are parents and grandmothers from both sides, that is, from both the husband and the wife, the task is not at all an easy one.
Therefore, it will be more convenient to "predict" each separately. This way of using New Year's predictions in the celebration has one advantage. There is no need to announce anything and somehow organize the guests, you just need to be patient. During the holiday, one of them will definitely find a piece of paper. Following the “pioneer”, all the guests will come to life and start searching. This approach eliminates stereotypes and the wrong choice of the moment for comic fortune-telling, because chance is always appropriate.
Do I need styling?
New Year's predictions on pieces of paper do not have to be drawn up 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.
Stylistics is understood as two nuances: text and design. Words can be written on small postcards or on notepads decorated around the edges. And the text itself canperform in the form of Chinese phrases, quatrains, folk proverbs, mystical messages and so on.
Predictions in letters from Santa Claus
You can imagine predictions in the form of letters from Santa Claus. This is a very good and stylish design for divination-predictions, but it will require effort.
You will need small envelopes no larger than a business card. It is desirable that they be decorated with drawings on the theme of the New Year, but you can also use simple ones - white, red, green, silver, blue. The colors should be New Year's or, so to speak, winter. Their combination with the range 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". With an individual layout of predictions, the name of the person to whom it is addressed should be written on the envelope, for example, "Svetlana Lvovna from Santa Claus." It is not necessary to write that this is a prediction.
Inside, of course, there will be the prediction itself. You can address the addressee by name if the message is styled as a letter, but this requires a lot of effort and time from the organizers. It will be enough just to write the phrase of the prediction itself.
Envelopes sealed with colored candle wax or stearin look very good. Imitation of a wax seal can be completely complete if you attach a New Year's image to hot wax, for example, the contours of a Christmas tree.
Funny divination for the year
Although amusing fortune-telling and New Year's predictions for the year oftenare perceived as one and the same, there is a difference between them.
Funny fortune-telling is carried out in the form of "question-answer". Preparing for them will require more thinking through texts than filling out predictions. Most often, for fortune-telling, answers are taken from the Book of Changes, more precisely from any of its versions available on the Internet. This is the easiest and most convenient option, but ready-made phrases should be adjusted to the mentality of the guests and the characteristics of the holiday.
For example, the phrase "Don't wait for a crane to get on the boat if your lantern is out" should be turned into something simpler. For example, if the year of the horse comes, then you can write like this: “Don't wait for the donkey to run past.”
Correction of Chinese phrases depends on which company will host the holiday. For example, a phrase about a donkey would be appropriate in the company of young people and girls or at a corporate party. But it is absolutely not suitable for celebrating the New Year with families, for example, when three pairs of newlyweds gather.
Answers to questions can also be written in the Slavic style. To do this, you can use sayings, for example, "When cancer whistles on the mountain."
In general, funny divination loses to predictions. But only at first glance. After all, the main condition for any entertainment is relevance. If you offer to guess at the beginning of the first hour of the night, then this way of spending time will not be successful. But at five o'clock in the morning, when most of the guests have already gone to bed, and the most persistent ones are left at the table, success is guaranteed. Of course, you need to light candles andsomehow highlight the upcoming fun.
Predictions in the form of advice
Comic New Year's predictions can also be made in the form of tips, not vague sayings.
Examples of such texts:
- "Don't ask, go get it."
- "Choose routes, don't go where women walk with empty buckets."
- "Don't eat yellow snow" and so on.
Preparing such predictions is much easier, and there is more positive and laughter from them than from traditional phrases.
